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PERSONAL NOTE: If you scroll down the right side of this page, you will note my JOURNAL . Check it out for the latest concerning me; 1/28 - I JUST POSTED AN UPDATE ON 2 RECENT PRAYER REQUESTS.
American Churches noted this PAST Sunday as "Sanctity of Human Life Sunday" (Did YOUR church acknowledge it in some way?); JANUARY is “Sanctity of Human Life" MONTH - To help you to pray for the end of abortion in America, please download "21 Days of Prayer for Life Prayer Guide," pdf - http://www.colsoncenter.org/images/content/colson2011/21-days-of-prayer-for-life.pdf (Read post #1463 below.)
UPDATE ON PASTOR SAHEED: "Prayer Need Is Great as Abedini's Consider Their Future" - CBN News,01-28-2016;http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2016/January/Prayer-Need-is-Great-as-Abedinis-Consider-Their-Future;"Free at Last, Free at Last!" - Tony Perkins, Washington Update, Jan.26,2016; http://www.frc.org/updatearticle/20160126/free-last
PRAYER MATTERS:
"To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world." - Karl Barth; "Prayer is inviting God into a seemingly impossible situation and trusting Him to accomplish His perfect and loving will." - Stan
7/24 - ASIA BIBI CONVICTION OVERTURNED! PRAY THAT SHE (IN VERY POOR HEALTH) MIGHT BE RELEASED WHEN HER CASE IS REVIEWED SOON. - A Christian mom had been sentenced to death in Pakistan for her faith. Asia Bibi was falsely accused of “blasphemy” – speaking against the prophet Muhammad. Now this wife and mother of five will hang for her Christian faith.She would be the first woman executed under Pakistan’s Shariah blasphemy law.This is the ultimate human rights violation. We’re mobilizing our international affiliate – the European Centre for Law and Justice – and its partner in Pakistan to stop this atrocity. Go to http://aclj.org/persecuted-church/breaking-pakistans-supreme-court-accepts-petition-to-hear-asia-bibis-appeal;please add your signature to over 300,000 others AND continue to pray for Asia Bibi.
"The Indictment of David Daleiden - THE CULTURE OF DEATH SHOOTS THE MESSENGER" - John Stonestreet| Breakpoint.org: Jan.28, 2016;http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentaries/entry/13/28797?utm_source=Colson+Center+Master+List&utm_campaign=2c133b01ae-BP_ Daily_ 01_28_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_84bd2dc76d-2c133b01ae-6541173
There’s finally an indictment relating to Planned Parenthood’s selling of body parts. So why are the forces of death celebrating?
As you’ve probably heard, a grand jury in Houston, Texas, originally tasked with investigating Planned Parenthood’s possible involvement in the sale of fetal tissue and body parts, has decided to instead to shoot the messenger.
Well, not exactly “shoot,” but something almost as inappropriate. The Harris County grand jury indicted both David R. Daleiden, the founder of the Center for Medical Progress, and his colleague Sandra Merritt, for “tampering with a government record.” Daleiden has also been charged with a misdemeanor related to the attempt to purchase human organs.
The first indictment is in connection with Daleiden’s and Merritt’s alleged use of fake California driver’s licenses to gain access to the various Planned Parenthood facilities. The second indictment is based on an email that Daleiden allegedly sent, offering to buy fetal tissue from Planned Parenthood.
To put it very mildly, what happened in Houston was ironic. While Daleiden’s actions amount to a prima facie – the legal phrase meaning “at first glance” – violation of Texas law, no one believes he intended to buy fetal tissue. His and Merritt’s goal was to expose those who profit from this gruesome practice.
Daleiden and Merritt announced they will surrender themselves to Harris County authorities. From there, the prosecutor will decide whether to proceed with or drop the case.
Not surprisingly, the New York Times is calling the indictment a “vindication” of Planned Parenthood. It’s no such thing. Daleiden’s and Merritt’s possibly excessive zeal doesn’t make Planned Parenthood’s disregard for the sanctity and dignity of human life any less egregious or disgusting. These indictments are best understood as the latest chapter in the long saga of our society’s commitment to rationalize the current abortion regime. This sort of thing happens in cultures of death.
