Posted by Gary on May 10, 2010
1 Chronicles 29:11-12 “Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth; Yours is the dominion, O Lord, and You exalt Yourself as head over all. Both riches and honor come from You, and You rule over all, and in Your hand is power and might; and it lies in Your hand to make great and to strengthen everyone.”
Last week I joined my daughter and her grade school class on a trip to Washington D.C. to tour the Capitol and visit the Smithsonian. As we walked about I saw what was the appearance of power everywhere. Dark suits, attaches, sunglasses back on the head, clusters of people outside of meeting rooms, names of influential people on office doors, to those whose hearts and lives are bound up in this world I am sure it is very impressive.
As I went through my day it was increasingly obvious that this is the place of action and those involved in it think themselves movers and shakers. But in truth, Washington and those in it do not know what power is nor do they possess it. Power belongs to God.
It was striking to me as I looked on the people in the suits with the briefcases that time is rolling over them like it has over every other Washington power broker in the past whose bodies are now being eaten by worms and whose souls have already gone to their place either to heaven by the mercy of the all-powerful God or to hell to receive there forever the justice of God.
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Posted by Gary on February 5, 2010
I find that the concern in me regarding today’s Christians and their political pursuits does not cease. I wrote an initial post entitled, “Trusting in Princes” to express my concern and revisit the topic today.
I understand fully that for now we are creatures of this world and much of our life must be taken up with the things of this world. We have to eat, work, sleep and have obligations that come from living in this world, this is all granted. Yet, the Bible commands the Christian to keep his focus, efforts and affections on the things above as much as possible (Colossians 3:1-2).What we think about, what we become joyful over or unhappy about reveals more than anything where we have placed our affections and trust.
I would ask Christians in our day to examine themselves to find out how much their thoughts, affections and trust are tied to the political happenings of this world compared to the things above and the gospel.
For example, how much do we find ourselves thinking about healthcare reform in comparison to thinking about how many people will die this day and enter eternity separated from Christ? How much time do we spend beefing up on political happenings compared to time beefing up on knowledge of Scripture, Christian living and theology? Are you more angry about the government czars appointed by the President than you are that 45,000,000 million babies have been slaughtered by our nation since the early 1970’s? Are you really angry about abortion? What have you ever done about it? How much do you know about the battle that surrounds abortion in comparison to what you know about the battles being fought in congress?
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Posted by Gary on November 26, 2009
Visiting BaylyBlog today I read a comparison between President Obama’s 2009 Thanksgiving proclamation and President Bush’s 2008 proclamation. Bush’s mentions God often in ways of reverence and humility. Obama, while giving God His mention ultimately dwells upon us.
This led me to the website that lists all the proclamations from past presidents and I came across Abraham Lincoln’s from 1863. It includes statements that boggle the mind in light of today’s false claim by America to believe in and revere God. Note words and concepts that he uses that a president today would never use nor would be tolerated by Americans who in the main do not believe in the God of the Bible but only give the words of lips which will never pass the bar of judgment for real faith:
“No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.
It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore if, as soon as may be consistent with the divine purpose, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility, and union.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this 3d day of October A.D. 1863, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-eighth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN”
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Posted by Gary on October 7, 2009
Ephesians 4:11-13 “And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.”
A few Sundays ago as I came through the narthex of our church there was a line of people standing talking. I decided to shake the first hand I came to as I was on my way and then felt I should shake the next and so it went. After four hands or so I started to feel like a politician and upon arriving at one of our dear senior saints I jokingly said, “I am running for president.” Without delay this dear lady replied, “That would be a demotion for you wouldn’t it?”
While my immediate response was to laugh with her for she chuckled some as she said it, I thought, “Dear lady, I don’t know if you know just how profound a thing you just said.” Along with this thought was this one, “She is right Gary, the call to shepherd God’s people is the greatest and highest calling God can confer upon a man.”
