Tuesday, March 10, 2009
On Capitalism as a Master
"Capitalism has trounced all its enemies: socialism and communism and the rest. But it is now at its greatest danger, both as a theory and as something practical in terms of, say, daily consumerism. And we as followers of Jesus must give a theoretical critique of capitalism and a very practical critique of capitalism in terms of shopping malls, etc. And if we don’t, it is going to undermine itself and our culture." - Os Guinness from a 9 Marks.org interview
Thursday, March 5, 2009
I Recommend This Months Christianity Today
I would like to commend to you this months issue of Christianity Today. It contains an article that asks the question, "What would John Calvin say to Dick Cheney?" the Question is posed in regard to the law and how the rulers of God should rule. This article is fantastic. It is brief and to the point. I found it very helpful to my thinking on these issues. I also recommend their political blog. the url is below.
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/
On the Citizens Responsibility to Preserve His Freedoms
" Those who desire that every individual should preserve his rights, and that all men may live free from injury, must defend the political order [against tyranny] to the utmost of their ability."- John Calvin
Thursday, February 26, 2009
HB2564 update
I am happy to report that the Arizona House Health and Human Services Committee approved HB2564 by a vote of 5-0 because the, “Democrats boycotted the 1 1/2-hour committee hearing, saying they were taking a stand against legislation that would crimp the availability of abortion services and emergency contraception, particularly in rural areas with fewer health care options. ” This is great news! The bill will now be proceed to the full house of a vote! As I have written before the bill would for the following:
1. For health care professionals to not be required to participate in the performance of abortions (under the current law whether you like it or not you are required to help with the surgery.)
2. Create a 24-hour pre abortion waiting period for the women seeking the abortion to consider all of the facts.
3. Increases prenatal rights to now about if an abortion is preformed on a minor.
4. Criminalizes the performance of an abortion by anyone with out a license to practice medicine.
In response to this you need to go to the link below and find your state rep’s email address and write to them asking them to support house bill 2564. Be kind to the rep and be informed. To find good arguments I recommend visiting Abort73..com or looking at my post archive for January.
http://azleg.gov/MemberRoster.asp?Body=H&SortBy=1
Additionally, please keep praying that the bill passes and more importantly seek to engage the issue on a personal level in two ways; share the gospel with women and find a way to be part of the national pro life movement. A great way to start getting involved is to go to abort73.com and by a T-shirt and wear it.
1. For health care professionals to not be required to participate in the performance of abortions (under the current law whether you like it or not you are required to help with the surgery.)
2. Create a 24-hour pre abortion waiting period for the women seeking the abortion to consider all of the facts.
3. Increases prenatal rights to now about if an abortion is preformed on a minor.
4. Criminalizes the performance of an abortion by anyone with out a license to practice medicine.
In response to this you need to go to the link below and find your state rep’s email address and write to them asking them to support house bill 2564. Be kind to the rep and be informed. To find good arguments I recommend visiting Abort73..com or looking at my post archive for January.
http://azleg.gov/MemberRoster.asp?Body=H&SortBy=1
Additionally, please keep praying that the bill passes and more importantly seek to engage the issue on a personal level in two ways; share the gospel with women and find a way to be part of the national pro life movement. A great way to start getting involved is to go to abort73.com and by a T-shirt and wear it.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Arizona House Health Committee to bill 2564; Abortion Consent Act
This Wednesday, Feb 25th 2009, the House Health Committee will hear the Abortion Consent Act, HB 2564. The hearing begins at 9am and if you can I would recommend going down and hearing the legislation debate. You will be given a chance to address the committee and speak into the record. I may well be there, maybe we can sit together. If you can not attend I would ask that you take time to email one of the members of the Health committee asking him to pass the bill on the floor for a full vote. His Name is Ed Ableser and he is a democrat on the committee who is pro choice. He is also one of my state reps. Here is his info: eableser@azleg.gov
I can not articulate how important it is for you take 10 minutes and write a short email to Ed letting him know that you support this legislation. Even more important than your letter is your prayer pray to God that he would allow this legislation to pass. Lives depend on it.. I ask you to pray that this bill passes and is signed into law.
I can not articulate how important it is for you take 10 minutes and write a short email to Ed letting him know that you support this legislation. Even more important than your letter is your prayer pray to God that he would allow this legislation to pass. Lives depend on it.. I ask you to pray that this bill passes and is signed into law.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Expanding on the Link Between Slavery and Abortion
Earlier in the week I posted a status update about the link between slavery and abortion. I need to get this off my chest. I would like to take some time and flush that here more fully. I would like to start with a quote that almost noted me out of my chair.
