"To make ready a people prepared for the Lord." (Luke 1:17)

Dear Champion of the Lord and the Preborn,

The Lord richly bless you! Yesterday, we had a powerful time storming the gates of hell. To our surprise, our ranks swelled with committed believers. Several more churches joined the cause to confront Planned Parenthood's indoctrination of vulnerable children.

As the name of Jesus was proclaimed and His word went forth, the enemy first made noise and tried to censor the message. Eventually, some fled into their building for cover. The wicked flee though no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as lions (Proverbs 28:1).

On the one hand, it was heartbreaking seeing blinded parents willing give their offspring to this wolf in sheep's clothing. Little did they percieve the danger as they led them into the belly of the beast. We cried out to them, as parents, that they were the best teachers that God ordained to share about sexual issues. On the other hand, some parents hearkened to the warning and fled. We are grateful to the Lord for sparing them the horror of the Planned Parenthood's sexual agenda.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who passed away on August 3 at age 89, heroically exposed the Soviet Union’s prison camp system. He was rewarded with a Nobel Prize and punished by exile from Russia.

After arriving in America, he endured a different kind of exile. In his Harvard Commencement Address thirty years ago, Solzhenitsyn provoked the incurable hostility of the Western academic elite by showing how their brand of humanistic materialism differs only in detail from that of the totalitarian Soviet regime.

Westerners were free to fill their bellies even as their souls starved, he observed, warning against a worldview that displaces God and puts man at the center of everything. The West was staring into “the abyss of human decadence,” typified by a degenerate popular culture and depraved ruling elite.

Unless the West turns back to God, this corruption will eventually destroy both our prosperity and our individual freedom.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn understood that we cannot reclaim our liberty unless we recognize that it is Christ who sets us free.

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Martin Luther wrote in his day that “There are many who do not want to have children.” The desire to prevent offspring is nothing new. Man has always, because of self-centeredness and the pursuit of materialism and leisure, viewed the having of many children as a burden, and a detriment to self-fulfillment. But if the conditions of Luther’s day caused him to commiserate, America’s situation today would have put him in a mental hospital with severe depression. Americans have taken what Luther observed in his day to a whole new level. American Christians eat birth control pills like candy while pastors peddle the anti-child mentality in their pre-marriage counseling with the glee of a Fuller Brush salesman.

This anti-child mentality does not bode well for the future of our nation.

I have eleven children; five sons and six daughters. As our numbers increased over the years, I noticed that I became more concerned about the public policies of our nation as the number of our children increased. Why? Because I have a lot invested in the future of our nation – eleven children I care about deeply. I will die, and what kind of nation will I leave my children to live in?

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The tom-toms thumped straight on all night and the darkness shuddered round me like a living, feeling thing. I could not go to sleep, so I lay awake and looked; and I saw, as it seemed, this: That I stood on a grassy sward, and at my feet a precipice broke sheer down into infinite space. I looked, but saw no bottom; only cloud shapes, black and furiously coiled, and great shadow-shrouded hollows, and unfathomable depths. Back I drew, dizzy at the depth.

Then I saw forms of people moving single file along the grass. They were making for the edge. There was a woman with a baby in her arms and another little child holding on to her dress. She was on the very verge. Then I saw that she was blind. She lifted her foot for the next step . . . it trod air. She was over, and the children over with her. Oh, the cry as they went over!

Then I saw more streams of people flowing from all quarters. All were blind, stone blind; all made straight for the precipice edge. There were shrieks, as they suddenly knew themselves falling, and a tossing up of helpless arms, catching, clutching at empty air. But some went over quietly, and fell without a sound.

Then I wondered, with a wonder that was simply agony, why no one stopped them at the edge. I could not. I was glued to the ground, and I could only call; though I strained and tried, only whisper would come.

Human life needs to be protected at every stage, beginning at the single-cell stage.

Colorado's Personhood Amendment (Amendment 48), which defines life as beginning at fertilization, goes to voters in November.

"A founding principle of Focus on the Family — and a driving belief of Dr. Dobson's — is that all human life is sacred and that life begins at the single-cell stage of human development," said Carrie Gordon Earll, senior bioethics analyst at Focus on the Family Action. "Amendment 48 articulates this belief and challenges us to declare the inestimable worth of all members of the human family.

"The foundational message of Amendment 48 is clear: All human life has value. Colorado voters should support Amendment 48, and vote for it in November."

Kristi Burton, sponsor of the initiative, said: "It’s fact that life has been cheapened over time and Amendment 48, by defining an unborn child as a 'person,' can restore the dignity and respect unborn children have lost.”

