http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/relentlessly-call-abortion-what-it-really-is

"Abortion is rarely talked about.
I’m not talking about the word “abortion.” We hear this word a lot it in the public square. But we rarely hear about it. Abortion almost always refers to something else. We hear that abortion is fundamentally about a woman’s right to reproductive freedom. Or abortion is a litmus test for judicial nominees. Or abortion is symptomatic of what’s wrong with the social discourse in America.
But none of those things is what abortion really is. Abortion is the intentional killing of unborn children.

Death Is in the Power of the Tongue

Proverbs 18:21 says, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue.” Abortion is a clear example of this truth.
The killing of children can be tolerated and even championed as a social good so long as we don’t call it what it is. Call abortion an individual’s right to privacy and you can write it into the legal code. Call abortion a compassionate choice offered to a frightened girl to save her future or to save a child from an undesirable quality of life and you can swing popular opinion. Call abortion a liberation of women from the social and economic oppression of male dominance and passionate people will march on capitols chanting demands to preserve the human right of abortion on-demand.
But you won’t hear the street marchers chant, “We will fight for the right to kill our children!” Because calling abortion what it is might awaken uneasy consciences out of a euphemistic stupor to realize that millions of the most defenseless human beings on the planet are being denied the self-evident, Creator-endowed human right to life."



http://getalonghome.com/deceived-lies-world-tells-christian-families-growing/

"In ConDeceived, I talk about some of the ways that Christian families defeat themselves in the way they think of their children. Not only do we reject the blessings God wishes to lavish on us, but we’ve inadvertently–at least, I hope it was inadvertent–greased the slippery slope of sexual immorality in our culture by embracing its core assumption about sex: that its primary purpose is for personal fulfillment. If the culture war has been lost, Christians need look no further than our own misunderstanding of the institution of marriage for the reason why. The witness of the church has suffered because we’ve believed some lies about faith, femininity, and fertility."

Read more: http://getalonghome.com/deceived-lies-world-tells-christian-families-growing/#ixzz2rLJiTucR

 

 

http://highlandsministriesonline.org/ask-rc-why-wont-my-pastor-preach-against-abortion/?utm_content=bufferaee85&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffe

"Three Reasons I’ve Heard

Here are the three reasons I hear most frequently, and two I suspect. First, I have heard from some pastors that the issue is a political one, and they think it necessary to avoid political issues. Some argue that they avoid political issues because they are divisive, others because the government forbids it. They are right on the first count, wrong on the second. Of course every truth divides. Every truth. Preach “Puppies are cute” and the kitten crowd might get upset. Preach “The sky is blue” and the gloomy brigade will demand to know what you have against grey. Jesus came to divide families (Matthew 10:21). We should expect no less from faithful shepherds. As for the government, first there is no law against preaching on abortion and second, so what if there were? The government doesn’t decide what will be preached, but the Lord of Lords does."