Instead of bunnies...

Instead of Easter bunnies, baskets and colored eggs, why not just tell it like it is. Jesus died a cruel death on the cross for our sins, was buried and resurrected from the grave. "I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying. Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this...? (John 11:25,26 NLT)

Day 39 of 40 Days For Life - Who Is the Enemy?

When I arrived at the Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Pembroke Pines this afternoon it was pouring rain with gusty winds, but the 40 Days For Life group was on the sidewalk opposite the clinic braving the rain and wind in blue parkas.

After it cleared up I noticed we had visitors - first three then two "pro-choice" advocates with signs. One read "Honk if you're pro-choice" another "End Ignorance Not Abortion Be Pro-Choice."

The term "pro-choice" is an oxymoron when used in the abortion debate. As I've said before, you cannot extend to a woman the right (choice) to kill her unborn child, as the U. S. Supreme Court has done, without at the same time denying her child the right (choice) to live.

As for the reference to "ignorance," well, you be the judge. As Randy Alcorn has noted, "To be prochoice about someone's right to kill is to be antichoice about someone else's right to live...The pro-choice position always overlooks the victim's right to choose...The blacks didn't choose slavery. the Jews didn't choose the ovens. And the babies don't choose abortion...Abortion rights are not reproductive rights, but child killing rights."
If the truth of his reasoning is “ignorant,” I plead guilty.

We need look no further than Jesus to explain how educated, intelligent people can embrace the pro-choice rhetoric as counterintuitive as it is. He declared that the devil was a "murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth. When he lies he speaks his native language for he is a liar and the father of lies." (John 8:44) Lies and murder have always gone hand in hand. Deception and murder are endemic to abortion - in fact they characterize the abortion industry. Those who defend and promote it have been deceived.

Perhaps what is even more distressing is that the vast majority of those claiming to be “pro-life,” live as though abortion was not ravaging our nation. Life goes on with an apparent blind eye to the ritual bloodshed taking place at abortion mills and hospitals in our neighborhoods and communities. A similar ambivalence allowed slavery to be perpetuated for several hundred years in our “Christian” nation. How could that have happened? Deception. The same deception that is allowing history to repeat itself in regard to abortion.

Today, as I watched the prochoice advocates holding their signs, I reminded myself that the advocates of abortion are not the “enemy.” In fact the medical staff and all those associated with the butchering of the unborn are not the enemy. Paul identified the enemy when he wrote of the unseen reality behind this kind of evil,

‘...our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” (Ephesians 6:12 NIV)

To the Corinthians he wrote,

“The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.”
(2 Corinthians 4:4 NIV emphasis mine)

To young Timothy he gave these instructions,

“Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.”
(2 Timothy 2:25-26 emphasis mine)

Ending abortion is Church business. The Church is the only institution spiritually equipped to engage the satanic forces behind abortion.

Paul said as much,

“For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” (2 Corinthians 10:3-5 NIV)

We have been sufficiently armed for the warfare,

“For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority... And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.” (Colossians 2:9-10,15 NIV)

The Church must take the lead in the effort to end abortion. The battle to end abortion is ours to win or lose.

“If you fail under pressure, your strength is not very great.

Rescue those who are unjustly sentenced to death; 

Don’t stand back and let them die. 

Don’t try to avoid responsibility by saying you didn’t know about it.

For God knows all hearts, and he sees you. 

He keeps watch over your soul, and he knows you knew!

And he will judge all people according to what they have done.”
(Proverbs 24:10-12 NLT emphasis mine)

Message Given at Rally For Religious Freedom - Fort Lauderdale Federal Building March 23, 2012

For three quarters of a century now, many of our leaders have been looking to social darwinism, Marxist atheism and secular humanism as the philosophical foundation for the reshaping of our nation.

This at the expense of transcendent moral truth and the Judeo-Christian worldview that shaped the founding of our nation. Moral relativism is not what made this nation great. Secular humanism did not provide the guiding principles underlying the freedoms that produced the most prosperous nation in world history.

Our fore-fathers came to this country seeking, religious freedom, among other things. Not freedom from religion, but freedom for individuals to put the principles and ideals of their faith into practice. And the founding governing documents of this great nation were the product of that process.

Two hundred some years later, we have now come full circle as these religious freedoms are now under attack.

The question I want to ask is, how should we respond?

