A church committee has asked the General Synod of Australia’s Anglican Church to adopt a statement calling for citizens to have fewer children, recommending that the government cut childbirth incentives to new parents and instead offer incentives for parents to have fewer children. The country is on track for overpopulation, the church warned, which could break the eighth commandment by stealing resources from future generations. Do Christians have a special responsibility to have children?

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How might you answer these types of social issues in light of the command for the followers of God to “multiple and fill the earth.”

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Angola State Penitentiary in Louisianan was know as the bloodiest prison in the United States. The prison is the largest maximum security prison in the United States with 5,000 inmates and 1,800 staff members. It sits on 18,000 acres and surrounded on three sides by the Mississippi River. Now, with the visionary leadership of Burl Cain things are different. There is now a Bible College and multiple ministries in which men are becoming disciples of Jesus Christ. One expression of God’s grace at Angola is a program called Malachi 4:6 Dads. The video tells the story.

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John Knight and his wife Dianne tell the story of their firstborn son Paul who was born with multiple disabilities.

John’s heart expressed here and in his frequent posts at The Works of God, is to emphasize that Jesus isn’t great only because he can doesn’t give disabilities to some or that He can help individuals and families survive disability—he certainly can do both. Jesus is great because of His wise, good, and loving purposes in giving disability. “When we are weak HE is strong.”

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John Piper recounts his visit to Angola State Prison in his Nov. 20th blog: As Nice As They Let Me, As Mean As They Make Me.

I found a CBN report on how God is working in the lives of the prisoners at Angola, it is really amazing.

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The Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines “legacy” as “something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor from the past.” While it could be said that everyone will leave a legacy, in this study we will be considering key components in the construction of a God-centered legacy that expresses itself, primarily, through the family system. However, this study will be more than simply giving you biblical insight or creative ideas to pass on to the next generation; this series is designed to help some of you take specific steps within the coming weeks to begin laying the stones of a God-centered legacy. To others, this study is meant to be an encouragement that you are on the right track and, …

 

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While many were focused on the big prize of the Presidential election, there was a pivotal vote on a referendum called “Proposition 8″ in California. Proposition 8 is a amendment to the Constitution of California that would define marriage exclusively between a man and a woman.

What does this mean? Since California voters have approved the amendment, this effectively outlaws some 18,000 same-sex marriage that have taken place over the last 4 1/2 months. The voters have overturned the California State Supreme Court decision that gave gay couples the right to marry.

The passage of Proposition 8 represents a crushing political defeat for gay rights activists. They had hoped public opinion on the contentious issue had shifted enough …

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A stirring reminder from CatholicVote.com

This is one issue that both Protestant and Roman Catholic can agree on: every child conceived has a right to live!

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Listen as J.I. Packer draws to a tight focus the central issue in regard to homosexuality, the Gospel itself. Dr. Packer makes a very lucid argument for why it is the very Gospel of Christ that is at stake when it comes to the issue of same-sex relationships.

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