Apparently Obama wants a "fair-minded debate" on abortion (see various news articles on his speech today at Notre Dame).
Bear in mind that everyone who thinks abortion is murder is who he's really talking about. "Go ahead and think it is murder; just don't think of me as a cold-blooded killer." That's what he's asking. Continue to believe what you do about life, but don't let that be communicated in your words, passions, or emotions . . . . Those 40+ million aborted babies that your government has killed with your tax money - don't sweat it.
This is exactly what Satan wants. He wants us to shut up and back down when we have every reason to scream at the top of our lungs, "Stop killing babies - it is murder!"
If Obama wants a "fair-minded debate," let's stick to the facts.
An embryo has its own human DNA. It is marked off as a separate being, separate from mother and father, at the very beginning of its existence. It is either male or female from the beginning. The difference between you and a fetus is time, nutrition, and love. The difference between you and and an aborted fetus is that you were not killed. Science does not undermine faith when it comes to life - it confirms it!
Killing of an innocent is still murder in America. Does Mr. Obama want a "fair-minded debate" about how we regard murderers? Is that what he's proposing? No. He wants deflection of the moral imperatives that he is ignoring to be a President of Death. He has no ethical standard for his position other than the position that there can be no absolute truth.
If he's right . . . can anything be wrong? Why?
This is America folks - the nation where the only sin around is the sin of being a Christian who actually takes his faith seriously.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Interesting Political Facts
"Polls show that the American public is deeply conflicted over abortion and that support has declined steadily over the years. In 1995, roughly 60 percent of Americans believed abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Last month, in a survey by the Pew Research Center, that number stood at 46 percent. A Gallup survey that examined seven decisions early in Mr. Obama’s presidency found that the least popular was the one to overturn the ban on sending tax dollars to organizations that provide abortions overseas." NYT, 5.14.09,On Abortion, Obama Is Drawn Into Debate He Had Hoped to Avoid
Obama wants to avoid the debate not because he's not involved but because he's the most pro-abortion president in our history. If there's no debate he doesn't have to defend his indefensible actions. We've got to get on this people. We cannot let Obama dupe us.
Obama wants to avoid the debate not because he's not involved but because he's the most pro-abortion president in our history. If there's no debate he doesn't have to defend his indefensible actions. We've got to get on this people. We cannot let Obama dupe us.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Multi-Site Churches: Questions that Cannot be Avoided
As soon as you become a multi-site church (with no plans for the new site to house an autonomous local church), where does the local church end and Presbyterianism begin?
How far out can a multi-site church extend and still remain a local church.
Should a church go multi-site with a site that is in the back yard of another local church of same denomination which is contending for the gospel? Is this really a good witness to the power of the gospel; to the unity of the body?
Are there principles in Scripture which cannot be overlooked when building a statistics-driven model of church?
How far out can a multi-site church extend and still remain a local church.
Should a church go multi-site with a site that is in the back yard of another local church of same denomination which is contending for the gospel? Is this really a good witness to the power of the gospel; to the unity of the body?
Are there principles in Scripture which cannot be overlooked when building a statistics-driven model of church?
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Multi-Campus Churches
The number of "multi-site" or "multi-campus" churches seems to be growing rapidly. Just this week I received the copy of a "multi-site plan" for a church located in Southwest Virginia - in a city where there are several solid churches which preach the Gospel.
I've been thinking about "multi-site" Baptist churches for a while, and they give me pause. Initially, I could not put my finger on what bothers me about them. As I've had more time to pray and read, I'm beginning to understand why I have some issues.
My concerns are both theological and practical. In the weeks ahead, I will walk through the "multi-site" plan that I have received, and I will evaluate the document from both theological and practical perspectives.
Now, before you go get your nose out of joint . . . there is a way to "do" "multi-site" churches. Plan from the very beginning to have the congregations who meet in the new sites become new churches with their own elders in time. The churches who are planting in this way are not those who are frustrating me.
I will be writing about Baptist churches who are placing the franchising of a church brand above the Gospel and the fellowship of the body of Christ. Stay tuned.
And, if you have a particular question you want me to consider, please comment or e-mail, and I'll try to work it into a future post.
I've been thinking about "multi-site" Baptist churches for a while, and they give me pause. Initially, I could not put my finger on what bothers me about them. As I've had more time to pray and read, I'm beginning to understand why I have some issues.
My concerns are both theological and practical. In the weeks ahead, I will walk through the "multi-site" plan that I have received, and I will evaluate the document from both theological and practical perspectives.
