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Posted by Rev. K.H. Marple on November 23, 2011
Still after all this time during my post abortive journey and ministry, I am dismayed at how many churches do not exemplify a Prolife message. I think that more often than not, church goers assume a church is Prolife but that usually isn’t the case. When is the last time you heard a Prolife message or sermon in your church?
This article is not for the church goer, this message is for the PASTOR.
It is a well known fact that teenagers that wait to have sex have been taught at home, by their parents throughout their childhood, to wait and to be responsible for themselves and others. That being said, if church goers were taught by the Pastor in their church continually during their walk about Life, there would be no question about abortion.
If there is no respect for Life, then how can there be any respect for anything else the Lord has deemed holy?
After being a member of a large ministry, I saw how little abortion, chastity and holiness really meant to the multitude, not every person, but most: it was only addressed if it was newsworthy at the time. Ironically, those three things are why the Church is failing – when God is taken out of the equation, you have nothing but a liberal by-product that is unrecognizable to God and therefore, not anointed by Him. When these things happen, your church has essentially become a bar without the booze.
Pastors and ministers have a huge responsibility to teach the ENTIRE flock, not just the pretty part that has all the money. The true congregation is made up mostly of people that are hurt, desperate and wounded by what the world has given them. There is a better way, the way of Jesus Christ. Our churches are not the ‘sin hospital’ they are supposed to be. I remember being a seeker, looking desperately for that one place that would extend a loving, caring hand…not more condemnation. My God of the Bible loves us in spite of who we are, not who we should have been. There are many, many Pastors, preachers and ministers that don’t teach the God of the Bible that gave His Son that I would live.
The Apostle Paul said this about false teachers – “But what I do, I will also continue to do, that I may cut off the opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the things of which they boast. For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.”
What about the congregation? What do we do to set ourselves apart from false teachers and preachers that do not exemplify Life and holiness?
Mark them: “Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.”
Go back to what the entire Bible teaches and find a ministry and/or church that has their foundation in the finished work of Jesus Christ – and LIFE.
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Posted by Rev. K.H. Marple on November 10, 2011
Election Day has come and gone and sadly, unborn Life is still at risk. Mississippi, which has some of the strictest anti-abortion law in the United States struck down the Personhood Amendment. Fingers are getting pointed toward who dropped the ball but the reality is this: The Church failed.
I get lambasted (off-handedly, I might add) by Personhood people because I support the Heartbeat Bill, which is incremental law. I kind of get why they are holding out for Personhood; we all want to see all unborn Life protected at every stage from conception. But what this last election in Mississippi has proven is that incremental law works, going for the gold does not.
The differences are clear – the Heartbeat Bill will protect life from a detectable heartbeat until birth. I know that means that not all unborn Life is protected (yet), but if you bear with me (and some of you have, thank you very much) you’ll understand why this bill would have prevailed in Mississippi. Personhood, if INTERPRETED incorrectly, which it was, will fail every time because according to Planned Parenthood who spearheaded the attack, it will impede a woman’s right to contraception and in vitro fertilization.
What did Planned Parenthood do? They went after the Church and it worked.
First, I don’t care what you believe…unless it’s coming straight from the Bible. In other words, just because you couldn’t have children does not mean you manipulate the hand of God to get what you want with in vitro fertilization. That is not how the God of the Bible works. There is no gray area; He’s God, you’re not. Instead of spending tens of thousands of dollars on something God hates, why not adopt children that are here and need you NOW?
Second, contraception has never been sanctified by the Church at large or God. It was accepted as a dismal fact that women in the Church will use contraception anyway and Pastors could not change it no matter how hard they preach and teach against it. Ladies, you cannot control the hand God. Life was meant to glorify Him, not get around Him.
Third, PRIDE. Planned Parenthood hit you where you are weak…your own pitiful ego.
PRIDE.
“These six things the LORD hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him: A proud look, a lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift in running to evil, a false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren.” Proverbs 6:16-19, NKJV
Christian woman were targeted by Planned Parenthood and they caved. I truly have to wonder if that woman is a Christian if they would actually consider in vitro and stand in the middle of the abortion fight not knowing where to turn.
Personhood was played well – a nice black eye for the Church. The innocent blood of unborn Life will be on the hands of Christian women that believe the lie that they can do what God does. You don’t believe in abortion? Neither does God. But you voted against it anyway.
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Posted by Rev. K.H. Marple on September 25, 2011
Having a revelation of LIFE is understanding the fundamental right to life of every human being, and that right is slowly being taken away from us. No one wants to fight for it like our ancestors did over 235 years ago; people fought and died for what we are letting go of in the present time. Civil rights and liberties in the United States is how we became a nation. Being oppressed and persecuted took us to a new world where we could express ourselves, be equal and have the opportunities to have opinions, much less utter them.
