Don’t believe everything you read. Especially the obfuscations of Kate Michelman and Frances Kissling in today’s New York Times. Their OP-ED is more of the tired, old, feminist propaganda that entirely misses the point of the abortion debate. They pillory congressional Democrats who supported the pro-life Stupak amendment to the healthcare bill passed last week. They charge pro-life Democrats with risking the “well-being of millions of women” and with undermining “reproductive rights.” Once again, the pro-death feminists show not one scintilla of concern for the unborn. They even complain that Democrat leaders are now using the term “pro-life” instead of the pejorative “anti-choice.” Here’s the bottom line. It is wrong…
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First Theology
President Obama’s remarks at the Fort Hood memorial contained an unexpected pronouncement: “No faith justifies these murderous and craven acts; no just and loving God looks upon them with favor. For what he has done, we know that the killer will be met with justice — in this world, and the next.” It’s not the pluralism that’s unexpected, nor the condemnation of the killer. The surprise came in his belief in a judgment in the afterlife. In a 2008 interview for The Stranger, Obama’s tone on the afterlife was decidedly more agnostic. Recounting a conversation with one of his daughters, he said, “I wondered whether I should have told her…
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Chris Matthews Gets It…Sort of
On Monday, Chris Matthews interviewed Jim Cooper (Democrat Congressman from Tennessee) and Cecile Richards (President of Planned Parenthood). Neither Cooper nor Richards is being straightforward about the Stupak Amendment that was attached to the House’s healthcare reform bill on Saturday. Matthews is a liberal and is pro-choice, but even he won’t let them get away with it. Be sure to pay careful attention to Cooper and Richards’s rationale for rejecting the pro-life Stupak Amendment. Utterly false.
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Does God Love Homosexuals?
I got an e-mail today from someone who wanted to know if I believe that God loves homosexuals. The short answer is yes. But short answers aren’t nearly as good as biblical answers. So let’s look at three texts to establish the point. John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
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Fleeing the Abortionist’s Probe
I wrote last week about Abby Johnson who quit her job as executive director of a Planned Parenthood clinic after seeing an ultrasound image of an abortion. Mike Huckabee recently interviewed Johnson, and she provided much more detail than previously about the abortion that she saw. The mother who aborted her child was 13 weeks pregnant. Johnson says that she saw the baby trying to get away from the abortionist’s probe. Watch the interview above. (HT: Justin Taylor)
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Wise as Serpents, Innocent as Doves
I saw this Associated Press story on Albert Mohler’s link list this morning. If you aren’t careful about opening e-mail attachments, you will be after reading this. “Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography. “Heinous pictures and videos can be deposited on computers by viruses — the malicious programs better known for swiping your credit card numbers. In this twist, it’s your reputation that’s stolen. “Pedophiles can exploit virus-infected PCs to remotely store and view their stash without fear they’ll get caught. Pranksters or someone trying to frame you can tap viruses to…
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Call Your Congressman Right NOW!
Dear Readers, If you are pro-life, it is very important that you take a moment to call you Congressman to tell him or her to support the pro-life Stupak-Pitts amendment to health care. The House of Representatives will be debating the measure over the next few hours and will vote on it this evening. It’s too late to e-mail, you have to call. You can locate your Representative’s number here. The call will only take you a few minutes. The National Right to Life Committee regards this as “the most important House roll call on federal funding of abortion since the House last voted directly on the Hyde Amendment in…
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What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?
I’m working today on a paper for the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, which is to be held in New Orleans on November 18-20. The title of my paper is “Why Evangelicals Should Ignore Brian McLaren: How the New Testament Requires Evangelicals to Render a Judgment on the Moral Status of Homosexuality.” While working on the paper, I came across a video featuring Robert Gagnon—a New Testament scholar who has written the definitive work on the Bible’s teaching about homosexuality. It’s pretty heady stuff, but I’ve posted the video above. If you’re interested in his book, you can buy it here: The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and…
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Multi-Site Churches
Dr. Albert Mohler hosted a panel discussion at Southern Seminary on multi-site churches. The panel consisted only of Baptists, so it was dealt with the multi-site phenomenon within a baptistic ecclesiological framework. Panel members represented a spectrum of opinion on this question: Single Campus/Single City/No Video Preaching – Greg Gilbert (Capitol Hill Baptist Church) Multi-campus/Single City/No Video Preaching – Kevin Ezell (Highview Baptist Church) and Daniel Montgomery (Sojourn) Multi-campus/Multi-City/Video Preaching – Greg Allison (Southern Seminary) Perspectives on Multi-site Churches (audio) [audio:http://www.sbts.edu/media/audio/fall2009/20091103panel.mp3]
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Maine Repeals Same-Sex “Marriage” Law
Voters in Maine have repealed the law that would have allowed same-sex “marriage.” The Associated Press reports: “Gay marriage has now lost in every single state — 31 in all — in which it has been put to a popular vote. Gay-rights activists had hoped to buck that trend in Maine.” For me, this is the big news of this election day. If this measure would have failed, it would have been the first time for gay “marriage” to be supported by a popular vote. Also, it is significant that voters in two of the most liberal states in the country—California and Maine—have now rejected gay “marriage.”