Mission to the Unborn
Posted By cmbuuck on January 11, 2013
March for Life
Posted By cmbuuck on January 11, 2013
January 2013 Newsletter
Posted By cmbuuck on January 11, 2013
Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, that you and your descendants might live! Choose to love the Lord your God and to obey him and commit yourself to him, for he is your life. Deuteronomy 30:19-20a (NLT)
Sunday and Roe vs. Wade
by Rev. Dr. James I. Lamb
God and abortion came face to face last year with the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, January 22, 1973, falling on a Sunday. People gathered to worship the Lord and Author of Life on the day when, thirty-nine years before, the U.S. Supreme Court effectively took the right to life away from the defenseless unborn and declared the right to murder them constitutional.
Since then, over 55,000,000 little lives have been slaughtered under the death cry of “the right to choose.”
Many would say I exaggerate the importance of the convergence of Roe v. Wade and Sunday. They maintain there is no connection. Their oft repeated mantra: “Abortion is political and the Church exists to proclaim the Gospel not to be ensnared in politics.” This flawed and deadly reasoning is precisely why the carnage of abortion continues.
The killing of little boys and little girls at any stage of development for any reason is a travesty. Killing little boys and little girls created and gifted by God, purchased by the blood of Jesus, and children God desires to call into an eternal relationship with Him is a travesty against our Triune God.
Therein lies the connection. Abortion is not just a choice that destroys life. It destroys life precious to God.
Add to this the immeasurable guilt and regret an abortion choice eventually brings to the hearts of those involved in that choice and you have a set of circumstances that compels the Church of Jesus Christ to speak and act. You have a mission field tailor made for the proclamation of God’s law and especially the proclamation of His life-changing Gospel.
For the Christian, abortion is at its core idolatry, a failure to “fear, love, and trust in God above all things.” We choose the death of the helpless to deliver us from a difficult situation rather than trust in God “my help and my deliverer” (Psalm 40:17).
But the Church dare not merely pound her pulpits and demand, “Trust God, choose life” as if trust in God is something we can conjure up if we just try hard enough. Time and time again the Scripture associates help from God with salvation from God. “Help us, O God of our salvation” (Psalm 79:9). Those who profess Jesus Christ as the source of their salvation must be led to see and trust that the God who saved them from sin is the source of their help and will never abandon them.
“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?” (Romans 8:31-32 ESV)
Because God’s love for us was demonstrated on the cross, we can confidently trust that nothing “in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:39b ESV). Christ’s Church has a responsibility to help her people connect this wonderful promise to the life issues.
Our prayer at LFL, is that the Church will make this connection, not just on Life Sunday, but frequently Sunday after Sunday. We stand ready to help and equip the Church to connect and apply what she is already proclaiming, the Gospel, to these issues of life and death. It is the Gospel that truly changes hearts and lives.
Speaking Up For Life
“Abortion must be fought one heart, one mind, and one life at a time. This is what Christians have always done!”
Diane E. Schroeder, President of Lutherans For Life
“God has brought so many broken and hurting to us in ways we can’t even comprehend. We continue to proclaim Christ’s healing, and serve the needs of women and men who have experienced the loss of a child through an abortion. We know that God is in control, we also know that He uses people to do His work.”
Grace Kern, Director of Word of Hope (See “Need Help?” below)
If you are in a crisis situation, have had an abortion, are pregnant right now, or have been hurt by someone; here you will find hope. Please contact us at:
- Toll Free 1-888-217-8679
- In Illinois 1-630-990-0909
- Email: help@word-of-hope.org
Area Clergy Announce New Coalition
Posted By cmbuuck on January 7, 2013
Shepherds United: Reclaiming Humanity’s Inherent Worth
We are witnessing a societal assault upon the sanctity of human life, the dignity of marriage and the right to religious liberty. As Christian shepherds of the Fort Wayne area, we unite to reclaim human dignity.
Nowhere do we see this societal assault more clearly than in the tragedy of abortion. Since the Supreme Court legalized abortion on demand throughout the United States in 1973, more than 55 million innocent little children have had their lives taken from them. Tragically, many children are aborted for the sake of convenience and their bodies dismembered and discarded with medical waste. Children with Down syndrome or other disabilities are often the victims of abortion. Some children are targeted for abortion after their gender is discovered.
What does it say about our society that some children among us are tragically labeled as unwanted or that some pregnancies are spoken of as if they are a punishment? Too often children are valued not according to their inherent worth, but by how they will affect our lives and pocketbooks or whether they measure up to our standards of health and intelligence. Our land is further stained by the exploitation of human life through embryonic stem cell research. Truly, a great darkness has fallen over this land.
