Ronnie W. Rogers, “Taking every thought captive…”

Dr. Anthony Levatino says, “The toughest part of a D&E [dilation and evacuation] abortion is extracting the baby’s head,” Levatino said. “If you have a really bad day, like I often did, a little face may come out and stare back at you.”¹

He goes on to say, “On June 23, 1984, my son was trying to cross the street, and my daughter, who was always the little mother, was running after him to tell him not to do that, and she was struck and killed by a car. If you haven’t gone through that kind of tragedy, you don’t have a clue. You may think you can imagine it, but trust me: You have no idea what it’s like to lose a child, in any way.”

He then asks, “What do you do after a tragedy? You mourn for a while and you try to get back into your routine. I don’t know how long after her death I had to do my first D&E abortion. I remember reaching in and literally ripping out an arm or a leg and looking at it in the clamp and I got sick. When you start an abortion you can’t stop. If you leave anything behind, you [can] bet your patient is going to come back infected, bleeding or worse….I soldiered on and I finished that abortion.”

Only this time, Levatino said, something had changed. “For the first time in my life I really looked at that pile of goo at the side of the table, and all of a sudden I didn’t see her wonderful right to choose, and I didn’t see the $600 wad of cash that I made in 15 minutes, and I couldn’t think about what a great doctor I was because I took care of her problem. All I could see was somebody’s son or daughter.”

The Hippocratic oath, taken by those about to enter the practice of medicien, swears, “I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone. I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan; and similarly I will not give a woman a pessary to cause an abortion.”

1. http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=36213 & http://www.kairosjournal.org/news.aspx?QuadrantID=1&L=1  [↩]

The problem of shallow preaching in the pulpit is not the problem. The problem is in the study. The pulpit is a mere reflection of either the depth or lack thereof of what happens in the pastor’s study; for if a man is shallow in his study, he will most assuredly be shallow in his preaching because no man can preach deeper than he has studied. Conversely, if a man studies deeply, it will necessarily be obvious in his preaching for he cannot desire to know and walk deeply with God and desire any less for his flock.

“And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, ‘All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”’ (Matthew 28:18-20) (underline and embolding added)

Most often, this passage is referenced in order to emphasize missions and evangelism, and those are indeed vital components; however, the teaching task is often, albeit unwittingly, reduced to a secondary or tertiary status. Additionally, the essentialness of the breadth and depth of the teaching component is often obscured by our words and practice. (more…)

Christian German news agency Idea reported, “A German hospital removed twelve crosses, supposedly due to objections from Muslim patients.

Workers in the Bad Soden hospital near Frankfurt took off the crosses from the wall in front of the patients and put them in trash bags, which led to criticism by patients.

Director Helmuth Hahn-Klimroth had his employees do the job with the required prudence. Crosses aren’t considered common furnishings in a general hospital, according to the director.

The crosses come from the surgical department of a hospital which was Roman Catholic till 1974.”¹

The secularists of America laud such Muslim objections until the Muslims begin to point their objections toward the secularist, which they most certainly will do!

1. http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2010/02/frankfurt-hospital-removes-crosses.html, accessed 2/25/10 [↩]