In the aftermath of Roe v Wade, abortion proponents told us the fetus was merely a “clump of tissue.” Pleading agnostic as to when human life begins, their only certainty was that nothing human is killed by abortions. That contention has been, of course, demolished by sonograms and pro-life efforts like “The Silent Scream.” The humanity of the fetus is no longer seriously in doubt.
So the strategy shifted to the “safe, legal and rare” phase. People like Naomi Wolf acknowledged that abortion involved the taking of a human life and that was, in some ways, a tragedy. But, Wolf and others argued, feeling bad about it was an unfortunate part of preserving the “necessary” option of abortion.
As incoherent as it sounds, pro-life forces found an opening there: regulating the time, place, and manner of abortions so as to minimize their number and make it safer for the women involved.
In response, abortion apologists became even more brazen. They now proudly depict abortion as a positive good. Case in point? The recent Washington Post headline: “I’m a successful lawyer and mother because I had an abortion.” Even more brazen and, frankly, absurd are those who argue their aborted children would approve of the taking of their lives just as the author would have been okay had her mother aborted her.
This kind of argument only confirms Mother Theresa words that “it is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you my live as you wish.”
Now, presented with video evidence of the real cost to live as we wish, the response is to shoot – or at least indict – the messenger. The problem isn’t that the law being used to indict Daleiden is a bad one. It’s that only a culture of death would imagine using this law to indict one exposing how others are breaking it.
Living as we wish is our society’s highest value. It’s a poverty that is indicted, tried, and found guilty as charged in this whole Houston debacle.
And let’s remember: in the end, God is the ultimate, and righteous, judge—of David Daleiden and of Planned Parenthood.
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RESOURCES - For an excellent FAQ ono the Daleiden case, check Joe Carter's article below.
"The FAQ's: Grand Jury Indicts Filmmakers Who Secretly Recorded Planned Parenthood" - Joe Carter| Gospel Coalition | January 25, 2016;http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/the-faqs-grand-jury-indicts-filmmakers-who-secretly-recorded-planned-parenthood
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"Cartoon: Missing the Target" - Glenn Foden/Jan.29,2016;
http://dailysignal.com/2016/01/29/cartoon-missing-the-target/
"Lawyers: Indictment of Prolife Filmmakers Work of 'Runaway Grand Jury'" - CBN News, 01-28-2016;http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2016/January/Lawyers-Indictment-of-Prolife-Filmmakers-Work-of-Runaway-Grand-Jury
"And critics point out that one of the prosecutors assigned to the case was a Planned Parenthood board member. That may call into question the fairness of the district attorney.'We don't know for sure yet. That's going to depend to a large extent on whether that single individual was directly involved in the presentation of the evidence to the grand jury,'..."
"D.A. Who Indicted David Daleiden Received Over $25,000 From Attorney for Late-Term Abortionist"- Steven Ertelet,JAN 28, 2016;http://www.lifenews.com/2016/01/28/d-a-who-indicted-david-daleiden-received-over-25000-from-attorney-for-late-term-abortionist/
PERSONAL NOTE: If you scroll down the right side of this page, you will note my JOURNAL . Check it out for the latest concerning me; 1/28 - I JUST POSTED AN UPDATE ON 2 RECENT PRAYER REQUESTS.
American Churches noted this PAST Sunday as "Sanctity of Human Life Sunday" (Did YOUR church acknowledge it in some way?); JANUARY is “Sanctity of Human Life" MONTH - To help you to pray for the end of abortion in America, please download "21 Days of Prayer for Life Prayer Guide," pdf - http://www.colsoncenter.org/images/content/colson2011/21-days-of-prayer-for-life.pdf (Read post #1463 below.)
