Few issues are as volatile and as least understood as the issue of abortion. People today on the pro-choice side of the debate make two arguments. The first is that they are autonomous individuals, therefore, able to make choices that only impact their own lives. This view has many problems with it, but the second […]
I was speaking at a conference on my book, After They Are Yours: The Grace and Grit of Adoption (Cruciform Press, 2014). I was talking openly and transparently about my wife’s and my struggles as adoptive parents, our failures, and our hopes. As I did, there were 4 or 5 women who wept throughout the
“But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, ‘Abba! Father!’”
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Few issues are as talked about as the issue of an abortion or as least understood as abortion. Life is important and special, since the Lord God breathed life into Adam, and into the lives of every human being since. Abortion is murder because the Lord breathes His life into every human, whom He created in His
The purpose of this article is to argue that the unborn, from the moment of conception, have a right to life that is on the same level as infants, children, and adults. An induced abortion [1] at any stage, therefore, is a form of discrimination that ought to be simply as unthinkable to our society
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Rick Hogaboam is a Christian, husband to Mimi, and father to five: Cody, Kira, Lexi, Zoey, and Ezra. Since 2008, he has served as the Senior Pastor of Sovereign Grace Fellowship in Nampa, Idaho and recently (2014) as the Executive Director of Lifeline Pregnancy Care Center in Nampa, Idaho. T4L: Thank you very much for
I love to speak and write, but I am not a storyteller. In the adoption world story is king. The story of a child languishing in an orphanage across the ocean can pull on the hearts and minds of prospective adoptive parents and they will give all they can to make that child theirs. The
“Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully.” (1 Timothy 1:8 – ESV) I’m sure you’ve heard the argument a hundred times. Why would you even go that route? I mean, really? You think that legislating morality is the way to go? That somehow getting a law passed is going
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