Never as much as it should does this truth come to my mind, “Gary, you have been granted the greatest privilege that a man can ever receive from God.” Sometimes I sit and think about what it would be like to be the president. I think about all the decisions I would make that would set things right and how great it would be to have such power and privilege. Then the glass of cold water splashes in my face: “Gary, would you trade your calling for the power of this world?” “Could you do as much good as president as God in His grace works through His servants through the gospel?” “Do you think being the president would be a promotion for you?” My reason returns to me, I chide myself for my foolishness and embrace and rejoice in my calling once again.
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My crock pot is still boiling after having heard former pastor Mike Huckabee say in January 2008 that he left the pastorate for politics because he felt he needed to “get his jersey dirty”. This is a slap in the face with a leather glove, you might as well say something about my mother. Pastors have clean jerseys? Politicians are doing the real work of helping the world? Ha! Just remember Mike, everything accomplished in the realm of politics will one day end when this world is consumed in fire. The work of God’s shepherds will endure forever, their labor will pay dividends while unending ages roll. Mike, if you had a calling from God to be a pastor then get back where you belong, why would you willingly pursue and embrace such a demotion as the one you have taken?
Perhaps there is a brother out there who in discouragement has lost sight of the privilege that God has conferred upon him to be a pastor in the Church of Christ. Look at the passage from Ephesians 4 at the top of this post, do you not see your position listed alongside prophet and apostle? Hold on brother, God will lift you up, remain faithful and never forget that God has placed upon you a calling that is higher than president or king.
1 Timothy 6:12-16 “Fight the good fight of faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate, that you keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which He will bring about at the proper time– He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen.”
2 Timothy 1:13-14 “Retain the standard of sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you.”
2 Timothy 4:1-2 “I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction.”
1 Timothy 6:20 “O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you,”
Posted by Gary on September 23, 2009
Psalm 2:1-4
“Why are the nations in an uproar and the peoples devising a vain thing? The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers take counsel together Against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying, “Let us tear their fetters apart and cast away their cords from us!” He who sits in the heavens laughs, the Lord scoffs at them.”
This morning I attended a prayer at the flag pole event at the Christian School where two of my children attend. A number of people prayed as we stood around the pole including a couple of children. голова болит секс
I was struck as one child prayed thanking God for being able to attend a Christian school. I was especially struck with one statement in which the child said, “I thank you for going to school in a place where I can say “God” and do not have to get in trouble.”
I’m sure your mind goes to many places when you hear this as mine did. In particular I thought of the tragedy of this statement. I also thought of the defiance and rebellion that marks our country who dares to tell God where He may be spoken of or honored in His World. голова болит секс
I thought also of where the fear ought to lie and one day will. Be very afraid America as you deny and fight against the One, True God. Would you dare deny acknowledgement of the One who holds your temporal and eternal existence in His hands? You who have made children to feel they should be afraid to speak of God will one day be afraid when the Son of Man comes in His glory.
Do we think that God does not see or hear? Do we think that He will relent forever? Do we think that somehow He needs America and therefore would not lay her in the dust as He has other nations that despise and reject Him?
America, your doom is sure if you do not turn from your path of defiance against God. There remains in the mercy of God a window of opportunity to be restored to God by turning from your rejection of Him but that window will not remain open forever. One day the Son of Man, the Son of God, Jesus, will return with iron scepter in hand.
Psalm 2:5-12 “Then He will speak to them in His anger And terrify them in His fury, saying, “But as for Me, I have installed My King Upon Zion, My holy mountain.” “I will surely tell of the decree of the Lord: He said to Me, ‘You are My Son, Today I have begotten You. ‘Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as Your inheritance, And the very ends of the earth as Your possession. ‘You shall break them with a rod of iron, You shall shatter them like earthenware.’”
Now therefore, O kings, show discernment; take warning, O judges of the earth. Worship the Lord with reverence and rejoice with trembling. Do homage to the Son, that He not become angry, and you perish in the way, For His wrath may soon be kindled. How blessed are all who take refuge in Him! “
Posted by Gary on September 9, 2009
Galatians 2:11 “But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.”
