Ten Immediate Things YOU could do to Fight for LIFE!

It’s 3:53pm on July 28, 2015 as I write.  Shortly before lunch, I viewed the third video released to show Planned Parenthood’s overwhelming, demonic evil.  I won’t link to that video here, but you can find it if you desire.  But not on the mainstream media websites.  They won’t cover it. 

Planned Parenthood and their “partners” harvest and sell baby parts.  They celebrate the killing of babies (abortion) and we now clearly see they also profit greatly from dissecting and distributing the dead baby’s organs.  They are federally funded (our tax dollars) to the tune of over $500 million dollars yearly.  The President supports them.  So does most of the Congress, including many so-called conservatives.  My “blackness” is sometimes criticized because I don’t support this.  I cannot support anyone who cannot figure out marriage (one man and one woman) and the evil of murder.  Sorry.

I cannot eat.  I am physically nauseous.  I wanted to tweet much and rail against this darkness, but I’m sure I’d be misunderstood.  Besides, the Twitter rule for pastors is “always be nice.”  So there’s that. 

Prayerfully and hopefully constructively, I’m trying to pour my sadness and anger into something positive.  Maybe then I’ll be able to eat dinner.  Or maybe not.

Anyway…just off the cuff, here are Ten Immediate Things YOU could do to Fight for Life:

1.       Pray.  Begin (if you aren’t already) praying FOR mothers-to-be in tough situations and AGAINST abortion providers.  The industry is pure evil.

2.       Preach the Gospel!  Yes…tell people about the Author of LIFE, how He gave His LIFE because of our sins, and also to give LIFE eternally!  Not sure how ANYONE who embraces His message can approve organizations like Planned Parenthood.

3.       Teach your children a biblical worldview as it relates to LIFE.  It’s all in there…in His inerrant and sufficient Book…the Bible. 

4.       Encourage your pastor in this area.  In love, email him today!  Depending on your context, he might be afraid to broach the subject for fear of loss or conflict within his congregation or going against the common Government-Baal worship (idolatry) so ingrained in Western culture.

5.       Encourage all in your sphere of influence to fight for and uphold LIFE.

6.       Support LIFE ministries with your time.  I volunteer my time on the Board of our local Crisis Pregnancy Center as one example.  Some minister in front of abortion clinics.  Others counsel young girls in crisis.  Whatever…do something!

7.       Support the same with your money.  We give to what means something to us.  So give to churches and ministries that fight for LIFE.

8.       Consider Adopting.  All cannot.  Many can.  SO many children need godly families…RIGHT NOW.

9.       Be a foster parent, or at least consider it.

10.   Contact your state and federal legislator and tell them to defund Planned Parenthood and support LIFE or respectfully, you’ll work to get them out of office.

CCM

Taking Back the Family...Exhortation and Some Pics!

Friends, in April 2015 we had the honor of hosting our Call to Battle 2015 Conference, Taking back the Family.  The messages preached by Voddie Baucham, Scott Brown, Courtney McBath and myself, in my opinion, laid out a good biblical road map for beginning the journey to recover and reform family:

Conference Messages:

  • Session 1: McLeod- First things First: The Gospel
  • Session 2: McBath-The State of the Family: How We Got Here
  • Session 3: Baucham-It's Not Like Being Black Part 1
  • Session 4: Baucham- It's Not Like Being Black Part 2
  • Session 5: Baucham- Understanding Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
  • Session 6: Brown- Discipling Children: Family Worship & Education
  • Session 7: McLeod- Financial Stewardship in the Home
  • Session 8: Brown- Family Economies
  • Session 9: Brown- Encouraging Singles & Solutions for the Single-Parent Home
  • Session 10: Baucham- The Role of the Church in the Home

I cannot recommend these messages strongly enough.  They are VERY timely, particularly Dr. Baucham's messages on "It's Not Like Being Black" where he explodes the thought that homosexual rights are civil rights. You can find all the messages HERE.

