Standing for Life in a Culture of Death

by Dave Jenkins | January 2, 2016 | Featured, Standing for Life in a Culture of Death, Theology For Life | 0 Comments

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...

Helping Adoptive Parents

by Brian Borgman | January 2, 2016 | Standing for Life in a Culture of Death | 0 Comments

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...

The Center of Pro-Life Conviction: Adoption, Abortion, and the Holy Embryo

by Dan Cruver | January 2, 2016 | Standing for Life in a Culture of Death | 0 Comments

"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,...

Speaking About Life: Ministering to Those Facing an Abortion and Helping the Church Be About Life

Speaking About Life: Ministering to Those Facing an Abortion and Helping the Church Be About Life...

Abortion as a Form of Discrimination: Why It Ought to Be Unthinkable

The purpose of this article is to argue that the unborn, from the moment of conception, have a...

Providing Hope and Healing with Lifeline Pregnancy Care Center An Interview with Executive Director Rick Hogaboam

Interview With Rick Hogaboam About Abortion and Adoption Rick Hogaboam is a Christian, husband to...

Lessons on the Journey of Adoption

Lessons on the Journey of Adoption 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...

Legislating Morality: What Can the Church Do About Abortion With the State?

“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...

Think Adoption

“For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship (adoption). And by him we cry, ‘Abba, Father.” (Romans 8:15) Two years ago, my wife and I adopted our daughter. I can only imagine what it must be like to be...

After They Are Yours: The Grace and Grit of Adoption by Brian Borgman

Two years ago, my wife and I adopted a girl from North Carolina and as a result of that adoption, our lives changed significantly. Many things we thought we were prepared for, in reality, we weren't, and conversely, many things we thought we were unprepared for, in...

A Hope Deferred Adoption and the Fatherhood of God by J. Stephen Yuille

Dr. J.I. Packer once stated, "Adoption is the highest privilege of the gospel. The traitor is forgiven, brought in for supper, and given the family name." With that sentence, we get right to the heart of the gospel. If there has been one doctrine that has been...

Recommended by Books on Abortion and Adoption

This season at Servants of Grace, we’ve been considering the topic of abortion and adoption. We are living in a time many people are rediscovering the adoption and practice of adoption, along with understanding the horrors of abortion. With this issue of Theology for...