Truth is nasty business. By nasty I mean confronting dishonesty can be a very hard thing to do and doing it will offend those who are dishonest especially if the occasion calls for confrontation if front of others.
It is reported tonight that South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson called out during President Obama’s healthcare speech, “You lie!” The comment came at the point at which the President claimed that his proposed healthcare plan would not cover illegal aliens.
Apparently many were aghast that Wilson would do such a thing. After the speech the representative apologized for his statement saying, “This evening I let my emotions get the best of me…While I disagree with the president’s statement, my comments were inappropriate and regrettable. I extend sincere apologies to the president for this lack of civility.”
Notice that Wilson is not apologizing that his accusation is wrong, he does not say, “I am sorry because the president was right and I was wrong”, he apologizes for a lack of civility.
What a tragedy. If the president is telling the truth then apologize for your mistake but if he is lying why do you apologize? Look at this, the sin in the eyes of our leaders is not lying (if the president lied), it is telling someone that they lied.
Truth does not matter to us does it? We get mad for having to wait five minutes for a cup of coffee at a restaurant and we get mad if the IPod we just brought home from the store doesn’t work and we’ll sure say something then but when someone lies, we don’t care. We only seem to care that it seems mean to point out someone’s lie.
Notice in the Scripture passage at the top of this post the distinction between the ways of the this world (which does not know God) and God’s people. The Apostle Paul when he sees the Apostle Peter being dishonest via hypocrisy confronts him to his face in front of those present at the time.
Is Paul concerned that Peter is a fellow apostle? Is he concerned that Peter was an apostle before he was? Is he concerned about civility? No, he is concerned about the truth and he confronts and does not apologize for it.
Representative Wilson, your chief duty is not to be civil, it is to stand with and speak the truth.
God’s people, how important is the truth to you? Are you willing to stand for God’s truth to the point of seeming uncivil? Are you willing to have others confront you if you fall into dishonesty?
These events tonight are another reason that I see more clearly that we are not to put our trust in civil princes to whom truth must be apologized for (Psalm 146:3).
P.S. If you want to see civility in action and real political interaction, look to Britain. This is the best!
Posted by Gary on August 28, 2009
In the post preceding this one I shared some thoughts on Senator Edward Kennedy and his advocacy of abortion. I have wondered what will be said by the priest that officiates his funeral tomorrow. It should be interesting. According to the catechism of the Catholic Church, to have an abortion is grounds for excommunication. From the catechism:
2272 Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense.
The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life.
"A person who procures a completed abortion incurs excommunication latae sententiae,"76 "by the very commission of the offense,"77 and subject to the conditions provided by Canon Law.78
The Church does not thereby intend to restrict the scope of mercy.
Rather, she makes clear the gravity of the crime committed, the irreparable harm done to the innocent who is put to death, as well as to the parents and the whole of society.
Catechism of the Catholic Church: PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST -SECTION TWO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS -CHAPTER TWO YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF -Article 5 THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT
If having an abortion is grounds for excommunication, what does the church say about those who have helped to legalize abortion, have spoken in favor of it and have voted against attempts to stop abortion or curtail it?
Today I came across this article in Time mentioning the pope’s silence since Kennedy’s death, intimating that Edward Kennedy and the rest of the Kennedy family are not in good standing with Rome:
One veteran official at the Vatican, of U.S. nationality, expressed the view of many conservatives about the Kennedy clan’s rapport with the Catholic Church: "Why would he even write a letter to the Pope? The Kennedys have always been defiantly in opposition to the Roman Catholic magisterium."…
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Back at headquarters, however, there is little room for nuance. "Here in Rome Ted Kennedy is nobody. He’s a legend with his own constituency," says the Vatican official. "If he had influence in the past it was only with the Archdiocese of Boston and that eventually disappeared too."
Posted by Gary on August 27, 2009
Ezekiel 18:23 "Do I have any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord God, rather than that he should turn from his ways and live?”
Ephesians 5:11-13 “
Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them; for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret. But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light.”
