When Justice Is Aborted
Written by Gary North
Whose Law Is Sovereign?
This is a major question facing Christians today, all over the world. Informed Christians know that abortion is nothing less than state-legalized murder. They also know that it is not God-legalized murder. If God says that murder is immoral and illegal in His law book, then what are Christians supposed to do? How far should they go in protesting against abortion?
In this book, Gary North argues that Christians must go to the limit of the law in challenging abortion. The question is: Whose law? God’s law or the humanist state’s law?
This question is now dividing the Christian community in American. There is no agreement about God’s law. There is little awareness by Christians of the actual meaning of the state’s law in a world that believes in the religion of evolution. Finally, Christians have very little understanding of the relationship between God’s law and man’s law, between God’s requirements and the state’s. Abortion in now bringing this crisis in understanding into the open.
There is no halfway house between life an death. There is no middle ground in the abortionist’s office. The baby either lives or dies. There is not way to reach a politically acceptable compromise between the pro-life and pro-death movements. Both are well organized, and each is determined to have its way with the voters, the Congress, and the U.S. Supreme Court. A new civil war is looming, and the secular press admits as much.
But it is not just the nation that faces a civil war; it is also the churches. Just as many national denominations divided, North vs. South, over the question of slavery and the legitimacy of the South’s rebellion in 1861, so are denominations and even local congregations facing division today. They can no longer suppress the issues. They are coming inevitably to the surface. Each side claims that it is being obedient to God. Each side claims that it speaks in the name of God. Now that the protests have gone from picketing to trespassing, each side seeks to justify its own actions (or inaction) and attack the other in the light of God’s law.
When Justice Is Aborted presents an explicitly Biblical discussion of the question of non-violent protest by Christians. Its discussion relates to the abortion fight, but is not confined to it. These issues will surface again as the battle between secular humanism and Christianity escalates, as the battle between church and state escalates. There can be no compromise here, any more than over abortion. There is no halfway house position available any longer.
Where should Christians stand? On the sidewalk or in the doorways of injustice? When Justice Is Aborted shows where Christians stand if they are to remain faithful to God, and why.
And having stood, the next question is inevitable: Should Christians march?
Reflections on AATX & the Failure Of the Gospel-Centered Movement
Reflections on AATX & the Failure Of the Gospel-Centered Movement
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In this episode of Setting the Record Straight, Rev. Dr. Jason Garwood reflects on his time at the Abolish Abortion Texas Conference and Rally while also critiquing the shortcomings of the gospel-centered movement. Thanks for listening!
Fake News and Covenantal Thinking
Fake News and Covenantal Thinking
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Fake news is more than just false reporting.
Assigned Reading:
– Inside the Soviet Alternate Universe: The Cold War’s End and the Soviet Union’s Fall Reappraised, Dick Combs
041: Should We Still Remain Thankful for the U. S. Constitution?
041: Should We Still Remain Thankful for the U. S. Constitution?
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In this Out of the Question Podcast #41, Andrea Schwartz discusses the U.S. Constitution with Hal Shurtleff of Camp Constitution, and why it is so relevant to our society today.
The Political Economy of a Christian Society
Written by Stephen Perks
Contrary to much popular opinion, economics is not a subject that is religiously neutral. The way the economy works is intimately bound up with fundamental issues of right and wrong, and what one judges to be right or wrong is itself intimately bound up with one’s religious perspective. Furthermore, the Christian Scriptures give specific and abiding rules about how men are to behave economically. It is the calling and duty of the church to address all areas in which God has revealed ethical norms for human behaviour. God has given laws to mankind governing both realms of activity. It is necessary therefore that the church should bring the moral teaching of the Bible to bear on the economic issues that face modern society. If Christians are to do this effectively, however, they must be informed. Ignorance of the economic realities upon which so much of life depends will vitiate the church’s ability to speak prophetically in this area and call the present generation back to gaithfulness to God’s word.
The purpose of this book is to introduce the reader to the subject of Christian economics. Its aim is twofold: first, to give a general overview of the field of economics; to elucidate the general principles of economic concepts and the basic structures of economic institutions, and to provide a perspective that will enable the reader to assimilate the details of our modern economic system into an overall understanding of how the economy has developed and currently functions. Secondly, the book aims to indicate in what respects the economy needs to be reformed if it is to conform to Christian standards and so point the way to what the political economy of a Christian society should be like.
Eschatology, Moloch Worship, and the Christian Social Order
Eschatology, Moloch Worship, and the Christian Social Order
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A talk given at a fellowship meeting on Sunday, May 15, 2016 by Stephen Perks.
Economic Nationalism and the Religion of Death
Economic Nationalism and the Religion of Death
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And when the state intervenes to control and regulate man and his economic choices, it can only destroy life and destroy growth. That’s the religious root of economic nationalism: the religion of death. The farther we stay from it, the faster we will grow our economy.
Assigned Reading:
– Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of Nazi Economy, Adam Tooze
Los Fundamentos del Orden Social
Written by R.J. Rushdoony
Este en impresionante libro basado sobre estudios del autor realizados sobre los credos y concilios de la Iglesia Primitiva, Rushdoony dice que «El cristianismo no puede ser reducido al nivel de una religión misterio pagana, a la que básicamente solo le concierne la vida después de la muerte y aquí en esta vida las cosas personales.
Los fundamentos del orden social son, en efecto, en el aquí y ahora, pero también en la fe y la vida, y en lo que creemos con respecto a las cosas finales. En tanto que los hombres se han apartado del evangelio cristiano, han terminado construyendo un evangelio social y como han cambiado la ley de Dios por el antinomianismo, han suplantado a la ley-palabra de Dios y se han volcado a la palabra del hombre, al pietismo y a la verborrea piadosa.
La música de la Iglesia ahora a menudo celebra los sentimientos del hombre en lugar de celebrar a la Santísima Trinidad».
En este libro el autor afirma que el fundamento del verdadero orden social sólo puede ser en el Dios Trino y Su verdad y en la palabra escritural.
The Children Trap
Written by Robert Thoburn
Does the Bible have answers to the tough dilemmas that plague our nation’s schools?
The educational crisis in America has become so desperate that most “experts” agree we are “a nation at risk.” Academic standards are declining. SAT scores are declining. Teacher competency is declining. In fact, just about everything we do with our schools is declining . . .except the costs, the crime, the drug abuse and the immorality.
Tragically, most of the experts don’t have answers to these dilemmas.
But the Bible does.
In this volume of the groundbreaking Biblical Blueprints Series, Robert Thoburn outlines specifically what those answers are. He shows us just exactly what we can do to restore academic and moral excellence in our schools according to Scripture’s own plan.
The Bible tells us what to do: when, where, how, and why. It offers us a “blueprint” for educational reform. The Children Trap lays out that blueprint simply, practically, and understandably. It shows us how to reverse the decline and answer the dilemmas.
AHA, G3, and Repentance
AHA, G3, and Repentance
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In this edition of Setting the Record Straight, Dr. Jason Garwood reflects on his experience as an abolitionist in attendance at the G3 conference, shedding light on what really happened, and how it should have been handled differently. He concludes the episode with a call to repentance for everyone, including the leaders of the Evangelical Ministerial Complex. Thanks for listening!