UPDATE ON PASTOR SAHEED: "Prayer Need Is Great as Abedini's Consider Their Future" - CBN News,01-28-2016;http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2016/January/Prayer-Need-is-Great-as-Abedinis-Consider-Their-Future;"Free at Last, Free at Last!" - Tony Perkins, Washington Update, Jan.26,2016; http://www.frc.org/updatearticle/20160126/free-last
PRAYER MATTERS:
"To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world." - Karl Barth; "Prayer is inviting God into a seemingly impossible situation and trusting Him to accomplish His perfect and loving will." - Stan
PRAY FOR AMERICA: THANK GOD for His many blessings on America throughout it's history. May we then ask that AMERICA once again be a blessing TO GOD, by once again submitting to HIS will in our affairs - both personal and national - that He may truly "heal our land." (2 Chron. 7:14) Short of that, we should not be saying "God Bless America"but instead "God be merciful towards America!" - Rev. Franklin Graham once delivered this insight to his Facebook friends: "I do know that the president defends Islam and chastises Christians, rebukes our allies and befriends our enemies, and fully supports gay marriages and abortion but denies the religious freedoms of those who don't agree. Our nation is ridiculed abroad and morally crumbling within. We are in trouble. We have turned our back on God.")
PRAY FOR OUR LEADERS: Let's be praying that they might be Spirit-filled, leading us with Godly wisdom and integrity; that the Congress and the the President will find only pass legislation and enact policies that will benefit America today and future generations and NOT do any lasting harm.
Pray DAILY:1) For the Supreme Court, Pray that the justices will demonstrate more judicial RESTRAINT rather than judicial activisim as it has the past few years, esp. on issues having negative impact for generations yet born. Pray in particular that religious liberty will be defended rather than eroded by any decision handed down.2) For the National Elections NEXT November. Pray that Americans will elect leaders at the state (Governors, state legislators) and national(Congress and President)levels who have Spirit-filled wisdom, integrity, and a Biblical world-view, who will know and do what is best for us today as well as for future generations.
World-Wide Prayer Requests:
PRAY FOR OUR LEADERS: Let's be praying that they might be Spirit-filled, leading us with Godly wisdom and integrity; that the Congress and the the President will find only pass legislation and enact policies that will benefit America today and future generations and NOT do any lasting harm.
Pray DAILY:1) For the Supreme Court, Pray that the justices will demonstrate more judicial RESTRAINT rather than judicial activisim as it has the past few years, esp. on issues having negative impact for generations yet born. Pray in particular that religious liberty will be defended rather than eroded by any decision handed down.2) For the National Elections NEXT November. Pray that Americans will elect leaders at the state (Governors, state legislators) and national(Congress and President)levels who have Spirit-filled wisdom, integrity, and a Biblical world-view, who will know and do what is best for us today as well as for future generations.
World-Wide Prayer Requests:
UPDATE/1-15: "Asia Bibi Forgives Persecutors from Pakistani Prison" - CBN News; 1-15-2016;http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2016/January/Asia-Bibi-Forgives-Persecutors-from-Pakistani-Prison [NOTE: See other updates below.]
PRAY FOR THE CRISIS HAPPENING NOW IN IRAQ (see post #907) Pray that coalition forces will be able to destroy the leadership and infrastructure of ISIS. (see post #964)
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There’s finally an indictment relating to Planned Parenthood’s selling of body parts. So why are the forces of death celebrating?
As you’ve probably heard, a grand jury in Houston, Texas, originally tasked with investigating Planned Parenthood’s possible involvement in the sale of fetal tissue and body parts, has decided to instead to shoot the messenger.
Well, not exactly “shoot,” but something almost as inappropriate. The Harris County grand jury indicted both David R. Daleiden, the founder of the Center for Medical Progress, and his colleague Sandra Merritt, for “tampering with a government record.” Daleiden has also been charged with a misdemeanor related to the attempt to purchase human organs.
The first indictment is in connection with Daleiden’s and Merritt’s alleged use of fake California driver’s licenses to gain access to the various Planned Parenthood facilities. The second indictment is based on an email that Daleiden allegedly sent, offering to buy fetal tissue from Planned Parenthood.
