Watching an ultrasound of an abortion changed Abby Johnson forever. She is now prolife and has quit her job as director of the Planned Parenthood clinic in Bryan, Texas. Johnson describes her conversion this way: “I just thought I can’t do this anymore, and it was just like a flash that hit me and I thought that’s it.” She also says that there was pressure on her to increase revenues for Planned Parenthood by increasing the number of abortions. She explains in The Houston Chronicle: “Definitely the most lucrative part of their business was abortions. One of the things that kept coming up was how family planning services were really…
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Worst Case Scenario in Marriage
Boyce College professor Heath Lambert addressed the women of Southern Seminary at a recent Pendergraph Women’s Ministry event. He shows how Matthew 7:1-6 instructs women to deal with the “worst case scenario” in a marital relationship. [audio:http://www.sbts.edu/media/audio/BoycePodcast/20091027_pendergraph_lambert.mp3] Congratulations to Dr. Lambert who successfully defended his dissertation last week. It was written under the supervision of David Powlison.
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Gay “Marriage” in Maine?
“Gay marriage has lost in every single state in which it has been put to a popular vote. Come Election Day, gay-rights supporters are hoping to make Maine the exception,” the Associated Press reports. This is set to be a close vote, one that activists on both sides say could go either way. We’ll be watching this one.
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N. T. Wright’s Response for CT Article
Colin Hansen’s report in Christianity Today last week suggested that N. T. Wright’s writings have influenced some Protestants to become Roman Catholic. Roman Catholic convert Taylor Marshall puts it this way: “If you buy into Wright’s approach to covenantal theology, then you’ve already taken three steps toward the Catholic Church. Keep following the trail and you’ll be Catholic.” The CT article only had a snippet of a response from Bishop Wright. Trevin Wax has Wright’s full response here.
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Largest Church Building Program in Modern History
First Baptist Church of Dallas’ plan for a new building is said to be “the largest church building program in modern history,” the Dallas Morning News reports. There is a website that shows the plans for the building, and you can see extensive video renderings of what the facility will look like. The videos also include an historical piece on George W. Truett and W. A. Criswell.
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Do Sinners Want Hell?
John Piper says that no one wants Hell and that C. S. Lewis was wrong to suggest otherwise. He writes: ‘The misery of hell will be so great that no one will want to be there. They will be weeping and gnashing their teeth (Matthew 8:12). Between their sobs, they will not speak the words, “I want this.” They will not be able to say amid the flames of the lake of fire (Revelation 20:14), “I want this.” “The smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night” (Revelation 14:11). No one wants this.
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The Myth of Monogamy
An article on CNN.com suggests that monogamy is on the decline and that serial monogamy and polyamory may be better alternatives. Serial monogamy is “a model in which people move from one committed long-term relationship to another and choose partners for different reasons at different stages of their life.” Polyamory is “the practice of having romantic relationships with multiple people at the same time with the full knowledge and consent of all involved.” This article is really sad for a lot of reasons, but I do think it accurately describes the decline of sexual mores in American society. What’s interesting, however, is that the author does not present any of…
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The State of the American Woman–Part 2
CBMW hosted a short, informal discussion about feminism last week between Jim Hamilton and me. The article from TIME magazine that I wrote about last week is the point of departure for our conversation, and the video is above.
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Jim Hamilton on 2 Samuel 11-12
Jim Hamilton’s exposition of the story of David and Bathsheba is among the best I have ever heard. He delivered the message in SBTS’s chapel yesterday, and I encourage you to listen to it, take heed, and beware of sexual temptation. The Wife of Uriah [audio:http://www.sbts.edu/media/audio/fall2009/20091027hamilton.mp3] [Download Here] Jim is the pastor of Kenwood Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky and Associate Professor of Biblical Theology at Southern Seminary.
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Evangelical Syncretism
I am astonished at how many evangelicals think that it is okay to observe a Ramadan fast with Muslims. Christianity Today has published remarks from ten evangelicals, five (or perhaps seven) of which think that it’s okay to fast with Muslims during Ramadan. Douglas Wilson is the last of the ten, and he sounds the clearest note against such a practice. He writes: “It is not appropriate to fast alongside Muslims. I wouldn’t make a point, if I were in a heavily Muslim state where everybody is fasting during the day, of fixing a hot dog and walking outside and eating it … but to observe Ramadan along with your…