Sermon Tone Analysis

Sanctity of Human Life 2022

Sanctity of Human Life Sunday began in 1984 when then-President Ronald Reagan designated January 22 to be set aside to celebrate God’s gift of life, commemorate the many lives lost to abortion, and commit to protecting human life at every stage – from conception to natural death.

This date was selected because on January 22, 1973 – the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions were handed down by the United States Supreme Court, making abortion legal in all 50 states.

Sanctity of Human Life Sunday continues to be recognized by churches on the third Sunday in January – and usually the Sunday closest to the date these court decisions were handed down.

It is annually commemorated by thousands of individuals who want to stand for Life.

https://www.lpcenters.com/sanctity-of-human-life

According to a Life Way Research survey from 2015, 7 out of every 10 women who have an abortion identify as a Christian.

God help us.

The church has a lot of blood on our hands.

If every woman who identifies as a Christian would choose life, then the abortion industry would no longer exist.

To make matters worse, 64% of these women do not feel the church is safe place to discuss their options.

We are a hospital not a courtroom.

Our churches as a whole, are so disconnected, that 76% of women who identified as Christians said their church or church members could not sway them one way or the other.

This article ends with a direction towards pastors

Perhaps without even realizing it, churches are speaking to women who will face an unexpected pregnancy, are currently deciding how to handle such a situation, or have had an abortion in their past.

Because of this, pastors and church leaders must speak with care and clarity when they bring up the issue.

So let me speak with clarity and care by what Jesus spoke Himself:

They wanted to trap Jesus.

Jesus bends down and starts writing in the ground.

They keep pressuring Him and Jesus says.

“Ok, Ok, you without sin, throw the first stone”.

He bends down and writes again in the sand.

One by one they all leave.

Our responsibility is to lead people to the Master, then disciple, and then multiply.

Jesus transcended the culture and the disciples turned the world upside down.

We can and should do the same.

One person can save a minimum of one life.

I was pregnant after Elizabeth.

We named the baby, Sean Michael.

A few days later, I lost him.

I was devastated.

I stayed off work for 2 weeks.

I worked for Walgreens as a Pharmacy Technician.

When I went back to work there was a new pharmacist.

Someone came in with a prescription meant to induce a medical abortion.

I handed it off to someone else because everyone knew how I felt about it, except this new pharmacist.

He turned to me and told me I had no choice.

I responded to him (in what I thought was somewhat controlled but was later told slightly elevated) that I just lost my baby and would not help someone kill theirs.

The pharmacist was certainly caught off guard by my reaction and when he turned around, the young woman was gone.

Hopefully I saved a life that day.

Then there are those who save many children.

Sir Nicholas Winton saved 669 children.

In the nine months leading up to WWII, he organized a group to rescue 669 children, primarily Jewish children, out of Czechoslovakia.

He was a banker and stockbroker from Great Britain born to Jewish parents who became Christian.

Great Britain required 50 pounds each as a deposit and a verified foster home.

Besides Sweden, no one else but Great Britain would take any children.

These children’s parents all died at Auschwitz.

On the eve of WWII, he had 250 more children ready to board the train and then war was declared and he could not get them out.

All of the 250 children died except for two.

Nicholas did not speak of it often.

One day his wife found the journal in the attic and gave it to a holocaust researcher.

It made its way to the BBC television program “That’s Life”.

Nicholas Winton was invited as an audience guest.

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We can make a difference.

We can save lives.

We need to celebrate life.

If you are pregnant and contemplating abortion.

There are options.

Please contact the church.

All life is redeemable