Thousands of Americans join us today in Stand Up For Religious Freedom rallies across the nation. 129 rallies at last count. We gather in prayer and public witness to oppose the recent Health and Human Services’ mandate announced by the Obama administration.

As we do so, may I suggest two Biblical mandates that should guide our prayers and response to the challenge before us.

First, the Church must begin by repenting of its own sin. The apostle Peter wrote, “For it is time for judgment to begin with God’s household”
(1 Peter 4:17 NIV)

We need to repent of our sexual immorality. In the Spring 2012 edition of Insight, a publication of the National Association of Evangelicals, it is reported that,

“Eighty percent of unmarried evangelicals between the ages of 18 and 29 have had sex. That’s 4 out of 5...30 percent of unmarried evangelicals have been pregnant or gotten someone pregnant.”

There is a direct correlation between sexual immorality and abortion, 83% of all aborted children being conceived out of wedlock.

We need to repent of the Church’s complicity with abortion. Insight also reports that,

“Thirty-two percent of all unplanned pregnancies among evangelicals end in abortion.”

According to Focus on the Family, 250,000 evangelical women choose abortion each year in America; 5.6 million women in evangelical churches have aborted unwanted children. (heartlink.org).

One study found that 43% of women having abortions identify themselves as Protestant and 27% as Roman Catholic. (AGI “In Brief” 2008)
That’s 70% of all abortions. As Rev. John Ensor has pointed out, if Christians stopped having abortions, abortion clinics would close having lost 70% of their business.

Insight concludes, “Abortion is happening in the Body of Christ, and it’s time for us to talk about it.”

May I suggest that a good place to begin the conversation is with a call for repentance.

“Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret” (2 Corinthians 7:10 NIV).

Abortion is, and always has been a gospel issue.

We need to repent of our hypocrisy. Just last week Dr. R. C. Sproul Jr. wrote a blog about the strong response of Christians to the recently published article by two Australian ethicists outlining why they considered “after birth” abortions to be ethical.
(“Savorless Salt” at http://rcsprouljunior.blogspot.com/)

He concludes with these words,

“We expose our hypocrisy, our callowness and shallowness when we protest after-birth abortion, sex-selection abortion, partial-birth abortion, late-term abortion, unsafe, unregulated abortion, Obamacare funded abortion, all the while living a business-as-usual life in the face of babies being butchered in our neighborhoods every day. The evil of killing babies is that they are babies, no matter their age, no matter whether they are born, no matter how they came to be, no matter what butchering technique is used. We, the living, must repent. Lord have mercy on our souls, and the souls of the babies we destroy.”

The healing of our land depends more on the Church repenting, than anything anyone else can do.

I almost hesitate to cite 2 Chronicles 7:13,14 because it is so often quoted. But I will anyway, because it could very well be the most under-practiced quoted Scripture in the Bible.

“When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”

No mention of the sins of politicians, judges or others in authority. No, it’s, “if my people” - that’s us. That’s where we must begin. Our repentant prayer will unlock the outpouring of God’s healing upon our land.

Secondly, we must involve ourselves in intercession for President Obama and those who govern us. The apostle Paul’s instruction,

“I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people.”
(1 Timothy 2:1-6 NIV)

Whether a supporter of President Obama or one who opposes his policies, we are instructed to pray for him.

Have you ever wondered why the command to pray for those in authority is followed by a clear declaration of the exclusivity of Jesus Christ as the only mediator between God and man and God’s desire for men to be saved? Could it be that God wants to change the heart of those who serve Him in government and bring revival to our land - in response to our humility, repentance, and obedience in prayer?

Today, I ask you, to join me in taking a stand for religious freedom. But may it be from a posture of bowing in humility and repentance before God, first of all me, for my sin and you for yours, the sin of the Church and then the sin of our nation. And may it include heartfelt intercession for the leaders of this nation and the people of this nation, a prayer for salvation if they do not know Christ, a prayer of blessing, and a prayer for God’s intervention in the affairs of a nation where many are turning their back on God.

May God help us. May God bless America.

Business As Usual - Day 31 of 40 Days For Life

You cannot extend to a woman the right to kill her unborn child without at the same time denying her child the right to live. Every abortion kills an unborn human being.

This is the moral quandary faced by those who claim to oppose abortion but insist a woman has the right to "choose" an abortion. Believe it or not I have had pastors attempt to defend that position. It is both morally untenable and defies reason.

