Happy is the Man That Has His Quiver Full of Them

February 18, 2013 By 17 Comments
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by Bruce Gerencser When Polly and I married in 1978, we planned to have three children.  We wanted to wait a year or so before we started having children, but six-weeks into marriage Polly became pregnant. Our son Jason was seven weeks before our first wedding anniversary. In 1981, Nathan

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Should Christians Use Birth Control? A Guest Post

February 16, 2013 By 8 Comments
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by Ian – Guest writer from Bruce Gerencser’s blog  The Way Forward I am writing this in response to thoughts put out by Pastor Steven Anderson. Guys like this are sick in the head and very dangerous. Given the right opportunity, he would call his followers to take up

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Quoting Quiverfull: Trusting in Wisdom?

February 9, 2013 By 13 Comments
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by Nancy Campbell at Above Rubies “Whose Wisdom Do We Trust?” – February 6, 2013 I was inspired recently by reading again Psalm 104:24, “”O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in WISDOM hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.” There are endless numbers of scientific books which tell us [...]

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Laughter is Good Medicine: Every Sperm is Sacred

February 3, 2013 By 7 Comments
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With so many Quiverfull leaders, conservative law makers, Evangelicals and others wanting to redefine rape, conception parameters, tiny babies in the uterus from birth control and controlling every single aspect of reproductive

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Quoting Quiverfull: Birth Contol & Hitler (Again!)

February 3, 2013 By 11 Comments
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Kevin Swanson of Generations With Vision interviewing Christian filmmaker Kevin Peeples about his new movie “Birth Control: How Did We Get Here?” Peeples: It starts with men and women fighting and not being happy with the role that God put them in that he laid out in

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