"[The] incidence of abortion has resulted in a tremendous loss of life. It has been estimated that since 1973 Black women have had about 10 million abortions [probably up to 13 million now]. Michael Novak . . . calculated, “Since the number of current living Blacks (in the U.S.) is 31 million, the missing 10 million represents an enormous loss, for without abortion, America's Black community would now number 41 million persons. It would be 35 percent larger than it is. Abortion has swept through the Black community like a scythe, cutting down every fourth member.” -Rev. Clenard H. Childress, Jr. founder of blackgenocide.org
the link is direct and viable; we (White America) can no longer enslave blacks and we can no longer legally segraget and marginalize them as a community so in the name of freedom and choice we have fooled them in to paying their former white master a fee to kill their future as a community. this is truly horrifying and must be opposed. Again I will allow the African American community to speak for its self.
" We have been fueled by the fire of “women’s rights,” so long that we have become deaf to the outcry of the real victims whose rights are being trampled upon, the babies and the mothers. . . . What about the rights of each baby who is artificially breached before coming to term in his or her mother’s womb, only to have her skull punctured, and feel, yes agonizingly “feel” the life run out of her before she takes her first breath of freedom. What about of the rights of these women who have been called to pioneer the new frontiers of the new millennium only to have their lives snuffed out before the calendar even turns?
Oh, God, what would Martin Luther King, Jr., who dreamed of having his children judged by the content of their characters do if he’d lived to see the contents of thousands of children’s skulls emptied into the bottomless caverns of the abortionists pits?
It is time for America, perhaps the most blessed nation on earth to lead the world in repentance, and in restoration of life! . . . Abortion is at the forefront of our destruction. Partial Birth Abortion is perhaps the most heinous form of this legal genocide. . . . The only healing and redemption is in the blood of Jesus, blood willingly shed so that we could stand today and cry out for the blood of the unborn that is drenching the land of our children.
. . . [Martin Luther] King [Jr.] once said, “The Negro cannot win as long as he is willing to sacrifice the lives of his children for comfort and safety.” How can the “Dream” survive if we murder the children? Every aborted baby is like a slave in the womb of his or her mother. . . . If the Dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is to live, our babies must live. Our mothers must choose life. If we refuse to answer the cry of mercy from the unborn, and ignore the suffering of the mothers, then we are signing our own death warrants.
I too, like Martin Luther King, Jr., have a dream. I have a dream that the men and women, the boys and girls of America will come to our senses, and humble ourselves before God Almighty and pray for mercy, and receive His healing grace. I pray that this is the day, the hour of our deliverance. May God have mercy on us all." -Dr. Alveda C. King is the daughter of Rev. A. D. King, Martin Luther King’s brother. She is the founder of King for America.
Simply put for the democratic party to attempt to be the the party of racial reconciliation is foolishness. Additionally, for those of you who are die hard republicans. I would like to remind you that they are just as lost. read the words of john piper on the issue. writing on his blog Piper hits the nail on the head; the GOP can't save you. Furthermore the GOP of yesterday that all of my republican friends speak so wistfully about can't save you, it can't change anything. Yes, its true that it could maybe on a good day lower my taxes and shrink government, but in light of eternity these are seen as nothing. piper writes, "The inconsistencies of liberal and conservative compassion do not define the nature of good and evil.
That there are liberals who talk compassion for the weak and oppressed, but support the butchery of the weakest persons (the unborn even to the point of birth) does not make abortion less evil.
That there are conservatives who talk compassion for unborn persons, but feel little interest or compassion for their own neighbors, let alone the sorrows of the countless poor, does not make inattentive heartlessness less evil.
That liberals justify their support for butchery in the name of freedom, and conservatives justify their indifference to the miseries of poverty in the name of freedom, does not conceal the selective nature of the freedoms they want. The one says, Keep your hands off my body. The other says, Keep your hands off my wallet.
Will there ever arise a leader who can articulate a dream for overcoming this divide? There is such a Leader. But he will never be elected. His kingdom is “not of this world.” Therefore, it is both infinitely relevant and intolerably repulsive to the world. When he promotes his Way he gets crucified.
Yet, short of his perfection, let us pray that leaders will arise who labor with heart and hand, through Jesus Christ, to be wisely compassionate and to overcome every contradiction of the compassionate heart. "
Jesus. that is it! it is Jesus is who will change things. The political element of all of this has such limitations. Prayer does not. In response to all of this i would ask you to pray that abortion is ended and ask God what part you should play in it. Jesus died for all sins. the abortionist is winnable, the hardcore pro choice girls in my political science classes are winnable. we need to believe in the power of the gospel to change hearts and culture.We need to believe that God can change anything. for those of us who are christian we defy the testimony of the blood of Christ in our own life when we say things like," they will never change...they will only get judgment and condemnation." I ask you to join me in asking God to save them and join me in believing he will.
