Gospel partnership

That's what every church is to be - a society of people saved through the gospel, organized around the gospel, committed to spreading the gospel.

If this partnership were a living creature, the gospel would be the heart beating in its chest. If it were a high-rise building, the gospel would be the deep foundation embedded in the earth. If their partnership were a solar system, the gospel would be the blazing sun around which everything orbits. Through the gospel they have all been saved, and now they give themselves to partnering to spread the good news.

T Anyabwile
The Life of God in the Soul of the Church
CFP
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The Carpenter

The bent nail stares at me accusingly,
Useless
The Carpenter says nothing as
I place another and drive it in
Hoping to miss the tendons this time
Some of His blood touches me
But I don't feel blessed

Stephen A. Roberts

Abortion

The foetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, (homo,) and it is almost a monstrous crime to rob it of life which it has not yet begun to enjoy. If it seems horrible to kill a man in his own house than in a field, because a man’s house is his place of most secure refuge, it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a foetus in the womb before it has come to light.

J Calvin
Commentaries, Vol 3
Baker
p41f