The Life Given

Currently, I am working through reading Reformed Ethics: Created, Fallen, and Converted Humanity by Herman Bavinck for a course at NSA.  It is proving to be a very helpful and informative read, and if you have $30 dollars to doll out, I would recommend this book.  Anyway, I came across this quote, and found that it proved to be very insightful as to how we got to where we are now in our cultural landscape: "In principle, adultery is revolution and makes society impossible ... But even here sin does not standstill.  Eventually it leads to unnatural sins such as practices associated with pedophilia and homosexuality, common especially in the Greek world, where they were not condemned, even by Socrates and Plato, and later also in Roman culture." It makes you scratch your head when you look around yourself in the culture, but this slide started decades ago with men being unfaithful to their wives because the "heart wants what it wants."  It all began with the i...

This past weekend I attended Moscow March for Life, so this subject is foremost in my mind right now.  I came across this article on the website "Human Defense." Entitled, "They Are Real: Meet Born-Alive Abortion Survivors" serves as a reminder to what the real issue is at hand.*  It opens with this statement: "On Monday, February 25, 2019, the Senate failed to pass the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act in a 53-44 vote. The bill would have provided protection for babies born alive after abortions, and every single Democratic candidate for 2020 voted against it. Thor Benson even went on to tweet that there is no such thing as an abortion survivor. This is void of anything truthful, and the testimonies of abortion survivors below prove it to be so." What should stand out to everyone is that "every single Democratic candidate for 2020 voted against it."  This needs to be taken into account when it comes time to cast your vote in N...

First Main Segment: E arly Rain Pastor Wang Yi Sentenced to 9 Years Some of you have probably heard this by now, but on December 30th, Pastor Wang Yi of Early Rain Covenant Church was sentenced to nine years imprisonment and stripped of his political rights for three years.  If you have been following this story at all, you know that nearly a hundred people were arrested this past month (per an article on disrn.com).  Also, according to another article.  The accusation that they were arrested on was “inciting subversion of state power” is purportedly a common charge which the Communist Party in China hand out when they feel threatened by Chinese Christians according to China Aid. This quote from the good pastor Wang Yi sums the attitude that Christians should have: “I hope God uses me, by means of first losing my personal freedom, to tell those who have deprived me of my personal freedom that there is an authority higher than their authority, and that there is a f...