This is a great site that shows what abortion really is, showing how soon a baby starts developing their fingers, toes, eys, nerves, etc, and what they go through when they are aborted. This shows their precious little bodies torn up by the D&E procedure, among other procedures. Anyone who thinks it’s okay to abort a child should check this website out. You will change your mind!
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Posted: August 27, 2011 in OneNewsNow.comSo you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you
received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him
“Abba, Father.”
Jesus spoke to God as his Father, using the Aramaic term abba. This
expressed shocking intimacy with God, something virtually unknown among
religions of the ancient world, including Judaism. Yet, perhaps even more
surprising, Jesus taught his followers to call God Father, inviting us into his
own relationship with the Heavenly Father. When we become Christians, the Spirit
of God helps us to know God as our own “Abba, Father.”
For many of us, this comes as welcome good news. But for many others, Father
is not a comfortable title for God. The problem is with our experience of our
own human father. If he was a harsh or emotionally distant person, someone who
always made demands upon us but was stingy in communicating love, then we tend
to project these characteristics onto God. Those who had an abusive father often
find it even harder to relate to God as a father.
The problems associated with projecting negative father images onto God has
led some people to back away from speaking of God as our Heavenly Father. But
this deprives us of the chance to grow more deeply in relationship with the God
whom Jesus revealed as our Abba. If we let the Spirit help us to know
God as father, if we allow the Scripture to show us the gracious fatherhood of
God, and if we open our hearts to his love, not only will we know God more
truly, but also we can experience healing of the hurt that lurks within us
because of our relationship with our earthly father. Thus calling God “Abba,
Father” sets us free to live in the freedom and joy of being one of God’s
beloved children.
QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: When you think of God as father,
what images or ideas come to mind? How has your relationship with your Heavenly
Father touched your life?
PRAYER: Dear Heavenly Father, how I thank you for making
yourself known as Abba. What a privilege it is to know you in such an
intimate way. What a joy to know that I am one of your beloved children.
Yet, you know, Lord, that it’s hard for many people to think of you as
father. Because of their experience with their earthly father, they easily
project their sense of fatherhood onto you. They can think of you as distant and
uncaring or even as harsh and cruel. For those whose hurt keeps them from
knowing you truly as Abba, I ask for healing. May your Spirit touch
their brokenness. May they know you as a loving, forgiving, faithful father.
Help me, dear God, to know you more and more as my Heavenly Father. May I
find security and confidence in your love for me. May I live in the joy of being
your child. Amen.
http://www.thehighcalling.org/reflection/calling-god-abba-father-part-2
NO ONE CHANGES GOD’S LAW
Because we live in a period known as the age of God’s grace, it has become a popular thing to declare that the Ten Commandments are no longer valid, no longer relevant in our society. With that context, it has become apparent that Christian churches are not paying attention to the Ten Commandments. But Dwight L Moody preached often in the commandments. John Wesley said he preached the commands of the Law to prepare the way for the gospel. R. A. Torrey told ministers if they did not preach the Law they would have no response to the preaching of the gospel. It is the Law that shows us our need for the gospel of salvation and forgiveness! It is accurate to say that our binding obligation is not to the Old Testament Law. As sincere Christians we are under Christ’s higher law-that which is represented in His love and grace. But everything that is morally commanded in the Ten Commandments still comprises the moral principles that are the will of God for His people. God’s basic moral will for His people has not changed!
