A Guaranteed Threat to the Earth that is Far Greater than Global Warming

To Bill Nye (who recently flaunted the fact that he knows more about sexual perversion than real science), to Al Gore (with his $9 million, energy-guzzling mansion), and to anyone else who is more concerned about "global warming" than global corruption, apostasy, and moral debauchery:

Have you considered another threat which is guaranteed (by the most knowledgeable & credible source ever) to not only heat up the earth, but to burn it up completely?

 
The earth will indeed warm up and be destroyed, but not because of carbon emissions.  The earth’s fiery demise will be the result of sinful commissions by those who choose willful omission of Christ (and His offer of salvation) from their lives.

God created the earth to be perfect, but all of humanity messed it up by choosing our own way instead of following the God who created us and loves us perfectly. God’s will is that all may be saved and avoid death and destruction, so in His grace and mercy, He has been holding back the fires of His wrath and righteous judgment to give more people time to repent and come to Him through Christ.  Yet, our culture still celebrates the wholesale slaughter of innocent children in the womb while defiling the temple of God, our bodies, which belong to Him. (1 Corinthians 6:19)  Many have chosen to worship the new social order instead, pronouncing God's common law dead and morality relative. As people blaspheme God’s name and desecrate all that is sacred (His word which is truth, marriage, family, worship, unity of believers, life, liberty, etc.), they pile up kindling for the flames of destruction.  As the people He created in His own image to enjoy Him and have fellowship with Him choose instead to follow Satan’s example by setting themselves up as their own gods, worshiping self while enslaved to the carnal desires of the flesh, the fires of judgment grow warmer.  As God's faithful children are brutally martyred while their kinsmen look away with apathy, righteousness demands that justice come quickly. As generations continually mock and reject God’s ultimate gift and remedy, Christ’s sacrifice on the cross on humanity’s behalf, God’s wrath grows hotter. 

God will not hold back his righteousness judgment forever. Before He can establish a new and perfect kingdom, the one true and just God must cast out those who have rebelled against him. In so doing, He will simply turn them over to their desires, giving them what they always wanted, life without Him.  With that choice, however, comes all the torment that isolation from the embodiment and giver of goodness, holiness, love, life, light, truth, peace, and joy brings.  We can't have any of these without their source, God Almighty.

Each individual must ask, “Will I choose to continue kindling the flames of God’s wrath, or will I repent and turn to Christ as Lord?”  Those who choose Christ instead of omitting Christ from their lives will receive adoption (Galatians 4:5-6) as God’s beloved children with full inheritance rights (Hebrews 9:15), rescue from death and destruction, and eternity with Him (John 14:3) where every glorious attribute of the Lord will be fully manifest for our good pleasure and His glory.

2Let my teaching fall like rain
    and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass,
    like abundant rain on tender plants.

³ I will proclaim the name of the Lord.
    Oh, praise the greatness of our God! ⁴ He is the Rock, his works are perfect,
    and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong,
    upright and just is he.

⁵ They are corrupt and not his children;
    to their shame they are a warped and crooked generation. ⁶ Is this the way you repay the Lord,
    you foolish and unwise people? Is he not your Father, your Creator,
    who made you and formed you?

¹⁶ They made him jealous with their foreign gods
    and angered him with their detestable idols. ¹⁷ They sacrificed to false gods, which are not God—
    gods they had not known,
    gods that recently appeared,
    gods your ancestors did not fear. ¹⁸ You deserted the Rock, who fathered you;
    you forgot the God who gave you birth.

²⁰ “I will hide my face from them,” he said,
    “and see what their end will be; for they are a perverse generation,
    children who are unfaithful.
²² For a fire will be kindled by my wrath,
    one that burns down to the realm of the dead below. It will devour the earth and its harvests
    and set afire the foundations of the mountains.

(Deuteronomy 32, selected verses)

 They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever. (Revelation 20:9-10)

What it Means to be "Pro-Life" (Part 2): To Love Women Unconditionally

As described in the previous post, the purpose of this blog series is to debunk the myth that pro-life Christians only care about the unborn and not the born while looking for ways to bring both sides of the abortion issue together to provide better services for more people.  This post will examine various approaches for caring for women on both sides of the abortion issue and show how pro-life Christians extend love to women in crisis pregnancy situations in ways that help women not just during their crisis but for the rest of their lives.

When a woman suspects she could be pregnant and that pregnancy is considered a crisis for her, she will typically seek help from any of the following:
1) Her doctor
2) A government funded, free or low-cost health care clinic
3) Planned Parenthood
4) A faith-based pregnancy life care center

Given that Obamacare was supposed to provide health insurance for everyone, including those who cannot afford it, any woman should have access to comprehensive health care during crisis pregnancy situations.  She may visit her general practitioner or gynecologist, or she may seek out free or reduced cost health care clinics such as those listed at www.womenshealth.gov.  Non-profit clinics supported by generous donors instead of government grants have more flexibility to manage operations in ways that most effectively meet the needs of their clients.  The Neighborhood Christian Clinic is a full service health care facility that has been serving as a role model for other facilities around the country.  Alliance Defending Freedom developed the map below to show the locations of over 13,540 clinics providing comprehensive health care for women.