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Many Christians are still locked into the conviction that the Bible speaks to a very narrow slice of life. Of course, all Christians believe that the Bible has some very specific things to say about prayer, Bible reading, worship, and evangelism. But many Christians are not convinced that the Bible has some very definite things to say about civil government, the judicial system, economics, indebtedness, the punishment of criminals, foreign affairs, care for the poor, journalism, science, medicine, business, education, taxation, inflation, property, terrorism, war, peace negotiations, military defense, ethical issues like abortion and homosexuality, environmental concerns, inheritance, investments, building safety, banking, child discipline, pollution, marriage, contracts, and many other worldview issues.

All Christians must remove their blinders and widen their scope of ministry to include the world. This will mean the development and implementation of a comprehensive biblical worldview. Put simply, a worldview is the way you and I look at things...

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God Demands Our Allegiance - Part One

Once we become Christians, our first order of business is to transfer our allegiance back to our Creator. And, that’s what the message of the Bible is all about. Parables, slices of history, sermons, psalms and prophetic visions are all used to drive home the point that the Creator is smarter than His creatures, and because of that, our efforts will only be successful if we are careful to conform our thoughts, decisions and actions to His inerrant Word. The fact that He is in complete control of His creation, and is guiding and directing all events and circumstances toward that purpose, means that His will and His team will win in history. This raises the basic question:

? “What are you going to do with your life?”

* Either we are going to mirror the way non-Christians live, making our daily decisions according to our wisdom, while adding moralistic principles to our lifestyle in an external effort to win points with God. Or,

Dear Friends & supporters,

Many of you know the Green Family and their ministry, Life & Liberty Ministries. Denny Green is one of the few full-time pro-life ministers left in the nation, ministering at the abortuaries five days a week in Richmond, as well as doing door-to-door literature campaigns, and campus preaching ministries. Denny and his wife have 10 children. The Murch Family has teamed up with the Green Family for ministry events for many years, and we count them amongst our closest friends.

A couple of weeks ago, a fire destroyed the basement office and an upstairs bedroom in Denny's mother's home, which supplies phone and water to Denny's home, and which houses his ministry office. Nobody was hurt. Denny's 90-year-old mother was gotten out, as well as his sister and niece. But virtually everything was destroyed. All of their mailing lists (including back-ups), 3 computers, their camera and video equipment, over 3,000 books, thousands of pieces of literature, signs and everything.

The next day, folks from their church pitched in to help clean and salvage everything from the house they could, and clean up the salvageable part of the house. On Saturday morning as they cleaned, faulty electrical wiring (the apparent cause of the fire), ignited another part of the house, and the entire surviving portion of the house went up in flames.

This September, a group of political and corporate elitists will convene a two-day “Service Nation Summit” in New York City.

The organizers support a proposal to re-instate conscription for all 18 year-olds as a condition of college admittance. Conscripts would be required to serve in either a military or domestic capacity as directed by the government.

Conscription of any kind is an unconstitutional form of involuntary servitude.

During the July 1863 Civil War draft riots, the New York Times defended conscription, insisting that the government is entitled “to every dollar and every right arm in the country for its protection….” We’re often told that governments exist to protect the people, but the moral premise of conscription is that the people exist to protect the government.

Nothing is more patently anti-American than the totalitarian assumption that we belong to the government that is supposed to be our servant.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.

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It’s no secret that thousands of money- and power-hungry politicians have wormed their way into the U.S. House of Representatives, a body of declining repute, and one that more resembles the Mafia than anything else. The slick MO of these vote-buying “public servants” is to cater to special-interest constituencies such as unions, teachers, homosexuals, welfare lovers, vulnerable blacks, farmers, the enviro’s, etc., and all of it gravy-ed over with billions in pork and earmarks. Nor do many of these 435 hesitate to play the politically crafty class-envy/class-warfare card either. Soon, they’re set up for life, perpetually being returned to office and living, via your money, in Hollywood-like opulence. The main result: Precious freedoms slipping down the memory hole.

What you’ll learn today is that there’s still a way for us to force these House recidivists to “go straight” or, better, to be booted out, and here’s how to make it happen. First though, think of the endless hype surrounding the 2008 presidential campaign as mirroring the 1962 movie, Cape Fear. In it, a now released and payback-obsessed ex-con, Robert Mitchum, tricks prosecutor Gregory Peck into misfocusing on Peck’s wife as being the victim-to-be of the villain’s revenge plot. Instead, it’s actually the pretty young daughter who Mitchum wants to rape and maybe murder. The analogy here is that we voters this season need to be concentrating on the House, not fixating on the meaningless McCain-Obama race, which is exactly what the anti-family/anti-Christian villain, the federal government (and their accomplices in the media) wants...

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