Old age

Pastor Steve Jeffrey of North London's Emmanuel Evangelical Church has updated the life expectancy stats for the UK by taking into account the slaughter of the unborn. Demographers brag about gains in life expectancy but they don't count the...

So many people have forwarded links to this article that I stop my work to post it here for those who haven't yet read it. As one young student at Clearnote Pastors College notes, although the article is on the population decline in these United States, it touches a number of other important subjects including, "children not caring for their parents because of Social Security, outsourcing our fertility to Hispanics, and college being detrimental to fertility."

(TB: This pic taken of my mother-in-law, Mrs. Ken (Margaret) Taylor, yesterday on the front lawn of her house in Wheaton was on the occasion of our celebration of Mom's ninety-fifth birthday. The following post first ran here on Baylyblog back in 2004. It is a tribute to Mom Taylor and David's and my mother, Mrs. Joe (Mary Lou) Bayly. Both are mothers in Israel and we give God thanks for them.)

My mother-in-law studied for her degree in Home Economics during the late '30s and early '40s, graduating summa cum laude from Oregon State University. After marrying her childhood sweetheart, she gave birth to 10 children in 14 years. Her husband, engaged for most of the years when the family was young as editorial director of a religious publishing house, brought home low wages, so frugality was a necessity and the degree served this young mother and her family well.

He was my friend, faithful and just to me:

And Brutus is an honourable man.

(Tim, w/thanks to many) Like Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, Jim Dobson's breakout book, Dare to Discipline, was rejected by many publishers before one gave it a try--in Dobson's case, my father-in-law's Tyndale House Publishers. Later, Dad Taylor gave money to Jim to do a radio show, and the rest is history.

I am not ashamed of Dr. James Dobson. Rather, I've long expressed my deep gratitude for Jim's work on the air and in print. Few men have contributed so much Biblical instruction to my flocks. When the history of the late twentieth century is written, it will become clear Jim was one of the most courageous warriors for truth and mercy and justice in these United States.

You may have noticed on this blog that I've never mentioned the name of that publication in Wheaton calling itself Christianity Today. One reason is their sotto voce attacks on Jim Dobson. Among Wheaton's detelligentsia, it's hip to smirk when Dobson's name comes up, and CT has taken its cue and place among the pea-shooters.

This has been very discouraging for Jim; it's hurt him, his wife Shirley, and their children.

I can hear the exclamations: "Hello! How does Tim Keller feel about your criticism, dude? Something about the splinter and the log!"

Fair enough...

For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest upon the land of the righteous, So that the righteous will not put forth their hands to do wrong.  - Psalm 125:3

(Tim) Government funding always means more government control. Always. And today, that cannot possibly be good news.

More

government control will lead to less compassion (for single mothers,

for instance), responsibility (for single fathers, for instance),

justice (for unborn children, for instance), mercy (for the homeless,

for instance), truth (for children educated in government schools, for

instance) and freedom for citizens forced to foot the bill for

government's aborting those very virtues her subjects hold dear.

This

is the reason compassionate, responsible, just, merciful, and truthful

Americans are joining Libertarian ranks in droves. They've read Paul

Johnson's Intellectuals

and learned that the sort of leaders profiled by the New Yorker and the NYTimes Magazine will talk about love for the people and national compassion while demonstrating an

astounding selfishness in their own personal lives.

Need I list examples?

Hillary Clinton of It Takes a Village

fame? Her husband, Bill? The latest entrant into the race for that

moral squalor called the Office of Governor of the State of New York,

Rudy Giuliani? Our resident global-warming prophet safely ensconced in his

carbon-spewing mansion (except when he's flying in his carbon-spewing coporate jets), Al Gore?

Democrats

won this last election by hoodwinking young and middle-aged

"Christians" who had been softened up to the deception by years of

being inoculated against all discernment by ear-scratchers like Rob

Bell and Brian McLaren. Their pastors had turned them into easy marks

for Barack Obama's lies.

But among those who saw through

President Obama's lies...

(Tim, w/thanks to James) Who are my heroes from the last half of the twentieth century? Among others, Mother Teresa, John Cardinal O'Connor, Francis Schaeffer, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Joe Sobran, Iain Murray, Dad and Mom (Ken & Margaret) Taylor, John Piper, Dad and Mud (Joe & Mary Lou) Bayly, Elisabeth Elliot, Erwin Raphael McManus, Paige Patterson, Mrs. Kent (Barbara) Hughes, Doug Wilson, and

Alexander Solzhenitsyn. (One of these is a joke--you figure it out.)

About twenty years ago, I read Michael Scammell's Solzhenitsyn: A Biography. A very long read, it was superb and I commend it although I'm sure it's been superseded in more recent years. Personally, I'd attribute the fall of Communism more to Solzhenitsyn's courageous writing than any other factor, including Reagan's famous...

(Tim) Tomorrow is Mother's Day, so here are pictures of David's and my mother, Mary Louise Bayly, and my father and mother-in-law, Ken and Margaret Taylor (Dad Taylor is deceased).

And honoring God Who gave us motherhood, here's a sermon on a wonderful Mother's Day text--Isaiah 60:10-14. This was the funeral sermon given several years ago on the occasion of the death of Bloomington's mother-in-Israel, Rita Cuffey...

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints. Psalm 116:15