Abortion

I've posted about abortion before, but I came across this and it gives some awesome points about the wrongness of abortion.  So I thought I'd take this opportunity to share an excerpt from a report presented to the General Assembly of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in 1971. It's not exhaustive, but it provides a solid groundwork on the topic:     

As we search the Scriptures for God's will concerning abortion, we find that the whole abortion issue can be reduced to one question: Is the fetus in the womb of the mother a human life? If the answer is yes, then abortion for the sake of convenience is murder, and the Christian church has the obligation to teach its members to protect and nourish the life of the unborn child. The sixth commandment gives an absolute prohibition against murder (Exodus 20:13), and so murder is never, under any circumstances, to be regarded as a moral option.    

 Often supporters of abortion confuse the issue by pointing to the financial and emotional hardships that both mother and child will face if a pregnancy is carried to full term. Certainly, the pressing social hardships surrounding unwanted pregnancies are enormous, but if an unborn child is a human life, some way of treating the problem must be found other than licensing the hospitals and clinics of our nation to perform mass executions of unwanted children.     So is a fetus in the womb of the mother a human life? I believe the Bible answers with a resounding yes! Consider the following evidence:

 God relates in a personal way to the unborn child (Ps. 139:13-14; 51:5; Jer. 1:5; Luke 1:44). He does so because the child is created in his image.

1.  The Bible teaches that both conception and birth occur because of the sovereign rule of God (Gen. 21:1-2; 30:1-2; 1 Sam. 1:19-20; Job 31:15; 33:4; Ps. 100:3; 127:3). "It would be a willful act of defiance against the Creator intentionally to kill an unborn child whose conception is so intimately a divine as well as a human act."

1.  The Greek word for "child" in Luke 2:12 (brephos) is used in Luke 1:41, 44 to refer to John the Baptist while he was in his mother's womb. A Hebrew word for "child"(yeled) is used of the unborn in the mother's womb (Ex. 21:22).

1.  Theologian John Jefferson Davis points out that "the personal history of the Son of God on earth begins not when he was 'born of the Virgin Mary,' but when he was 'conceived by the Holy Spirit.' His human history, like ours, began at conception."

1. John the Baptist was filled with the Holy Spirit even while he was in his mother's womb (Luke 1:15).

The Bible treats human life, from conception to death, as a continuing experience. To willfully terminate it for reasons of convenience is murder. Faithfulness to the Word of God demands that this truth be taught in the church of Jesus Christ.

Goats Currently For Sale

Hi all!  I'm probably going to be getting out of the goats here soon.  Firstly because my dad doesn't like them...secondly because I'm going to be graduating in the spring so I don't have time to milk a doe twice a day :) lol  We may decide to keep all or some of them if they don't sell right away - and I'll keep you updated on if they sell of if we're keeping them - just wanted to put this out there so if any of y'all were looking for some family friendly goats you could have this option.  So here are my goats that I have for sale.  All my goats are CAE free.  Please tell your friends about them and let me know if you or anyone else is interested in them!  Thanks!

Trixie

Trixie is a registered Nigerian Dwarf doe on her second milking - she's registered with the American Goat Society - her registered name is Redeeming Grace Trixie - her dam is Melody Springs Molina and her sire is Coyote Kidz Oreo Cookie - she was born on February 18th, 2014. She is a great looking doe with two moon spots on her belly, buckskin colored body with white on her face. She gives a lot of milk for a nigerian and has amazing tasting milk. I've had her as a bottle baby since a few days old - and I bought her from a great breeder. I've included pics of her kids from last year and this year - she throws some amazing colored kids! She is up to date on hoof care and de-worming, is being fed alfalfa hay now while she's milking, and I've always fed her organic grain, hay, de-wormer, etc. She's good with her feet or milk bag being handled and she never kicked at the stantion. Easy milker!!! Would be great for a family farm - great around kids!