"[The] incidence of abortion has resulted in a tremendous loss of life. It has been estimated that since 1973 Black women have had about 10 million abortions [probably up to 13 million now]. Michael Novak . . . calculated, “Since the number of current living Blacks (in the U.S.) is 31 million, the missing 10 million represents an enormous loss, for without abortion, America's Black community would now number 41 million persons. It would be 35 percent larger than it is. Abortion has swept through the Black community like a scythe, cutting down every fourth member.” -Rev. Clenard H. Childress, Jr. founder of blackgenocide.org
the link is direct and viable; we (White America) can no longer enslave blacks and we can no longer legally segraget and marginalize them as a community so in the name of freedom and choice we have fooled them in to paying their former white master a fee to kill their future as a community. this is truly horrifying and must be opposed. Again I will allow the African American community to speak for its self.
" We have been fueled by the fire of “women’s rights,” so long that we have become deaf to the outcry of the real victims whose rights are being trampled upon, the babies and the mothers. . . . What about the rights of each baby who is artificially breached before coming to term in his or her mother’s womb, only to have her skull punctured, and feel, yes agonizingly “feel” the life run out of her before she takes her first breath of freedom. What about of the rights of these women who have been called to pioneer the new frontiers of the new millennium only to have their lives snuffed out before the calendar even turns?
Oh, God, what would Martin Luther King, Jr., who dreamed of having his children judged by the content of their characters do if he’d lived to see the contents of thousands of children’s skulls emptied into the bottomless caverns of the abortionists pits?
It is time for America, perhaps the most blessed nation on earth to lead the world in repentance, and in restoration of life! . . . Abortion is at the forefront of our destruction. Partial Birth Abortion is perhaps the most heinous form of this legal genocide. . . . The only healing and redemption is in the blood of Jesus, blood willingly shed so that we could stand today and cry out for the blood of the unborn that is drenching the land of our children.
. . . [Martin Luther] King [Jr.] once said, “The Negro cannot win as long as he is willing to sacrifice the lives of his children for comfort and safety.” How can the “Dream” survive if we murder the children? Every aborted baby is like a slave in the womb of his or her mother. . . . If the Dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is to live, our babies must live. Our mothers must choose life. If we refuse to answer the cry of mercy from the unborn, and ignore the suffering of the mothers, then we are signing our own death warrants.
I too, like Martin Luther King, Jr., have a dream. I have a dream that the men and women, the boys and girls of America will come to our senses, and humble ourselves before God Almighty and pray for mercy, and receive His healing grace. I pray that this is the day, the hour of our deliverance. May God have mercy on us all." -Dr. Alveda C. King is the daughter of Rev. A. D. King, Martin Luther King’s brother. She is the founder of King for America.
Simply put for the democratic party to attempt to be the the party of racial reconciliation is foolishness. Additionally, for those of you who are die hard republicans. I would like to remind you that they are just as lost. read the words of john piper on the issue. writing on his blog Piper hits the nail on the head; the GOP can't save you. Furthermore the GOP of yesterday that all of my republican friends speak so wistfully about can't save you, it can't change anything. Yes, its true that it could maybe on a good day lower my taxes and shrink government, but in light of eternity these are seen as nothing. piper writes, "The inconsistencies of liberal and conservative compassion do not define the nature of good and evil.
That there are liberals who talk compassion for the weak and oppressed, but support the butchery of the weakest persons (the unborn even to the point of birth) does not make abortion less evil.
That there are conservatives who talk compassion for unborn persons, but feel little interest or compassion for their own neighbors, let alone the sorrows of the countless poor, does not make inattentive heartlessness less evil.
That liberals justify their support for butchery in the name of freedom, and conservatives justify their indifference to the miseries of poverty in the name of freedom, does not conceal the selective nature of the freedoms they want. The one says, Keep your hands off my body. The other says, Keep your hands off my wallet.
Will there ever arise a leader who can articulate a dream for overcoming this divide? There is such a Leader. But he will never be elected. His kingdom is “not of this world.” Therefore, it is both infinitely relevant and intolerably repulsive to the world. When he promotes his Way he gets crucified.
