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Oct 28, 2022 · Pregnancy is God’s way of bringing new human beings into the world. Each person carries God’s image (Genesis 1:27). Because God is the Author of life and because a woman’s pregnancy represents a sacred partnership with God, a woman does not have a “right” to end what God has started. Abortion is the violent end of a human life that ...
According to Scripture, pregnancy is a blessing. Moses declared to the Israelites, " [God] will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that He swore to your fathers to ...
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One way to reframe this question would be to ask: Are the effects of sin, sin? But when I thought that, I thought: No. Even that is not precise enough, is it? Because pregnancy before or outside of a marriage covenant may be owing to a woman’s sin or maybe owing to being sinned against, like rape. Or both. Like, if she engaged willingly and he enga...
First observation: That there would be a stigma that attaches to pregnancy outside of marriage is, I think, a good thing. We have almost entirely lost it today, because of the normalization of sexual immorality and because of putting people’s feelings above a call to holiness. But having said that, it is crucial that every Christian and every churc...
The second thing to say is that a woman’s experience of shame should also only attach to the previous sin, not the present pregnancy. One of the reasons for that is because sin can be forgiven, because of Christ. A woman can confess that sin and be cleansed of it so that the shame is overcome and taken away by the merciful cleansing grace of God. I...
And here is a third observation: Sovereign grace, the sovereignty of God, makes it possible for both a pregnancy and a child — that is, the woman’s experience and the child’s experience — to be turned for good in the life of the woman and the child and the family and the church and the world. No one needs to feel, no woman needs to feel, no family ...
- Childbirth (new physical life) is evidence of God’s mercy. God would’ve been perfectly just to not allow Adam and Eve to live after they sinned against him in Eden.
- God commissioned Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply (Gen. 1:28), but in judgment said he would “greatly multiply pain” in being fruitful (Gen. 3:16).
- Birth pains are a specific part of God’s judgment on Eve for her sin (Gen. 3:16), pointing to our need for a Savior. But painful and mortally dangerous pregnancies are not God’s final word, for he has promised a Rescuer (Gen.
- All women and babies delivered though the pains of labor are recipients of God’s undeserved, common grace. We should all rejoice in God's triumph of life over death in childbirth, even if we live in a time/place where safe pregnancies and births are more common than not.
Sep 6, 2018 · Childbirth resources for Christian women. Better Than a Birth Plan by Jenni Naselli. Sometimes labor and delivery don’t go as planned. This post provides some guidance regarding how we should respond when this happens and reminds us that “the heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps” (Proverbs 16:9).
Jan 4, 2022 · It may also be beneficial to involve the father and his family; he needs to take as much ownership as the mother. After careful prayer, parents should be clear about the level of support they can give in raising the child. Make use of Christian crisis pregnancy centers. Our God is a powerful God who can bring joy and blessing even out of our ...
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