A Heapin' Plate of Conservative Politics & Religion

By Tom Quiner

Hold on to your seat.

You are about to watch an ad unlike any you’ve seen. It features Melissa Ohden.

You remember her: I wrote about her after hearing her speak last year (“Life is beautiful”).

Her mom tried to abort Melissa, but she was born alive. Here’s where the story gets political: if it were up to Barack Obama, Melissa would be dead. Four times he voted against legislation in Illinois that would require medical attention for babies that survive the abortionist’s handiwork.

Barack Obama’s radical vision of humanity insists that medical providers let the Melissa Ohdens of the world die. After all, she was supposed to be dead, wasn’t she?

Are you okay with this? Seriously? I have never, ever seen such a smug rejection of human compassion as in this man.

Honorable people can disagree on taxes and government spending and whether…

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Please pray for the people of Mauritania

August 28 | Mauritania – Current translation and publishing efforts in the local
languages of Mauritania are scattered and there is little communication about what is available. Pray for unity and cooperation, so that more people in Mauritania will have access to the Bible in their own language.

Where is Mauritania? Here’s a Google map link – click here – it’s a mostly isolated desert country on the west coast of Africa. Here’s a link to the Wikipedia entry – click here.

Slavery in Mauritania has been called a major human rights issue as well as female genital mutilation/cutting, child labour, and human trafficking. Wikipedia

Open Doors describes Mauritania this way – click here. Life is hard for the people of Mauritania and even harder for believers.

“For you are my hiding place; you protect me from trouble. You surround me with songs of victory.” Psalm 32.7 NLT

Please pray for God’s protection and comfort in a world far beyond anything we can understand.

Morning Reading: John 4.13-14 ESV

Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
John 4.13-14 ESV