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Category Archives: Abortion
A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows
God is concerned with people on the margins, the weak and vulnerable. Continue reading
The dignity of human beings
About the urgent challenge to tell people who they are, to enlighten them about their identity, that is, to teach without compromise the full biblical doctrine of our human being – its depravity, yes, but also its dignity. Continue reading
God of the vulnerable
To the Lord your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it….He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing. Continue reading
Posted in Abortion, Abuse, Adoption, Child Abuse, Childhood trauma, God, God's Heart, God's Love, God's power, God's Protection, God's Will, Image of God, Orphans, Seeking God, Study of God, Walking with God, Will of God
Tagged god's compassion, God's mercy, God's Love, Mercy, True God
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Can we be pro-life and support capital punishment?
NT Wright (who is brilliant on many subjects) is clearly wrong to suggest that, “you can’t reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.” This is a surprisingly simplistic view of what the Bible teaches. Opposing abortion and supporting the death penalty are both pro-life positions. Continue reading
Posted in Abortion, Capital Punishment, Justice, Law, Murder, Pro-life, Wisdom
Tagged Abortion, Capital punishment, murder, Pro-life
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Health care for women?
Should abortion be associated with health care for women? Continue reading
Posted in Abortion, Health Care, Late term abortion, Post-abortion, Wisdom, Women, Women's rights
Tagged Abortion, Health care for women, Roe v. Wade
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Knit together in my mother’s womb
Let’s pause and reflect on truth from Scripture before entering the abortion debate. Continue reading
Posted in Abortion, God's control, God's Heart, God's Love, God's power, God's Protection, God's Will, Pro-life, Questioning God, Seeking God, Walking with God
Tagged Abortion, Pro-life, Psalm 139, Roe v. Wade
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Sanctity or quality of life?
Are certain people better off dead, and may therefore be killed for their own good? Continue reading
Posted in Abortion, Child Abuse, Life, Murder, Pro-life, Sanctity of life, Wisdom
Tagged Abortion, handicap, Pro-life, quality of life, Sanctity of life
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Get off the guilt trip
It’s possible to hurt ourselves and others when we don’t deal constructively with guilt in a grace-based, future-oriented way. Continue reading
God knit us together
The truths in this psalm do not exist in empty theory. They must be understood in the complexities of life in a fallen world Continue reading
Posted in Abortion, Creation, God's control, God's Heart, God's Love, God's power, Sovereignty, Wisdom
Tagged God as author of life, Pro-life, Psalm 139
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God of the vulnerable
“What a contrast. We see God, the most potent and self-sufficient Power imaginable, continually expressing profound concern for the least potent and self-sufficient — the orphan in distress.” Continue reading
Posted in Abortion, Adoption, Anthropology, Apologetics, Atheism, Atheists, Belief, Call to ministry, Christian life, Christian worldview, Christianity, Comfort, Common Good, Common grace, Ethics, Evangelicals, Evil in the world, God, God's Heart, God's Love, God's power, God's Protection, God's Will, Grace, Holistic ministry, Love, Mercy, Missions, Orphans, Prison Ministry, Radical love, Religion-not the answer, Seeing God, Seeking God, Social work, Theodicy, Vision
Tagged Adoption, God's true character, Mercy ministries, Orphan ministry
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