We have simplified the purchased options and lowered the prices: $50 for all the audio messages, and $90 for all the DVDs.

It was a great conference and we are very thankful to God.  Below are a few pics.  Thanks for considering the  messages, and DO NOT QUIT working and trusting God for reformation!

Solus Christus!

CCM


A Picture of Christ and His Church Pt 2

The first post on this subject is HERE.

As I’ve been considering all our church has gone through over the last 18 months, the issues have really been centered on these wonderful pictures of Christ and His Church.

As we walked through First Corinthians, we began to run into problems in Chapter 5.  This chapter unfolds a picture of Christ disciplining His Church, which is His loving right.  His chastening is for our good, but church discipline is not an easy subject. (Read Rev 2-3)

Chapter 6 describes the beauty of a holy Church that settles disputes biblically and walks in sexual purity.  The chapter does this by showing what a bickering, impure church looks like.  Again, it can be described as a “picture” of the purified Bride, or Body of Christ serving her master in godliness.

Chapter 7 displays honorable marriage and singleness…a living in “the condition in which” one is called with a view towards Christ.  Again, it is a picture of Christ and His Church as Paul described beautifully in Ephesians 5.  The husband represents Christ in the picture, the wife the Church, and the single represents an unfettered Church betrothed to Christ and spending all her time serving Him.

Chapters 8-10 warn against a disobedient and adulterous Bride…one who mars the beauty of the picture by worshiping other gods.  This behavior has always broken our Lord’s heart and incited His wrath as well.  This does NOT represent the splendor of the picture.

Chapter 11 presents two clear pictures of Christ and His Church.  One is the physical distinctions between men and women in worship, so important that even the angels are affected…the uncovered man a picture of Christ, the veiled woman, a picture of the submitted church.  The other is the Shepherd feeding the sheep at His Table, asking them to always remember His holy sacrifice and His leading them to peaceful pastures through His broken body and shed blood.

Chapters 12-13 envision an empowered and loving church, using the gifts the Master has given her for the edification of the whole Body.  This type of loving ministry points to how Christ serves His church, and must reflect His glory and no other.

Chapter 14 continues this picture, but also adds again the beautiful distinctions in gender roles in the home (“ask your husband at home”) and church (“silent in the churches”).  And this is where we really need to see the beauty of the pictures, because this seems to be the crux of the problems we faced: gender roles and distinctions.

Men and women are different.  From the Garden of Eden, men and women were created equal in value but distinct in role, biology and appearance.  Feminism got the picture-destroying ball rolling in the 20th century.  In 2015, our entire country lost its sinful mind on this issue: (Gay "marriage;" Bruce Jenner; a US legislator introducing a bill to eliminate the terms “husband” and “wife” from federal documents and laws; and oh by the way, Facebook has 58 selections for gender!)  In God’s Kingdom, anything that would blur God-given gender distinctions is…well…an ugly picture.

God’s plan for gender distinctions in the home and church isn't evil, or even all about punishment.  Rather, God’s plan is a beautiful, pure and holy, wonderful picture of Christ and the Church!  So when we see manly husbands and womanly wives, that is the picture (Christ and the Church).  When we see godly, manly pastors leading a submitted congregation, that is the picture (Christ and the Church).  When we see dignified men and modest women, that is the picture (Christ and the Church).

Satan wants the opposite.  He wants manly women and effeminate men.  He wants thugs instead of theologians and sassiness instead of submission.  He wants clear New Testament instructions on teaching and leading ignored, so as to mar the picture. 

Can you imagine a Christ who physically or verbally abuses or doesn’t provide for His Church?  Or a Church who disrespects Christ?  Can you imagine a Church who presumes to teach as Christ must listen and come under the Church’s authority?  Or a Christ who won’t teach and care for His children?  Ugly pictures!

Think biblically, dear friends.  Look at the pictures you see in culture and compare them to Christ’s.  Which one do you want?

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