I’m a Christian & I Live in the Real World: Thinking Through Ethics
I’m a Christian & I Live in the Real World: Thinking Through Ethics:
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“It it is worse than useless for Christians to talk about the importance of Christian morality, unless they are prepared to take their stand upon the fundamentals of Christian theology. It is a lie to say that dogma does not matter; it matters enormously. It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling; it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rational explanation of the universe. It is hopeless to offer Christianity as a vaguely idealistic aspiration of a simple and consoling kind; it is, on the contrary, a hard, tough, exacting, and complex doctrine, steeped in a drastic and incompromising realism. And it is fatal to imagine that everybody knows quite well what Christianity is and needs only a little encouragement to practice it. The brutal fact is that in this Christian country not one person in a hundred has the faintest notion what the Church teaches about God or man or society or the person of Jesus Christ…. …Theologically this country is at present is in a state of utter chaos established in the name of religious toleration and rapidly degenerating into flight from reason and the death of hope.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Creed or Chaos?: Why Christians Must Choose Either Dogma or Disaster“This is the thing that troubles me about a lot of evangelical engagement in the public square. ‘The really important thing for us to stand for that people should know us for is our position on…’ — and then you go down the list of the public moral issues. The latest report that I saw from Pew said that evangelicals are the only group in America that went significantly up in the level of dislike in the American public. All other religious groups kind of either stayed the same or had a higher approval rating than they’ve had in the past. Only evangelicals went down in their approval rating. You don’t get the sense that it’s because CNN figured out that, wow, these people believe in the two natures of Christ united in one person. They’re crazy. Rather, it’s because there’s something about the moral campaign that has just turned people off. You ask people what is an evangelical and the first thing you hear out there is not the articles of the Nicene Creed. This is what Dorothy Sayers means by it being worse than useless to talk about morality without the theology that undergirds it.” (Michael Horton)
- Gender and the Image of God
- Biblical Sexuality/Homosexuality, Part #1 (Download MP3 – 19.5MB)
- Biblical Sexuality/Homosexuality, Part #2 (Download MP3 – 21MB)
- The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics
- Same-Sex Temptations in the Church: An Interview with Robert Gagnon (Free Download)
- Liberty Christian Ministries (Sydney, AU)
- Vaughan Roberts, “Same-Sex Attraction – A Battle I Face” – a model of a godly response
- “Love Letter to a Lesbian” by Jackie Hill
- Identical Twins Studies Prove Homosexuality is Not Genetic
- Should a Christian Photographer Work at a Same-Sex Wedding Ceremony?
- Should a Christian attend the wedding of a gay couple?
- Homosexuality & the Scientific Evidence
- The Gospel Coalition’s Articles on Homosexuality
- Rosaria Butterfield (Author of The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert – a book which serves as a true gift to the church.)
- Openness Unhindered: Further Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert on Sexual Identity and Union with Christ
- What is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense
- Worlds in Collision: The Gay Debate in New Zealand 1960-1984 by Laurie Guy
- Shaping Godzone: Public Issues and Church Voices in New Zealand 1840-2000 by Laurie Guy
- What Does the Bible Really Teach About Homosexuality?
- Euthanasia (Download MP3 – 20MB)
- New Zealand Data:
- Euthanasia in New Zealand
- Voluntary euthanasia and New Zealand
- Euthanasia: The New Zealand Healad
- Support grows for euthanasia (Stuff, 14/09/2012)
- Euthanasia Free New Zealand
- Voluntary Euthanasia Society of New Zealand
- Euthanasia: New Zealand Medical Association
- End of Life Choice Bill, Hon Maryan Street: 22 July 2012 (yet to be drawn as of 21 May 2013) [More]
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Voluntary Euthanasia in New Zealand: An Analysis of Compassion,
- Biblical Resources:
- Mortification of Spin episode: “Compassionate Jesus”
- Euthanasia and Christian Ethics (JETS article)
- Infanticide and Euthanasia on BiblicalTraining.org
- Study Notes: Suicide & Euthanasia
- From Euthanasia to the Gospel
- Beginning to Think Biblically About Suicide
- Continuing to Think Biblically About Suicide
- Resources for Those with Questions Regarding Suicide
- Other Resources and Organisations:
- New Zealand Data:
- Abortion (Download MP3 – 23MB)
- Data, News, & Stats
- China Admits to the Greatest Slaughter in Human History
- A Former Abortion Doctor with 1,200 Killings Describes a Late-Term Abortion
- Journal of Medical Ethics, the ghosts of Francis Schaeffer and C Everett Koop have somewhat to say to you regarding “post-birth abortion” . . .
- 9 Things You Should Know About the Gosnell Infanticide and Murder Trial
- Gosnell & Justice
- Abortion statistics – information releases (From Statistics New Zealand)
- NZ Abortion Statistics 2011 from Voice for Life New Zealand
- Historical abortion statistics, New Zealand
- Births and Deaths: Year ended March 2012 (From Statistics New Zealand)
- Pro-Life Resources
- Pro-Life New Zealand (FaceBook & Website)
- Pro-Life Auckland
- Pro-Life Times
- Voice for Life New Zealand (FaceBook & Website)
- “180” Movie (Website & YouTube)
- Scriptural Articles & Resources
- Data, News, & Stats
- Reproductive Technologies & Genetics (Download the MP3 – 22MB)
- Data, News, Stats
- Scriptural Articles & Resources
- Book
- Alcorn, Randy C. Does the Birth Control Pill Cause Abortions? Sandy, OR: Eternal Perspective Ministries, 2011. (Alcorn convincingly demonstrates that, in fact, there is no form of “The Pill” that is not abortifacient.)
- Marriage, Divorce, & Remarriage (Download the MP3 – 23MB)
- Books:
- Articles:
- NZ Stats & Data:
- Were Adam & Eve Real People & Why it Matters (Download MP3 – 17MB – This talk got off topic quite a bit!)
- Articles for:
- Articles against:
- Books:
- Part #2: Were Adam & Eve Real People & Why it Matters (Download MP3 – 20MB)
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