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By Heather Clark - Posted at Christian News Network: CHICAGO — A school district in the Chicago area is remaining steadfast in its refusal to allow a male student who identifies as female to change in the girls’ locker room despite an opinion from the U.S. Department of Education that the district is violating federal law. According to reports, an unidentified high school student within Township High School District 211 requested to use the girls’ locker room nearly two years ago since the student asserts that they identify as female. But the district declined, citing the privacy concerns of the other students. It in turn offered the student a private location to change, but the student rejected the accommodation. He then contacted the American Civil Liberties Union, which in turn filed a federal complaint with the Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education. Read more here...

By Ken Ham - Posted at Answers in Genesis: If people today were found sacrificing children, as the Canaanites and others did in the Old Testament, I’m sure the public and its elected officials like President Obama would be aghast. Such people would be prosecuted for brutality and murder. It is my contention that in essence abortion is another form of child sacrifice! But because killing children in the womb has been legalized in the US, President Obama and many other pro-abortionists condone this brutality and murder! Many times in Scripture, God’s people are warned not to be like the pagan peoples of other nations who sacrificed their own children. As we read of this abomination in Scripture, the so-called “civilized West” would claim that such vile behavior as child sacrifice should not be tolerated. But they do! Read more here...

By Pamela Couvrette - Posted at Guarding the Deposit: “Masked, I advance.” Rene Descartes As someone who has participated in the occult, my answer to whether Christians should celebrate Halloween is that if Christians saw the real faces of Halloween, they would be horrified. Witchcraft is as the sin of rebellion ( 1 Samuel 15:23 ) and the decorations of gore and evil should not be associated with light and purity ( 2 Corinthians 6:14 ). Whatever my viewpoints are, I know many Christians exercise ‘Christian liberty’ with this holiday, so I’ll let this controversy brew without me (for this year anyway :-)). Horror movies exploit fear to create more fear. But, fear of what? The evil characters can only destroy the body. The bigger horror is the evil characters in the pulpit that lead many to eternal damnation. Millions of people are deceived by the disguises donned by false teachers because these teachers are not outfitted in obvious, evil costumes. They are dressed to con and decei

By Penny Starr - Posted at CNS News: (CNSNews.com) – The Xinhua News Agency announced on Thursday that the Chinese Communist government is halting its one-child policy and replacing it with a policy that will allow couples to obtain permits to have two children. But human rights activist Reggie Littlejohn said the change would not stop forced abortions in the Communist country. “This comes as no surprise, given the demographic disaster China now faces as a result of its One Child Policy,” Littlejohn said in a statement on Thursday. “However, instituting a two-child policy will not end forced abortion, gendercide or family planning regulations in China,” said Littlejohn, founder and president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers , an international coalition to expose and oppose forced abortion, gendercide and sexual slavery in China. Read more here...

By Dr. Gary North (Wikipedia) Maybe you are a Christian parent looking for a curriculum for your child. You are considering a school that costs $5,000 a year. It offers what it calls a classical Christian curriculum. Save your money. There is no such thing as a classical Christian curriculum. There never has been. There is a fake hybrid of two rival systems of thought, politics, and culture. They are at war with each other. It is sold to gullible Christian parents by poorly educated school masters who either do not understand classical Greece or who are deliberately deceiving parents. The Greece of classical Christian education is a whitewashed Greece. It never existed. Let us say that I come to you with an offer. I tell you that I have a curriculum based on the ideals of classical Greece, meaning Athens. This is what "classical Greece" has always meant in the West: Athens. You say you are interested, but first you want to know more about the worldview of clas

By Nathan Busenitz - Posted at The Master's Seminary : “Is not My word like fire?” declares the Lord, “and like a hammer which shatters a rock?  ( Jer. 23:29 ) What caused the Reformation? Many people might answer that question by pointing to Martin Luther and his 95 Theses. But if you were to ask Luther himself, he would not point to himself or his own writings. Instead, he would give all the credit to God and His Word. Near the end of his life, Luther declared: “All I have done is put forth, preach and write the Word of God, and apart from this I have done nothing. . . . It is the Word that has done great things. . . . I have done nothing; the Word has done and achieved everything.” Elsewhere, he exclaimed: “By the Word the earth has been subdued; by the Word the Church has been saved; and by the Word also it shall be reestablished.” Noting Scripture’s foundational place in his own heart, Luther wrote: “No matter what happens, you should say: There is God’s Wor

