I haven’t checked, but the Gospel reading assigned for the Circumcision of our Lord has to be one of the shortest Gospel readings ever. “On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise him, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he had been conceived” (Luke 2:21) …
Maybe you’ve heard it said of someone, “Look at all they are going through. Wouldn’t they be better off dead?” Maybe you have said it or heard someone else say it. “Why doesn’t God just take me home? I’d be better off dead.” So, is it true? Would we be better off dead?
Much has been made in the pro-life community comparing legalized abortion-on-demand in the United States to the Holocaust in Nazi Germany. Some leaders in the Jewish community bristle at this comparison and say that we should not minimize what happened in Nazi Germany to the Jewish people by using this comparison. I agree with them …
We live in a dying world. It appears as though death rules in all of creation. Everywhere you look you find life. But everywhere you find life, you also find death. Death and life cannot coexist peacefully. Where death and life meet, it appears that death always wins … So, how did this happen? How did death gain dominion in God’s living creation? God did not make death. God made only life. In fact, God gave Adam and Eve dominion over all life …
A worship service based on the Life Sunday theme “In Life, In Death, Abide with Me.”
Sanctity of Human Life Sunday is often observed on January 22 because it is the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that effectively legalized abortion in all nine months of pregnancy for virtually any reason. Since that decision in 1973, over 45 million babies have been killed through surgical abortion in this country. That’s around 3,600 every day or about one every 24 seconds.
Dr. Glenn E. Schaeffer relates a story of a man who committed suicide because of a chronic illness. Dr. Schaeffer states, “There must be a better and more dignified manner in which we can deal with chronic and terminal illness.” Based on Philippians 1:20-21 and a variety of other Scripture passages, he provides an answer! As Paul faced possible death in prison he “used his situation and the days the Lord granted him to encourage people to embrace life-to embrace the One who calls himself, ‘the Resurrection and the Life.'” Through Jesus and His love we find a better way to deal with life’s struggles.
More and more patients and families are becoming involved in ethical decision-making at the end of life.
The Bible is not a biology book. The Bible was written to make us “wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus” (2 Timothy 3:15). That does not mean, however, that the Holy Spirit is clueless when it comes to biology. Psalm 139 gives us some poetic biology that is fundamental in determining where we stand as Christians when it comes to the use of embryonic stem cells.
Based on God’s Word, let’s answer the question, “What has God done that gives value to human life?”