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By Admin, July 1, 2010 10:16 am

posted by Pastor Charles R. Moore

I share this piece written by Albert Mohler, president of Southern Seminary, this morning …

Moral earthquakes, like earthquakes of the geophysical variety, most often occur suddenly and without warning.

At one moment the moral argument is framed in conventional and familiar ways.  Just an instant later, all is changed.

An article that appears in the June 30, 2010, edition of The Times [London] represents a moral earthquake that resets an entire issue – and that issue is abortion.  This chilling essay by Antonia Senior is hard to read, but impossible to ignore.  To read it is to feel the moral ground shift under your feet.

Abortion, which Senior acknowledges is the killing of a human life, is defined as ‘a lesser evil’ than the curtailing of abortion rights in the name of liberating women:

‘As ever, when an issue we thought was black and white becomes more nuanced, the answer lies in choosing the lesser evil.’

‘The nearly 200,000 aborted babies in the UK each year are the lesser evil, no matter how you define life, or death, for that matter.  If you are willing to die for a cause, you must be prepared to kill for it, too.’

You must be prepared to kill for the sake of defending abortion rights?  That is exactly what abortion entails – the killing of an unborn child for the sake of asserting a woman’s so-called ‘right to choose.’

As a church, may God grant us the grace to respond to moral issues like this.  May we not be driven by politics, but by Truth.

Yours for that Truth,

Pastor Charles

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By Admin, January 23, 2010 12:04 am

Nicolette Grams, who grew up at Christ Community Church, recently published an article in The Atlantic about human trafficking in Haiti.  She says…

In Haiti’s unstable post-quake atmosphere, at least one industry is poised to flourish. For those who buy and sell children for sex and cheap labor, Haiti is ripe with opportunity.

When the earthquake struck the impoverished island country last Tuesday afternoon, human traffickers suddenly gained access to a new population of displaced children. With parents dead, government offices demolished, and international aid organizations struggling to meet life-or-death demands, these kidnappers are in a unique position to snatch children with very little interference.

Even with aid pouring in from around the world, essential resources like food and medicine are enormously scarce on the streets of Haiti. But for predators looking for boys and girls to sell for labor and sex, Haiti is the right place to be.

To read the rest of her article, please click HERE.