The act of abortion is a tool that murders an unborn child, no matter how much lipstick you put on it. It’s never the right thing to do or the humane thing to do. Abortion is a choice because the American people let the government into their bedrooms in 1973, citing a right to privacy? Their right to privacy became legal murder…talk about oxymoronic. Abortion, no matter how pretty you try to package it, is wrong.
Have you gotten a revelation of Life?
One of the biggest problems is that the Church is nearly not involved at all. The Church has clearly chosen not to do anything saying that abortion is a political issue. Murder is political? Somewhat, since Roe v. Wade; murder became political and legal in 1973. Pastors of large churches and denominations are scared of losing their big salaries if they take a stance on something as simple as the sixth commandment, “Thou shall not kill”.
Pastor, if that is your opinion, we need to talk.
The right to Life is slowly slipping away, one unborn child at a time. It’s time to save our children and take our country back from the tyrannical and the violent and give it back to God – HE is the author and finisher of all things, not our slippery government:
“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews 12:1-2, KJV
Pastors, we need to talk.
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Posted by Rev. K.H. Marple on June 6, 2011
In the city in which I live, there was a ‘pride’ parade this past Saturday. It was typical; drag queens in their best dresses and false eyelashes, rainbows everywhere, same-sex couples with their ‘kids’, in-your-face signs to incite anger to rage, straights nodding in approval ‘because they ain’t hurtin’ nobody’. Now, the conservative Republican in me says ‘Get out of my government’…but the Minister that I am says ‘WAIT A MINIUTE…..was that gay man carrying a CROSS???’
Yes, he was. Did you know there are over 234 known ‘gay churches’ in the state of Ohio (only 11 in MS)? Most of these ‘churches’ are from denominations that are known for espousing the Gay Agenda and the Abortion Agenda; United Methodists, Presbyterians, United Church of Christ, Episcopals, United Campus Ministries, Lutheran, Catholic, MCC…but a Quaker, Baptist and Mennonite church? WOW. That’s bad enough but these churches are teaching children in Sunday school and youth groups. It’s one thing to do something stupid enough to make God use the word ‘abomination’, but indoctrinating innocent, ignorant children in church and in school of your perversion?
There is no question that some of Gay America believe themselves to be Christians. Not too far from where I live there is a ‘church’ that is ‘pastored’ (yes, I said that sarcastically) by two men professing to be married to each other WITH CHILDREN. That being said, when others see this debacle, they believe it to be correct because these men call themselves Reverend. NOTHING can be further from the truth.
“Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent. But this you have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans*, which I also hate.” Revelation 2:4-6, NKJV
The abomination of homosexuality has been taught from Genesis through Revelation. The Gay Church instead tries to compartmentalize sin to make THE sin of homosexuality redeemable: ‘Is this relationship based on, and operating in, My love or not?’ (gaychurch.org). God hates the SIN of homosexuality (THE BIBLE), it goes against everything He has ever created. What the homosexual community does is emulate straight relationships and families to blend into what they truly want: to be normal. To be normal, ‘Christian’ LGBT’s has to give up their grievous sin and go back to the first love, fellowship with Jesus Christ.
Jesus said we cannot serve two masters (Matt 6:24); you cannot be gay and a Christian – it is impossible. Chapter 1 of the book of Romans says very clearly that ‘the men left the natural use of a woman’ committing what is shameful. Thus, ‘knowing the righteous judgment of God’ they have chosen what is ‘deserving of death’ (separation from God) as well as those that nod in approvement of such vile things.
This so-called Gay Church is dangerous; it sucks in grieving LGBT’s and their families as well as the local, approving community and progressive legislators. The Corinthian Church struggled with much sin and immorality that defiled the Church:
“Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.” 1Corinthians 6:9-10, NKJV
*The Nicolaitans taught Israel ‘to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality’; a group of anti-law practitioners who supported a freedom that became self-indulgence particularly in sexual laxity including all forms of immorality including homosexuality. Incredibly but not surprisingly, the Nicolaitans were of a Gnostic sect.
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Posted by Rev. K.H. Marple on January 22, 2011
A recent post on Facebook from an ardent Prolifer and sidewalk counselor said, “One of the moms who murdered her baby this morning had been given ‘assurance of salvation’ by her ‘church.’ She told me that she had ‘prayed about it,’ and was not to be judged by ‘legalism.’ Most of the people going into the abortuary this morning claimed to be Christians.”
“The Alan Guttmacher Institute tells us that 43% of aborting women identify themselves as Protestant, while 27% identify themselves as Catholic. If these numbers are accurate, that leaves us with the shocking conclusion that 70% of all abortions in the U.S. are performed on women who claim the name of Jesus Christ.” (Abort73.com)
Pastors, we need to talk.
