I was amazed yesterday when I heard this actress make the comments she did in a red carpet interview. Dana Delaney is a cast member of ABC’s Desperate Housewives. The fact that this is her biggest concern for future action by the new president amazes me. However, the fact is, probably many in Hollywood share the same beliefs. She says in the interview, President Obama is “setting an example of dignity and kindness”. What in the world, if someone’s idea of dignity and kindness is killing unprotected life, they need to greatly check their morals.
The 44th Presidents would not have been Obama had his mother chose to have an at the time illegal abortion. Consider this thought from Ed Whelan of the National Review Online:
Nearly 48 years ago, a young woman, not yet 18, became pregnant in her freshman year of college.Living in a time and place in which abortion was generally illegal, she proceeded to marry the father of her child and gave birth to a son.Perhaps she would have done so irrespective of the abortion laws at the time, even if, say, she lived in a legal culture that celebrated abortion as a fundamental right.Very possibly not.(I haven’t found any statistics on the percentage of pregnant college freshmen who abort their pregnancies, but indirect indications suggest that it’s very high.)
Barack Obama may actually believe, as he stated yesterday, that Roe v. Wade “was rightly decided.”But it may be very lucky for him, as the son born of that woman, that it hadn’t been decided a dozen or so years earlier.
That Obama may owe his very life to a pre-Roe legal regime that banned abortion is, to be sure, not necessarily a reason that he should favor that regime (though I can’t help noting that Justice Thomas’s critics recklessly accuse him of hypocrisy for opposing racial-preference plans that they say he benefited from).But it ought to lead Obama and others to think more carefully about the valuable role that protective abortion laws play.
Someone asked about getting the ESV audio daily as a podcast to coincide with the reading schedules. Here’s how to subscribe to this in iTunes:
1. Go to the ESV Reading Plans page.
2. Right-click (Ctrl-click on a Mac) the “RSS” link of the feed you want.
3. Choose “Copy Link Location” or “Copy Shortcut.”
4. Start iTunes.
5. Choose Advanced > Subscribe to Podcast
6. Paste the URL from step three into the box.
7. Click OK.
This posting is a follow up to my Sunday AM talk in the Connection Service at RSBC. I have received two questions so far asking “were you referring to President Bush or Elect Obama.” I simply said on Sunday, “Our President…” Sadly, I was referring to President Bush. “It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man.” -Psalm 118:8
This morning I spoke during the 11:00 worship service at Roswell Street Baptist Church. During my talk I mentioned a movement / ministry called Advent Conspiracy (http://www.adventconspiracy.org/). This seems to be an incredible idea. Check out the video & their website.
So I’m not real good at daily or weekly updating, though I’d like to be…but then I think who REALLY cares what’s going on in my day to day. Thus I’ve resolved to only write when major occurances or we’ll I’ll try to do this once a week.
So following up on a previous post…our house sold in about three weeks. We found a new house much closer to RSBC and much cheaper and now we’re in it. We closed on the two houses on December 1. Had about 10 people help us load our moving truck on December 2 and three hours later we were moved in to our new home.
My new commute is only 5-6 minutes. This is so exciting for me. The new house is smaller, but we honestly like it better. We are excited to see why God has us in this neighborhood. It happened so easily and quickly we know his hand is all over this new change.
Wow. How far the Christian Music Industry has come and aren’t you glad that those glasses and hair styles are long gone. This song is funny. All except about the part about getting zapped (?) not real sure where he was going with that one. Anyway. I got such a good laugh out of it I’d thought I’d share it.
Our first step in minimizing our life. Packing boxes, cleaning our house (like MAD) straightening things, taking pictures, finally time to list it for sale. It’s up it’s on-line, we’ve finally made the step and readied our lives for yet another change of some kind.
We feel passionate about seeing what the Lord has infront of us. As I moved a lot of boxes into a storeage area this morning I looked at the stack and laughed to myself and thought “what would happen if all this went away, would it really matter?” An emphatic NO came to my forefront. It’s all just stuff…it’s all just stuff.
This is a philosophy on life which my immediate family chooses to follow, in that we attempt to live without a constant need for the “clutter” that so exists in our society.
After living in Guatemala for two years we started to look at life from a totally different perspective. More is not better, bigger is not better, stronger, faster, or richer are not better either. We left the “American” culture and embraced the culture in Central America where we saw happiness and peace on a level we had never known.
Clutter is not just the stuff you have in your attic, under your bed, piled in your closets, stacked in your garage or stored in the rental space. Clutter can be all the noise that pollutes our lives; the demands to play every sport, to have every electronic gadget, the newest style of cloths and shoes, the nicest car or biggest house with all the latest entertainment toys, the list goes on and on.
Simply minimal can be a statement toward finances, busyness, and needs. For me…simply minimal is I simply need my relationship with Jesus Christ with minimal worldliness.
Below are posted two links to the ESV Study Bible that will be released sometime in October. I currently do not have a study bible. This is the one I plan to purchase and use. The ESV well respected and spoken of among authors and scholars I greatly respect is the Bible version I plan to use and memorize for the rest of my life. I think this study bible will be a great tool to any persons life. Follow the links below to learn more or click on the link on the side to read the ESV online.
