"The two greatest attacks of terror on America were perpetrated by the Supreme Court.

Not by any Muslim, but by the Supreme Court of the United States. The first one was the legalizing of abortion. Subsequent to that, there have been millions of babies slaughtered in the wombs of their mothers. It’s incalculable to even comprehend that. The blood of those lives cries out from the ground for divine vengeance on this nation.

The second great act of terror perpetrated by the Supreme Court was the legalization of same-sex marriage. The destruction of human life in the womb—in a sense, the destruction of motherhood—and now the destruction of the family itself. No bomb, no explosion, no attack, and no assault on people physically can come anywhere near that kind of terrorism. Our country is being terrorized by the people most responsible to protect it—those who are to uphold the law.

Just a few comments beyond that. No human court has the authority to redefine morality. But this human court has said murder is not murder; and marriage is not marriage; and family is not family. They have usurped the authority that belongs only to God, who is the creator of life, marriage, and family."  --John Piper

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MEME REPORT:
LEGAL ASSISTED SUICIDE IS A BLIGHT ON ANY CULTURE'S CONSCIENCE

Southern Baptist Leaders Say the Pope's Speech Was Troubling

Baptist Press Reports:

• Russell Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), expressed gratitude the pope spoke to Congress "about the dignity of all human life, whether the unborn, the elderly or the immigrant, as well as the importance of the family in a free and flourishing society."
  He went on to say, however, "I do think that the pope's address was an opportunity to address urgent moral issues like abortion culture and religious liberty with more clarity and directness than what was delivered."
  
  R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, said the pope's reference to abortion and marriage "was a very fuzzy and evasive approach that left many people wondering if he was actually talking about either abortion or marriage at all."
  The invitation by congressional leaders to the head of a religious body to speak to legislators also was problematic, said Mohler and some Southern Baptist pastors.
  "I wonder what evangelical religious figure would be accorded such an opportunity," said Mark Dever, senior pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., in a written statement for Baptist Press.
  
  Bart Barber, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Farmersville, Texas, told BP in written comments, "For Congress to treat a church as though it were a state and the head of a church as though he were the head of a state runs contrary to basic First Amendment principles of disestablishment."
  While he commended the pope's advocacy for the sanctity of human life, "together with our Baptist forefathers I ask our government not to extend special diplomatic privileges to the Roman Catholic Church that it does not extend to any other religion," said Barber, a member of the ERLC's Leadership Network Council.
  
  Mohler described the pope's address to Congress as a "troubling development."
  Baptists "historically have been very opposed to the United States government recognizing any religion or religious leader in such a way," Mohler had told BP before the pope's visit to Washington.
  
  "[I]t is essential to note that almost no one in the media or in the culture referring to the pope's visit identifies him as a head of state, although that is the legal justification for the fact that he is here on a state visit," Mohler said in his Sept. 23 podcast, The Briefing. 

Good News: Real Conscience Transformation Requires We Be Born Again.

Russell Moore penned an article posted at the Washington Post [A year after Ferguson, have white Christians learned anything?]. He summarized it with the following:

• The answer to racial injustice is precisely the way the Hebrew prophets once framed the answer to all social evil. It means working for courts and systems that are fair and impartial. But it doesn’t stop with policies and structures. It must also include people who are transformed, not just by greater social awareness, but also by consciences that are formed by something other than our backgrounds. For that, we need more than national conversations and policy proposals (as important as those are). We need, nationally, what Abraham Lincoln called “a new birth of freedom.” But we also need, personally, a new birth.

Moore was referring to Lincoln's closing line in the Gettysburg Address, in which he said "that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

So what was Moore trying to say? Was he imply that we should be born again or calling for total reform through other means?  Lincoln was praising the heroes who had died trying to do just  that....in the middle of a Civil War.
I doubt Moore was calling for anything that drastic. And based on his comments about "conscience" which lead up to the final sentence, he may have been suggesting the true transforming of a Christan's mind through being born again.

Now, why did I bother to bring this up? Because I was just wondering why he didn't just come out and say it. Did he think that the Washington Post's primarily secular audience that maybe they wouldn't get it? Or maybe they would be offended or turned off  by it? IF he was suggesting a born again experience, he may have missed a chance to just say it.....when it would have reached a large audience. It's an important message.And an important part of why it was called "good news.!"

The Gettysberg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. 

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. 

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863