Any doubt that deception is endemic to the issue of abortion?
"...your father the devil...is a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him." (John 8:44)

The Planned Parenthood (PP) clinic in Pembroke Pines kills children on Friday afternoons. Knowing that, I always regret seeing young women going into the clinic accompanied by an older woman or a young man. Not a good sign. What is worse is seeing the men drive up, pick up a young woman as soon as they exit the front door of the clinic.

It's routine business at the PP abortuary in Pembroke Pines. Today a Dunbar armored truck (a competitor to the legendary Brinks) drove up and a uniformed guard entered the PP clinic and returned momentarily with something under his arm. Killing unborn babies is a big money maker for PP. According to their own figures they performed 329,445 abortion procedures in 2010 that produced an estimated income of $148,579,695,and that’s a conservative estimate. That would fill a whole convoy of Dunbar armored trucks.

What is routine, or business as usual for PP, is paralleled by the routine the American public has settled into in regards to the shed blood of over 3,300 unborn each day. As Michael Spielman, founder of www.abort73.com has written,

“The domestication of abortion has made it tragically commonplace, so much so that we seem to have lost our ability to be outraged by it. How is it that even we who oppose abortion are not more overwhelmed by the fact that it is legal, in the United State of America, to tear apart the tiny bodies of helpless unborn children?”

That is a question every American should ponder.

I wonder what it will take to awaken the pro-life Church into a response as routine as the business as usual killing of the unborn at the abortion clinic down the street.

Just as I have been preaching for years now that abortion is first and foremost a spiritual issue (as opposed to political and therefore off limits in the pulpit), I am equally convinced that the failure of the Church to respond to the abortion crisis is a spiritual issue.

James said as much,
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”
(James 1;27 NIV)

The application of this truth to the distressed parties of an abortion is striking. A child put to death by his/her parents is orphaned. A mother abandoned by the father of her unborn, or manipulated and coerced into the murder of her own child, has in one sense been widowed.

And the influence of the world in James equation is noteworthy. Conformity to the world has always been a liability in understanding both what God values and what He expects from us. (Romans 12:2) When the love for the world has been purged from the Church, perhaps then, care for the unborn at risk of abortion and the post-abortive victims of abortion, will become business as usual for the Church. For their sake and ours, I hope so.

Repent As We Stand Up For Religious Freedom By Jim McGarvey

Thousands of Americans, including many Christians, will be participating in Stand Up For Religious Freedom rallies across the nation this Friday March 23. We will gather in prayer and public witness to oppose the recent Health and Human Services’ mandate announced by the Obama administration. May I suggest two Biblical mandates that should guide our prayers and response to the challenge before us.  

First, the Church must begin by repenting of its own sin. The apostle Peter wrote, “For it is time for judgment to begin with God’s household; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God?” (1 Peter 4:17 NIV) 

We need to repent of our sexual sin. In the Spring 2012 edition of Insight, a publication of the National Association of Evangelicals, it is reported that, 

“Eighty percent of unmarried evangelicals between the ages of 18 and 29 have had sex. That’s 4 out of 5. Sixty-four percent have had sex within the last year...These single Christians are getting pregnant - 30 percent of unmarried evangelicals have been pregnant or gotten someone pregnant.”

There is a direct link between sexual immorality and abortion, 83% of all aborted children being concieved out of wedlock.

We need to repent of the Church’s complicity with abortion. Insight also reports that “Thirty-two percent of all unplanned pregnancies among evangelicals end in abortion.” According to Focus on the Family, 250,000 evangelical women choose abortion each year in America; 5.6 million women in evangelical churches have aborted unwanted children; and one out of six women who have an abortion are evangelical Christians."  (heartlink.org). 

The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI “In Brief” 2008) reports that 43% of women having abortions identify themselves as Protestant and 27% as Roman Catholic. That represents 70% of all abortions. As Rev. John Ensor has pointed out, if Christians stopped having abortions, abortion clinics would close because it would be difficult to remain in business having lost 70% of their clients.

Insight concludes, “Abortion is happening in the Body of Christ, and it’s time for us to talk about it.” May I suggest that a good place to begin the conversation is with a call for repentance. 

“Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret” (2 Corinthians 7:10 NIV). This is God’s plan for us to experience His forgiveness, grace and restoration. 

Abortion is a gospel issue. 

