by John Ensor | May 5, 2020 | Biblical Thinking, Blog, Culture, Food for thought, Missions
Getting Back to Dangerous Living and Cross-Bearing Work COVID-19, death, social-distancing, recession, trillion-dollar spending, lost civil liberties, lost income—does not all this leave us sad beyond words? How will we move forward? Can we return to normal? Grieving,... 
by John Ensor | Dec 6, 2019 | Biblical Thinking, Blog, Food for thought, Missions
After Satan enticed Adam to join him in breaking faith with God, God announced his plan to fight for life and to wage a war of love against the powers of death. He said to Satan, “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her... 
by John Ensor | Nov 22, 2019 | Biblical Insights on Abortion, Biblical Thinking, Blog, Culture, Food for thought, Missions
In Oradea, Romania, Mihaela and Gabby Visan run a pregnancy help center inside a women’s hospital. Their effectiveness is severely limited by one fact: women must pay for their abortion before they can talk to anyone, committing them to abortion, even if they arrive... 
by John Ensor | Nov 7, 2019 | Biblical Insights on Abortion, Biblical Thinking, Blog, Culture, Missions, Music
Percy Bysshe Shelly once said, “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” In A Defense of Poetry, he explains, “The great secret of morals is love, or a going out of our nature. . . . To be greatly good, [a man] must put himself in the place of another.... 
by John Ensor | Nov 1, 2019 | Biblical Thinking, Blog, Culture, Food for thought, Missions
Almost eight years ago, I wrote to encourage the church to pray for the Third Wave. I argued that the end of abortion as a business would be in sight when the prolife movement was not only joined, but led, by Black and Latino Christians. I was wrong, at least... 
by John Ensor | Oct 17, 2019 | Biblical Insights on Abortion, Biblical Thinking, Blog, Crisis Intervention, Missions
All the women in your life have to be 80 years old or more to have gone through their child-bearing years during a time when abortion was not legal and accessible. Among the rest, 42% of American women have had one abortion by the age of 45 (abandoned or pressured, by...