Babies from her first year

First year kids again

Second year kids

Her bag is empty in this pic - I had just milked her out

This is Trixie as a kid

Tris

Tris is a registered Nigerian Dwarf doe - registered with the American Goat Society - her mother is Redeeming Grace Trixie and her father is Livin Dream Ranch Galileo - she's a dark brown color with white moon spots on her belly and white on her face. She's in with a young buck that was born here on our place this spring - so if you wait a month she'll be bred :) I bottle fed her from about a week old so she's a sweet tame little thing :) Would be great for a family farm - good around kids. She's up to date on hoof care and de-worming, and I've always fed her organic grain, hay, de-wormer, etc. I handle her feet and bag a lot ever since she was young so she should be incredibly easy to milk.  Asking $250

This is Tris (the dark one) and her brother at 1 day old

Buck

Buck was born on September 21, 2015. His mother's registered name is Redeeming Grace Trixie and his sire is Livin Dream Ranch Galileo. He will be registered with the American Goat Society. He has buckskin markings - and he is big and healthy. He is not disbudded.  Asking $100

Daisy

Daisy was born on September 21, 2015. Her mother is registered as Redeeming Grace Trixie and her sire is Livin Dream Ranch Galileo. She will be registered with the American Goat Society. She is a strong, healthy girl! Not disbudded.  Asking $200

If you are interested in any of these goats please call or text 406-381-3532 - thanks!

Photos Of Button

Button is now about 3 or 4 months old and growing like a weed!  She knowes sit, stay, down, shake, leave it, come, and I've also taught her a call! :)

 These are when she was littler but were so cute I still had to put them on! :)

Naughty girl!!! lol

Trixie Had Her Second Batch Of Kids!!!

On monday (spetember 21) Trixie gave birth to twins!  A buckling and doeling - they are sooooo cute!  They're buckskin colored with white spots.  I'll get them registered this week hopefully!  Here are some photos...

Here are mamma and babies :)

 And these are photos of the boy...

He is a cutie!

And here is the girl!

She's got more white on her than the boy

Sorry this is such a short post but I just wanted to get some photos of these sweeties on here before too much time got by :)

Adoption

Giving children up for adoption can be a loving alternative for parents who may, for various reasons, be unable to care for their own children. It can also be an answer to prayer for many couples who have not been able to have children of their own. Adoption is, for some, a calling to multiply their impact as parents by expanding their family with children who are not their own, biologically. Adoption is spoken of favorably throughout Scripture.

The book of Exodus tells the story of a Hebrew woman named Jochebed who bore a son during a time when Pharaoh had ordered all Hebrew male infants to be put to death (Exodus 1:15-22). Jochebed took a basket, waterproofed it, and sent the baby down the river in the basket. One of Pharaoh’s daughters spotted the basket and retrieved the child. She eventually adopted him into the royal family and gave him the name Moses. He went on to become a faithful and blessed servant of God (Exodus 2:1-10).

In the book of Esther, a beautiful girl named Esther, who was adopted by her cousin after her parents' death, became a queen, and God used her to bring deliverance to the Jewish people. In the New Testament, Jesus Christ was conceived through the Holy Spirit instead of through the seed of a man (Matthew 1:18). He was “adopted” and raised by His mother's husband, Joseph, who took Jesus as his own child.

Once we give our hearts to Christ, believing and trusting in Him alone for salvation, God says we become part of His family—not through the natural process of human conception, but through adoption. “For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship [adoption]. And by him we cry, ‘Abba, Father’” (Romans 8:15). Similarly, bringing a person into a family by means of adoption is done by choice and out of love. “His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into His own family by bringing us to Himself through Jesus Christ. And this gave Him great pleasure” (Ephesians 1:5). As God adopts those who receive Christ as Savior into His spiritual family, so should we all prayerfully consider adopting children into our own physical families.

Clearly adoption—both in the physical sense and in the spiritual sense—is shown in a favorable light in Scripture. Both those who adopt and those who are adopted are receiving a tremendous blessing, a privilege exemplified by our adoption into God’s family.