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W. Ross Blackburn, who lives with his family in Tennessee, has been a pastor in the Anglican Church in North America for 20 years. He has a PhD (Old Testament) from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and has written articles for the Human Life Review and Touchstone, as well as educational materials for Anglicans for Life. Rev. Blackburn and his wife Lauren, married for 31 years, have shared homeschooling responsibility for their five children.

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When the Church is silent, we incur guilt before God (When the Church is Silent, # 6 of 10)

12 Oct 2018

You shall not murder (Exod 20:13). Let’s take for granted the obvious—abortion kills a human baby—and explore what may not be entirely clear—the responsibility that the Church bears in a world of abortion on demand. There is an obscure ritual commanded in the Old Testament,...

When the Church is silent, we forsake other children (When the Church is Silent, # 5 of 10)

24 Sep 2018

W. Ross Blackburn

Honor your father and your mother (Exod 20:12). The fifth word above rests upon an important presumption: Fathers and mothers must be worthy of honor. Yet we live in a world that suggests that honor lies principally apart from one’s children. Or, to say it a bit more...

When the Church is silent, we leave people in despair (When the Church is Silent, # 4 of 10)

05 Sep 2018

W. Ross Blackburn

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy (Exod 20:8). Have you ever wondered why Jesus healed so regularly on the Sabbath? Considering the danger He faced for so doing, why did Jesus seem to choose the Sabbath for healing? To understand, let’s briefly look at the Sabbath....

When the Church is silent, we lie about God’s character (When the Church is Silent #3 of 10)

30 Aug 2018

W. Ross Blackburn

You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain (Exod 20:7). “My walk is a public one. My business is in the world; and I must mix in the assemblies of men, or quit the post which Providence seems to...

When the Church is silent, we forsake the worship of God (When the Church is Silent #2 of 10)

22 Aug 2018

W. Ross Blackburn

You shall have no other gods before me . . . You shall not make for yourself a carved image . . . You shall not bow down to them or serve them . . . (Exodus 20:3-6). The first commandment in the Decalogue concerns worship, forbidding the worship of anything apart from God alone....

When the Church is silent, we have forgotten who we are (When the Church is Silent #1 of 10)

13 Aug 2018

W. Ross Blackburn

I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery (Exod 20:2). The Lord constantly reminds His people of who He is. In the Old Testament, the Lord instituted the Passover as an annual reminder that He delivered Israel from slavery. In...

Life in Crisis

13 Jul 2018

W. Ross Blackburn

Incline your ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy” (Psalm 86:1). Years ago, pregnancy care centers were typically called “crisis pregnancy centers.” I am not sure why most centers dropped the term “crisis,” but I suspect it had something to do with letting women...

We Want What We Want

27 Jun 2018

W. Ross Blackburn

slavery

One evening in 1787 a young English M.P. pored over papers by candlelight in his home beside the Houses of Parliament. Wilberforce had been asked to propose the Abolition of the Slave Trade although almost all Englishmen thought the Trade necessary, if nasty, and that economic...

The Business of Bribery

16 May 2018

W. Ross Blackburn

Cursed be anyone who takes a bribe to shed innocent blood. And all the people shall say “Amen” (Deuteronomy 27:25). It is hard to imagine anyone objecting to the Old Testament forbidding bribery in the service of murder. One would think such a law would be axiomatic in...

Woven by God

07 May 2018

W. Ross Blackburn

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the...

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W. Ross Blackburn

When the Church is silent, we incur guilt before God (When the Church is Silent, # 6 of 10)

When the Church is silent, we forsake other children (When the Church is Silent, # 5 of 10)

When the Church is silent, we leave people in despair (When the Church is Silent, # 4 of 10)

When the Church is silent, we lie about God’s character (When the Church is Silent #3 of 10)

When the Church is silent, we forsake the worship of God (When the Church is Silent #2 of 10)

When the Church is silent, we have forgotten who we are (When the Church is Silent #1 of 10)

Life in Crisis

We Want What We Want

The Business of Bribery

Woven by God

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