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In Japan, a doctor delivered a baby boy by C-section at 24-week gestation. The baby had stopped growing and weighed only 9.45 ounces at birth. After 6 months, he is going home weighing seven pounds. The medical treatment of pregnancy and childbirth has improved until there are very few health reasons…

Marvin Olasky, writing in World Magazine, tells of world events that led to his birth. “If a fire in 1902 hadn’t swept through Bobruisk, Russia, and impoverished the community; if the czar hadn’t drafted Jews into his army more than non-Jews, leading both of my grandfathers to desert from that army and…

In pro-choice circles, the preferred word for the unborn is fetus, rejecting words like baby or an unborn person. Even as staunch, a pro-choice person as Hillary Clinton can get in trouble for forgetting this. The problem of course is that everyone knows that it is a baby, an unborn one, but a baby none-the-less.…

A young woman entered Heartbeat of Miami Pregnancy Help Medical Clinic seeking help with an unwanted pregnancy. She was having an ultrasound done when she saw the little flutter of the heartbeat and then she heard it. She asked, “Is that, like, my heartbeat?” Lourdes McMinns, the Clinic supervisor said,…

Years ago, an unmarried college couple at Berkeley discovered they were expecting a child. Though they feared that this child could destroy the future they were planning, they decided to keep the child, and get married. Shortly thereafter Lance Cooper was born. Cooper is now a Georgia lawyer. It was…

In 2012, The Texas Woman’s Health Program won another battle against Planned Parenthood and other organizations that promote or perform abortions. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals refused Planned Parenthood’s request to rehear the case over the ban on funding. Texas gave up federal funding in March 2012…

In a stunning admission, two ethicists working with Australian universities argue in the latest online edition of the Journal of Medical Ethics that if abortion of a fetus is allowable, so too should be the termination of a newborn. The two ethicists, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva write that…

After years of struggling, it looks like the tide is turning for Pro Life Americans. In a recent poll 50% of those responding found abortion “morally wrong.” 47% of Americans describe themselves as “pro-life” as opposed to 45% being “pro-choice.” --The Week, June 11, 2010 p. 14. Illustration by Jim L.…

Abby Johnson, the Director of the Bryan, Texas Planned Parenthood clinic watched via ultrasound as a doctor aborted a13-week-old unborn baby by dilation and evacuation. It was the first abortion she viewed using the ultrasound technology. “I saw a full profile of the baby from head to foot and in an…

A professor in a college ethics class presented to his students with a problem. He said, "A man has syphilis and his wife tuberculosis. They have had four children: one has died, the other three have what is considered to be a terminal illness. The mother is pregnant. What do you recommend?" After spirited…

Each day we are either moving closer to God or further away from Him; there is no middle ground. According to scientists, in one twenty-four hour period, if you're an adult of average weight, here is what you accomplish: Your heart beats 103,689 times Your blood travels 168,000,000 miles You breathe…

"It is odd of God to pick Jeremiah. Jeremiah knows as much. He lodges a basic objection: 'I can't talk good.' In saying that he is not good at public speaking, Jeremiah is not acting humbly. He really isn't any good at any of the skills listed on a job description for a prophet. "To Jeremiah's objections,…

Stay in college, get the knowledge, and stay there until you're through. If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. -- Muhammad Ali to a young man asking advice.

I need some help this morning. Take a puzzle piece and look at it. Can you tell me what the whole puzzle will look like when it is completed? No, but you can tell me a little bit by looking at your piece. Let’s see if we can put this puzzle together. Our lives are like these puzzle pieces. Each one is…

Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg's acclaimed series "Band of Brothers" retells the heroics of Easy Company during World War II. After the success of the Normandy invasion, Easy Company is deep in enemy territory. They spend a cold night hunkered down in a low trough, recuperating from a skirmish with the…

Covenant Communities Unit 3: The New Covenant Community Remember the Message 2Peter 3:1 -The motivation for the message Beloved- In the Old Testament this term is used to convey the idea of an only child. As one would cherish and value an only child, Peter here endears his readers to himself as a valuable…

To show this, I will rest entirely upon the scholarly work of Dr. Thom Schreiner as he presented in his commentary on 1 Peter. The text in question comes from 1 Peter 1.1-2: Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,…

ABORTION When I think about Girl Scouts, I think about their thin mint cookies. I’ve always thought the organization was one that held traditional values and taught them to girls. Perhaps that has been your experience with them. But this week I read a startling report that the Senior Girl Scout Handbook,…

John MacArthur Basisinformationen zur Bibel Christliche Literatur-Verbreitung Postfach 11 01 35 • 33661 Bielefeld Wenn nicht anders angegeben, sind die Bibelzitate der Schlachter 2000 entnommen. Abkürzungen weiterer Bibelausgaben: Elb.: Elberfelder Bibel, unrevidierte Fassung Lu 12: Lutherbibel von 1912…

A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…

Christ has no hands but our hands to do His work today He has no feet but our feet to lead men in the way He has no tongue but our tongue to tell men how He died He has no help but our help to bring them to His side. We are the only Bible the careless world will read, We are the sinner’s gospel; we are…