By Marissa Poulson - Posted at ADF Blog: Margaret Sanger - Founder of Planned Parenthood On October 16, Planned Parenthood officially turned 99 years old. So what does 99 years in business look like for the abortion giant? A short list of Planned Parenthood's "accomplishments" over the past 99 years include: 1. Ended the lives of over 7 million children in the womb This outrageous number doesn't even include lives taken by Planned Parenthood before Roe v. Wade. 2. Got caught on video negotiating prices for baby parts A series of undercover videos by The Center for Medical Progress shows Planned Parenthood officials haggling over the price of baby parts, advertising the freshness of the baby parts they collect and sell, and discussing altering abortion methods to obtain intact body parts. 3. Failed to report the sexual abuse of young girls brought to its clinics Planned Parenthood has an extensive history of ignoring child sexual abuse and enabling their predators. A

By Jason Meisner and Jeff Coen - Posted at The Chicago Tribune: Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert pleaded guilty Wednesday to evading currency-reporting requirements, but no further details came out about the underlying wrongdoing that led him to withdraw nearly $1 million in cash from four banks over 2 ½ years. "Guilty, sir," Hastert said of a felony charge as he leaned toward a microphone during the hearing in Chicago's federal court. U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin set sentencing for Feb. 29. Hastert, 73, faces probation or up to six months in prison. Read more here...

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By Eric Metaxas - Posted at BreakPoint: If you think homosexual behavior is wrong, new research says you might not be right in the head. This summer, the Supreme Court narrowly redefined marriage and handed the gay-rights movement a major victory: full “equality” and recognition by the government. With that box checked, the gay-rights movement can now focus on its ultimate goal: silencing those who disagree. One new and troubling strategy has emerged from the scientific community. Instead of vilifying those who believe in natural marriage, suggest some researchers, we should diagnose them. It’s an ironic reversal. Years ago, homosexuality was listed in the American Psychiatric Association’s manual of disorders. But in 1986 it was removed, followed by a concerted push from Association members to normalize homosexual behavior. Read more here...

By Pastor Shawn Mathis “He that will not honor the memory, and respect the influence of Calvin, knows but little of the origin of American liberty.” America’s first great historian, George Bancroft (founder of Annapolis), although not a Calvinist himself, was honest in his evaluation of history: The fanatic for Calvinism was a fanatic for liberty; and, in the moral war fare for freedom, his creed was his most faithful counselor and his never-failing support. The Puritans… planted… the undying principles of democratic liberty. [1] [He further claimed]:…Calvin infused enduring elements into the institutions of Geneva, and made it for the modern world, the impregnable fortress of popular liberty, the fertile seed-plot of democracy. We boast of our common schools; Calvin was the father of popular education, the inventor of the system of free schools. We are proud of the free States that fringe the Atlantic. The pilgrims of Plymouth were Calvinists; the best influence in South Caroli

Posted at Culture News: Image from NBC Chicago - click here for story. Acclaimed gymnastics coach, Patricia Hermann, operating at facilities in the Chicago suburbs of Hanover Park, Hoffman Estates, Mount Prospect and Roselle, was arrested at her home in Schaumburg by police on felony charges of sexually molesting two minor girls at a hotel in Georgia while they were at a competition event trip months ago. Read more here... Click here for report and video from abc7 Eyewitness News.

Posted at Vocativ: In July a 16-year-old girl in the Sichuan province attempted suicide after a university denied her entry because she was heihaizi, sparking outrage in the countryside area. There have been parental casualties as well. Last week, Ai Guangdong, a farmer in the northern Heibei province, killed himself in protest when officials confiscated his entire harvest of corn because he had five children—four of them heihaizi because of the law. He drank poison at the home of the local party chief, after going there to plead his case... Lu served as a geology teacher in Beijing for 15 years before learning English to gain better-paying work as a private tutor. Lu is now 46. She never married, though she does have a 4-year-old daughter, Sofi. As an illegitimate child in a country notorious for its draconian laws regarding children, Sofi is an especially complicated case. In China she is known as heihaizi, meaning “black child.” Like children born second, third and beyond, sh

