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Dr. Robert Gagnon presents "From 'Abomination" to 'Gay'": Focusing on the creation of Adam and Eve and other OT passages, this video takes on modern "gay" theology. Are God and the Bible okay with homosexuality as long as it's between adult, loving, committed partners?

An engaging debate on an ultimate issue: Just how does a person become “born again?” Scholars include: Dr. Bruce Ware, Dr. Joe Dongell, Dr. Thomas R. Schreiner, Dr. Jerry Walls.

The great father of the early Church, Aurelius Augustine, famously called wrote: “The Lord’s cross was the devil’s mousetrap: the bait which caught him was the death of the Lord.” http://abortionmatrix.com

(St. Augustine, Sermons, 261, trans. by Henry Bettenson, ed., The Later Christian Fathers: A Selection From the Writings of the Fathers from St. Cyril of Jerusalem to St. Leo the Great. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1970, 1977. p. 222.)

Augustine understood well what Paul had written to the church at Corinth:

“None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory” (1 Corinthians 2:8).

By inspiring the Jews and Romans to crucify Jesus, Satan cut his own throat. The “law of unintended consequences” went nuclear.

Through the cross the once and for all sacrifice for sins was accomplished, setting God’s people free from the condemnation and ultimate power of sin and its wages, death.

As a perfect keeper of God’s law, Jesus didn’t deserve death and so was soon vindicated by the Holy Spirit by way of the resurrection. This brought Him forth as the first-born from the dead and enabled us to follow wreaking all manner of disastrous consequences on the kingdom of darkness.

It put Jesus as a glorified man on the throne of heaven and earth and granted us sanctuary access – again with all manner of awesome benefits in our battle against the world, the flesh and the devil.

We could go on and on …

But God’s plays fair; His blessings are always mirrored by corresponding curses. If the one who was a murderer from the beginning can, for example, get us to commit murder, then all Satan has to do is get out of the way and watch as God’s holiness – and corresponding wrath – begins to burn.

Make no mistake about it: the Lord’s anger burns against the hands that shed innocent blood.

“… the Lord hates … the hands that shed innocent blood” (Proverbs 6:16,17).

“When you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood” (Isaiah 1:15).

“And they have built the high places … to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire … Therefore … the dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth” (Jeremiah 7:31-33).

Throughout the rest of his book, Jeremiah issues dreadful warnings about the judgments God was bringing against Israel for its sins – most notably the polluting of the land with innocent blood.

“… because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents” (Jeremiah 19:4; see also 7:6; 22:3,17; 26:15).

These judgments were fulfilled in 587 BC when the Babylonians sacked and destroyed Jerusalem, taking the wretched people who survived the holocaust into captivity.

On September 11th, 2001 AD, America froze in shock and disbelief as two planes took out the World Trade Center and 3000 people died. Cries of anger and vengeance arose that propelled America into wars that continue to this day.

Now, how do you think God feels when even more people die every day in America through abortion? And these deaths are not random acts of terror but are instead calmly sanctioned by our courts, protected by our laws and, for the most part, ignored by the church that God has commissioned to be salt and light.

How much longer do you think before the devil’s mousetrap is fully sprung?

An exposé of pop culture that uses the Ten Commandments as a diagnostic tool to “mark the music.” “…offers tremendous insights and an invaluable education.” Michael Omartian, multiple Grammy and Dove award-winning producer

From genetics to ultrasound, fetoscopy to fetal surgery, modern science has granted us an unprecedented look into the development of a pre-born child. http://abortionmatrix.com For example, only eight weeks after conception – around the time many women find out they’re pregnant – the baby’s heart – which has already been beating for two weeks – now has two chambers. Though less than an inch in length, she has started practicing movements, her face has begun to take shape, teeth have begun to develop, along with the legs, arms, feet, hands and eyes. It’s obvious that the developing fetus is no mere “blob of tissue,” as the abortion industry would like us to believe, but rather a remarkably well-developed baby boy or girl.

It’s no wonder that on the basis of the scientific evidence alone, many experts in the field will echo the opinion of renowned geneticist Dr. Jerome LeJeune:

“Life has a long history but each individual has a very neat beginning: the moment of its conception.”

