Abortion
Woman Laughs Ahead of Her 9th Abortion and Then Sees Her Aborted Baby by Sarah Terzo
Purdue Professor Says Images Of Aborted Babies Are Child Porn by Bre Payton
Mother of Boy Born With “No Brain” Starts Pro-Life Campaign
Bioethics
Couples are turning extra IVF embryos into jewelry by Lisa Mayoh – Our national director, Rev. Scott Licht wrote, “I thought it took a lot to shock me, but this one did it.”
Parents wearing “spare” IVF embryos as jewelry
SICK: Business Creates Jewelry From Human Embryos Left Over From IVF by Micaiah Bilger
Destroyed Embryos Turned Into Jewelry by Wesley J. Smith
Where did Nazi doctors learn their ethics? From a textbook by Michael Cook – “They had plenty of ethics. It was just the wrong kind.”
Devotional
Foolishness – Is Not Believing in All That (the LORD Through) the Prophets Have Spoken
Luke 24:25-26: Then He said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?”
He wasn’t the first to express the sentiment. Jesse Ventura, former entertainer and Governor of Minnesota, once said: “Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.” There have been, and will be others, who will call us foolish for believing what the Scripture says.
When the risen Savior Jesus first spoke the above quoted words to the Emmaus Disciples He was a stranger to them. He called them foolish ones, without understanding and perception, because they were slow to believe all that the Old Testament prophets had foretold by inspiration. Far from making the Old Testament obsolete, the resurrection of Jesus ought to lead us to search those Scriptures anew.
For the Prophets foretold the office of the Christ. They foretold His suffering and death (Isaiah 53). They foretold that (like the Passover Lamb) not a bone would be broken (Psalm 34:20, John 19:36). They foretold that His body would not decompose (Psalm 16:10) in the grave. The Prophets foretold that the Christ would suffer these things and enter into His glory.
Foolishness, Mr. Ventura, is not receiving and searching the word of the Living God.
Christ is Risen!
Hallelujah!
(Source: www.redeemerclc.info/ministries)
Music
Video: Simon Stops Nervous Mom But Then She Nails Her Audition
Political
Trump’s Executive Order on Religious Liberty Is Worse Than Useless by David French
Trump’s Executive Order On Religious Liberty Is A Big Disappointment by David Harsanyi
Sexual Purity
Parents, Talk To Your Kids About Sex Before Schools Do by Jessica Burke – “You may think you have time because your children haven’t asked about sex yet. But you’re wrong. Your kids are asking questions—they’re just not asking you.”
Worldview and Culture
Yet Another Poll Finds Millennials Incoherent About Basic American Rights by Joy Pullman – “The press release for a new poll makes the welcome claim that ‘Vast, Silent Majority of Millennials Overwhelmingly Support Religious and Social Freedoms.’ Alas, the results are more complicated.”
Exploding Heads, Fragile Worldviews – Reaction to Bret Stephens on Climate Change by John Stonestreet & Roberto Rivera – “If we can’t even entertain challenges to our basic beliefs without our heads exploding, we might have what I’ll call a fragile worldview.”
Christian charity: proposed law threatens Christianity in Ethiopia by Tola Mbakwe
Why Social Media is Important to Your Church by Emilie Finke