Posted at Voice of the Persecuted: The United States is well aware of the human rights abuses in Pakistan and Thailand. Britain has merely stated that Pakistani Christians face severe discrimination as opposed to persecution, this couldn’t be farther from the truth... ( Voice of the Persecuted ) Many of us are witnessing a Christian genocide that we never believed would be in our lifetime. The world is in chaos like we never thought we would see again. But in the present, it’s nearly impossible to ignore it. The refugee crisis in Europe, Iraq, Syria, & Nigeria has grown to proportions that the world has not seen since World War 2. Western leaders are finding that they cannot adapt to the number of migrants coming into their countries. However, the government of Thailand has announced new plans of an even more rigorous crackdown on those who have overstayed their visas. This recent development has all Christian asylum seekers on edge, tense over what comes next. It’s hear

Posted at The Passionate Pen: Arlene’s Story – Some names have been changed to respect confidentiality “I left home at 21, and a year later, started dating *Jason, even though all of my friends told me it was a mistake. I told myself it was a mistake. He wasn’t nice to anyone. He was rude and calloused and went out of his way to make people feel small. But when he liked you….wow. He could make you feel as if his whole universe revolved around you. So much so that I started believing that I had been wrong about him, and so was everyone else. He was just misunderstood. He was blindingly passionate. It was enough to get you blissfully tangled in his web. But then, he’d pounce-call me names, degrade me, especially in front of other people. He put me on a pedestal just to shove me off of it and he how badly he could wound me-how much I’d allow. I’d break up with him only to get ensnared again. In November of 1999, at 22 years old, I found out I was pregnant. I had always wanted children, s

Posted at The Truth About Moscow: Pastor Covers for Perp: “I can observe what Jamin should not.” “Blame-shifting on his part would be utterly inappropriate, and we had Jamin acknowledge that he was in no position to absolve himself by pointing fingers at others. Having said this, I can observe what Jamin should not.” -  DOUGLAS WILSON The spirit of accusation possessed Pastor Douglas Wilson of Christ Church, Moscow, to write this letter to Officer Green of the Moscow Police Department. He wrote it to bear witness on behalf of his ministerial student Jamin Wight, who faced the possibility of 40 years in prison for serial sexual abuse of a 13-year old. And this letter shares noteworthy similarities with the letter that Mr. Wilson to Judge Stegner : 1. Mr. Wilson wrote both letters within 3 days of each other. 2. Mr. Wilson wrote both letters on Christ Church stationary while acting in his capacity as the minister of Christ Church, Moscow. 3. Mr. Wilson wrote both letters b

Posted at One Christian Dad: (HT Tamar weeps ) Abuse is not something we like to talk about. It doesn’t make us feel good. It is something that sometimes we would rather just pretend does not happen. But sometimes we need to look at the ugliness of it, in order to do something about it. October 19-23, 2015 is Domestic Violence Awareness Week. So we should look at it. It is a huge topic, covering many things, but for the purpose of this article, I will focus on domestic abuse in the Church, particularly that perpetrated by men against their wives. In the setting of the Church, allegations of abuse can sadly be dismissed as an overly sensitive wife, or as coming from a wife who simply refuses to submit to her husband’s headship . Or perhaps we think that the wife must have done something to set him off. Or maybe we do care, but we just give thoughtless pat answers, and we prescribe Ephesians 5 and say, “You should submit…” If you dispense such advice to the abused, be careful, you

By Katherine Marple - Posted at KeepLifeLegal: Unborn children are treated like criminals, wanted for the crime of being UNPLANNED. They are hunted down, singled out, and targeted for capital punishment...the death penalty. Are they simply the blob of flesh that anti-lifers swear they are? Certainly, it would seem to me that if 'it' were just a 'blob', then killing 'it' would NOT be necessary. CERTAINLY if these little blobs were 'blobs', then they would not be harvested for 'parts'. That's sort of like having a living parts car at your disposal [car people know what I mean ;)]. Resurrect the old, banish the new. Even so, people kill because they can. Today I saw a dad eating his breakfast while his pre-abortive wife/girlfriend drove into the lot. I mean, after all...breakfast is THE most important meal of the day. But so it goes, every day different than the other, except for the murdering their unborn children part. Read more here...