Thoughts here flow from the recent passing of Senator Edward Kennedy. As the passage from Ezekiel above makes clear, God does not take pleasure in the death of the wicked and our attitude as His people should be the same. I have many things I think in regard to the late Senator but I do not delight in his death. Senator Kennedy is now in eternity and my heart is bent toward mercy for anyone who is now in that realm in which nothing can be changed and all things are permanent and eternal. I remember a professor of mine in Bible college quoting another teacher with this phrase:
“Eternity is God taking our choices and making them permanent.”
While I do not delight in Senator Kennedy’s death, his life and what he championed bears examination. Senator Kennedy’s death begins what will be an ongoing line of legislators who sponsored the death of millions of unborn children entering eternity.
Now here a master work of the devil is put to work…you and I are not to evaluate another person’s life and talk with any sense of judgment regarding what they did or taught others to do. I have heard this over and over since Kennedy’s death, we are not to say anything, we are to put all differences aside (as if our differences are about who will win the Super Bowl or who makes better peanut butter, Skippy or Jif?)
Again, I do not mean a certain kind of talk concerning the deceased, if God takes no pleasure in their death than I must be careful about how I react to it. I am talking about an honest review of a person’s actions and philosophy and its impact on the world and the devil will not have us do it.
I will grant that Senator Kennedy brought about good in certain ways during his time in the Senate but he was also the advocate of one of the greatest evils that has ever come about in human history, the legalization of infanticide, the slaughter of unborn children, everyone of them bearing the image of God since conception.
Of course most of us are well past this…it is law, the Supreme Court has said it is ok and so the rest of us need to get over it right? We will not.
If abortion is not wrong in the eyes of God then there is no reason for concern. If it is, and Kennedy’s church, Roman Catholicism has declared it is. More importantly, the Bible declares that life begins at conception and that we are known by God as His creatures before we are formed in the womb. Therefore, killing children in the womb is sin. Accepting Biblical truth and even the declaration of his church, Kennedy has been the agent of great evil in the sight of God and against mankind.
“Hush” says the devil, you are not to think about or discuss such things concerning this man, he has died and it is not nice to talk about him. What a schemer the devil is, he would have us think that great sin is talking about a man after he has died while all the while we witness and do nothing about the slaughter of children. How nice Americans are in these days…civil, kind unwilling to talk about a man’s role in the slaughter of children. While we were being nice today 1,500 children were put to death in America and 115,068 worldwide.
Because talking about these things is mean, most people will never evaluate Kennedy’s life in the light they should which is, to what degree did his life reflect the truth and glory of God. Through the call to niceness, the devil continues to keep us in the dark. Tremendous evil continues and we will not see it or turn from it.
You can see a report of Kennedy’s history of voting on life issues here.
By the way, challenging a person to consider their actions before God and where they will spend eternity is the nicest thing you can ever do. I do wonder if any priest, bishop, cardinal or pope ever warned the Senator about the evil of his ways and what it would mean for him in eternity?
Posted by Gary on March 17, 2009
In a recent Christian Science Monitor article entitled, “The Coming Evangelical Collapse” Michael Spencer holds forth the prediction that Evangelicalism as we know it will collapse within the next 10 years. While I am not certain about the time frame, I am in agreement with much of Spencer’s assessment and prediction. I would also say that a collapse of much of what is called Evangelicalism would be the best thing that could happen for the Christian faith in the west. Here is an excerpt from the beginning of the article:
“We are on the verge – within 10 years – of a major collapse of evangelical Christianity. This breakdown will follow the deterioration of the mainline Protestant world and it will fundamentally alter the religious and cultural environment in the West.
Within two generations, evangelicalism will be a house deserted of half its occupants. (Between 25 and 35 percent of Americans today are Evangelicals.) In the “Protestant” 20th century, Evangelicals flourished. But they will soon be living in a very secular and religiously antagonistic 21st century.
This collapse will herald the arrival of an anti-Christian chapter of the post-Christian West. Intolerance of Christianity will rise to levels many of us have not believed possible in our lifetimes, and public policy will become hostile toward evangelical Christianity, seeing it as the opponent of the common good.