Today, women and girls in the Church are struggling with or facing abortion. She will seek counsel with elders and pastors or church members she looks up to. Some will go to friends and family. Who will she listen to? Someone that will say it’ll be okay or listen to convicting counsel?
It’s not that easy anymore. Today’s church gives a message of hyper-grace that does not condemn sin but gives license to sin without responsibility.
Are Christians prolife?
“But the admission of abortion as a “tragic necessity” is also discouraging. It means that some people believe that abortion terminates a human life, and yet they still believe that there are circumstances under which this kind of killing should be sanctioned. I don’t know who scares me more – the abortion crusader who believes, against all the evidence, that the fetus is no more human than a blob of tissue, or the abortion advocate who believes fetuses may indeed be human persons and yet would still sanction an atrocious act of violence toward these helpless victims.” (Christianity.com)
Churches don’t preach on social issues enough and even believe that fornication and abortion can’t happen in their congregation; one of the reasons why Pastors think this is because they think that what comes out of their pulpit would keep women and girls from getting abortions OR fornicating. It’s a VERY arrogant stance on the Pastor’s part, to be sure. Apparently preaching SIN is not enough, Pastors and Preachers need to hit the nail on the head HARD in regard to fornication and the fruits of it, pregnancy.
Standing in the shadow of the Cross does not make you exempt from SIN.
There are too many Born-Again Christian women exemplifying a lifestyle that does not reflect a soul saved by Grace. Christian women, young and not so young, live with men or have sexual relationships with men without accountability and without the benefit of marriage. If there is no accountability, then abortion is just a liability of a life lived in sin.
“Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.”
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Posted by Rev. K.H. Marple on January 15, 2011
Moderate Prolifers are mostly interested in LIFE outside the womb; they have no regard for embryos being dissected for research, children with abnormalities are without use, and poor women have no business having another child on their tax dime. The Moderate Prolifer can’t fathom that they were once ‘unborn’ and they are alive today because their parent(s) chose LIFE.
A Letter to the Editor of the NYT (1/7/11) relayed a very moderate approach, if any at all, to LIFE whilst in the womb: [excerpt] “New Yorkers, Catholic and non-Catholic alike, recognize that abortion is a necessary part of any comprehensive reproductive health program. Nationwide, only 14 percent of Catholics believe that abortion should be illegal, and Catholic women, who make up a quarter of the United States population, represent a quarter of United States abortion patients.” – Jon O’Brien, President, Catholics for Choice.
I’d like to know how he did his calculations; his math doesn’t jive with stats from either side of the LIFE fence; catholic women make up over 32% of all abortions.
My personal experience with abortion and the Catholic Church is this: It’s okay for everyone else, but not for themselves or their family otherwise it creates stigma to the family; it’s okay to abort, but NEVER talk about it. Catholics like O’Brien want others to have ‘choice’ to alleviate the government’s load and keep poor and homeless mothers out of their pockets.
Experience creates knowledge…without experience you have no knowledge. Mr. O’Brien has NO knowledge or experience of abortion, like most prochoicers and Moderate Prolifers.
How can anyone that associates themselves with God in ANY fashion be prochoice? But many do. With Catholics, it is understood that times are changing so they bend and buckle to the world and forget the basics in doctrine. This is exactly why I left the Catholic Church; I couldn’t stand how moderate the church is in just about everything. Justification of sin is an art form.
Not without my personal experiences could I assume anything, but with my experience I can stand up and say out loud what we as Evangelical Christians need to do for the cause for LIFE….stand together as one with the Lord to preserve what He has Created.
“And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.”
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Posted by Rev. K.H. Marple on January 14, 2011
Does religion or religious affiliation have anything to do with abortion? Yes and No.
Understanding Post Abortive women is an on-the-job learning experience, unfortunately. A Post Abortive woman/counselor wrote, “She said she had supported the right of a woman to obtain an abortion, but had grown up in a Christian family and never thought she would have one herself.” I wish I could say I never heard that song before, but I have – in my own life. Over half of Post Abortive women considered themselves Christian at the time of their abortion, and many more were raised in a ‘Christian’ home (catholic, main-line protestant, evangelical, etc) but had negated or denied their faith:
“Women identifying themselves as Protestants obtain 37.4% of all abortions in the U.S.; Catholic women account for 31.3%, Jewish women account for 1.3%, and women with no religious affiliation obtain 23.7% of all abortions. 18% of all abortions are performed on women who identify themselves as “Born-again/Evangelical” – AbortionNo.org.
Women that abort identify themselves as having a form of religion either in their lives at the time or when they were growing up. Evidently, whatever their affiliation is, their church has not professed what the Bible teaches regarding killing or harming another person, whether that person is born or not yet born. There is a lull and even a complete lax in teachings regarding LIFE – all LIFE. Churches today consider teaching against abortion and homosexuality archaic and even blasphemous. Obviously these new church leaders are reading the newspapers and novels, not the Bible.