But while genetic and other medical evidence certainly support the idea that human life begins at conception, the Bible, the very word of God – and not science – is our ultimate source for Truth. And the scriptures make it very, very clear that human life begins – and is sacred – from the very moment of conception.

In fact, it’s a fascinating though little known fact that one of the very names of God points to the sanctity of life from the time it begins in the womb.

In the 34th chapter of Exodus Moses appears before the LORD and intercedes on behalf of His people, asking God to reveal “His glory.” Part of the LORD’s response was to reveal to Moses the divine Name as well as key aspect of His nature:

The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord….“The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious.” Exodus 34: 5

George Grant: “The Hebrew word that we translate here as “merciful” – rachuwm – has as its root racham – meaning to love or have compassion. That word also serves as the root for rechem – the word that is used in the Hebrew Scriptures for womb – for example in the famous passage describing God’s foreknowledge of Jeremiah and the manner in which he was lovingly knit together inside his mother:

Before I formed you in the womb (in the rechem) I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you. Jeremiah 1:5

The womb then, in its original Hebrew context, was not only the matrix, the sacred place where a new human, an image-bearer of God was conceived, formed, nurtured and then born, it also was – and should be treated – as a place of mercy.

Jesus declared in Matthew 5:7, “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.” But the converse must also be true. When people, for their own convenience, send their swords into that place of life and mercy, defiling the sanctuary of the rechem – the womb – they would do well to consider Christ’s sober warning concerning the wages earned by those who use violence to accomplish their own ends:

“Those who live by the sword, shall die by the sword.” Matthew 26:52

Among the most profound, world-changing truths we can ever contemplate is that Jesus, the promised Savior of the world, God Incarnate, was: “conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary” (Apostle’s Creed).

When Gabriel announced to Mary that she was to conceive and give birth to the Messiah, she naturally asked how this could be — seeing that she was yet a virgin. The angel replied:

“The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God.” (Luke 1:35)

Gabriel graciously went even further, citing the incredible pregnancy of her cousin Elizabeth as proof that supernatural pregnancies are no problem for God.

The once barren and old beyond-her-child bearing years woman was at this point six-months pregnant with her son John – who would later be known as the Baptist. Mary responded with perhaps the purest expression of faith to be found anywhere in Scripture:

Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word. (Luke 1:38)

But it is what happened next that provides us with the most powerful and irrefutable argument for the personhood and sanctity of pre-born life.

In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah, and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and she exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! And why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. (Luke 1: 39-44)

Is there a connection between pagan religion and the abortion industry? This powerful presentation traces the biblical roots of child sacrifice and then delves into the social, political and cultural fall-out that this sin against God and crime against humanity has produced in our beleaguered society. http://www.abortionmatrix.com

Conceived as a sequel to the 1988 classic, The Massacre of Innocence, the new title, The Abortion Matrix, is entirely fitting. It not only references abortion’s specific target – the sacred matrix where human beings are formed in the womb in the very image of God, but it also implies the existence of a conspiracy, a matrix of seemingly disparate forces that are driving this holocaust.

The occult activity surrounding the abortion industry is exposed with numerous examples. But are these just aberrations, bizarre yet anomalous examples of abortionists who just happen to have ties to modern day witchcraft? Or is this representative of something deeper, more sinister and even endemic to the entire abortion movement?

As the allusion to the film of over a decade ago suggests, the viewer may learn that things are not always as they appear to be. The Abortion Matrix reveals the reality of child-killing and strikes the proper moral chord to move hearts to fulfill the biblical responsibility to rescue those unjustly sentenced to death and to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves (Proverbs 24:11,12; 31:8,9).

Was man supernaturally created and fashioned in the image of his Creator? Or did he evolve from an ape-like creature? David Aikman - renowned journalist and best-selling author - talks to a number of scientists who present compelling new scientific evidence supporting the Biblical account of man's creation.

An early classic that uses the research from respected scientists from around the world to question the foundation of evolution; proving that it's more a philosophy than a scientific theory.

See compelling new evidence supporting the Biblical account of man’s creation. Are the fossil remains of supposed proto-humans simply varieties of apes or merely true homo sapiens?

As the baby boom generation ages, technology advances and pressures continue to build on the health care system, this fascinating film on euthanasia raises a number of profound issues that are becoming more relevant by the day.