By Michael W. Salemink - Lutherans for Life: We grieve with the citizens of the State of California. On October 5, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law ABX2-15, the End of Life Option Act. This legislation authorizes an adult “determined by his or her attending physician to be suffering from a terminal disease” to have poison prescribed “for the purpose of ending his or her life.” Along with Oregon, Washington, Vermont, and Montana, California is now the fifth state that allows physician-assisted suicide. We fear the chilling effect this will have on the culture surrounding those who are ailing or aging among us and on the care provided to them. The Netherlands and Belgium, which have permitted assisted suicide for decades, are witnessing continuing expansion of the practice and increased deaths from it. Recent research there demonstrates that this act that was initially limited to situations of terminal illness has been gradually widened so that it now includes any “unbearable sufferi

By Natalie Rose Greenfield - Posted at My Naptime Journal : I've told my story broadly for years and little by little I've delved deeper into certain aspects of it. The long term abuse I suffered as a young teen has many layers and to address them all in detail would take up an entire novel, so I'll do it slowly and as seems fitting and needed in this grander scheme of raising awareness for these issues and helping others develop a greater understanding of a complicated and destructive problem in our society at large and especially within our churches. My story does not stand alone. It is far from an anomaly. You've probably seen the  statistics . We have a responsibility as a culture to know what to do when someone tells us they have been abused, and our words and actions in response to a victim of abuse has the power of great healing or great destruction. Speaking out about something as intimate and uncomfortable as sexual abuse takes so much strength and it pla

By Heather Clark - Posted at Christian News Network: CINCINNATI, Ohio — The Ohio Senate has voted to defund the abortion giant Planned Parenthood, now sending the bill to the House for passage. “We are moving that money to organizations that are life-affirming organizations,” Sen. Bill Coley, R-West Chester Township, told reporters. Senate Bill 214 was approved 23-10 on Wednesday, mostly along party lines. The legislation would reallocate over $1.3 million in funding to other health-related groups in the state that do not perform abortions. Read more here...

From ILCAAAP: DraftKings and FanDuel daily fantasy sports companies have registered lobbyists from New York and Washington, D. C. to lobby the Illinois General Assembly, Governor, and Attorney General, the Pantagraph reported. The Illinois Gaming Board said last week it is seeking a legal opinion from Attorney General Lisa Madigan on whether the games are allowed under Illinois law. While it remained unclear how Rep. Zalewski's proposal would make sports betting legal, there is support among top legislative leader for legalizing some form of online gambling in Illinois. Read more Casino mall sues Illinois gaming board The developer of a proposed casino mall in Hometown has filed a lawsuit against the Illinois Gaming Board, claiming it exceeded its legal authority and violated the Illinois Open Meetings Act in denying video gambling licenses to businesses in the strip mall. Read more Illinois Residents Crossing State Line for Lottery Tickets Last week, the Illinois Lottery an

By Dr. Stephen Flick - Posted at Christian Heritage Fellowship: While it is not true that Elias Boudinot , of New Jersey, started the Thanksgiving tradition in America, it is true that he did initiate the practice of presidential proclamations that traditionally accompany the American Thanksgiving season and which provides “an opportunity to all the citizens of the United States of joining, with one voice, in returning to Almighty God their sincere thanks for the many blessings he … [has] poured down upon them.” In addition, Elias Boudinot was one of the presidents of the Continental Congress, serving in that office from November 4, 1782 to November 3, 1783. He had served his country well in the years of war in which America made a bid for its independence, and as the war came to an end, it was Elias Boudinot who––as president of Congress––was called upon to sign the Paris Peace Treaty that brought the American War of Independence to a formal conclusion. It is not true that America

