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A Right to Die: Part 2

Autonomy
There are those who argue for assisted dying on the basis of a patient’s “right to die” as an extension of their right to life. One high profile example of this was Diane Pretty, who had motor neurone disease, who went to the European Court of Human Rights to contest this from the Human [...]

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A Right to Die: Part 1

Last night I gave a talk on physician assisted suicide. Here’s the first part. With thanks to Peter Saunders of CMF for much of the material.
Compassion
When looking at issues of death, we must remember that we are not dealing with an abstract, theoretical issue but with something that will affect everyone possibly several times during [...]

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Bob Kauflin: Sure and Steadfast

Bob reminds us that the most important thing as a Church is to be sure and steadfast, not to seek to be relevant, cool etc at the expense of the gospel which saves us.

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Suffering according to the will of God

“Let those who suffer according to God’s will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good.” 1 Peter 4:19:
John Bunyan had a pretty miserable life in many ways, yet he has some of the best things to say about God’s sovereignty in suffering and its ultimate fruitfulness. In his book Seasonable Counsel or [...]

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Wilson: poor quality atheism

Found this on the Huffingdon Post today in the run-up to the release of the Collision documentary:

The atheistic worldview is nothing if not inherently reductionistic, whether this is admitted or not. Everything that happens is a chance-driven rattle-jattle jumble in the great concourse of atoms that we call time. Time and chance acting on matter [...]

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