Good stuff out there…..

From Justin Taylor:

A link to a good article on the Causes of Homosexuality along with two very good comments in the comments section. Chime in on the discussion if you’d like, but be respectful.

Have a good laugh at Mark Dever from Capitol Hill Baptist on Way of the Master Radio. I’m five minutes into the broadcast and LOVING it! (you will too!)

Melvin over at Pulpit Pimps tells us the difference between a pimp and a heretic.

Pastor Way writes a phenomenal article on The Shocking Truth about Making Disciples. This is another one of those must read articles. (HT: Meeky on both of these)

Stacy L. Harp links to an interview on Australian radio to back up the claim that Abortion increases mental health risk among women. Here’s an excerpt from the interview:

DAVID FERGUSSON (guy being interviewed): My view is I’m pro-choice, and I believe that women do have the right to have a choice to abortion. So I don’t see these results as being against that position, but it does show, as with any surgical procedure, or any procedure of any form, that there are risks and benefits that need to be taken into account and to be weighed up very carefully.

Now, these are… and it’s understanding the risks and the benefits I think which is very important in any debate about the choice to undertake an abortion.

TOM IGGULDEN (journalist and interviewer): The lack of information for young women was one reason Professor Fergusson decided to research the issue.

DAVID FERGUSSON: The whole topic has been remarkably under-researched, in terms of whether… there’s been a lot of debate about whether abortion does or does not have harmful effects, but the amount of research into the harms of abortion, or its benefits for that matter, has been very limited.

TOM IGGULDEN: Why do you think it is that a debate as hot as the abortion debate hasn’t featured research along these lines to date?

DAVID FERGUSSON: I… my view is very clear that it has actually frightened resear… well I know that I’ve heard researchers say that we were foolhardy doing research in this area, because everybody knows that if you do research in this area, one side or the other is going to turn upon you, because your results don’t support them.

TOM IGGULDEN: Have you encountered that very phenomenon?

DAVID FERGUSSON: No, well we had a certain amount of difficulty getting these results published, but…

TOM IGGULDEN: How so? In what way?

DAVID FERGUSSON: Well we… journals we would normally have expected to publish them just declined the papers, and I think it’s… because the debate is so very hot, and I think this is particularly so in the US of A (United States of America), and it’s notable that our paper was published in a British journal.

Interesting….

Moving along….

LaShawn posts a link to an article (and several good follow-ups) in the Herald Sun in Australia about a former muslim convert to Christianity who was asked to either deny Christ or die. Links to the White House and other important organizations are also included in the post, so I suggest you act on them. The blood of the marytrs for Christ is still the foundation on which the church is built.

Personally, I think America needs to lean a bit more left… and for it to actually cost folks to be believers. A lot of megachurches would shut down quick, fast and in a hurry.

That’s it for now. I’ve got about 12 tabs open to various articles on the Washington Post from the education section and I’m preparing to blog on education….. I think it’s needed right about now.

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