By Mike Riccardi - Posted at The Cripplegate: Reformation Day is fast upon us. Next Saturday will be the 498th anniversary of Martin Luther famously nailing his 95 Theses to the Castle Church door in Wittenberg, Germany, and kick-starting the Protestant Reformation as a result. Because of that, there will likely be many posts in the Christian blogosphere celebrating the recovery of the biblical Gospel from the perversions of Roman Catholic theology. And because of that, there will likely be many Romanist sympathizers who chide us Protestants as divisive, overly-narrow, unity-destroying, and judgmental. They’ll say something like this (a comment we’ve received before at The Cripplegate): This is what drives me nutty about Christianity. We all believe in the Bible, Jesus Christ, the road to salvation and the Resurrection. Do I believe exactly as you do? I’m sure I don’t, but I don’t believe you’re any less Christian than I am. We need to understand that there’s more that unites u

By David P. Smith - Posted at the Confessional ARP: I have been saying for several years now that one of the best ways to understand the general character of American culture is that it is a way of life that reveals that humans must do what God has already done, is doing and will do. So, when pastors and teachers in the church stress the Christian’s Crazy Love for God instead of God’s love for his creation and people, or stress the Christian’s Radical commitment to and accomplishments for God, instead of God’s radical commitment to and accomplishments for his creation and people, they simply demonstrate that they not only do not understand very well the gospel revealed in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, but also are dressing up in biblical language what is already in American culture. And people wonder how Old Covenant Israel could end-up engaging in Baal worship, while also carrying-out the Temple sacrifices. Read more here...

By Barbara Brotman - Chicago Tribune: Inside the Daley Center, and in courthouses across the state, the cases unfold in careful confidentiality. They are filed anonymously. The petitioner meets with a judge in an empty courtroom or in the judge's chambers; the judge knows her only as Jane Doe. The transcript and court records are sealed. And at the end of a hearing, the young woman generally hurries home hoping her parents never know where she was. Read more here...

By Bob Unruh - Posted at World Net Daily (HT Sermon Audio ) A stunning civil lawsuit alleging a sex-abuse cover-up involving several minors has been filed in Illinois against a longtime Christian ministry that has taught millions of people in its seminars, has a variety of “family centered home education” programs, runs a prison ministry and a multitude of other outreaches worldwide. The claim, filed by the Gibbs Law Firm, also alleges the organization is “liquidating assets” totaling more than $100 million “in an attempt to flee the jurisdiction (State of Illinois) where this wrongful conduct occurred.” The filing against the Institute in Basic Life Principles was accepted in DuPage County, the state’s 18th Judicial District, on Tuesday. It is on behalf of five plaintiffs, Gretchen Wilkinson, Jane Doe, Charis Barker, Rachel Frost and Rachel Lees. ... Read more here...

By Alan Dowd - Posted at byFaith Online: A year before America entered World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt shared his vision of “a world founded upon four essential human freedoms”: freedom of speech, freedom from fear, freedom from want, and “freedom of every person to worship God in his own way — everywhere in the world.” FDR asserted these Four Freedoms in the context of a speech about “the democratic way of life … being directly assailed in every part of the world” by a “new order of tyranny.” Today, it seems the civilized world is under assault from a disorder of tyranny and terror. The enemies of religious freedom abound. But as a recent State Department report reveals, some regimes are set apart when it comes to government repression of religious freedom: North Korea, China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Sudan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Myanmar (formerly Burma), Russia, and Bahrain. In addition, a Pew study of government restrictions on religious freedom

By Jesse Johnson - Posted at The Cripplegate: One of the most harmful effects of evolutionary theory is the concept of race. Despite having zero scientific validity to it, the idea that human beings can be categorized into general “races” that are supposedly connected to their biology has wormed its way into our world views. It needs to make a quick exit—stage left. Thabiti Anwaybwile (pastor of Anacostia River Church in DC) said it this way: “Believing in race is like believing in unicorns, because neither exist.” Certainly cultures exist. Certainly ethnicities exist. And certainly racism exists (largely fueled by the whole notion of race to begin with). But unicorns do not, and neither does race. Here is a definition of race, followed by four reasons you should evict the concept of race from your vocabulary and your worldview: ... Read more here...

