Devotionals
The Option of Adoption-2nd Place
“Adoption: if a baby is not a blessing for you right now, let them be a blessing to someone else.”- unknown. Adoption not only gives life to your baby, but also to the family who adopts it. Abortion is a permanent and final decision, but with adoption you are presented with many different options. Christians…
Read MoreThe Option of Adoption-1st Place
Adoption – a word known by most, but experienced by few – is something which reveals the best in people. ln that one word; hope, love, fulfillment, happiness, home, family and belonging take up residence. In adoption, the love of one is given to another by no merits of their own. This love is simply…
Read MoreWhat Is A Human Being?
What’s An iPad? When iPad & Tablets were somewhat new I saw a video where the people were speaking in German, but you could understand what was said by what was happening. A daughter was visiting her father. They were fixing supper. As they spoke he was cutting up something on a cutting board while she was cooking up…
Read More“…therefore choose life…”
The phrase “therefore choose life” is taken from Deuteronomy 30 where Moses is addressing the people of Israel one of his last times before his demise. It comes after a gauntlet of decisions is presented to them demanding for them to choose whether to serve the Lord or to follow the world. Verse 15 sets…
Read MoreWhen the Foundations are Destroyed-Part 2
As noted in the title, this is the conclusion for the December 2019 devotion for Baptists for Life of Wisconsin. You may want to read or review part 1 before you proceed. In secularism, the moral basis for government is man’s depraved nature and distorted sense of right and wrong, apart from God’s Law. There are obviously…
Read MoreWhen the Foundations are Destroyed
Just over two hundred and forty-three years ago, on the Fourth of July, 57 men signed the Declaration of Independence, the founding document that created the American republic. These delegates represented about 3 million people grouped in a series of 13 colonies along the eastern seaboard of the United States. Interestingly, they were all wanted men, sought by the…
Read MoreWhat Does It Mean to be Human?
According to Professor C. E. Joan, a human is nothing but: “Fat enough for seven bars of soap; Iron enough for one medium-sized nail; Sugar enough for seven cups of tea; Lime enough to whitewash one chicken coop; Phosphorus enough to tip two thousand two hundred matches; Magnesium enough for one dose of salts; Potash…
Read MoreEvery Human Being, a Human Person
In Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address, he pronounced that the greatest scourge on America was slavery and the war that came about because of it. The greatest scourge on our nation today is abortion. 926,200 abortions were performed in the U.S. in 2014. Almost four in ten pregnancies end in abortion (Guttmacher). The fact is,…
Read MoreBeing a Somebody
The definition of “human”, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is a bipedal primate mammal. In contrast, the definition of “person”, according to the Oxford Dictionary, is a human being regarded as an individual. Being an individual does not have to do with being a human. Being an individual has to do with being a person,…
Read MoreHow much longer will Almighty God withhold judgment from America?
And God spoke all these words saying, … Thou shalt not kill. Exodus 20:1&13. These words are taken directly from the Holy Bible, and are part of the Ten Commandments of God. Often misapplied, the original Hebrew text is very specific, and literally means “Thou shalt not do premeditated murder.” From the depths of antiquity to…
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