President Harrison Video on HHS Ruling
Download this video or watch President Harrison give live testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, on Thursday, February 16, 9:30 a.m. EST.
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about 3 months ago
My wife and I pray daily and will add President Obama and his liberal staff in our prayers to have the scales fall from there eyes before there is nothing remaining we recognize.
about 3 months ago
Why has Pr. Harrison limited his concerns in his official statements to only “Plan B” and Ella? There is abortifacient potential with ALL hormonal methods (pills, injections, and implants) as well as all IUDs. This would also be a good time to point out that birth control is not preventive medicine and has no place in healthcare plans (unless perhaps used for some condition other than the prevention of pregnancy). Pregnancy is not a disease.
The Missouri Synod does have a position statement to draw upon with regard to the question of abortifacients as a result of 2004 Resolution 6-10.
Res. 6-10 as passed in synod convention called on the Board for Human Care Ministries to “review the various birth control products” and clarify which act sometimes or all the time as “abortifacients” – products that may destroy an embryo or prevent its implantation in the uterine wall. The resolution, adopted 955-52, noted that some products are mislabeled as contraceptives. Delegates asked that the board make this information available to pastors and members of LCMS congregations.
This resolution was answered by the WR-HC Sanctity of Human Life Committee in this document: http://www.lcms.org/Document.fdoc?src=lcm&id=632
For a more brief overview of these abortifacient facts, here is a more readable and perhaps a bit more accurate document: http://tinyurl.com/82duown
about 3 months ago
Please don’t take me wrong. I support Pr. Harrison 100% in what he is presently doing politically in Washington. I am simply hoping and praying that the very real spiritual concerns surrounding this issue end up taking precedence over the political concerns.
about 3 months ago
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Here in Canada, Christians who have not bought into politically correct theology, have witnessed with concern and alarm radical changes in this country’s social policy.
These changes clearly run counter to what used to be called “natural law” and serve to further undermine the already over-strained fabric of society at large, not to mention intimidate and marginalize Christians or anyone opposed to the radical social agenda.
To an extreme extent Christian input and discourse has been pre-empted and banished from the political arena in this country by various means and pretences.
Sadly, this process is by no means limited to Canada and it appears that the U.S., after lagging behind for a while, has made up ground – and then some.
Forces which are most accurately described as anti-Christian are making increasingly effective, bold and destructive moves against the Church (the body of believers) and civil society at large. Political opposition to these forces has proved all but ineffective. There are many reasons for this, which are beyond the scope of this letter. I will mention only one.
Simplistically put, it appears to me that, at least to some extent, a lack of prayer may have facilitated the advances of the anti-Christian agenda. Many North American and European Christians are still lulled in a sense of complacency, lukewarm attitudes and satiated affluence. It seems that the Salt of the Earth is in dire need of spicing up.
Other Christians I have spoken to have expressed the notion that these are the End Times and that these things “must” happen, as Christ has foretold they would. The implication being, “why pray against evil developments, it if they ‘must’ happen.” But the Lord Himself taught us to pray for protection from evil.
A retired pastor mentioned to me in a recent exchange how he believed that what is holding back anti-Christian forces are the prayers of the Church, but that it was his observation this resistance was weakening.
Great promises are attached to the prayers of the Church.
In awareness of this three points suggest themselves:
1. Churches need to recognize and identify the anti-Christian agendas afoot in our countries and realize that as God’s people we are called to resist in the power of the Lord. Politically, we are marginalized and it is clear that our weapon of last resort is prayer (though it never should have been).
2. In prayer meetings these anti-Christian agendas need to be addressed both generally and specifically and constitute points on prayer items lists.
3. In addition, Christians need to be encouraged to pray on their own, at home, for the preservation of God’s order without any hint of guilt trip, while at the same time impressing upon them the need and urgency for such prayer.
Years ago I saw a film which documented how the revivals of the last century were preceded by prayer movements. This is what I would like to see come about.
Sincerely yours,
Concerned