Latest abortion statistics reveal America continues to be a murderous nation ! (John Piper)

January 23, 2008

America has become the most permissive of all democratic societies in the modern world when it comes to abortion!

John Piper, in his book, Hunger for God, has a chapter entitled, Fasting for the Little Ones, that’s so timely given the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

An excerpt:

But I wonder if many of the young scholars and activists (now in their forties and fifties!) whom [Francis Schaeffer] inspired need to hear a balancing word about the power of prayer and fasting, not as an alternative to thinking and acting, but as a radical foundation that says, “The victory belongs to the Lord, even if the horse (of scholarship and politics) is made ready for the day of battle” (see Proverbs 21:31). Listen to the books crying out for evangelical renewal and reformation in the life of the mind, the restoration of Truth in the place of technique, the recovery of church social compassion from government powerlessness, the taking of moral high ground in the environmental cause, and many other causes. Is there a sense in each of these that the root issues are so intractable to human suasion that the call for fasting and prayer would not only be fitting but desperately needed? I am commending such a call.

Download Fasting for the Little Ones here.

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