Millions of Evangelicals will quit. Thousands of ministries will end. Christian media will be reduced, if not eliminated. Many Christian schools will go into rapid decline. I’m convinced the grace and mission of God will reach to the ends of the earth. But the end of evangelicalism as we know it is close.”
I will leave you to read the article for yourself but I want to pick up on something Spencer points out which is one of the reasons he believes Evangelicalism will collapse. Spencer mentions that Evangelicals have identified themselves with “the cultural war and with political conservatism.” I cannot agree more and have shared my thoughts in this post. Here is the quote from Spencer’s article:
“Evangelicals have identified their movement with the culture war and with political conservatism. This will prove to be a very costly mistake. Evangelicals will increasingly be seen as a threat to cultural progress. Public leaders will consider us bad for America, bad for education, bad for children, and bad for society.
The evangelical investment in moral, social, and political issues has depleted our resources and exposed our weaknesses. Being against gay marriage and being rhetorically pro-life will not make up for the fact that massive majorities of Evangelicals can’t articulate the Gospel with any coherence. We fell for the trap of believing in a cause more than a faith.”
It is that last line…“We fell for the trap of believing in a cause more than a faith” that stood out. I recently started reading again the book “The Screwtape Letters” by C.S. Lewis. If you are familiar with this book you know it is comprised of a series of imagined letters between two demons, one more experienced and of higher rank who corresponds with his nephew, an underling named Wormwood.
In letter number VII Screwtape gives his nephew advice on how to bring harm to his assignment, a man who has recently become a Christian. The issue has to do with whether the underling should encourage his patient to be a pacifist or patriot in response to the recent war (I assume WW II). The demonic advice seems to be strongly at work in our day. I will leave it with you to ponder:
“Whichever he adopts, your main task will be the same. Let him begin by treating the Patriotism or the Pacifism as a part of his religion. Then let him, under the influence of a partisan spirit, come to regard it as the most important part. Then quietly and gradually nurse him on to the stage at which the religion becomes merely part of the “Cause,” in which Christianity is valued chiefly because of the excellent arguments it can produce in favour of the war-effort or of Pacifism.
The attitude you want to guard against is that in which temporal affairs are treated primarily as material for obedience. Once you have made the World an end, and Faith a means, you have almost won your man, and it makes very little difference what kind of worldly end he is pursuing. Provided that meetings, pamphlets, policies, movements, causes, and crusades, matter more to him than prayers and sacraments and charity, he is ours—and the more “religious” (on those terms) the more securely ours. I could show you a pretty cageful down here.”
Your affectionate uncle,
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Posted by Gary on March 13, 2009
I wonder if we have any idea of the evil of the day in which we live? I assume that people who can be at ease while false gods are proclaimed and 42,000,000 infants are murdered each year can be numb to anything. This story comes out of North Carolina today of judge Ned Mangum who has decided that three children who are currently home schooled by their mother need to go to public school.
The parents of the children are in the midst of a divorce and the mother home schools the children. The children test two grades above their grade level and according the story, the father and court agree that the children have “thrived with home school”.
What is the issue? The children’s mother, Vanessa Mills teaches from the Bible. Vanessa’s curriculum includes: math, science, grammar, reading and music. The father has objected to their removal from public school since the mother started attending a church where all the children are home schooled and is concerned with the “religious-based science curriculum” taught to the children.
Judge Mangum ruled that the children should be in public school. Really? Who is judge Mangum to decide what is best for someone else’s children? Who has custody of the children? Pay attention people, we are progressively heading into a system of power that will determine what your children should do and have even above your discretion as their parent.
According to Mrs. Mills, Judge Mangum decided:
“(it) would be a good opportunity for the children to be tested in the beliefs that I have taught them,”
Frightening. The powers that be have decided that someone else’s children are ready to have their beliefs tested. That sir, is not your decision to make regardless of the fact that the Godless system of power in place has told you that it is.
