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In the News, Political

On the 41st Anniversary of Roe v. Wade

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On a day when we hear our top political leader offering the following statements:

“We reaffirm our steadfast commitment to protecting a woman’s access to safe, affordable health care and her constitutional right to privacy, including the right to reproductive freedom”

“And we resolve to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies, support maternal and child health, and continue to build safe and healthy communities for all our children. Because this is a country where everyone deserves the same freedom and opportunities to fulfill their dreams.”

Let the video below provide a more sane response to the 41 year old court decision that has claimed the lives of 55,000,000 babies.

 

See also: http://voiceoftruthblog.com/march-for-life-12411

http://voiceoftruthblog.com/brothers-blow-the-trumpet-for-the-unborn

http://voiceoftruthblog.com/sermon-of-the-week-10162012-macarthur-abortion-and-the-campaign-for-immorality

http://voiceoftruthblog.com/bucket-drops-11411-abortion

http://voiceoftruthblog.com/how-much-weight-should-our-opposition-to-abortion-carry-in-our-voting-decisions

Christian Living, In the News

Brothers, Blow the Trumpet for the Unborn

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Today marks the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.  There has been much in the way of blog posts devoted to this over the past week and into today, yet I leave myself wondering much the same as Pastor John Piper in his book, Brothers, We Are Not Professionals.  I’ve included some worthy quotes from the chapter in that book entitled “Brothers, Blow the Trumpet for the Unborn”, along with commentary of my own and some relevant Scripture:

“I believe pastors should put their lives and ministries on the line in this issue [abortion].  The cowardice of some pastors when it comes to preaching against abortion appalls me.  Many treat the dismemberment of unborn humans as an untouchable issue on the par with partisan politics.  Some have bought into the incredible notion that they can be personally pro-life but publicly pro-choice or non-committal.”

The question for us today really is, where are the pastors, the evangelicals, even those who speak out for every injustice you can think of, on the issue of abortion?  Why is the Trumpet for the Unborn not being sounded loudly and clearly?  Where is the voice of those who are created in the image of God, speaking out for those who are also created in the image of God, yet never given a chance for life outside the womb.  It is not merely a matter of politics to be “dealt with” every four years.  It is a moral issue.  It is a justice issue.  It is a life issue.  Equally, it is a murder issue.  A complicity to commit murder issue.  It is a murder for hire issue.

“The law of our land is immoral and unjust.  That should be declared from tens of thousands of pulpits in America.” – John Piper, Brothers

Psalm 139:13 “For you formed my inward parts;

   you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.”

Job 31:13-15 “If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant,

   when they brought a complaint against me,

what then shall I do when God rises up?

   When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him?

Did not he who made me in the womb make him?

   And did not one fashion us in the womb?”

Psalm 82:3-4 “Give justice to the weak and the fatherless;

   maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.

Rescue the weak and the needy;

   deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”

Exodus 20:13 “You shall not murder.”

“They [abortionists] know there is a lethal inconsistency between doing fetal surgery on babies in the womb to save them while their cousin, at a similar stage of development, is being killed just down the hall” – Piper, Brothers

“I am personally pro-life, but politically pro-choice” – Pontius Pilate (via Piper)

As the Church, we must repent and pray.

Here are links to some to a few well-written and timely posts on abortion:

http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2013/01/22/5-things-you-didnt-know-about-jane-roe

http://www.dennyburk.com/crushed-with-regret-after-an-abortion/

http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/2013/01/20/anniversary-pictures-remembering-roe-v-wade/

http://www.epm.org/blog/2013/Jan/18/every-life-precious

http://www.ligonier.org/blog/pro-choice-what-does-it-mean/

In the News

Why it’s More than Politics as Usual

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In case you thought arguments for the repeal of “Obamacare” were just political stump speeches and party platforms or mere talking points upon which candidates based their campaign, the links below show that it’s bigger than that.  It can’t be reduced to politics.  No, it’s a battle for religious liberty and much, much more.  The legislation included therein, and largely the worldview of its endorsers, is immoral and imposes an immoral view upon all those who disagree with the distribution of abortive pills.  The striking thing is that the government has the power to impose massive fines PER DAY for all those who refuse to provide the government mandated healthcare.  What business could survive long with those fines (see link below)?  None.  In effect, to disagree with the government’s stance of providing abortive pills to your employees is to put yourself out of business.

I encourage you to read this article first, which describes the issue in toto: http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/2012/08/01/the-faqs-updates-on-the-contraceptive-abortifacient-mandate/

Next, there is this update on the injunction Hobby Lobby filed hoping to be exempt from the government mandated healthcare.  For now, they have lost and risk $1.3 million/day fines.  Let me repeat that, for refusing to provide their employees abortion inducing drugs, the Christian-run, arts and crafts chain, Hobby Lobby faces fines from the federal government of $474.5 million dollars per year. http://www.dennyburk.com/religious-liberty-dies-at-hobby-lobby/

Despite this decision, Tyndale publishers received a bit of good news regarding their own injunction: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/judge-grants-company-injunction-against-health-care-law-contraception-efforts/2012/11/18/efdabcf8-31a1-11e2-9cfa-e41bac906cc9_story.html

Still think this is just a political issue or that these issues matter little to you?  Think again.  This is only the beginning, because it’s just a matter of time before this secular philosophy trickles over into churches about what you can/can’t preach.