Condemning the Murder of George Tiller

George Tiller was murdered in the foyer of his church today in Wichita, Kansas. Over the years he had become a lightening rod of controversy in the abortion debate because he was one of the few who was willing to perform late-term abortions.

I denounce his killing in the strongest possible terms as being sinful, immoral, and fundamentally contrary to Christian morality.

Our prayers as Christians at this time should be for his family and that anti-life forces will be prevented from taking advantage of this tragedy to promote their agenda of expanding abortion services in America and around the world.

Prophetic Preaching

I don't know if you know John Piper or not. But if you have any interest at all in the subject of ending abortion you will not be sorry you took five minutes out of your busy day to see the following video on Utube taken from a sermon by John Piper. If this is what a truly prophetic word spoken to the powerful sounds like, then I must confess that I know virtually nothing about it. God help me before I die to know it.

Royal

http://www.desiringgod.org/Blog/1794_no_mr_president_killing_is_killing_no_matter_what_we_call_it/

Darkness in America

The scandal of the most anti-life president in history speaking at Notre Dame continues to amaze me. How and why he was given permission by the Catholic hierarchy to do so is simply beyond me. Not being Catholic my knowlege fails me here, for I'm naive enough to think that the bishop in charge of the school should have had the power to prevent this from happening. Please help me out here if you are Catholic and know how this works.

The president called for "civility" of speech even when we differ on this profound moral question. Fair enough, but only up to a point. If a racist, or an anti-semite, or a terrorist wants to take a public podium and speak in defense of their action and attitudes would we be congenial to their explicit call that we should all engage in polite, civil discourse. I don't think so. There comes a time when truth must be spoken clearly. To do otherwise is to let the other side win by fudging and obfuscating the reality of the killing that is being carried out every single day by every baby aborted. Don't get me wrong. By all means let's be civil when we're talking about morally neutral things like color preference for carpets, or types of haircuts, or sizes of nose rings...but when we are talking about the direct breaking of God's commandment, "You shall not murder" (Exodus 20, NASV) we're no longer on morally neutral territory. We should have a profound moral distaste for all that is evil and not give anyone the comfort of covering it up with pretty words and euphemisms that hide its horrible reality.