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At the beginning of the fall 2008 40 Days for Life prayer vigil, I took what seemed at the time to be a crazy leap of faith.  Now, a year later, that faith has borne fruit.  Literally.

Olive Tree at FPA

On a Monday night last fall, we joined together with Fred and Sue Rowe and other members of the Kern Region Prayer Watch in a time of intercession and prophetic declaration outside Bakersfield’s FPA abortion center.  Our prayers and prophecies began to be focused upon Israel, as someone observed that the architecture of the FPA building looked like it belonged in Israel.

Then we noticed the olive tree.

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Tags: 40 Days for Life

Last year, a woman from Texas called us for help.  After taking the RU486 abortion pill, she visited one of our websites and decided she wanted to save her baby’s life.  Today we will have the privilege of meeting the precious little girl whose life God saved that day!

Our little Texan God saved from the abortion pill!

When the FDA opened the floodgates to the abortion pill a few years ago, we began receiving these “abortion pill calls” from time to time.  The doctors we initially consulted about trying to save these babies expressed doubt that it was even possible, and concern that the mother’s life could be endangered by trying to save the baby.

But eventually God led us to a doctor who provided information about how a baby might be saved from the effects of the abortion pill if the mother went through a series of shots.

When the baby’s mother called from Texas last year, we connected her with a doctor in her area, who administered the shots.  About six months ago, her baby was born, perfectly healthy!

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Last summer as Terri taught during Vacation Bible School, she had the opportunity to pray with a little boy to place his trust in Christ as His Savior and Lord. I remember Terri’s excitement when she told me about the experience, but I think my response at the time was somewhat less than enthusiastic. The angels in heaven may have been rejoicing, but to me he was just another little boy.

A few days ago, we learned that there is much more to this little boy’s life story. His father told a friend how he had planned to abort his son. Click to read more …

In 1991, 2001, and various other times over the past two decades, our family traveled to Wichita to pray for an end to the heinous atrocities committed by late-term abortionist George Tiller.

In January 2007, as pictured at left, I led a prayer for justice in the Tiller case outside the Sedgwick County Courthouse in Wichita after traveling through a blizzard with Lamar Hagan and our son Jacob.  We didn’t make long trips like this in hopes that Tiller’s killings would end through a lone gunman, but our hope was that his killings would end through prayer, peaceful direct action, and the proper functioning of our justice system.

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I wish we had time over the past few days to get involved in the controversy over pro-abortion President Obama receiving an honorary degree from “Catholic” Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. As Jill Stanek has pointed out, this situation points to a much bigger problem in the Catholic Church.

The mention of South Bend actually brought some sweet thoughts to my mind, though. Click to read more …

I wrote the following note on Facebook responding to Bryan Kemper’s comments on President Obama’s speech at Notre Dame which suggested that abortion opponents and abortion supporters should seek “common ground”:

There are occasionally opportunities for real “common ground,” such as years ago when we were helping Chinese refugees who were fleeing China’s forced abortion policy and we cooperated with Amnesty International and a “pro-choice” women’s organization and some “pro-choice” celebrities. The refugees were finally freed and it is likely that the “pro-choice” support helped.

However, usually when “common ground” is mentioned, what it really means is that pro-lifers should stop talking about the babies and focus on handing out birth control and supporting immoral sex education.

So to me “common ground” is ok if it is for the right purpose. But Obama’s type of common ground just puts us on the devil’s side.

Just in time for Holocaust Remembrance Day, which began Monday at sundown, I came across this online clip from the movie Schindler’s List, probably my favorite (yet most haunting) movie clip of all time.

I constantly live with the tension between the concept that “whoever saves one life has saved the entire world” and our Lord’s admonition that to whom much is given, much is required. I know that we could have saved so many more lives (or, more properly stated, we could have allowed God to use us to save many more lives). Our own selfishness and stubbornness is often our biggest obstacle. Click to read more …

We did not take part in a “Tea Party” tax protest on Wednesday, though perhaps we should have done so. During the Bakersfield protest, I was one block away at the bank trying to keep the ministry and family afloat.

Tax time hit us very hard this year, both personally and in the ministry, and our survival seems unlikely if you’re looking at the facts on a piece of paper. Some would say we only have ourselves to blame. Perhaps they are right.
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A few weeks ago, while spending hours waiting to meet with a pastor, I decided to fill the time with prayer and meditation on God’s Word. God immediately led me to Psalm 119, which just happens to be the longest chapter in the Bible (maybe God was trying to give me a hint that I needed to spend more time in Bible reading)!

Meditating on this chapter, verse by verse, one verse stood out as I read it, as if it had been highlighted and underlined:

If your law had not been my delight,
       I would have perished in my affliction.
(Psalm 119:92)

For many years, I have been told that focusing on God’s Law can be dangerous for Christians.  “What gets your attention, gets you,” I was warned.  I had been taught that if I try to make myself think about not committing a particular sin, I may instead be leading myself to commit the very sin I am trying to avoid.  “If I tell you not to think about a pink elephant,” this teacher suggested, “won’t you automatically think about a pink elephant?”

But Psalm 119:92 seems to suggest (along with the thrust of this entire chapter) that God will bless us if we not only think about God’s Law, but delight in it!  Click to read more …

Our dear friend Zhou is about to become a citizen of the United States of America! Zhou was one of the Chinese refugees who fled China’s forced abortions in the early 1990s. She was just a pregnant teenager when she escaped from China. Now she is a mother of three precious children!

Her citizenship ceremony will be held on Thursday, April 9 in Indianapolis. Terri and I would like to be there, Click to read more …

Tags: Chinese refugees, Ministry history