Now, before you go get your nose out of joint . . . there is a way to "do" "multi-site" churches. Plan from the very beginning to have the congregations who meet in the new sites become new churches with their own elders in time. The churches who are planting in this way are not those who are frustrating me.
I will be writing about Baptist churches who are placing the franchising of a church brand above the Gospel and the fellowship of the body of Christ. Stay tuned.
And, if you have a particular question you want me to consider, please comment or e-mail, and I'll try to work it into a future post.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Plan B is No Plan at All
While watching a little TV and working on a paper, a commercial for "Plan B" came on the TV. It's claims were amazing. If your birth control failed you - condom broke, forgot to take a pill, or whatever else - just take some "Plan B."
And, don't worry, it will not cause an abortion the commercial assures you.
Unless, of course, you bother to read the fine print, and you happen to believe that human life begins at the moment of conception - the moment the embryo has all the chromosomes necessary to be identified as human.
Read for yourself from their "Patient Pamphlet" available here, or just take my word for it.
The pamphlet states, "Plan B® contains a dose of the hormone levonorgestrel that is higher than in a single birth control pill. Levonorgestrel has been used in birth control pills for over 35 years. Plan B® works like a birth control pill to prevent pregnancy mainly by stopping the release of an egg from the ovary. It is possible that Plan B® may also work by preventing fertilization of an egg (the uniting of sperm with the egg) or by preventing attachment (implantation) to the uterus (womb), which usually occurs beginning 7 days after release of an egg from the ovary. Plan B® will not do anything to a fertilized egg already attached to the uterus. The pregnancy will continue."
Did you catch that? Plan B has redefined pregnancy. For them, a woman is not pregnant from the moment of conception but from the moment of implantation. Therefore, their drug does not cause an abortion. If abortion only means killing an embryo after it is implanted, they are accurate. However, if abortion includes killing an embryo before it is implanted, Plan B does cause abortion. It is all a matter of who gets to define the terms.
Christians know and DNA evidence confirms that human life begins at conception.
Plan B does not call what their drug does "abortion."
Abortion or not, it is still murder.
Interestingly enough, virtually all birth control pills on the market do the same thing from time-to-time. While it is not the first-line defense, the pill does prevent the implantation of a fertilized egg - a boy or a girl whom God allowed to be brought into being - if only for a few days before the drug takes the life we had thought it was impossible for the pill to take.
How do you feel about "PlanB" now? How about the pill?
Can we keep on taking the pill as Christian couples on the one hand while scolding Obama for allowing experimentation with human embryos on the other?
Discuss.
And, don't worry, it will not cause an abortion the commercial assures you.
Unless, of course, you bother to read the fine print, and you happen to believe that human life begins at the moment of conception - the moment the embryo has all the chromosomes necessary to be identified as human.
Read for yourself from their "Patient Pamphlet" available here, or just take my word for it.
The pamphlet states, "Plan B® contains a dose of the hormone levonorgestrel that is higher than in a single birth control pill. Levonorgestrel has been used in birth control pills for over 35 years. Plan B® works like a birth control pill to prevent pregnancy mainly by stopping the release of an egg from the ovary. It is possible that Plan B® may also work by preventing fertilization of an egg (the uniting of sperm with the egg) or by preventing attachment (implantation) to the uterus (womb), which usually occurs beginning 7 days after release of an egg from the ovary. Plan B® will not do anything to a fertilized egg already attached to the uterus. The pregnancy will continue."
Did you catch that? Plan B has redefined pregnancy. For them, a woman is not pregnant from the moment of conception but from the moment of implantation. Therefore, their drug does not cause an abortion. If abortion only means killing an embryo after it is implanted, they are accurate. However, if abortion includes killing an embryo before it is implanted, Plan B does cause abortion. It is all a matter of who gets to define the terms.
Christians know and DNA evidence confirms that human life begins at conception.
Plan B does not call what their drug does "abortion."
Abortion or not, it is still murder.
Interestingly enough, virtually all birth control pills on the market do the same thing from time-to-time. While it is not the first-line defense, the pill does prevent the implantation of a fertilized egg - a boy or a girl whom God allowed to be brought into being - if only for a few days before the drug takes the life we had thought it was impossible for the pill to take.
How do you feel about "PlanB" now? How about the pill?
Can we keep on taking the pill as Christian couples on the one hand while scolding Obama for allowing experimentation with human embryos on the other?
Discuss.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Christians and the White House's Culture of Death
Brothers & Sisters in Christ,
Let us not be negligent in reminding the people we worship with each week that elections have consequences. In this case, the election has had deadly and conscious-debilitating consequences. Obama has already 1) provided tax-payer funding for agencies that administer abortions around the world, 2) removed protections for medical professionals who object to performing abortions on moral grounds, and, 3) on Monday, he will begin funding the killing of human embryos (embryos are human, they have all their chromosomes just like you do) for the harvesting of stem cells.
