December 15, 2017

Abortion

Royal College President endorses home abortions

Why We Go Christmas Caroling Outside Abortion Facilities by Eric Scheidler

Patricia Heaton: Abortion Doesn’t “Eliminate” Down Syndrome, “It’s Just Killing Everybody That Has It” by Micaiah Bilger

Canada won’t fund student summer jobs unless employers support abortion

Fetal Body Parts Seller Forced to Donate Instead by Wesley J. Smith

WATCH: Planned Parenthood Stupidly Equates Abortion and Miscarriage by Peter Heck

Adoption

Why A Tax Credit May Not Be The Best Way To Foster Adoption by Elizabeth Bauer – “The rhetoric says the credit is beautifully pro-life and, in taking it away, Congress is practically consigning children to lives in orphanages or being snuffed out in abortion. But is that accurate?”

After the Abortion

In the Grip of Abortion Grief by Kim Ketola

Creation

What Creation Reveals about God by Tim Barnett

Devotional

A Breathing Space

End-of-Life

Compassion Means to Suffer With by Alan Shlemon

Family Living

How My Parents’ Divorce Ruined Our Holidays And Family Life Forever – In the decades since my parents’ divorce and through the years of my marriage, I have learned no-fault divorce is one of the biggest lies of our culture.

Leave a Legacy by Pastor Mark Jeske

Music

Video: Lonely Lullaby quietly reminds us of who we are missing due to abortion

If You’re Sick Of Pointless Holiday Songs, ‘Hymns And Carols’ Has You Covered by Cara Anne Dublin – “If you’re desperate for an alternative to the thin musical gruel of holiday playlists, then the hymns and carols of Advent offer a remarkable and lovely respite of truth and preparation.”

Sexual Purity

Can We Be Honest About Women? by D.C. McAllister – “Here’s a little secret we have to say out loud: Women love the sexual interplay they experience with men, and they relish men desiring their beauty.”

It’s Time To Stop The Sexual Witch Hunt And Take A Hard Look At Ourselves by Cheryl Magness – “From the #MeToo movement to the outing of past crimes to the demands to purge the evil among us, there is a growing sense of panic bordering on hysteria.”

A great sexual reckoning by Mindy Belz – “A flood of harassment cases reminds us that sex is sacred and transgression is costly. Yet even in a fallen world, faithful men and women can treat one another with honor.”

Worldview and Culture

Is there hope in the battle against baby-killers? by Steve Deace

Planned Parenthood Tried To Cloak Itself In Religion, And Christians Are Having None Of It by Holly Scheer – “After spending years disparaging religion, Planned Parenthood is trying to disguise its morally disgusting activities in ad campaigns targeted at people of faith.”

Immediatism: What it is, what it isn’t by John Reasnor

I’m a pediatrician: here’s what I did when a little boy patient said he was a girl by Michelle A. Cretella – “The clinical contradictions of transgenderism.”

Did a Biblical parable inspire Dickens’ Christmas Carol? by Matthew Robert Anderson – “Though he disliked organised religion, the creator of Scrooge knew his Scripture.”

We are not nasty people, and my kids will not be taught otherwise by Veronica Winkels – “An Aussie mum’s view of the legalization of same-sex marriage.”

The #MeToo Movement Is Destroying Trust Between Men And Women by D.C. McAllister – “Like a disease, distrust is infecting our most foundational relationship as a people, the building block of a free, civil society—the relationship between men and women.”

Human Respect in a Toxic Climate by Judie Brown

Joshua 1:9 most shared Bible verse of 2017 by Cara Bentley

Too Much Christmas, too Little Advent? – The Joy of Anticipation by Eric Metaxas & Anne Morse – “Advent has been buried under a pile of twinkle lights, plastic reindeer, and the Grinch. Here’s why.”

A Christmas Carol for our times by Maria Gallagher

3 ways to start your year with a digital clean slate by Kim Komando