The most popular women's resource among pro-choice advocates is Planned Parenthood.  As favors continue to be bought and sold between Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and the Obama administration and the Clinton Foundation, government funding of Planned Parenthood has been increasing. For example, government funding increased from 33% in 2009 to 46.5% in 2010, which equated to $1.3 million per day, according to  STOPP research's analysis of Planned Parenthood's annual reports.  Even some pro-life voters support government funding of Planned Parenthood since the organization provides sex education, birth control, pap smears and other cancer screenings (but not mammograms), and STD testing.  They believe Planned Parenthood's prevention services are reducing abortion rates, but PPFA's business model actually provides incentives for increasing in the number of abortions provided.

Planned Parenthood claims that only 3% of their services are abortions, but those abortions actually provide 51.5% of their clinic revenues.  The Wall Street Journal estimated that PPFA's annual abortion revenues are over $150 million.

Planned Parenthood charges clients for other services as well, but since abortion fees plus payments received for the procurement and sale of fetal tissues and intact organs through modified abortion procedures without client consent (see video below) comprise the bulk of their clinic revenues, abortions are a priority for Planned Parenthood's marketing strategies.  According to testimonies from former PPFA workers, PPFA even sets abortion quotas for their clinics.

These abortion revenues are a key concern for pro-life Christians, not simply because abortion destroys sacred, innocent, defenseless human life, but because these revenues motivate PPFA to increase abortion revenue through methods that are deceptive, manipulative, unloving, and cruel.  As an example, reference this previous blog post.  It explains one strategy International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) uses for increasing number of abortions. IPPF reaches out to children as young as 9 years old with pamphlets that encourage adolescents and teens to engage in risky sexual activity while IPPF actively opposes legislation requiring parental consent. PPFA provides low quality contraception while assuring clients their products will make sex safe. (PPFA's condoms were determined to be the lowest quality out of 23 brands Consumer Reports tested for effectiveness.) The truth is that unmarried sex is never safe.  Many of these methods put women and children at risk of great physical, psychological, and emotional harm while mistreating, misleading, and dehumanizing women.  Women in crisis first and foremost need loving compassion and comprehensive counseling, not pressure to immediately have an abortion.


Planned Parenthood advocates insist the organization helps women by preventing unplanned pregnancy and thereby decreasing abortion rates, but a closer look reveals the opposite.


The following video shows how Planned Parenthood has increased the  number of abortions it provides and continues increasing its overall market share in the abortion industry.


Personal testimonies and undercover videos expose the fact that Planned Parenthood workers force women into choosing abortion. When women ask about other options, PPFA workers insist that abortion is really their only option. Clients are not informed of all the short term and long term risks of abortion, nor are they made aware of the long term benefits and resources available to support women who would prefer to carry their babies to term. Testimonies supporting these claims from women who were pressured by Planned Parenthood to have an abortion can be found here, here, and here.   If a woman's right to choose is PPFA's platform and battle cry, then shouldn't they give women more than one option so women can actually have a choice?


The ideal first point of contact for women in crisis is a  faith-based pregnancy life care center.  With 5-years of experience as a volunteer for centers under the Care Net umbrella, I have seen first-hand the life changing impact these centers are having on the lives of women.  I will primarily share about Care Net programs and services, but women have plenty of other wonderful faith based options as well such as Life Call or Birthline/Lifeline Pregnancy Centers.  Click on these links to find a center near you.  These centers are unique in that unlike Planned Parenthood and all the secular and/or government funded options, these centers provide what women need first and foremost in the midst of a pregnancy crisis, and they offer all their services FREE OF CHARGE!  These centers collectively provide all of the services below, but any center should provide most of them.

• Spiritual, emotional, and relationship counseling
• Free pregnancy testing
• Options counseling, including comprehensive information on parenting (including adoption), as well as information on abortion procedures and risks
• STD/STI testing and information
• Limited obstetrical ultrasound services
• Bible study classes
• Support groups and peer counseling
• Material assistance, including diapers, maternity clothes, strollers, cribs, car seats, baby food, formula, baby apparel, layettes, and more
• Job and housing assistance and referrals
• Additional community referral
• Prenatal care referrals
• Childbirth, life skills, prenatal child care, homemaking education
• Tutoring and support in obtaining a G.E.D. or opportunities to enroll in college classes
• Adoption referrals
• Parenting Classes
• Fertility Awareness Education
• 24-Hour Support Hotline
• Shelters and/or maternity home placement referrals
• Abortion recovery programs

The decision to abort, parent, or adopt will impact a woman for the rest of her life. Since this decision is so important, it is imperative that the mother not make the decision hastily or in a state of panic, desperation, anxiety, fear, or desperation, lest regret haunt her for decades. To make a wise decision a woman needs all the facts about all her options, but she also needs to know the absolute truths about her sacred identity and her infinite worth.  Far too many women find themselves in a crisis pregnancy situation because they went looking for love, affirmation, and acceptance in all the wrong places. We look for opportunities to show these women how much God loves them and to share with them His perfect plan for their lives while actively demonstrating that love in the ways we care for them. Our first priority when a client comes into our office (which typically looks and feels more like a warm and inviting home instead of cold clinic surrounded by barbed wire fence as was the case for the abortion clinic next door to the women's center where I volunteered) is to listen and comfort her spirit.  While licensed nurses perform ultrasounds or conduct pregnancy and/or STD tests, we empathize with these women while offering them support and encouragement.  We listen to their many questions, and answer objectively, laying out all the options while noting the pros and cons for each one. 

