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Nature's God

By Susan Tyrrel • June 24, 2010 12:30 PM

Part I- A Time for Mercy

It wasn’t that long ago that a Muslim cleric endured much ire and ridicule for making a statement that women who dressed indecently increased earthquakes. Unfortunately, his statement got linked together with Christian leader Pat Robertson’s statementthat the earthquake in Haiti was the judgment of God, and suddenly any religious leaders proclaiming judgment were taboo. Right or wrong, there was no allowance for anything so cruel, they said. Recently, undertones of judgment have risen again as people have speculated what could have been the root of such a massive oil spill that no man, apparently, can seal. While the accusations have been more freely hurled at BP, this time an interesting phenomena occurred—political leaders decided to call on God.

As oil continued to spill into the Gulf, Louisiana officials, on Father’s Day, issued a cry to the Father of creation. Lawmakers took a vote and unanimously agreed on a day of prayer for the state. State Senator, Robert Adley said, "Thus far efforts made by mortals to try to solve the crisis have been to no avail. It is clearly time for a miracle for us."

Perhaps the oil spill is a perfect, natural example of the fact we can affect our environment. In this case, it’s been tragic, devastating the waters, wildlife, lives, and livelihood. And with all the anger directed at BP, no one questions that we control our environment; it’s a very natural picture of this. But behind the scenes many ask quietly if there is any spiritual connection. The natural and the spiritual parallel, so what does this mean? Are oil spills, earthquakes, and other natural disasters really judgment? And if they are, will American really judged for its holocaust of abortion?

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When The Past Becomes The Future

By Susan Tyrrel • June 14, 2010 02:53 PM

Last week I wrote a series for Bound4LIFE on abortion’s financial industry and its connections to the holocaust, which took me back a decade. In 2000 I wrote my master’s thesis, which happened to be on children's literature, using the novels Number the Stars and The Giver. The former is a beautiful story set in the Danish resistance in the Holocaust, the is latter a futuristic tale where society neutralizes everyone, getting rid of anything deemed inferior for the sake of the larger community. The title of my thesis was Hurtling Forward into the Past. The point I asserted was that if we continued in our present culture we would literally march forward into the past by creating a society in which we had a new and bigger holocaust because it would no longer be limited to only one people group.

Writing that thesis occurred in the same season as my revelation of real Christianity as it crashed against secular humanism in academia. Graduate school gave me a master’s degree, but it felt more like it was in theology than English. I was challenged, and I found my faith in my secular university. Writing that thesis taught me what I live by now; you have to know what you believe and why you believe it before it is challenged, or it won’t survive. The family in the Holocaust novel already has that firm foundation and they do not hesitate to join the resistance movement. In the futuristic novel, the community has been desensitized by accepting things without challenge. No one can remember back to the time when people thought and acted freely. They have become a non-thinking people, subject to the control of very nice but inwardly wicked rulers.

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A Holocaust By Any Other Name Is Still A Holocaust

By Susan Tyrrel • May 18, 2010 11:33 AM

We call abortion a Holocaust not only because of the mass destruction of a single people group but because it’s a calculated and systemic destruction which began with a goal to weed out what was termed an “inferior” people.

Any look at the writings of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger reminds us that abortion is not, and was never meant to be, a simple operation. Here’s a brief sample:

In her 1920 book, Woman and the New Race, Sanger explicitly called her work "nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or those who will become defectives." As she wrote in The Birth Control Review, "the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the overfertility of the mentally and physically defective." (source)

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Medicine And The Holocaust

By Susan Tyrrel • February 18, 2010 02:51 PM

The more I learn about World War II, Hitler, eugenics and extermination of people groups, the more stunned I am at the double talk which emits from the mouths of those who would dub themselves pro-choice but who would, with another breath, condemn Hitler.

The fact is, supporting the alleged right to an abortion is tantamount to making a pact with Hitler to destroy people deemed less valuable. Hitler called them Jews. Pro-abortion folks call them “unplanned pregnancies.” There exists no difference in the outcome. Semantics never change reality.

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The Subtle Enemy

By Susan Tyrrel • February 10, 2010 01:00 PM

The first Holocaust is the one most people talk about still. Hitler. Germany. The attempted extermination of the Jews. It was, inarguably, one of the greatest horrors in this history of the world. That will never change.

What has changed are the enemy’s methods.

In Rees Howell’s Intercessor, the chronicle of Howells’ fight against Hitler and the Nazis through prayer strikes a familiar chord to those of us fighting the current holocaust attempting to exterminate a generation through abortion.

A common accusation against people like me is that we exaggerate when we use terms like genocide or holocaust. First let’s look at those definitions. According to the Random House Dictionary, holocaust meanings include: “any mass slaughter or reckless destruction of life.” Genocide means “the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.”

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Christina Martin is the director of Bound4Life Atlanta and an intercessory missionary at the International House of Prayer Atlanta. For the past 4 years Christina has given herself to the occupation of intercession. It’s her full time job to stand before heaven and earth, God and man, asking for mercy and crying out for truth. She prays, God hears, He moves, She is happy.

Christina is committed to fighting for the unborn. She feels for them because she herself had an appointment to die. Literally. 28 years ago her mother was sitting in a hospital room, waiting for the abortion doctor to call her into his office. An elderly black janitor saw her mom crying and asked her one question “Do you want to have this baby”? Her mom said yes, and the rest was history. She walked out of that clinic with hope in her heart and Christina still safely in her womb.

While in D.C God gave Christina a burden for the African-American community. She was shocked to find out how her race has been targeted by Planned Parenthood from the start of their organization. Christina is convinced she will see Roe v. Wade overturned and abortion end in her lifetime.
Ian Kelly is the "arm chair pundit" at Moral Outcry. He has worked full time for Bound4LIFE since 2007. His other responsibilities include local chapter development and new media communications. Besides being a political junkie, he enjoys history, sci-fi, super heroes and grilling.
Jess Clark divides her time between writing, breaking up fights over Buzz Lightyear, and traveling with a missionary rock and roll band. She and her husband Richy are the parents of 3 small-ish children and are in the process of adopting a 4th.
Kaitlin comes from a family with a long history of pro-life activism having had to bail her father out of jail more than 50 times for efforts to protect the unborn and free speech. She's only been arrested herself on two occasions, but that's enough for street cred. Kaitlin captures the voice of a young generation desperately trying to reconcile Biblical truths with practical application in culture. In fact, she IS the voice of Bound4LIFE videos like "The Numbers Don't Lie" and "Houston, Now Is The Time."
Matt is a husband and proud father of four children. He's a full-time missionary serving as the Director of Bound4LIFE and the Justice House of Prayer DC. Formerly he had a career in advertising and marketing. Periodically he really wishes he had paid more attention in Government class.
Susan Tyrrel is active in Bound4LIFE and works with prayer ministries. She has a Ph.D. in educational psychology from Texas A&M University, and uses her academic skills both inside and outside academia. Currently, she is writing a book on Christian community.
Tiffani Edwards works with a pregnancy resource center in Arizona and is in leadership over the Phoenix House of Prayer. Before living in AZ she was on staff with the Justice House of Prayer in Washington, D.C. for almost 4 years. It was while being in D.C. that her passion for governmental intercession and the ending of abortion was birthed.

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