Science tells us that the fifth week of fetal development is the time when the major organs begin to develop - in the Semitic world of the Bible, these core organs were considered to be the seat of the self, the parts of the human body that serve as a. physical mirror of the psyche.

Bible references included in this episode:

Colossians 3:12              Luke 7:22             Genesis 29:31              2 Sam. 4, 9

Luke 2:37                        Luke 15                  John 19:27                   Ps. 121:7-8

Ps. 73:21                          Prov. 23:26            Lam. 2:11                     John 11:35

Luke 15:20                      Col. 3:12                Deut. 4:31

Garabed Eknoyan, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, "The Kidneys in the Bible: What Happened?   December, 2005.

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As we contemplate the sanctity of human life, we must also contemplate the certainty of Death.  In the Easter season, we can recalibrate our understanding of the end of our fleshly lives through the lens of Christ's Resurrection.

In Baby Chris's Developmental Week 4, we will see how his rapidly developing brain is far from "just a clump of cells."

Bible references in this week's episode include:

Genesis 3:4         Psalm 139:16         I Cor. 15:26                John 11:38

Luke 22:44           Psalm 23:4            John 11:26                  John 20:18

I Cor. 6:15             John 2:19               I Cor. 15:53                Romans 10:9

Philippians 2:10   I Cor. 15:52-53      Romans 8:11

St. Gregory of Nazianzus

Institutes of the Christian Religion, 3.25.7 (John Calvin)

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Many men suffer from the effects of their post-abortion experience, whether their partner aborted their child without his knowledge or against his wishes, or if they engaged in abandonment of the child's mother, or coerced her into an unwanted abortion.  Because they have been denied a voice, many men have been unable to heal, and turned to self-medication to cope with anger and guilt.  

In the third week of Baby Chris's life in the womb, our devotional moment walks us through whether or not his birth will be good news.

Bible references in this episode include:

God's angel convinces Joseph not to divorce Mary (Matthew 1:19)

Sarah Mistreats Hagar (Genesis 16)

Leah grows jealous of Rachel (Genesis 30)

Judah's impulse to kill Tamar after learning of her pregnancy (Genesis 38)

Hannah's despair over Peninnah's fertility (1 Samuel 1)

Zachariah rendered speechless after learning of Elizabeth's pregnancy (Matthew 1)

Psalm 118:26

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Who knew that 4 in 10 church-attending Christian women have had an abortion? Why is it that most didn't seek assistance from the church when faced with an unexpected or difficult pregnancy?  This week's episode is a wake-up call for churches - and Baby Chris has reached his second week of development in the womb.

https://care-net.org/churches-blog/new-survey-women-go-silently-from-church-to-abortion-clinic/

Bible References this week include:

Luke 1:42-45      Genesis 16          Genesis 18           Genesis 25

I Sam. 1               Judges 13            2 Kings 4              Luke 1

Job 10:10-12        

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This week's article is a blog post reflection on the incarnation by Dr. Patricia Lee June, pediatrician and PPL board member.  Our second installment of the Baby Chris Project is titled, "April Fool" and details the myriad of traits contained in the preborn child's DNA during the first week after fertilization.

During the break you'll learn about the play, Viable - watch at https://www.christiancreative-media.org/

Bible references in this episode include

Jeremiah 1:5         Psalm 139:13-14

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Welcome to the first episode of the Prolife Kitchen Table!   Join us as I share information and answer your questions about life issues from fertilization to natural death.  

All of the materials used in this podcast are the product of four decades of work and research by Presbyterians Protecting Life – www.PPL.org.  This isn’t just a podcast for Presbyterians – all of our materials are useful for anyone with an interest in protecting human life at every stage from fertilization to natural death.  We’ll use both scientific and philosophical sources, and for our Christian listener, there will be plenty of grounding in Scripture and a Biblical worldview.

Most of the weekly topics will be available in hard copy from the PPL.ORG website and will cover a variety of subjects.  We’ll talk about what it means to be human and how everyone is human from the moment of fertilization, and that our time in the womb is only a stage of development like being an infant, a toddler, a child, an adolescent, a mature adult and, if we are blessed with a long life, becoming elderly; and how all those categories are categories of personhood and deserving of life and human rights. 

The Baby Chris Project was introduced as a way for national prolife organizations to educate others on the weekly development of the preborn child.  As its contribution to the project, Presbyterians ProLife published 40 weekly devotionals on its website at https://ppl.org/blog/categories/babychris .  Each week has photographs and scientific information corresponding to the developmental week, along with a devotion on God's view of life. https://www.ppl.org/baby-chris

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