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Does God See a Life Before Conception?
One of the major arguments for the common practice of birth control among believers who are opposed to abortion is that preventing a life that does not yet exist is completely different than taking one. And scientifically speaking, I agree. In this short post, I just wanted to throw out a thought for consideration. I…
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The Joy They Would Have Missed
Yesterday, as our family sat around the breakfast table, we had an unusually sweet time. The older children were really enjoying watching the younger children’s antics, and the younger children knew they were “performing” and loving every minute of it. My husband and I just sat and watched all of them, marvelling at this beautiful…
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Reasons I Don’t Want to Have a Million Children
Interview of Holly Elliff by Nancy Leigh Demoss Holly: “And I remember vividly the day he (husband) came out of his study and said, ‘God has just given me the neatest mental picture of someday sitting on my front porch and looking out and seeing scores of children out there. And we have every temperament…
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Just Imagine if They Had Not Been Born!!!
One of the things that most profoundly affects me about the idea of letting God be sovereign in the area of children, is the idea of who I may be preventing from being born, and how God has used the people of history to so powerfully impact the world. It’s just another area where we…
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Whose Line is it Anyway?
One of my readers accused me of using my daughter’s essay to “promote my own personal gospel of no-birth-control”. I thought it was a pretty strong accusation, and worthy of its own post. While part of her comment is correct–this blog is a place of “promotion” if you will, it is certainly not “my own…
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"They Sacrificed Their Sons and Daughters…" And So Do We
Yesterday as I was reading Psalm 106 to my children, a passage hit me with relevance like a ton of bricks. I debated about this post, because I KNOW it will make many of you angry…and that is not the desire of my heart. However, my burden to speak what is on my heart is…
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Overwhelmed at this Privilege of Motherhood
Sometimes I get overwhelmed with what others may see as a simple thought, while I experience it as a burning, profound revelation. Such an occurrence happened yesterday, spurred by something our pastor said in the middle of the sermon, and I jotted my thoughts down… “How could not the station of Motherhood–the very utterance of…
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Be Able to Give an Answer
Last night I got into a “civil debate” with a friend over the issue of having children. He is unmarried and not under the authority of his parents, so it’s really unfair to expect him to have convictions at this point about children, but the debate helped me understand a little better where lots of…
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Children: The Chisel of Your Vice
I’ve had it said to me more than once, as an onlooker observes my children in tow: “You must have a lot of patience”, to which I almost always start laughing. The thing about me, that my family knows best (and the stranger obviously does not), is that I was certainly not gifted with the…
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Birth…is it Ours to Control?
Birth Control….doesn’t the very term indicate man’s undermining of God’s sovereignty? What if it were called “Life Control”. We wouldn’t be OK with that…I hope. Because that creeps to the brink of euthanasia, assisted suicide, genocide and other unthinkable atrocities. Hitler even comes to mind. Compare the two phrases…birth control/life control. Yikes…they are not really…
