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The Vast Majority Of Abortions Are Performed Between The Seventh And Tenth Week When The Baby Is Already Sucking His Thumb, Recoiling From Pricking, Responding To Sound. All His Organs Are Present, The Brain Is Functioning, The Heart Is Pumping, The Liver Is Making Blood Cells, The Kidneys Are Cleaning Fluids, And There Is A Fingerprint. His Genetic Code Is Uniquely And Unquestionably Human. And, If We Are Willing, He Can Be Seen By Ultrasound.

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The Vast Majority Of Abortions Are Performed Between The Seventh And Tenth Week When The Baby Is Already Sucking His Thumb, Recoiling From Pricking, Responding To Sound. All His Organs Are Present, The Brain Is Functioning, The Heart Is Pumping, The Liver Is Making Blood Cells, The Kidneys Are Cleaning Fluids, And There Is A Fingerprint. His Genetic Code Is Uniquely And Unquestionably Human. And, If We Are Willing, He Can Be Seen By Ultrasound.

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Life And Death! They Seem Like Complete Opposites-at Great Enmity With Each Other. But For Paul-and For All Who Share His Faith-there Is A Unity, Because The Same Great Passion Is Fulfilled In Both-namely, That Christ Be Magnified In This Body-our Bodies-whether By Life Or By Death.

The Pursuit Of Joy In God Is Not Optional. It Is Not An 'extra' That A Person Might Grow Into After He Comes To Faith. Until Your Heart Has Hit Upon This Pursuit Your 'faith' Cannot Please God. It Is Not Savng Faith. Saving Faith Is The Heartfelt Conviction Not Only That Christ Is Reliable, But Also That He Is Desirable.

The Missionary Question Is Not, 'where Are There Unbelievers?' And Then Send A Missionary There. There Are Unbelievers Everywhere! The Missionary Question Is, 'where Are There People's Who Don't Have Any Christians In Them Or Don't Have A Church Strong Enough To Do The Neighbor Evangelism That We Can Do If We Just Want To Do It?' That's The Missionary Question.

Mission Exists Because Worship Doesn't.

Waiting For The Lord In A Season Of Darkness Should Not Be A Time Of Inactivity. We Should Do What We Can Do. And Doing Is Often God's Appointed Remedy For Despair.

Do We Eagerly Long For The Coming Of Christ? Or Do We Want Him To Wait While Our Love Affair With The World Runs Its Course? That Is The Question That Tests The Authenticity Of Faith.

I Don’t Know How People Pray Who Don’t Believe In The Sovereignty Of God To Do The Impossible. Because All The Things I Want To Happen Are Impossible. If They’re Possible I’ll Do Them.

Maintaining Joy In God Takes 'work'; That Is, It's A Fight Against Every Impulse For Alien Joys And Every Obstacle In The Way To Seeing And Savoring Christ.

The Immensity Of His Worth Is Reflected In The Intensity Of Your Worship.

The Cross Is Not A Mere Event In History; It's A Way Of Life! Take Up Your Cross Daily, Jesus Said!

Taken As A Whole, The Story Of Ruth Is One Of Those Signs. It Was Written To Give Us Encouragement And Hope That All The Perplexing Turns In Our Lives Are Going Somewhere Good. They Do Not Lead Off A Cliff. In All The Setbacks Of Our Lives As Believers, God Is Plotting For Our Joy.

Anger Devours Almost All Other Good Emotions. It Deadens The Soul. It Numbs The Heart To Joy And Gratitude And Hope And Tenderness And Compassion And Kindness.

The Lord Is Kind. He Is Good To All Who Take Refuge Under His Wings.

There Is A Great Gulf Between The Christianity That Wrestles With Whether To Worship At The Cost Of Imprisonment And Death, And The Christianity That Wrestles With Whether The Kids Should Play Soccer On Sunday Morning.

Whenever Your Heart Starts To Be Anxious About The Future, Preach To Your Heart And Say, 'heart, Who Do You Think You Are To Be Afraid Of The Future And Nullify The Promise Of God? No, Heart, I Will Not Exalt Myself With Anxiety. I Will Humble Myself In Peace And Joy As I Trust This Precious And Great Promise Of God - He Cares For Me.'

We Ought To Celebrate The Positive Glorious Gifts Of God, But The Worth Of God Shines In A Powerful Way To The World When In The Midst Of Suffering We Still Don't Curse God But Say "the Lord Gave And The Lord Takes Away, Blessed Be The Name Of The Lord."

We Need God In Ways We Do Not Know. Don't Limit Your Experience Of God To What You Can Think To Ask. Ask For The Unknown Joy.

Prayer Causes Things To Happen That Wouldn't Happen If You Didn't Pray.

If At The Cross Every Sin Was Covered, Satan's Mouth Is Shut. He Has No Weapon. He Can Gum You But His Fangs Are Gone.

It Is Better To Lose Your Life Than To Waste It.

"how Are You Doing?" - - - Better Than I Deserve.

To Be A Christian Is To Move Toward Need, Not Comfort.

The Greatest Act Of Freeing Happened When Jesus Died In Our Place And Paid Our Debt.

Not Grace To Bar What Is Not Bliss, Nor Flight From All Distress, But This: The Grace That Orders Our Trouble And Pain, And Then, In The Darkness, Is There To Sustain.

Don't Ever Think That The Sin Of Your Past Means There Is No Hope For Your Future.

It Is A Fight From Start To Finish To Be Happy In God.

Christian Fasting, At Its Root, Is The Hunger Of A Homesickness For God

The Key To Praying With Power Is To Become The Kind Of Persons Who Do Not Use God For Our Ends But Are Utterly Devoted To Being Used For His Ends.

Only The #‎ Gospel Can Do Two Seemingly Contradictory Things: Destroy Pride And Increase Courage.

The Right Creative Act Makes Its Own Laws, And Always Will Do.

The Ultimate Meaning Of True Womanhood Is This: It Is A Distinctive Calling Of God To Display The Glory Of His Son In Ways That Would Not Be Displayed If There Were No Womanhood.

When It Comes To Killing My Sin, I Don't Wait For The Miracle, I Act The Miracle.

For The Mind Of Faith, A Promised Act Of God Is As Good As Done.

The Ultimate Difference Between God's Wisdom And Man's Wisdom Is How They Relate To The Glory Of God's Grace In Christ Crucified. God's Wisdom Makes The Glory Of God's Grace Our Supreme Treasure. But Man's Wisdom Delights In Seeing Himself As Resourceful, Self-sufficient, Self Determining, And Not Utterly Dependent On God's Free Grace.

The Main Reason God Has Given Us Minds Is That We Might Seek Out And Find All The Reasons That Exist For Treasuring Him In All Things And Above All Things.

The Presence Of Hope In The Invincible Sovereignty Of God Drives Out Fear.

Sovereignty Of God

We Do Not Smirk At The Misery Or The Merrymaking Of Immoral Culture. We Weep. Being Pilgrims Does Not Mean Being Cynical. The Salt Of The Earth Does Not Mock Rotting Meat. Where It Can, It Saves And Seasons. And Where It Can’t, It Weeps.

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