Has your pastor been keeping you up to speed on the culture of death that is emanating from the White House? If not, press the issue with him.
Where are the pastors who gave Obama a forum with evangelicals? Where is Rick Warren? Where is T. D. Jakes? Why are they not demanding a meeting with President Obama to discuss these terrible measures? Why are black pastors not calling Obama out on an issue which takes so many African-American lives each year? Where are they now?
We cannot make these pastors give words to their faith, but we can give words to ours. This is cause for outrage that gets expressed to our brothers and sisters in Christ. This is not "bringing politics to church;" this is government-sanctioned; tax-payer-funded murder, and we are duty-bound to oppose it at every turn. Will you remind your Sunday School class/small group/etc. to both pray for a change of heart in our President, to oppose his policies of death, and to vote for life in every election?
"Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me. When I say to a wicked man, 'You will surely die,' and you do not warn him or speak out to dissuade him from his evil ways in order to save his life, that wicked man will die for his sin, and I will hold you accountable for his blood. But if you do warn the wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his evil ways, he will die for his sin; but you will have saved yourself (Ezekiel 3:17 - 19).
Let us not be negligent in reminding the people we worship with each week that elections have consequences. In this case, the election has had deadly and conscious-debilitating consequences. Obama has already 1) provided tax-payer funding for agencies that administer abortions around the world, 2) removed protections for medical professionals who object to performing abortions on moral grounds, and, 3) on Monday, he will begin funding the killing of human embryos (embryos are human, they have all their chromosomes just like you do) for the harvesting of stem cells.
Has your pastor been keeping you up to speed on the culture of death that is emanating from the White House? If not, press the issue with him.
Where are the pastors who gave Obama a forum with evangelicals? Where is Rick Warren? Where is T. D. Jakes? Why are they not demanding a meeting with President Obama to discuss these terrible measures? Why are black pastors not calling Obama out on an issue which takes so many African-American lives each year? Where are they now?
We cannot make these pastors give words to their faith, but we can give words to ours. This is cause for outrage that gets expressed to our brothers and sisters in Christ. This is not "bringing politics to church;" this is government-sanctioned; tax-payer-funded murder, and we are duty-bound to oppose it at every turn. Will you remind your Sunday School class/small group/etc. to both pray for a change of heart in our President, to oppose his policies of death, and to vote for life in every election?
"Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me. When I say to a wicked man, 'You will surely die,' and you do not warn him or speak out to dissuade him from his evil ways in order to save his life, that wicked man will die for his sin, and I will hold you accountable for his blood. But if you do warn the wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his evil ways, he will die for his sin; but you will have saved yourself (Ezekiel 3:17 - 19).
Sunday, March 1, 2009
That Giant Flushing Sound
That giant flushing sound that you hear is the "recovery" money being thrown down the toilet to fix up public housing, get rid of lead paint, and install green technologies in public housing as well. So much for creating long-term jobs with the money that the Democrats are stealing from our children and grandchildren.
How much are we spending on this?
Read for yourself from Obama's website.
"The money opened up today includes:
$3 billion to develop, finance, and modernize public housing; $255 million for Native American and Native Hawaiian Housing; nearly $100 million for lead hazard reduction; $2.25 billion to kick-start the production of stalled affordable rental housing projects under the Tax Credit Assistance Program (TCAP); $2 billion to undertake much-needed project improvements to maintain the quality of critical affordable housing; $1 billion to rehabilitate affordable housing and improve key public facilities under the Community Development Block Grant Program; $1.5 billion to reduce homelessness, and prevent it among those facing a sudden economic crisis; and a temporary increase to the loan limits of mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)."
The lunacy has just begun.
How much are we spending on this?
Read for yourself from Obama's website.
"The money opened up today includes:
$3 billion to develop, finance, and modernize public housing; $255 million for Native American and Native Hawaiian Housing; nearly $100 million for lead hazard reduction; $2.25 billion to kick-start the production of stalled affordable rental housing projects under the Tax Credit Assistance Program (TCAP); $2 billion to undertake much-needed project improvements to maintain the quality of critical affordable housing; $1 billion to rehabilitate affordable housing and improve key public facilities under the Community Development Block Grant Program; $1.5 billion to reduce homelessness, and prevent it among those facing a sudden economic crisis; and a temporary increase to the loan limits of mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)."
The lunacy has just begun.
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