We need to repent of our hypocrisy. Just last week Dr. R. C. Sproul Jr. wrote a blog about the response of Christians to the recently published article by two Australian ethicists outlining why they considered “after birth” abortions to be ethical. (“Savorless Salt” at http://rcsprouljunior.blogspot.com/) He concludes with these words,

“We expose our hypocrisy, our callowness and shallowness when we protest after-birth abortion, sex-selection abortion, partial-birth abortion, late-term abortion, unsafe, unregulated abortion, Obamacare funded abortion, all the while living a business-as-usual life in the face of babies being butchered in our neighborhoods every day. The evil of killing babies is that they are babies, no matter their age, no matter whether they are born, no matter how they came to be, no matter what butchering technique is used. We, the living, must repent. Lord have mercy on our souls, and the souls of the babies we destroy.”

The healing of our land depends more on the Church repenting than anything anyone else can do. I almost hesitate to cite 2 Chronicles 7:13,14 because it is so often quoted. But I will anyway, because it could very well be the most under-practiced quoted Scripture in the Bible.

“When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”

I hear the Lord saying to Solomon and the people of Israel,

“When you, my people, who under my judgment, turn to me in humility and turn (repent) from your sin, I’ll forgive and heal your land.” I think Peter was familiar with that passage. No mention of the sin of a politician, judge or authority figure. No, it’s, “if my people” - that’s us. That’s where it begins. We’re responsible to get the ball rolling. Our repentant prayer  unlocks the outpouring of Divine healing and prosperity.

As Americans today, we face threats to our freedoms perhaps unprecedented in our  two hundred plus years of history. If that is true, what better time to put God’s call to humility and repentance and His promise of healing, to the test.

Secondly, we must involve ourselves in intercession for President Obama and every other elected official, judge and person in position of authority. The apostle Paul’s instruction,

“I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people. This has now been witnessed to at the proper time.”  (1 Timothy 2:1-6 NIV)

Whether we are a supporter of President Obama or one who opposes his policies, we are instructed to pray for him. 

Have you ever wondered why the command to pray for those in authority is followed by a clear declaration of the exclusivity of Jesus Christ as the only mediator between God and man? Could it be that God wants to change the heart of those who serve Him in government positions - in response to our humility, repentance, and obedience in prayer? Could Paul be reminding us that in God’s plan, His Son Jesus Christ is the only provision for their salvation and that is of paramount importance from the Divine perspective?

I will take a stand for religious freedom. But it will be from a posture of bowing in humility and repentance, first of all for my sin, the sin of the Church and then the sin of the nation. And it will include heartfelt intercession for those who serve this nation as leaders - a prayer for salvation if they do not know Christ, a prayer of blessing, and a prayer for God’s intervention in the affairs of a nation that is rapidly sliding down a slippery and precipitous pathway, as it turns its back on God.

(Go to http://standupforreligiousfreedom.com/ for further information)

The Fort Lauderdale Rally for Religious Freedom will be held at the Federal Building located at E 299 Broward Blvd. from 12 noon to 1:00 pm.

Day 24 of the 40 Days For Life - It's a Battle for Truth

I was at the 40 Days For Life prayer vigil at the Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Pembroke PInes this afternoon. There was a lot of client traffic in and out of the clinic. 

I was told by Sharon, the campaign leader for this prayer site, that abortions are not performed on Friday afternoons. So presumably the clients were there for other reasons including perhaps securing an appointment for an abortion or drugs for chemical abortions.

I noticed more clients bringing their children with them today than at the other times.

I think it would be a difficult place to bring children if one knew that just down the hall at a different time of day the lives of unborn children are being violently murdered while still in the womb of their mothers. 

Just today I read that Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion provider, killed 329,445 unborn children in 2010 which generated an income of over $148 million.

(see http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/the-numbers-planned-parenthood-doesnt-want-you-to-know?utm_source=LifeSiteNews.com+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=8921c1fcb0-LifeSiteNews_com_US_Headlines_03_16_2012&utm_medium=email)

Jesus identified who is behind the killing. Speaking to those he knew were intent on killing him, He said, "...you are ready to kill me because you have no room for my word.” (John 8:37) and then a few verses later, “...you are determined to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God.” (vs. 40) Then Jesus identified who their father was. “You belong to your father the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desire. He was a murdered from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” (John 8:44 NIV)

Chilling words when applied to the abortion industry but a perfect fit. Murder often, if not always, surrounds itself with lies. It’s always at odds with the truth. 

