Serious Issues Call For Serious Conversations

January 29, 2025

Leadership Notes

     Last Sunday was a great day of worship. Have I recently said how much God loves it when we sing together? It is such a beautiful thing. Psalm 122:1 says:

I was glad when they said to me,   

 “Let us go to the house of the Lord!”

Our feet have been standing   

 within your gates, O Jerusalem!

This is about the joy and reverence we feel when invited to worship the One, True, and Holy God. This is Covenant Church every Sunday morning.

     Last Friday was the March for Life in our nation’s capital. It was alluded to in the message on Sunday. We also talked about our support of Care Pregnancy Center in Adrian. The right-to-life is essential to who we are as the Body of Christ. There’s nothing more God-honoring than saving a life, one baby at a time. I don’t think abortion is going away anytime soon. It will remain an important ministry issue for Christians. The choices made by an unsaved culture simply reveal the wickedness in people’s hearts and point to the need for Biblical truth. God is glorified as we rescue innocent life. I love that Covenant Church has a heart for the unborn.

     I saw a sign recently that declared, “Abortion is Health Care.” Ghoulish. Hits about the same way “Slavery is a Human Resources Issue” would. Here’s a novel idea. If you don’t want a baby, don’t engage in the activity by which a baby is produced. I know…Simple solution. Heck of a lot better than resorting to killing a baby. {Side note – you ever notice how everyone that is pro-abortion was actually born and not aborted?}

     Will abortion access always remain in the United States? While I don’t know that answer to that, what I do know is that followers of Jesus Christ will always express lovingkindness toward the unborn and the women who nurture them. And we must never forget we worship a God of mercy and grace, offering forgiveness and restoration for all involved in the abortion cult.

     I recognize the weightiness of these words. But serious issues call for serious conversation. In Matthew 18, Jesus says it would be better for a man “to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea” than to harm a little one. I think it’s a good thing for us think seriously about serious matters.

     Finally, moving from serious things to the sublimely delightful, hearing the babies and infants and toddlers in church continues to fill me with joy. I know you feel the same. That is a different, yet equally heartening music to our ears. And then when one of the women in choir brought her great-granddaughter up to the platform for our closing song, you could hear hearts melting. What a spectacular moment. It was a lovely affirmation of life. That’s the worldview of the Body of Christ. That is our affirmation of life.

     And now, your Moments of Spurgeon:

“IT IS A PART OF THE INFATUATION OF EVIL THAT ITS VICTIMS

PRIDE THEMSELVES UPON THEIR EXCELLENCE.”

     After the bad news there’s the Good News:

“A CRUCIFIED SAVIOUR IS THE SOLE AND ONLY HOPE OF A

SINFUL WORLD.”

     With Much Love and Affection,

                      Richard