MAJOR PRAISE REPORT: Back in March I told you about talking to a girl who chose life at an abortion clinic in Charlotte, NC while we were sidewalk counseling there. Just found out today that she is going to have a baby boy and also wants to start sidewalk counseling herself to reach other moms who were in her position. I am so amazed at how God is using the AWESOME sidewalk counselors we have in the pro-life movement and how amazing 40 Days for Life is as a tool to save lives.
Win 50 Free “Let God Plan Parenthood” Stickers – Guess the date born and sex of our new baby
The contest is simple, guess the date my new baby will be born and the sex and you could win 50 free stickers. I will pick a random winner from all the correct guesses.
My wife is due today, May 15 but is showing no signs of labor, she will not induce until May 29. We do not know the sex yet, we like to be surprised. Comment on this post with your guess and we will notify the winner when the baby comes.
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Mother’s Inspiring Video About Her Blind Baby Boy
AMAZING: This video of a mom and her blind son made me weep. I promise this is one of the most inspiring videos I have ever seen and hope you will take a few minutes and watch it and share it. -
Is Abortion More Important Than Any Other Sin?
Many people ask me why abortion is more important than any other sin. People wonder why we are so adamant about focusing on abortion as opposed to other issues. The answer is simple; abortion is not just a sin. Abortion is a crime against humanity that results in the death of an innocent human person. Abortion is not just an issue, it is a life or death situation, an act of homicide. Certain death is facing almost 4,000 fellow American citizens every day if we don’t act. We see the abortion holocaust at the most important and life threatening tragedy of our generation and the abolition of it is the most urgent call we have. – Bryan Kemper
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Abolishing the true war on women
In order to stop the “war on women” we must first stop killing thousands of them a day. When we lie to women and tell them that their child is nothing more that a blob of tissue, we are only advancing that war. When we charge them hundreds of dollars to scrape their offspring from their womb, we advancing that war. When we tell them that gift of life they have received is a curse or a burden, we advance that war. The war on women is a civil war being fought by a false feminist movement which actually is destroying one of the greatest beauties of being a woman, motherhood. Abolish the true war on women, abortion.
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Nicer than Jesus
I wonder if the “nicer than Jesus” or “fluffy love” Christians of the 1940s told people like Dietrich Bonhoeffer or Sophie Scholl that they were too judgmental for speaking out against the Nazi Regime? I wonder of they said things like, “If we make killing Jews illegal, it is just going to happen anyway,” or “we don’t have a right to judge Hitler, we need to respect him as the leader God gave us and support him.” I highly doubt it. We must stand up, speak out, and refuse to respect the position of those who advocate for the murder of innocent children in their mother’s wombs. Abolish Abortion!
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Calvary Chapel Founder, Pastor Chuck Smith Calls Children a Liability and Endorses Abortifacient Birth Control
This article is from our good friends at Survivors Of The Abortion Holocaust - https://www.facebook.com/WeAreSurvivors
Last week, in his week-day podcast and radio show “Pastor’s Perspective” on K-WAVE (sound bite can be found at 25:50), Chuck Smith, founding pastor of Calvary Chapel and respected evangelical leader in Southern California, came out with a plug for birth control, calling children a liability and — more out there still — attempted to back it up with Scripture, quoting 1 Timothy 5:8, which says that anyone unable to support or provide for their family is worse than an infidel.
His remarks were all the more startling because they sounded less like a pastor steeped in Scripture, and more like a Planned Parenthood rep. The show, airing April 30th, answered a woman’s question about responsibility and family size with advice such as: “Kids used to be assets” (emphasis added), “Children are now a liability . . . cost a huge amount of money . . . ” “They are not productive in bringing back into the family,” and finally, his co-host, Don Stewart, stated, “Scripture says, in 1 Timothy 5:8, that anyone who cannot care for their family is worse than an infidel.”
Productive in bringing what back? Free Happy Meals? A brand-new Bentley? Better? (Children do, actually, bring in tax credits each April.) And surely a family with many children has more potential to care for its own than one with one pampered pet.
Firstly, he takes Scripture surprisingly out of context, and totally skips over passages such as Psalm 127:1-5, in which children are called “a heritage from the Lord” and the man with many, a “quiver full” in fact, is called blessed, never to be put to shame — and not just blessed spiritually, but materially. The inspired Word of God doesn’t say anything about a couple of arrows, or maybe one really good arrow that gets to go to Disneyland, Cabo, Europe, the best prep schools, and Harvard. No, it says a quiver full.
At the same time, 1 Timothy 5:8 comes after the prelude stating that children are obliged to support their family, care for their widowed mother or father in their old age, and one another — and if there are no children, it then falls to the Church to carry out this duty. “Those who don’t care for their family are worse than infidels” does not then imply that you should have fewer children! It states outright that children are blessings, and that parents lose the natural support of a family if they have none or few.