Many more things like this take place. In some states children can have abortions without notifying parents or receiving their consent (see list here). Who are parents that they should be allowed to know? Big brother is the leader now, not father and mother.
Ephesians 5:15-16 “Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise, making the most of your time, because the days are evil.”
Posted by Gary on February 2, 2009
Take a moment to watch this TV ad that NBC would not air last night from the group CatholicVote. It is a brilliant spot that reveals the great hypocrisy of infant murder advocates who tell us that it would be better for children to be put to death than to enter life in difficult circumstances.
Posted by Gary on January 23, 2009
Today is January 22, 2009. On this day 36 years ago abortion on demand became the law of our land. Since then we have put to death 40,000,000 of our children. Do you care?
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I can hardly believe the day has come and on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade no less. I must confess my surprise that deliverance would come under our new president Barack Obama but alas, it has. Did you miss the news? If we can take President Obama at his word today we can expect soon the end of the practice of abortion. Here is his statement:
“First, I can say without exception or equivocation that the United States will not torture…
How we have prayed for this, the day when America would recognize the torture it has inflicted on others. Since 1973 we have tortured and murdered over 40,000,000 of our children. Let us all rejoice that today we came to recognize that torture is wrong and have committed ourselves to torture no more.
Imagine, no more:
Suction Aspiration: “General or local anesthesia is given to the mother and her cervix is quickly dilated. A suction curette (hollow tube with a knife-edged tip) is inserted into the womb. This instrument is then connected to a vacuum machine by a transparent tube. The vacuum suction, 29 times more powerful than a household vacuum cleaner, tears the fetus and placenta into small pieces which are sucked through the tube into a bottle and discarded.”
Dilation and Curettage (D&C): “This method is similar to the suction method with the added insertion of a hook shaped knife (curette) which cuts the baby into pieces. The pieces are scraped out through the cervix and discarded [Note: This abortion method should not be confused with a therapeutic D&C done for reasons other than pregnancy.]”
Dilation and Evacuation (D&E): “This method is used up to 18 weeks gestation. Instead of the loop-shaped knife used in D&C abortions, a pair of forceps is inserted into the womb to grasp part of the fetus. The teeth of the forceps twist and tear the bones of the unborn child. This process is repeated until the fetus is totally dismembered and removed. Usually the spine must be snapped and the skull crushed in order to remove them.”
Salt Poisoning (Saline Injection): “Used after 16 weeks (four months) when enough fluid has accumulated. A long needle injects a strong salt solution through the mother’s abdomen into the baby’s sac. The baby swallows this fluid and is poisoned by it. It also acts as a corrosive, burning off the outer layer of skin. It normally takes somewhat over an hour for the baby to die from this. Within 24 hours, labor will usually set in and the mother will give birth to a dead or dying baby. (There have been many cases of these babies being born alive. They are usually left unattended to die. However, a few have survived and later been adopted.)”
Prostaglandin Chemical Abortion: This form of abortion uses chemicals developed by the Upjohn Pharmaceutical Co. which cause the uterus to contract intensely, pushing out the developing baby. The contractions are more violent than normal, natural contractions, so the unborn baby is frequently killed by them — some have even been decapitated. Many, however, have also been born alive.
Hysterotomy or Caesarean Section Used mainly in the last three months of pregnancy, the womb is entered by surgery through the wall of the abdomen. The technique is similar to a Caesarean delivery, except that the umbilical cord is usually cut while the baby is still in the womb, thus cutting off his oxygen supply and causing him to suffocate. Sometimes the baby is removed alive and simply left in a corner to die of neglect or exposure.
Partial-Birth Abortion: Five steps to a partial birth abortion:
- Guided by ultrasound, the abortionist grabs the baby’s legs with forceps.
- The baby’s leg is pulled out into the birth canal.
- The abortionist delivers the baby’s entire body, except for the head.
- The abortionist jams scissors into the baby’s skull. The scissors are then opened to enlarge the skull.