Even as the youngest are endangered, so also the culture of death shadows the elderly and infirm. Those who receive a difficult or terminal medical diagnosis are encouraged to end their own lives in a growing number of states that have legalized assisted suicide. As society attempts to cheapen our humanity and medical costs rise, euthanasia is becoming far too common and is a threat to all of us. As life is judged by its quality instead of its inherent worth, there’s nothing to protect us from cost-cutting measures that treat life as a mere commodity. The frailest among us stand in danger of being marginalized. We must stand against a culture of death that attempts to reduce the care given to the prematurely born, the disabled, the elderly or any other individual considered expendable by society.
In the midst of this societal decay, the institution of marriage is also at grave risk. God, who is the author of life, is also the author of marriage. From the beginning, God designed marriage to be a communion of lifelong love between a man and a woman. Marriage is more than negotiating a legal contract or establishing a business arrangement with which we may tinker. No government has the authority to alter its fundamental meaning. It is the foundation of the family, which is the basic cell of society. A society that denies the fundamental reality of God-ordained marriage cannot flourish or long endure.
Today, our societal situation is worsened by laws that take aim at our religious liberty. The healthcare mandate from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services strikes at the heart of Christian conscience by limiting our free exercise of religion in the public sphere. Christian charities, schools and hospitals are required to choose between helping their
neighbor and violating their conscience. Adoption agencies are forced to close because of their refusal to facilitate adoptions for same-sex couples.
So, as Christian shepherds of the Fort Wayne area, we unite in support of life, marriage and religious liberty. For all of our differences, we come together to celebrate the common dignity of our shared humanity. Together as pastors, priests and ministers, we exercise our right of free speech in defense of our God-given right to life. Together we say that every human being, from the moment of conception, deserves to be treated as a human person, endowed by our Creator with the right to life and religious liberty. Every unborn child is precious in the eyes of the One who became an embryonic child in the womb of Mary. Every suffering person is priceless in the eyes of the One who suffered and died for our sake.
We know that we live in a fallen world and that we are all in this together. We all suffer from the effects of sin, even as we are all sinners. But we also know that our heavenly Father heals the broken hearted and salvages difficult situations. Christ loves the mother who has had the abortion and all those who are struggling with sinful desires. Our society must be a place of forgiveness and reconciliation. Therefore, we come together in a spirit of gentleness and boldness, in firm resolve and humble recognition of our own faults and frailties. But even as we recognize our weakness, Christ calls us to be strong and to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves.
These are momentous times. We call upon our fellow Christians in the City of Churches to stand with us and join us in defending these foundational principles. The blessings of our God-given liberty are at stake. We urge all good people to act in concert for the sake of life, marriage and religious liberty so that the legacy of our great land might be handed down to the generations that follow.
Heartbeat Bill Rally
Posted By cmbuuck on May 19, 2012
The FINAL PUSH Heartbeat Bill Rally
Saturday May 19
Columbus, OH – May 18, 2012 – If there were a pro-life rally that could help bring an end to most abortions, would you attend? If so, make plans to join us: THIS SATURDAY, May 19th at the Ohio Statehouse at noon. With ONE vote of the Ohio State Senate, the Heartbeat Bill would become law and protect every baby whose heartbeat can be heard–ending nearly every abortion in our state! When the Senate votes, the killing stops.
Mark Harrington, Executive Director for Created Equal, will be one of the speakers.
To watch all the Created Equal films of the Heartbeat Bill battle, see below:
- The Time is Now!
- A Movement. Not a Cause
- The Human Cost of Senate Delays
- Kids for the Heartbeat Bill
Go to HeartbeatBill.com for details including off-site parking passes. Bring every pro-lifer you know to the rally you will tell your grandchildren about: The rally that brought the killing to an end. See you THIS Saturday at the Ohio Statehouse!
Find out more at HeartbeatBill.com
LifeSiteNews
Posted By cmbuuck on May 15, 2012
Supermodel: Ignore your kids on ‘No Mother’s Day’ to support global abortion access
Christy Turlington Burns encourages moms to “disappear” Sunday to support UN-backed “family planning” and population control measures
Catholic Pelosi: ‘my religion compels me’ to support same-sex ‘marriage’
Pelosi has previously used her Catholic faith to justify strongly supporting legalized abortion.
Since when is murder a solution to illness?: babies with a fatal diagnosis have a right to life
It comes down to this: whatever the crisis, we can find a better answer than abortion.
Abortion goes against everything being a woman is about
Motherhood is the most amazing thing that a woman can do in this world. Just think about it: we can nurture and protect another human life!