Johnathan Blundell, a husband and Christian blogger, recently wrote regarding this verse that provision, in context, could not simply be read as meaning monetary — but to provide for your family is to provide love, primarily, and that, ultimately, God provides the means when we accept His gifts, which brings us back to Pastor Smith and his remarks about children no longer being much good.
The program also notes Genesis — the ever-quoted “be fruitful and multiply.” But for some reason Pastor Smith and his colleague say that this is no longer a directive. That’s lovely, but where in the Bible does it say, “Sorry, that bit in Genesis, it’s over now. There are enough of you. Leave off, don’t make any more of you — you aren’t good anymore.” Instead, Genesis states, “He saw all of this, and it was good.” This “good” was not qualified by a time constraint.
If God offered you a surplus of food, would you say, “Oh no, thanks God, I just want to barely subsist, and eat beans and rice and some limp veggies, thanks.” Or if God offered you the winning lotto ticket on the jackpot, would you say, “Wait-wait-wait, that’s a liability. I’ll have to invest it responsibly! I’ll have to finagle my taxes! It’ll take — ohmigosh – time. Liability! What if it’s stolen?” Or if God offered you a gorgeous million dollar home on the beach would you respond, “Well, no, that’s just way too much. After all, talk about a liability: upkeep and property taxes and cleaning . . . . the list just goes on!” You’d much rather have a shack, right? And happiness, if God offered never-ending happiness — well, gee, that’s just too overwhelming, isn’t it?
But is this our attitude toward children, God’s priceless gift? They aren’t valued at hundreds of millions like the lotto ticket: they’re invaluable. They aren’t valued at 1 million like the house: they’re unrepeatable, unique individuals made in the likeness of the Creator. They aren’t a lifetime of high cuisine, satiety, free food and peace of mind about being fed: they are a potential endless feeding of the soul with love.
Finally, Smith advises us about birth control, and in a flippant dismissal, tosses out all natural methods as “the rhythm method” with the cheap joke, “What do you call couples who use the rhythm method? Oh yeah: parents.” But are we really hearing the facts here? Yes, being responsible for your health and livelihood is also God’s directive to you as a married couple. Some people truly have health issues that make having many children nearly impossible, and they need to prevent pregnancy. Others wait until they have a full-time job, or more secure living arrangements. But are we to listen to Pastor Smith interpret the best methods of birth control — outside his area of expertise — when he has just quoted Scripture out of context, which is in his area of expertise?
The truth is that the Pill is abortifacient: it doesn’t just prevent pregnancy, it can take the life of an already conceived child. Secondly, its success rate is not 100%, and is often much lower due to missed days and improper use. Natural Family Planning, far from the hit-and-miss rhythm method joked about on Pastor’s Perspective, is highly effective. Many of my close friends have used it for years without a hitch, and one couple in particular delayed having a child for four years after their marriage while the husband struggled to get regular work teaching in a university. On top of that, it doesn’t douse a woman in chemicals and hormones labeled by the FDA as known carcinogens.
“But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, ‘Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.’” It says this in Mark 10:14.
Are we really following Christ if we take the world’s view of children as assets or liabilities? I think if Pastor Chuck Smith took the time, he would find this verse, and, while he may not be well-versed in healthy ways to plan a family, he should know that Christ is indignant when we put our personal comfort and material gain over “these little ones.”
Helpful Links:
- April 30th Podcast from Chuck Smith (Sound bite can be found at 25:50.)
- Do Birth Control Pills Cause Abortions?(Brochure PDF)
- Do Birth Control Pills Cause Abortions? (Full Booklet PDF)
- Family of the Americas: NFP (Video)
- Life Issues “Dispelling the Myths” (Defining abortifacients and which forms of birth control use them.)
by C.J. Williams, Survivor
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Franciscan University Student, Neal Rylatt has gone home to be with the Lord.
Several months ago we told you about Franciscan Student, Neal Rylatt who was dying of cancer. Tonight I received word from Franciscan Students for Life President, Victor that Neal has gone home to be with our Lord. Here is a short statement from Victor:
A few months back I wrote an article asking for prayers for Neal Rylatt. He was a student at Franciscan University of Steubenville who was very devoted to the pro-life movement. He was diagnosed with leukemia and at 7:00PM, on Friday May 4th, 2012, Neal Rylatt passed away with his family at his side.
I want to thank everyone who prayed so much for Neal, and to ask that you continue to pray for his Family. It is a very sad night for students at Franciscan University, and we will never forget this young man who has touched our lives in so many ways. He will not be forgotten.