To put it very mildly, what happened in Houston was ironic. While Daleiden’s actions amount to a prima facie – the legal phrase meaning “at first glance” – violation of Texas law, no one believes he intended to buy fetal tissue. His and Merritt’s goal was to expose those who profit from this gruesome practice.
Daleiden and Merritt announced they will surrender themselves to Harris County authorities. From there, the prosecutor will decide whether to proceed with or drop the case.
Not surprisingly, the New York Times is calling the indictment a “vindication” of Planned Parenthood. It’s no such thing. Daleiden’s and Merritt’s possibly excessive zeal doesn’t make Planned Parenthood’s disregard for the sanctity and dignity of human life any less egregious or disgusting. These indictments are best understood as the latest chapter in the long saga of our society’s commitment to rationalize the current abortion regime. This sort of thing happens in cultures of death.
In the aftermath of Roe v Wade, abortion proponents told us the fetus was merely a “clump of tissue.” Pleading agnostic as to when human life begins, their only certainty was that nothing human is killed by abortions. That contention has been, of course, demolished by sonograms and pro-life efforts like “The Silent Scream.” The humanity of the fetus is no longer seriously in doubt.
So the strategy shifted to the “safe, legal and rare” phase. People like Naomi Wolf acknowledged that abortion involved the taking of a human life and that was, in some ways, a tragedy. But, Wolf and others argued, feeling bad about it was an unfortunate part of preserving the “necessary” option of abortion.
As incoherent as it sounds, pro-life forces found an opening there: regulating the time, place, and manner of abortions so as to minimize their number and make it safer for the women involved.
In response, abortion apologists became even more brazen. They now proudly depict abortion as a positive good. Case in point? The recent Washington Post headline: “I’m a successful lawyer and mother because I had an abortion.” Even more brazen and, frankly, absurd are those who argue their aborted children would approve of the taking of their lives just as the author would have been okay had her mother aborted her.
This kind of argument only confirms Mother Theresa words that “it is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you my live as you wish.”
Now, presented with video evidence of the real cost to live as we wish, the response is to shoot – or at least indict – the messenger. The problem isn’t that the law being used to indict Daleiden is a bad one. It’s that only a culture of death would imagine using this law to indict one exposing how others are breaking it.
Living as we wish is our society’s highest value. It’s a poverty that is indicted, tried, and found guilty as charged in this whole Houston debacle.
And let’s remember: in the end, God is the ultimate, and righteous, judge—of David Daleiden and of Planned Parenthood.
[bold, italics, and colored emphasis mine]
RESOURCES - For an excellent FAQ ono the Daleiden case, check Joe Carter's article below.
"The FAQ's: Grand Jury Indicts Filmmakers Who Secretly Recorded Planned Parenthood" - Joe Carter| Gospel Coalition | January 25, 2016;http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/the-faqs-grand-jury-indicts-filmmakers-who-secretly-recorded-planned-parenthood
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"Cartoon: Missing the Target" - Glenn Foden/Jan.29,2016;
http://dailysignal.com/2016/01/29/cartoon-missing-the-target/
"Lawyers: Indictment of Prolife Filmmakers Work of 'Runaway Grand Jury'" - CBN News, 01-28-2016;http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2016/January/Lawyers-Indictment-of-Prolife-Filmmakers-Work-of-Runaway-Grand-Jury
"And critics point out that one of the prosecutors assigned to the case was a Planned Parenthood board member. That may call into question the fairness of the district attorney.'We don't know for sure yet. That's going to depend to a large extent on whether that single individual was directly involved in the presentation of the evidence to the grand jury,'..."
"D.A. Who Indicted David Daleiden Received Over $25,000 From Attorney for Late-Term Abortionist"- Steven Ertelet,JAN 28, 2016;http://www.lifenews.com/2016/01/28/d-a-who-indicted-david-daleiden-received-over-25000-from-attorney-for-late-term-abortionist/
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