By Jeff Maples - Posted at the Pulpit & Pen: 3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, 4 who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. 5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? 6 And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders,10 and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refu

Posted at This Day in Presbyterian History : Machen’s article only becomes more relevant with the passing years. What Should Be Done by Christian People Who are in a Modernist Church? by Dr. J. Gresham Machen [The following article was originally published in The Presbyterian Guardian , vol. 1, no. 2 ( 21 October 1935 ): 22.] What is the duty of Christian congregations or Christian individuals who find themselves in a church that is dominated by unbelief? Shall they remain in such a church, or shall they withdraw from it and become members of a consistently Christian Church? That is certainly the question of the hour for the orthodox part of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Various attempts are being made to answer the question. Various considerations are being urged on one side or the other. If we separate from the existing church organization, it is being said, shall we be able to retain any of our congregational property, or will that all have to be abandoned to t

By Veronica Neffinger  - Posted at Christian Headlines : An Illinois school is under fire for including Muslim words on vocabulary lists  for its students. Charisma News reports that the vocabulary list at High Mount School in [Belleville] Illinois includes words like “jihad, Islam, Muhammad,” and “Koran.” High Mount superintendent Mark Halwachs said the words were included in the students’ vocabulary lists as a way to encourage tolerance. Read more here...

Aaron Schock ( Image from Wikipedia) By JAKE SHERMAN and ANNA PALMER - Posted at POLITICO : A key House committee is proposing sweeping restrictions on how members of Congress spend taxpayer dollars, tightening the rules on reimbursement for automobile mileage, private aircraft use and office decoration. The proposed rules, which are likely to pass the Committee on House Administration Wednesday and immediately be put into effect, come on the heels of a series of POLITICO stories detailing former Rep. Aaron Schock’s (R-Ill.) alleged misspending of taxpayer dollars. A grand jury in Illinois has been investigating how Schock spent taxpayer and campaign money. Read more here...

(Image from KeepLifeLegal ) Posted at KeepLifeLegal : I don't know about you, but I didn't wake up one day and find myself witnessing on the sidewalk of abortion facilities or on the steps of the Statehouse fighting for unborn life. And if you did, GREAT...but most of us prolife boots-on-the-ground soldiers did not. And most of us have mentors who have contributed to our lives, whether knowingly or not. My goal with this article is to make all prolifers understand that people are aware of where we are and what we do. We absolutely have to be a positive source and perhaps a mentor you did not know that you are. I have four mentors who brought me to where I am now. I may add to that list, such as the selfless others who pound the sidewalk and expect no accolades EVERY DAY. They may be my greatest source of strength at times. Read more here...

By Pastor Shawn Mathis: On October 31, 1517, the eve of All Saints’ Day, an Augustinian monk, hammered 95 theses—short propositions—on the Wittenberg door in Germany. He was protesting the indulgences of Tetzel, who purportedly announced: “As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs.” This system of indulgences was part of the larger system of baptism and penance and the Mass. Each a step in the works-salvation method of Rome. If a shrewd Christian could find the right confessor and some money, he could cover most sins while living like the Devil. In fact, even civil punishment could be avoided this way. Hammering the theses was a public declaration. An advertisement of sorts. But it was more. It was a formal declaration against the Papal and Romish supremacy in matters of faith and life. The various theses fundamentally attacked the Romian church’s authority over the matter of salvation. It dismantled the churchly machine of Sacerdotalism—that mechanic

(AP Photo) By Penny Starr - Posted at CNS News: New York Magazine recently profiled several longtime abortionists -- including some who performed abortions before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized the procedure in 1973. “The truth is that even before Roe [v. Wade], while few women had access to abortion care and many were forced into horrific back-alley procedures, there were doctors breaking the law by providing terminations,” the Oct. 13 article stated, saying that some continue to practice despite “anti-abortion extremism.” Read more here...

Unborn baby scheming about pro-life apologetics Posted at Wintery Knight: Was having a conversation by e-mail yesterday with a pro-abortion atheist, and he gave two reasons why he supported abortion in the first and second trimester. First, he said that unborn babies can’t feel pain, so it’s OK to kill them. Second, he said that unborn babies don’t have consciousness, so it’s OK to kill them. I thought it might be useful to link to something that answers both of these objections. Frank Beckwith is the author of “ Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice “. He wrote that book for Cambridge University Press, a top academic press. But before Cambridge University Press, Beckwith wrote four easy-to-understand essays for the Christian Research Journal. Part IV is the one that has the response to the two questions raised by my atheist friend. Read more here...