Yet, short of his perfection, let us pray that leaders will arise who labor with heart and hand, through Jesus Christ, to be wisely compassionate and to overcome every contradiction of the compassionate heart. "
Jesus. that is it! it is Jesus is who will change things. The political element of all of this has such limitations. Prayer does not. In response to all of this i would ask you to pray that abortion is ended and ask God what part you should play in it. Jesus died for all sins. the abortionist is winnable, the hardcore pro choice girls in my political science classes are winnable. we need to believe in the power of the gospel to change hearts and culture.We need to believe that God can change anything. for those of us who are christian we defy the testimony of the blood of Christ in our own life when we say things like," they will never change...they will only get judgment and condemnation." I ask you to join me in asking God to save them and join me in believing he will.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Please write your state rep about these bills
Below you fine two bills that you should support by taking the time to write your state rep about.
the first is Arizona house bill 2564 Abortion Consent Act.
It resolves problems in Arizona’s abortion statutes regarding the rights of parents whose minor daughter faces an unplanned pregnancy, the informed consent rights of a woman considering an abortion, and the civil rights of health care professionals not to participate in abortion.
to read the bill in its entirety click or paste the link below:
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/1r/bills/hb2564p.pdf
the second is House Bill 2400 State Ban on Partial-Birth Abortion.
It Prohibits partial-birth abortion in Arizona law.
to read the bill in its entirety click or paste the link below:
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/1r/bills/hb2400p.pdf
There are two things you should do; find out who your rep is and what district you live in. Google your address and look at a map of the house districts or your voter card. be informed. knowing is half the battle. Paste the link below to see a map.
http://www.azredistricting.org/2004legfinal/2004legfinal_phx_lgr.pdf
Here is a list of reps who need to hear your voice; they are democratic reps who have a strong pro choice voting record.paste the link below to see a map.
http://www.azredistricting.org/2004legfinal/2004legfinal_phx_lgr.pdf
Ed Ableser district 17 (my district) eableser@azleg.gov
David Schapira district 17 (my district) dschapira@azleg.gov
Kyrsten Sinema, Assistant Minority Leader 15 D ksinema@azleg.gov
David Lujan, Minority Leader 15 D dlujan@azleg.gov
Eric Meyer 11 D emeyer@azleg.gov
Robert Meza 14 D rmeza@azleg.gov
Rae Waters 20 D rwaters@azleg.gov
A great resource to help with writing a letter is found at:
http://www.azpolicy.org/breaking+news+1+21+09
Click on the fact sheet. It will give you talking points and what you can do.
I can not articulate how important is for you take 10 minutes and write a short letter or email to your state rep letting them know that you support this legislation. Even more important than your letter is your prayer pray to God that he would allow this legislation to pass. Lives depend on it.
the first is Arizona house bill 2564 Abortion Consent Act.
It resolves problems in Arizona’s abortion statutes regarding the rights of parents whose minor daughter faces an unplanned pregnancy, the informed consent rights of a woman considering an abortion, and the civil rights of health care professionals not to participate in abortion.
to read the bill in its entirety click or paste the link below:
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/1r/bills/hb2564p.pdf
the second is House Bill 2400 State Ban on Partial-Birth Abortion.
It Prohibits partial-birth abortion in Arizona law.
to read the bill in its entirety click or paste the link below:
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/1r/bills/hb2400p.pdf
There are two things you should do; find out who your rep is and what district you live in. Google your address and look at a map of the house districts or your voter card. be informed. knowing is half the battle. Paste the link below to see a map.
http://www.azredistricting.org/2004legfinal/2004legfinal_phx_lgr.pdf
Here is a list of reps who need to hear your voice; they are democratic reps who have a strong pro choice voting record.paste the link below to see a map.
http://www.azredistricting.org/2004legfinal/2004legfinal_phx_lgr.pdf
Ed Ableser district 17 (my district) eableser@azleg.gov
David Schapira district 17 (my district) dschapira@azleg.gov
Kyrsten Sinema, Assistant Minority Leader 15 D ksinema@azleg.gov
David Lujan, Minority Leader 15 D dlujan@azleg.gov
Eric Meyer 11 D emeyer@azleg.gov
Robert Meza 14 D rmeza@azleg.gov
Rae Waters 20 D rwaters@azleg.gov
A great resource to help with writing a letter is found at:
http://www.azpolicy.org/breaking+news+1+21+09
Click on the fact sheet. It will give you talking points and what you can do.
I can not articulate how important is for you take 10 minutes and write a short letter or email to your state rep letting them know that you support this legislation. Even more important than your letter is your prayer pray to God that he would allow this legislation to pass. Lives depend on it.
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