Resource Roundup – 2/1/19

There were several excellent posts this week!

How seared is our nation’s conscience that she tolerates this cruelty? – “If you have been paying attention to the abortion debate in America at all, none of this will be surprising to you. The pro-choice position excludes the unborn from the human community. It gives no consideration at all to the human life that is growing inside a mother’s womb. It says that a woman’s so-called “right to choose” trumps the right of another person not to be killed. That is the pro-choice position. It is no surprise that we now have a governor who is saying that a fully delivered baby’s life is disposable and subject to a woman’s “right to choose” as well.”

Would you consider prayerfully reading and agreeing with this important article?  A Prayer for Govenor Andrew Cuomo

Should I Be Building My Own Platform? -“What if the disciples worried about building platforms the way we do? What if they said, “But Jesus, we’re just fishermen and tax collectors with limited influence. How will we ever shine bright enough for the whole world to see?”

This almost seems laughable from our perspective, for what better platform to be able to say, “I was chosen by Jesus for a three-year internship”? These guys needed only to step onto their God-given platforms with their God-given understanding and shine!”

The Character of the Christian: A One-Woman Man – Tim Challies linked to his article from a few years ago. Don’t be fooled by the title, this is an article for both men and women. It served me, and I hope it will serve you, too!

“Just as an elder is to be an example of sexual integrity, so the call goes out to all Christians to “abstain from sexual immorality” (1 Thessalonians 4:3). This is true whether the Christian is married or single, male or female. Paul commands the whole congregation in Corinth to “flee from sexual immorality” and warns “every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body” (1 Corinthians 6:18).”

A Self-Denial Comeback? – “Self-denial is difficult, requiring not only strenuous discipline but also courageous counterculturalism. It means ignoring the chanting voices telling us we don’t have enough. It means refusing to believe the next thing will make us happy when we know it will make us hollow. It calls for letting go of the rush of acquisition, the fleeting pleasure of possession. And it requires us to risk looking like plain old, everyday, ordinary people in a world where image is everything.”

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