By Bre Payton - Posted at The Federalist : The inspector general of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission announced today that the state plans to ban Planned Parenthood from receiving funds from the state’s Medicaid program, according to an official letter obtained by the Houston Chronicle . The letter states that the termination of Planned Parenthood’s enrollment in the Texas Medicaid program is due to multiple health and legal violations committed by the nation’s largest abortion provider, many of which were brought to light by a series of undercover videos from the  Center for Medical Progress , or CMP. Read more here...

By Rev. Benjamin P. Glaser - Posted at Mountains and Magnolias : As the chief grumpy pants of 506 East Ivy Street I am often asked (and then eye-rolled) why my wife and I no longer allow our kids to participate in the American holiday of Halloween. In this post I want, in good Presbyterian fashion, to give a biblical and confessional defense for this decision which runs against the grain of 98% of our nation’s culture and as I already noted leaves many folks kind of shaking their heads in the usual “you silly fundy taking all the fun out of life” ways. So while this post is a bit self-depricating in recognizing how out of kilter my family and I are with the world, it is just another way out of several practices that this is the case. And on that point I do want to make a comment about the “counter-cultural” nature of this position. There is a segment of my side of the Reformed world that is in constant need to “out Reform” others and this leads to a desire to take on more and mor

www.pinterest.com By Dr. C. Mathew McMahon - Posted at A Puritan's Mind : “After one’s own birthday, the two major Satanic holidays are Walpurgisnacht (May 1st) and Halloween.” The Satanic Bible, by Anton Levey, Page 96, Segment on Religious Holidays “Learn not the way of the heathen.” Jeremiah 10:2 Around October 1st, American grocery stores stock their shelves with candy corn, chocolate bats, and miniature Snickers bars. They lace the isles with cobwebs, hang pictures of witches on top of the shelves, setup small graveyards surrounded by ghoulish figurines and call it fun. Why do they do this? Well, they are readying themselves for the upcoming celebration of Halloween. Halloween purports to offer a time where people can have fun at the expense of all that is righteous and holy. It is a celebration of devils. At this time of the year, the “Christian” is faced with the dilemma, “Should I have anything to do with the celebration of Halloween?” I am going to give the pre

By Rolley Haggard - Posted at Stand for Life : For Millions, Our Steeples Are Smokestacks Returning home from a recent business trip, I flew over the city purported to have more churches per square mile than any other in America. As I gazed down sleepily at the numberless steeples checkering the landscape and dimly pondered their equivocal significance, I was suddenly startled awake by a strange transformation occurring before my incredulous eyes: The spires of the church buildings had morphed into so many cruciform chimneys belching skyward an almost palpable, smoke-like darkness. Only the darkness wasn't smoke. What I saw ascending to heaven from each sanctuary was praise—the grotesquely incongruous praise of Christians worshiping a God they fancied demanded no remorse and no repentance for doing precious little to stop the extermination of the most vulnerable of His children. * * * If you're as old as I am, you will recall: We swore we would never forget the German death cam

By Heather Clark - Posted at Christian News Network: SPARTANBURG, S.C. — An abortionist arrested in South Carolina last week for running a mobile abortion business is believed to be notorious Florida abortionist James Pendergraft, according to reports. As previously reported , the arrest occurred during a week-long drug bust that included 578 traffic stops. Police didn’t expect to find an abortionist on wheels in the process. “We got a guy and a girl early in the week that was a traveling abortionist,” Sheriff Chuck Wright told local television station WYFF. “He traveled around the state of South Carolina without a medical license, with drugs and with medical tools, performing in-home abortions.” “So basically we got an illegal baby killer,” he added. Read more here...

By  Michael Smothers  - Posted at Pekin Daily Times : The roomful of children enjoying a home school chess club meeting drew his focus and anger, he said. Brown, free on bond while facing prosecution charges of possessing child pornography, said he wanted the children to die. Sixteen children and a handful of their mothers found the only door to their library room blocked by a man who held hunting knives in each hand as he screamed, “I’m going to kill some people!” Dustin Brown, 19, specifically wanted to kill children Tuesday at Morton Public Library, he said after the would-be victims escaped safely. Had he brought a firearm instead, “It would’ve been a different story,” James Vernon said Thursday. Read more here...