Feb
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There is a bit of a political storm over the Tim Tebow, pro-life commercial during the upcoming Super Bowl.
The topic of abortion may hold little interest for many, but in light of the millions of babies that are aborted every year, I think the controversy reveals two things. God is still very much interested in every human being. And we’re seeing Christians who are effectively speaking for Christ without being an embarrassment to Christ.
Here is an article that is surprisingly from a feminist and pro-abortion supporter, yet she articulates the virtue of what Tim Tebow and the Super Bowl Ad wants to communicate.
Here is another interesting article about the controversy that is pointed, rich, and laced with insightful sarcasm. It is written by a professor at Biola University. His article brings out truths that are rarely admitted. One helpful insight, though; he writes in the same way that a powerful movie leaves us thinking and wondering when we walk out. Reading his words is sometimes best done a second or third time.
Why abortion and why does the Principal of your child’s school make an issue of it?
When I was a young teenager my mother invited a older teenage girl, who had just had an abortion, into our house. It was a temporary situation and it was for the purpose of healing her emotions, mind, and spirit. It left an indelible impression on me. I saw her completely devoid of healthy emotions. I saw the ghostly semblance of a previously pretty, bright, witty, happy girl. I saw the kind of psychological hurt that I didn’t know existed. And I knew something about psychological hurt having had to survive my own parents protracted, pain-filled divorce.
A good number of years later I worked in an area of Southern California that systematically takes advantage of young women. It is part of the business, the culture, the way thing just are. I saw dozens of young women attempting to sleep their way to the top only to discover that it was all a horrible, manipulative lie. The fall-out was often drugs and alcohol and sex-for-pay. I saw too many empty eyes, broken hearts, and trampled dreams, not to mention depression, anger, resentment, and cynicism. There are more abortion clinics in that part of Southern California than any part of the United States.
A few years after that experience one of my sisters humbly and brokenly told me and my family of her own abortion experience. Her story is one of short-term thinking and long-term grief.
Innocent, helpless, powerless babies die everyday. Somehow God worked in and through my life and gave me a sensitivity to those babies. My hope is that I can instill a greater sensitivity in others.
-Pastor Steve