What’s wrong with marijuana
This is the practical case against marijuana. For the Christian case, check out “Is recreational marijuana sinful?“.
Mothers’ milk is amazing
If you believe in evolution, you have to credit everything to the interaction of time and chance. That includes something you may never have considered before: the origin of mothers’ milk.
We know God designed moms to be specially able to care for their babies this way, so Christians shouldn’t be surprised to learn that the closer we look at mothers’ milk, the more amazing we find it to be. But if you think it evolved from “a glandular skin secretion in synapsids” then you might think that the human-designed substitutes available on store shelves would be the superior product. You might think that; it’d be a logical conclusion based on evolutionary presuppositions. But it ain’t so.
If Satan was a marriage counselor…
…he’d sound a lot like a newspaper advice column.
Your family needs you (and you need them)
My kids make me happy, but when they don’t, can I abandon them? And what of my parents? If they become a burden or trouble to me, isn’t that a reason to cut such “toxic people” out of my life?
That’s what the world would tell you. But as John Stonestreet explains (in this older piece), God says something very different.
Baptists come out against IVF
At their annual meetings last week, the US’s largest protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, passed a resolution formally opposing the use of in vitro fertilization (IVF). While the majority voted for the resolution, many of the delegates opposed it, and spoke to how they believed IVF was a pro-life procedure, since it created life.
But as IVF is practiced, it leads to the creation of “excess” embryos – “excess” children – that will either be destroyed (ie. killed) or frozen, which treats the child as a thing, not a human being. Some of these frozen children will then be given away via “snowflake adoptions” where the embryo is implanted in the adoptive mother’s womb. But while the couples doing the adopting are rescuing these frozen children, it is still wrong for the biological parents to have engaged in a procedure that would leave them with “excess” children. Adoption is a rescue, but parents should never deliberately create a situation in which their children would need to be rescued.
Homosexuals & some professing Christians redefine “love”
It’s been said that the opposition shares our vocabulary, but not our dictionary – they define words like marriage, hate, gender, tolerance, pride, and love very differently from how God defines them.
With Pride Month in full swing, Christians need to be able to share that it isn’t love to celebrate what God hates for the very same reason it isn’t love to affirm anorexia – we wouldn’t be doing the person any good to affirm as right the wrong they are struggling with. It’s for their sake and for their good that we don’t want to encourage their rebellious lifestyle.