Jesus identified the enemy. It is not the abortion promoting politician. It is not the abortionist. It is not the abortion minded mother, the abortion clinic counselor or the abortion clinic owners. They, unknowingly, are his victims as well.

As I see the women go in and out I’m aware of the deception that is endemic to the abortion industry. The four words I have heard over and over from the post-abortive is, “They lied to me.” One study of those having abortions revealed that,

“Even though the majority felt rushed and uncertain, 67% received no counseling; 79% were not told about alternatives to abortion.” (VM Rue et. al.,  Medical Science Monitor) So much for having the opportunity to make an “informed” choice.

So we share truth with the signs we hold and we pray. Strategically. While “The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.” (2 Corinthians 4:4) “...the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.” (Hebrews 4:12-13 NIV)

We do not have personal access to the clients, but we rely on the ministry of His Spirit as we intercede for them. Christ has not left us without weapons. 

“But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment: in regard to sin, because men do not believe in me; in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.(John 16:2-11 NIV)

His Spirit can access the hearts of those behind closed doors and out of our sight.

Abortion is a gospel issue. This is the inescapable truth that the Church is still wrestling with. There is a political fight to be fought. There are social implications to be wrestled with. But first and foremost, when seen through a Biblical paradigm, abortion is a spiritual issue. The battle will be won or lost at that level. 

The enemy has been identified. His strategy has been exposed. Our weapons have been issued - the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Word of God and the power of the Holy Spirit. He waits for His body the Church to enlist and engage the enemy. 

You can join the remaining 16 days of this campaign of prayer and fasting by going to 

http://40daysforlife.com/miami/index.cfm?load=page&page=2.

Jim McGarvey

Church for Life

Serving the Church in its response to America’s abortion crisis as it: communicates the Biblical message of the sanctity of human life; ministers healing and restoration to the post-abortive; and provides compassionate and practical help to those at risk for abortion.
  

Day 18 of 40 Days for Life - At War for Life

Today a young woman gets out of her parked car and walks toward the shopping plaza. I hope she’s going to the salon to get her hair done. But no, she walks past the hair salon without stopping. Maybe she has come to shop at the dollar store next door. No, she walks past that store as well, and heads...to the Planned Parenthood “Health” Center adjacent to the dollar store. 

In front of the clinic she stops, pauses momentarily, then enters behind the reflective glass door....to an appointment to kill her child? I’ll probably never know for sure. I do know that over 50% of women who have abortions feel they have no choice and over 70% are never told about alternatives.

If an abortion is imminent for this woman and her child, I have no other recourse than to pray. Appropriately, the next Scripture I planned to meditate on to guide my prayer after she drove up was Ephesians 6:10-13.

“Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.” (NIV)

So I enter the struggle and pray for her.

Then there are the young men - waiting outside the glass walls of the abortion clinic. They were there Wednesday and again today. Standing - seated - waiting...for what? As I prayed today for a young man sitting on the bench near the clinic door, his back to the facility where perhaps his son or daughter is meeting a violent death at the hands of an abortionist, tears begin to well up in my eyes. Does he know what he is doing? Or perhaps he does but has no say in the fate of his child. 

I become restless - pacing back and forth. I’m not sure why. Perhaps a sense of helplessness. It hurts to think of his loss. This is personal. My only grandson was born out of wedlock. So are 83% of all aborted children. My grandson was unplanned as are most aborted babies...but by the grace of God not unwanted. 

Earlier on my watch this was the text, 

“ You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”  (John 8:44 NIV)

The devil is the enemy. We are at war with him. The one who has come “to steal and kill and  destroy” (John 10:10) has also successfully deceived many moms and dads, many doctors and nurses, many counselors and many owners of abortion facilities. 

It is a real war with real victims - preborn human beings (over 3,300 per day), their post abortive mothers and fathers, their grandmothers and grandfathers and other family members who will never meet them.

We must stand in the gap for the helpless, “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” (James 1:27 NIV)

The victims of abortion are the most destitute of all orphans - not just abandoned by parents but murdered. Many of their mothers are the widows - pressured, manipulated, even coerced into killing their own young by those closest to them.

“...though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”  (2 Corinthians 10:3-5  NIV)

(I am participating in a 40 Days For Life prayer and fasting vigil at a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Pembroke Pines Florida. You can be involved in the 40 Days For Life effort at an abortion clinic by going to http://www.40daysforlife.com/ for further information.)