Your prayers meant so much to Neal and his family. I know Neal will be watching over us as we continue working to build a culture of life. Neal was never afraid to stand up for the truth, and he’s an example for all of the pro-life youth across the globe. Again, please take some time to pray for his family and his loved ones.
Victor Bermudez - President of Franciscan University Students for Life
“As we have prayed for Neal in life, so now we pray for him in death. The meaning of a life isn’t measured in years, but in the love given and received, and Neil showed special love for the weakest among us. Now we honor him by imitating his example. By what he said and did, he reminded us that towering above all the other needs and concerns of our times is the priority, urgent issue of abortion, and our call to end it. May our own lives reflect that truth.”
Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life
“While my heart is broken for Neal and his family and friends, I am confident this young man is now in praying for us and for the pro-life movement he loved and served so diligently. We at Stand True and Priests for Life are so grateful that God allowed us to have Neal for the time we did on this Earth, he was truly someone that young people can look up to.”
Bryan Kemper, Youth Outreach Director, Priests for Life
Here is the original story we released about Neal:
Dear Pro-life Family
This is one of the most important prayer requests I have ever sent out. A young, dedicated and fearless pro-life student from Franciscan University is dying of Leukemia. Neal Rylatt is a Franciscan Student that is devoted to the pro-life movement. Neal has leukemia and based on the progressing disease, Neal is not eligible for the haplo transplant, and the only possible curative treatment is a very high risk experimental phase I treatment in Minnesota with little chance of success, and a large chance of very harsh side effects. They decided to do palliative chemotherapy to give him the most time and best life quality of the time he has left.
We are not sure how long Neal has left depending on how he responds to his chemotherapy. He was told 3-5 months and we hope and pray he lives long enough to go to Lourdes, a dream of his. We will continue to pray for a miracle.
Neal has been a pro-life warrior for years and always sacrificed for the cause of life. Neal would wear pro-life t-shirts to school constantly even when the school questioned him about them offending others.
In 7th grade he said what he wanted for his birthday was more Catholic and pro-life shirts to wear to his school.
He prayed in front of planned parenthoods, went on face the truth tours, and he would cover many, many 40 Days for Life shifts when people wouldn’t show up.
He has never been afraid to be involved in the pro-life movement, and he has been harassed and assaulted for standing up for his beliefs.
He has had many sufferings including a headache that kept him awake for 3 straight days.
He has always offered up his sufferings for the unborn and mothers and fathers affected by abortion.
Neal has two sisters and a brother who will also need our prayers along with the rest of his family.
Several pro-life leaders are praying and asking all of you to please pray for Neal and his family. 
“Friends, as we begin this Lenten season, let’s join together with intense prayers for Neal…for his healing, and that in his illness he may be a sign among us of the suffering of Christ, and also of a profound commitment to defend life.” — Fr Frank Pavone, Priests for Life.
“My heart goes out to the family and friends of Neal, I and my family will be praying for all of them in this rough time. We in the pro-life movement are so grateful for such a pro-life warrior as Neal.” – Abby Johnson, Pro-life Activist
“I have always said that Franciscan University of Steubenville is my favorite school to speak at and that is because of students like Neal. He is a hero for the cause of life and I am proud to serve in the pro-life movement with such a warrior. Our prayers are with Neal and his family; for God’s love to fill their lives right now.” — Bryan Kemper, Youth Outreach Director of Priests for Life
“Students for Life of America is so thankful for continued dedication of Neal and for the lives he has saved, the women, men, and families his work has touched. We are so thankful to know him and are so proud of him. We keeping Neal and his entire family in our thoughts and prayers and look forward to standing beside him as he walks through this difficult journey.” — Kristan Hawkins, Students for Life of America
“The 40 Days for Life team is honored to have such an amazing young man like Neal as part of our pro-life outreach; he is an inspiration for all young people. We are praying for Neal, his family and friends; we are thankful to have had the opportunity to stand for life with Neal.” — David Bereit, 40 Days for Life
We have set up a Facebook and e-mail account for people to send their thoughts and prayers.
Facebook.com/prayersfornealrylatt
Victor Bermudez,
President of Students for Life Franciscan University of Steubenville
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Respect of President or The Office of President
This is a serious question? Is it really “bashing” to expose or point out the position of the most openly and aggressive abortion supporting President of all time? It is being “un-Christian” to show his un-wavering support of Planned Parenthood, the nations largest abortion provider? Does respecting the office of President mean I must respect the deadly and evil decisions and actions the President makes as the holder of that office? Does anyone remember St Stephen and his rebuke of the Sanhedrin? I respect the office of President, but do not respect the actions of the man who is currently shaming that office.
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