- The scissors are removed and a suction catheter is inserted. The child’s brains are sucked out, causing the skull to collapse. The dead baby is then removed.
(Abortion procedure information taken from LifeSiteNews)
In the majority position of the Supreme Court decision (pp.7-8) that upheld the ban on Partial Birth Abortion Justice Kennedy made reference to this description of Partial Birth Abortion by a nurse who participated in the torture:
“Dr. Haskell went in with forceps and grabbed the baby’s legs and pulled them down into the birth canal.Then he delivered the baby’s body and the arms everything but the head. The doctor kept the head right inside the uterus. . . .
The baby’s little fingers were clasping and unclasping, and his little feet were kicking. Then the doctor stuck the scissors in the back of his head, and the baby’s arms jerked out, like a startle reaction, like a flinch, like a baby does when he thinks he is going to fall.
The doctor opened up the scissors, stuck a high-powered suction tube into the opening, and sucked the baby’s brains out. Now the baby went completely limp. . . .
He cut the umbilical cord and delivered the placenta. He threw the baby in a pan, along with the placenta and the instruments he had just used.”
Were you aware that these are the types of things we have been doing to our children for the last 36 years?
I do not rejoice at the thought of anyone being mistreated or harmed but when I watched the President today make his announcement with all the implied disdain for methods used to get information from detainees at Guantanamo Bay I was angered. America is not going to torture? Strapping a man on board and submerging him in water is torture but the above murderous procedures are not?
How righteous and smug the new administration was today, they have corrected our tortuous ways. Be very afraid children, never has such a large collection of infant murder supporters been gathered together and given authority.
Already we see that President Obama is at work in the abortion realm as Fox News reports: “President Obama will issue an executive order on Thursday reversing the Bush administration policy that bans the use of federal dollars by non-governmental organizations that discuss or provide abortions outside of the United States.”
When President Obama was campaigning he made a promise to sign into law the Freedom Of Choice Act (FOCA). You need to make yourself familiar with this repeal of nearly every restriction that we have succeeded in imposing on infant murder.
I refuse to have the false charge of being unpatriotic keep me from revealing the sinful, murderous reality of what is being done by our country. Multitudes today believe that we have purged sin and ascended in righteousness, America no longer tortures we are told. Yes, we do.
Posted by Gary on January 21, 2009
The model for every pastor’s preaching, teaching and praying is the Prophets, Apostles and the Lord Jesus Christ. We are only truthful and faithful to the degree that our preaching, teaching and praying resembles theirs.
Concerning Rick Warren’s prayer today I want us to use imagination rooted in Scripture and ask the following: "Would Moses have prayed a prayer similar to Warren’s?" "What would Jeremiah have prayed if he were offering the invocation?" "Leave the words but remove Rick Warren and insert John the Baptist instead. Would, could, John the Baptist have approached God as Rick Warren did?
When the ecstasy wears off we have some serious thinking to do about the events of this day and what they portend for the future. But for now I would take hold of us and hand us the spectacles of Scripture. I ask you, I gently shake you as I ask you. Stop and think. Would the Prophets, Apostles or the Lord Jesus Christ have prayed in the way that Rick Warren did today?
For weeks I have tempered myself and called myself to be as gracious as possible, fearing what Warren might do today. I must say it was worse than I feared.
Can you imagine the Apostle Paul asking God to help us remember that what unites us is "not religion" but "our commitment to freedom, and justice for all"?
The God who commands all His creatures to love and serve Him only is to overlook our false gods and idolatry and remind us that our greatest commitment is to give freedom and justice to other men? Our greatest duty is not to other men, not even in bringing them freedom and justice. Our first and greatest duty is to worship, revere and serve God and Him alone:
Exodus 20:2-6 "I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments."
How can a servant of the jealous God bring our idolatry right into His presence and far from confessing it ask Him to remind us of some duty that in our idolatrous hearts we think is higher than honoring the one, true, God alone?
I defy you to tell me that any of the Prophets or Apostles would have prayed something like this.
Christians, we must be discerning.
