“If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life’s good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.” - (Ecc 6:3)
A “straw-man argument” is a logical fallacy [...]
Excerpted from “Whitefield Gold” complied by Ray Comfort from the sermons and writings of George Whitefield:
“Stop, stop, O sinner! Turn ye, turn ye, O ye unconverted men, for the end of that way you are now walking in, however right it may seem in your blinded eyes, will be death, even eternal destruction both of [...]
Combating the ideal that “the gospel is hostile to culture” and in a deeper sense, hostile to the created purposes of Creation, Herman Bavinck writes, “The Christian is the true man, on every front and in every domain. Christianity is not opposed to nature, but to sin. Christ came, not to destroy the works of [...]
The conclusion of a great introductory article on the issues at stake for Reformed theology, Natural law, and bioethics:
“In sum, the natural law tradition helpfully reminds us that special revelation is, and must be, connected to general revelation. Some questions remain for those within the Reformed tradition; more clarity is needed, perhaps, on the relationship [...]
From Chapter 3 of the 1997 UNFPA “State of World Population”:
“In most of the world the initiation, timing and final level of fertility are now recognized as a matter of conscious choice. When asked in surveys, men and women are increasingly able to indicate how many [...]
Any family planning consideration, no matter its ends or means, must be undertaken with great fear and trembling, brothers and sisters. We must remember that our hearts are said to be “deceitfully wicked” (Jere. 17:9), that many of our plans are “boastful” and “evil” (James 4:16), that “as the heavens are higher than the earth, [...]
An atheist stands in line with his Buddhist wife. Behind them a teenage girl stands by herself, with her boyfriend impatiently waiting in the car. And standing at the end of the line, a Christian couple waits for their turn at the checkout counter.
What brought all these people to their local Walgreens tonight? You guessed [...]
There are many books that I read and think to myself, “Man, I wish I would have read that book a few years ago.” Albert M. Wolters’ work entitled, Creation Regained:Biblical Basics for a Reformational Worldview is one of those books.
In a cogent and driving manner, Wolters calls the Christian reader to return to a [...]
On this blog, it’s not an uncommon occurrence for me to address the failings of “contemporary evangelicalism” as a whole, painting with broad strokes and illustrative generalizations, the bleak picture that the American church has found itself in. However, today I’m bringing it home; to my own front door. Conservative Reformed Protestantism, lend me your [...]
(The following is part 3 of a multi-part series entitled “In vitro Fertilization and Parental Dominion“, modified from a paper I wrote for an M.Div. course in Marriage, Infertility, and Assisted Reproductive Technologies, November 2007)
With few, if any, mainstream voices warning of the dangers of the technological fetishism in which we find ourselves, the infertile [...]
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" ... Silence in the face of evil is evil itself. God will not hold us guiltless, not to speak is to speak, not to act is to act." - Dietrich Boenhoffer
" ... Silence in the face of evil is evil itself. God will not hold us guiltless, not to speak is to speak, not to act is to act." - Dietrich Boenhoffer