While Planned Parenthood's abortion quotas result in high pressure tactics to push as many women through the abortion mill as fast as possible with counseling sessions that present abortion as the only reasonable option, staff at these pregnancy life care centers are open and honest about each scenario.  They exude peace and calm to quiet the client's anxious spirit so she can think more clearly through her options.

While the hope is each woman will choose not to abort, we respect her decision without judgment, remind her that we are always here for her, and invite her back to join one of our abortion recovery programs if needed.  We build relationships with women and follow-up with them, if they give us permission, to make sure their needs are met and to continue offering support and services as needed. We serve these women knowing that our job is to love these women unconditionally as Christ loves the church.  While it may be our desire to save her baby, only God has the power to direct a woman's heart, so we leave that responsibility to Him.  When the primary goal is to love like Jesus without any pressure to accomplish what only God can do or to meet quotas, women always benefit, regardless of what option they choose.

These centers are entirely funded by faith filled donors and primarily staffed by community volunteers who have completed extensive background checks and rigorous training. A key value communicated through each training session and upheld daily in the clinics is that the mothers are our primary concern. This is not to say that we do not care about the baby, but just as flight attendants instruct parents to put the oxygen mask on themselves first before putting a mask on their children, we minister to the mother's needs first with the hope of saving both the mother and the child from heartache and/or devastation.

The Board of Directors for each facility or community network are comprised of like-minded community leaders who volunteer their time to guide ministry staff and volunteers, hold directors and office managers accountable to the core values and vision, and make strategic decisions to ensure the centers are effectively meeting needs and serving women with the love of Christ.  By avoiding the corrupting influences of government money and control and eliminating the pressure of quotas or monetary incentives, these centers can focus instead on delivering the highest level of service for their clients motivated out of a sincere and unconditional love for hurting women.

I have also had the privilege of volunteering as a buddy and as an adoption educator for a faith based maternity home, which receives referrals from faith based pregnancy life care centers, and ministry partners and friends.  These maternity homes provide loving nurture and room and board to women in unplanned pregnancy situations who choose to carry their babies to term. Typically, up to eight women will live in a large home at a time with a married couples serving as house parents who lead the clients as if they are all part of a family.  Family meals, evening devotions, basic chores to teach personal responsibility, life skills training, birth classes, parenting and adoption classes, counseling, medical needs, and mentoring are all included.  These homes provide an oasis for women where they can process through all their thoughts and feelings while separated from negative influences or competing voices, make decisions regarding parenting or adoption, reset the direction for their lives, set goals, and establish a plan for pursing a healthy, productive, fulfilling life.

To be pro-life is to love women unconditionally, intentionally, sacrificially, and wholeheartedly.  The DNC's support of Planned Parenthood does the opposite by deceiving, manipulating, and abusing women for selfish financial gain.  The corruption found throughout Planned Parenthood is like leaven in that it will only increase causing more women and children to suffer. Gosnell's crimes against women and children seemed extreme, but he wasn't an isolated case as numerous women have testified, and similar stories will continue to surface as liberal, abortion minded-Supreme Court Justices knock down legislation designed to make abortion facilities safer for women.  As federal funding enables Planned Parenthood to expand its operations, women will be more likely to turn to PPFA first instead of to more ethical, loving, helpful alternatives.  For these reasons, conservative pro-life Christians are voting against the DNC in favor of party platforms that support defunding Planned Parenthood.

As a compromise between the two sides, money currently given to Planned Parenthood could be redirected to more trustworthy comprehensive healthcare centers that do not profit by performing abortions or by receiving kickbacks for abortion referrals.  The video below counters Planned Parenthood's outrageous and deceptive argument against this proposal.

These healthcare centers should be measured by how well they treat patients with incentives for reducing abortion and disease as opposed to PPFA's incentive plan which seeks to provide more abortions.  Contraception could be provided by these centers but in a way that respects religious liberty.  Clients should be educated enough to understand how to use contraceptives correctly, typical failure rates, health risks, and how contraceptives work so that clients can make informed decisions consistent with their religious beliefs.  For example, those who believe life begins at conception would need to know enough to avoid the IUD, the pill, ring, and other hormone methods that prevent implantation.  While there would still be plenty of doctors who would be willing to perform abortions, doctors should not be forced to perform abortions against their religious convictions and against the original Hippocratic Oath they swore to uphold.  

The next installment will debunk the myth that conservative pro-life Christians care more about the unborn than people of various ages, stages, races, genders, abilities and special needs. It will present the big picture perspective used by compassionate pro-life Christians to provide the most meaningful, loving, long term care, support, and benefit for the most people in a more ethical manner than the DNC's quick fix, band-aid proposals.