FUNNNN!!!!
The #1 lie women are told about abortion is…
…that children are a curse—some even say a “parasite”—that threatens to harm the future well being of the expectant parents. The truth is that children are a blessing and always represent the long-term hope of the future. As Carl Sandburg said, “A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.” We cannot destroy them without diminishing the worth of women.
From article (with my emphasis):
The kidnap-rape conviction of a once-promising prep football star was dismissed Thursday following a recantation by his accuser.
Brian Banks collapsed in sobs on the counsel table during a court hearing where a prosecutor quickly conceded the decade-old case and moved for the dismissal.
In the summer of 2002, Banks’ future looked bright: He was a 17-year-old high school football star being heavily recruited by a number of colleges. But in a single day that changed with the accusations of kidnapping and rape by a female student.
He maintained there was no rape and their sexual contact was consensual, but his lawyer urged him to plead no contest rather than risk a sentence of 41 years to life in prison if convicted. He followed the advice and went to prison for six years, shattering his dreams of gridiron glory…
…In a strange turn of events, the woman who accused him a decade ago friended him on Facebook when he got out of prison. Wanetta Gibson explained she wanted to “let bygones be bygones.”
According to documents in the case, she met with Banks and said she had lied; there had been was no kidnap and no rape and she offered to help him clear his record.
But she subsequently refused to repeat the story to prosecutors because she feared she would have to return a $1.5 million payment from a civil suit brought by her mother against Long Beach schools.
She was quoted as telling Banks: “I will go through with helping you but it’s like at the same time all that money they gave us, I mean gave me, I don’t want to have to pay it back.”
Justin Brooks, a lawyer who heads the innocence project, said that Banks has remained on probation, under electronic monitoring, has had to register as a sex offender and has had trouble getting a job.
Disgusting.
The Christian lives in a constant state of conviction that this flesh is not their master and this world is not their home.
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We know nothing of religion here: we only think of Christ.
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Obedience leads to progress.
OK, so I am learning to SUBMIT to my King. I mean REALLY learning. My struggle? Rebelling. Totally unintentional. Either way, being disobedient ISN’T the move. So, just some exciting news, I have really been striving to enter though the narrow way. Often, this way is the road LESS travelled. [Luke 13:24]
Daddy has been SO faithful. My precious King will say “move, here” and first, my flesh wants to rebel and go against Him, but then I remember that I want to please Him, and go with His Word. [He gives us free will, but let’s show Him that we love Him. Not with our words, but with our actions. I pray that our choices are HIS choices.]
I’m telling you my Pastor [W.O.G, STAND UP!] prayed for our congregation a couple of weeks ago that the Lord “confirm” when we obey His voice. SO EXCITED to share that my Lord is doing just that! When we trust Him [apart from our ragged flesh], Daddy is faithful and will confirm His mighty word.
