When Prayer in School is Still Permitted

 

On May 20th, a rare EF5 tornado slammed the town of Moore, Oklahoma.  The devastation was unbelievable.  At least 24 are confirmed dead, and dozens more are injured.

Along the tornado's path there were two elementary schools.  Tragically, at least 7 children were killed at Plaza Towers Elementary School.  But at the other, Briarwood Elementary, all miraculously survived.

In an interview with a 2nd grade teacher at the latter school, there are several things that hero Tammy Glasgow said and did that were courageous and inspiring.  (Please watch the interview by clicking the link above.)


Here is a portion of the story:

"....Right before the tornado hit, she hurried students into two bathrooms and a closet. There were about eights boys in the boys' bathroom, including Glasgow's son, and a dozen girls in the girls' bathroom.

She and other adults were with three children in the closet.

"Before I shut the doors, because both bathrooms had doors, I said, 'I'm going to shut these doors,' and I said, 'I love you.' The boys looked at me a little strange. (I) walked in the girls' (bathroom) and said, 'I love you' and they all said 'I love you' back.

"I just told them to pray, and then that's what we did the whole time in the closet, just prayed," said Glasgow.

The storm blasted through..."

Among other things, I see two powerful things in this story:  Love and Prayer.  I thank God for teachers like Tammy Glasgow.  And I thank God that He spared all their lives, and enabled Tammy to tell this amazing story.


Love.  She loved her students, as if they were her own children.  She cared for them, and told them to do what was right and what was good for them... and she provided protection for them in the storm.  She loved them.  Oh, how she loved them.  It reminds me of Someone else I know.  And because she loved them, she taught them and commanded them to pray.


Prayer.  Prayer is powerful because of the One we beseech.  Will the ACLU move to prosecute this teacher for telling her students to pray?  No.  Is it okay to remove prayer from schools, except when a tornado is coming?  No.

Will God be glorified, in spite of our own depravity as a nation?  Yes.

"Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up;  God is our salvation.  Our God is a God of salvation, and to God, the Lord, belong deliverances from death." (Psalm 68:19,20) 

I thank God for Tammy Glasgow... and for others I know that are like her.

12 Minutes

This is what our president is doing:
Obama 12-Minute Speech to Planned Parenthood Time for 7.6 Abortions at Planned Parenthood


This is what Planned Parenthood is doing:

This is what we can be doing:
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Abort73.com: Abortion Unfiltered

Yawning... But Unprotected

4D scans show fetuses yawn in the womb

Notes: 

• In the United States, on average one out of five of these babies will die before seeing light.  

• The rate of abortions is highest among blacks (which would bring joy to Planned Parenthood's founder), and inside Democrat controlled states (NY, CA) and population centers (NYC, LA).  These minorities (along with the help of other Democrat Party supporters) continually help re-elect government leaders who promote the legalization and business of the murder of their own.  Such is the depravity of the human heart.

• The majority of abortions are performed by curettage.  Please read the post below about this vile procedure.

• I believe most people (including Republicans) are more worried about the economy... because our nation's god is materialism... and Dagon is falling on his face.

  *See also: CDC Abortion Surveillance - United States, 2009

The Details of Death

What exactly takes place during every abortion?

Three main methods are used to end the life of an unborn child.  First, for early pregnancies, there is the dilation and curettage technique (D&C).  The cervix is first dialated, and a tube is inserted into the mother's uterus.  This tube is attached to a suction apparatus that tears the little baby apart and deposits him or her into a jar. 

A curette (a surgical instrument shaped like a scoop to remove tissue from a bodily cavity) is then used to scrape the wall of the uterus to remove any part's of the baby's body that might still be present.  Often the suction tube is not used at all, and the curette is simply used to cut the baby's body to pieces and scrape out the placenta.

After about the third month of pregnancy, this techniques becomes too dangerous for the mother, so a saline abortion is employed.  This might be called salt poisoning.  A solution of concentrated salt is injected into the amniotic fluid in the sac around the growing baby.  The salt is absorbed by the baby who is poisoned to death after about an hour.  The outer layer of his or her skin is burned off by the salt; and about a day later, the mother goes into labor and delivers a discolored and shriveled-up baby. 

A few such babies have been delivered alive, although they rarely survive long.

Prostaglandins can also be used after the third month of pregnancy.  Prostaglandin chemicals are injected into the uterus, causing the mother to go into premature labor and deliver a dead baby.  However, prostaglandin babies have been born alive, much to the embarrassment of some pro-abortion camps.

The third method, which is used for more developed pregnancies, is the hysterotomy.  This is like a Caesarean operation, except that in the hysterotomy, the object is not to save the child but to kill him or her.  In this case, the baby has to be either killed outright or allowed to die...


[Written by Peter Barnes, taken from the Free Grace Broadcaster - Issue 220 - Summer 2012]

Female Infanticide in the Shadows

Female infanticide is the intentional killing of baby girls due to the preference for male babies and from the low value associated with the birth of females.

An abortion is the intentional killing of a baby due to the preference of the mother (who is often misinformed, misguided, confused, stressed, hopeless, or abandoned).

Planned Parenthood is the organization that operates these murder-mills. Our taxpayer money helps fund them, thanks to the Democratic Party.

The Democrats, on May 31, 2012, defeated legislation that would have banned abortions based on the gender of the fetus. Our President opposed the bill also.

If you are a Democrat, do you have blood on your hands?







But the big question: On what grounds is ANY abortion justified?

"Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice;

you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech."
(Isaiah 32:9)

Thus says the Lord:
“A voice is heard in Ramah,
lamentation and bitter weeping.
Rachel is weeping for her children;
she refuses to be comforted for her children,
because they are no more.”
(Jeremiah 31:15)

Get involved.  Do something.  Stay informed.  Vote.  Pray.

Is God a "Respecter of Persons" If We Are Chosen?

Controversy is sometimes necessary. 

"The only way to avoid all controversy would be to consider nothing we believe important enough to defend and no truth too costly to compromise" (R. Albert Mohler, Jr. - Tabletalk, May 2012).

I have had several opportunities to engage friends and family members in conversations regarding the doctrine of election, which is by it's nature, controversial.  (These doctrines are opposed to the natural mind, which is at enmity with God.) 

Sadly, I am afraid I have not always adorned the doctrines of grace (which includes the doctrine of election) with the love and humility that I should have... especially when I was in my "cage stage" - "that period of time during which a new convert to Reformed theology should be locked up in a cage for his own good and the good of others around him" (Keith A. Mathison).

But more than once, those who argue against God's sovereign grace in salvation suggest that the doctrine makes God a "respecter of persons."  The Bible says in many places that God is NOT a "respecter of  persons," so this issue must be addressed.

This is one of the best explanations I have heard:


Why Arminian Conditional Election Makes God a Respecter of Persons
By John Hendryx


I love all my brothers and sisters in Christ, but some of you are clearly robbing God of His glory by believing that you had some part in your being born again.  If this is your belief (and it used to be mine), then I appeal to you to read this article... search God's Word... pray... and know the truth.

Grace and Peace!