Today, what the moderate prolifer needs to remember is what Jesus said near the end of His own life, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself”. The ‘neighbor’ is everyone, born and not yet born – that being said is it okay to abort anyone if you are to love your ‘neighbor’?
God is not a respecter of persons (Acts 10:34); He shows no partiality to anyone; all LIFE is valid and precious.
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Posted by Rev. K.H. Marple on January 13, 2011
Don’t just drink the milk, eat the Meat.
I was perusing other blogs today and came across a comment made to a prolifer: How can you be prolife if you eat meat? As stupid as I think that statement was, to some it is a valid question. Let me try to explain:
“So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.’”
Part of the ‘abortion argument’ is clear in the above Scripture – we are made, created, in the image of God, not of anyone or anything else. God alone in His perfect Will created every human being to be born.
At any rate, God made man and woman in His own image and gave them (us) authority over all animals for food and covering, even after their disobedience:
“Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.”
God sacrificed animals to give covering with their skins to Adam and Eve. The argument is weak for a prolifer to question whether or not to eat the meat of an animal. What Scripture does say is that we cannot harm or murder each other, “Thou shalt not kill”, which is the other part of the ‘abortion argument’: We are made in His image and we are not to kill each other – or abort another for any reason.
Part of the conclusion is this: being a moderate prolifer is not helping anyone, only solidifying the need for ardent Prolifers that know LIFE is created by God and thus up to Him to take away, not anyone else. The moderate prolifer has to get from the milk of Scripture to the meat of it to understand the fullness of the Gospel regarding the complete message of LIFE.
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Posted by Rev. K.H. Marple on August 16, 2010
Entering through the narrow gate makes demands on the person passing through. First, you must enter alone. You can bring no one else and nothing else with you. Baggage not required; lack of faith, worry, your past, grief, hate. What is the cost? What is needed to go through the narrow gate?
“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”*
Don’t have to be rich; in fact Jesus said ‘sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me (Mat 19:21)’. That statement alone should not grieve you, it should relieve you. Finding out that there are no earthly goods needed is truly astonishing to the ‘rich’ man. ‘How can that be?’ the rich man wonders. While still on this earth, all that is needed is your faith, prayer and well shod feet; ‘Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature (Mark 16:15)’. If money comes, then I assure you He has a mission for it before it ever touches your hands.
Jesus made the way to Him so easy. Life is precious to Him; every unborn child that will succumb to abortion, children gunned down at school, inmates on death row, murderers – everyone. ‘If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved (Rom 10:9)’.
The narrow gate is not so hard to go through. Bring nothing, He has everything. Do you hurt? He heals. Are you poor? He has a mansion for you. Are you hungry? You will never hunger or thirst again.
What could you possibly have that he wants? Faith alone.
*Matthew 7:13-14
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Posted by Rev. K.H. Marple on May 17, 2010
‘Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.’*
There was a famine in the land of Judah, the Bible says. But instead of trusting God, Elimelech and Naomi took their sons and went to Moab (now part of Jordan). The origin of the Moabites came from the incestuous coming together of Lot with his eldest daughter, who bore him a son named Moab. Moab is a place of idolatry, sin and arrogance.
Can there be anything good that comes from Moab?
While in Moab, the sons of Naomi took wives, Ruth and Orpah, who were native to Moab. However, while still in there, Naomi’s sons and husband died. Naomi wanted to go back to her homeland of Judah and told Ruth and Orpah to go back to their own mothers – to stay in idolatrous Moab. Orpah went back; Ruth went on to Judah with Naomi. Ruth forsook her idols and trusted God…but she still needed a Redeemer.
We don’t know much of what went on in Moab with Ruth and Orpah. It was a pagan society. The Bible doesn’t expound much on the exploits of these women but we do know it couldn’t have been Godly.
Every day, we are faced with believing God or the world. As sinners, we need redemption. When Ruth chose God, she needed to repent and be forgiven. As I said earlier, we don’t know what happened in Moab – it was the choice of the Holy Spirit to not disclose it.
But can there be anything good that comes from Moab?
YES – good can come from Moab. Ruth came from a terrible place and found Redemption. Boaz showed favor to Ruth, rescued her – he was her kinsman-redeemer. Boaz would later marry Ruth and through the bloodline of these two people would be our coming Redeemer: Jesus. You see, God is in everything. When most people read the Book of Ruth, they see a simple love story but there is nothing simple about it. Our Savior would come from them!
Yes, God is in everything. Even in Moab.
*Ruth 1:16 (ESV)
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Still after all this time during my post abortive journey and ministry, I am dismayed at how many churches do not exemplify a Prolife message. I think that more often than not, church goers assume a church is Prolife but that usually isn’t the case. When is the last time you heard a Prolife message or sermon in your church? 
