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Shortly after the Civil War, there was a happening that helped shape the future of the battered United States.  During July of 1865 at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Richmond, VA, a lone black man came from the rear of the church down the long isle and slowly knelt at the altar to receive Holy Communion.  The congregants were astonished and didn't know what to do in response.  The people were frozen and so was the minister.
Realizing this situation could suddenly turn for the worse, a white bearded man in a gray suit rose from his pew and slowly walked toward the same altar.  Most thought he would tactfully remove the black man so that the rest could come and receive communion.  He didn't.  He knelt beside the black man and nodded to the minister to administer communion to both.  The bearded man was Robert E. Lee.
Just a few short months before that day, Gen. Lee, ranking General of the Confederate Army, was fighting to insure the negros would remain slaves and be considered less than his white neighbor.  Lee, came to realize that the war was over and the future of America was to take a better direction, a direction that would make all men equal.  May we, as Martin L. King, "never judge a man be the color of his skin, but by the content of his character."  May we never go back to the days before the summer of 1865!

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The Devaluation of Human Life

Pastor Steve Nash

During my many trips to India I would often have wives come to me for prayer.  There was a language barrier which made it difficult to know what they wanted from the Lord.  Many of them would place their hands upon their stomach with tears in their eyes.  I was told by someone who spoke English that they simply wanted to have a baby.  To be barren was thought to be a curse from God because of some sin they committed earlier in life.

Unfortunately, in our own country, some view becoming pregnant to be a curse and simply make an appointment to relieve them of a burden they will not bear.  They believe this unwanted pregnancy will hinder them from living a life style they have enjoyed and do not want to end.  They are part of a society that has come to believe that life is filled with pleasure without responsibility.  Anything (even a baby) will not deter them from their life of pleasure.

This Sunday is “Sanctity of Human Life Sunday.”  This time on the calendar was selected many years ago because of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case decided in January of 1973.  Ever since that dreadful decision, the value of human life is in a downward spiral.  Life is a gift from God, a blessing from the Lord.  Our “civilized society” has determined that the power of life and death is a decision a misguided mother and a money hungry abortionist will determine. 

My wife works for a pregnancy center where their goal is to educate and encourage the young mother to keep the child.  They have discovered that when the mother sees her developing baby via the sonogram, 80% decide to give birth.  Planned Parenthood, on the other hand, will not offer this service to the young lady for fear that they will decide to keep the baby.  Our government and your tax dollars have given Planned Parenthood hundreds of millions of dollars over the years to continue this holocaust!

Any society that devalues human life at any level will eventually destroy itself from within.  The killing of a baby will teach our children that life is not the greatest gift from God and something to be cherished.  Could there be a connection between abortion and euthanasia?  Could there be a connection between abortion and the many school shootings conducted by children?  Those are questions that future social studies will uncover but I believe there is a link.

Have you considered some of the obvious connections between abortion and the rising cost of health care in this country?  Could there be a link between abortion and child abuse or abortion and breast cancer?  There are studies that already reveal there is a link.  And to think that many would be mothers and dads have selected to kill a child because they want to party with their friends or buy a new “toy” or the mother fearing that she will experience stretch marks.  How self-centered to think that a beautiful baby, that is meant to bring joy into a family, be devalued to the degree that a tight belly is more important than a human life!

Through many years as a pastor, I have witnessed the horrible consequences that many women struggle with because they have made the decision to kill the child within.  Many of them live lives filled with guilt, shame and mental disorders that require countless hours or counseling and bottles upon bottles of medications to endure the pain deep down inside that won’t go away. 

Are there young women you know that that may be considering the death of their unborn?  Maybe there is something you can do to influence them to keep the baby.  Your intervention may prove to be a mission from heaven that produces countless blessings in the future.  May your conviction be as mine: all life was created by God and belongs to Him.  No one has the right to murder another human being.  "You shall not murder." Exodus 20:13.  The Lord hates hands that shed innocent blood according to Proverbs 6:16-17.  The Bible also teaches that we need to defend the weak and the helpless.  "Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves...defend the rights of the poor and needy (and the unborn child)" Proverbs 31:8-9.  May the Lord forgive our nation for the 55,000,000 who have been slaughtered because of the devaluation of human life!