Piper Vid on Abortion and God

(HT: Between Two Worlds)

The Value of Children and the Global Fame of Jesus Christ

I had the awesome opportunity to run into Mr. Brent Nelson from the Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood last week as I stopped by their office in Louisville, KY. I had no appointment, and really had little more than a half-brain-stormed idea that I brought with me to discuss, but Mr. Nelson was extremely [...]

Ignoring the Obvious in the Great Commission: Who’s going, and who are they going to?

“And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And [...]

One Thing Abortion Advocates Have Right

“It’s difficult to imagine abortions ever becoming rare, especially in the absence of comprehensive sex education and widely accessible contraception, but we should perhaps expect abortions to become unsafe and illegal, while still common.” - Wendy Kaminer, abortion advocate, Op-Ed, June/July 2006 Free Inquiry magazine
One thing nearly all abortion advocates have right is the link [...]

Birth Control in light of Redemptive Theology

Where so many Protestants go wrong in deliberating the morality of contraception is their failure to distinguish between creation and nature. As Brent Waters comments in his work, Reproductive Technology:Towards a Theology of Procreative Stewardship, “Although creation is good because of the imprint it bears of its creator, and its created order has been vindicated [...]

The Democracy of the Dead: In Response to the Arrogant Oligarchy of the Living

What do they know? Calvin, Luther, Wesley, and centuries of other great theologians of the Church — they never had access to RU486 (the abortion pill), so how could they really be against abortion? They never had the birth-control pill, so whatever birth-control they preached against was short-sighted, and out of touch with modernity, right? [...]

Stop Lying in Worship: Justice is More than a Good Line in a Gospel Song…

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 [...]

Luther and Natural Law? What hath the Reformer to do with Aquinas?

In his recent book, Retrieving the Natural Law: A Return to Moral First Things, J. Daryl Charles notes:
“It should be emphasized that Luther is perfectly content to allow the natural law and righteousness that comes by faith to stand side by side. The Protestant Reformers as a whole did not perceive general revelation to be [...]

Part Duex: Legislating Morality - Should the State Take a Stand on First Things? ala Peter Kreeft (with a little help from C.S. Lewis)

For those of you who had your interest piqued on the previous morality post, I thought I’d pass along these extremely interesting lectures by Dr. Peter Kreeft (author of “The Unaborted Socrates”), in which he attempts to answer the question: “Should the State take a stand on First things?”
Here’s part 1 (and I think you [...]

Freedom and Stewardship

I finished J. Daryl Charles’ Retrieving the Natural Law: A Return to Moral First Things tonight, and it did not disappoint. There is plenty to digest in the coming days, but I’ll be doing so while jumping into Brent Waters’ Reproductive Technology:Towards a Theology of Procreative Stewardship as well. These next two weeks are going [...]