Doc Johnson, along with our good friend Dan Becker of Georgia Right to Life, are having a huge impact on the pro-life movement nationwide.  We are finally at a place where we can unsheathe the Word of God (Personhood) and rightly represent God’s heart and mind for his precious preborn children.  It is as we loose God’s Word on earth that He will open the heavens and do exceedingly, abundantly above all we ask or imagine. 

Personhood is simply the unsheathing of the Sword of the Spirit – God’s Word!  To most it appears as just an ordinary sword, another piece of pro-life legislation, but to those who see, it is not ordinary at all.

It’s just an ordinary sword, they say.  Yes, but behold the hand of the One Who wields it!

Personhood Ohio Threatening to End Abortion Statewide by 2015

 Contact: Dr. Patrick Johnston, Personhood Ohio, 740-973-7458

ZANESVILLE, Ohio, March 24, 2014 /Christian Newswire/ — Personhood movements are gaining momentum in several states, posing a major threat to legal abortion this year.

President of Georgia Right to Life Dan Becker was featured at Cleveland Right to Life’s annual conference, where he spoke on Personhood. He received a standing ovation after his lecture and volunteers gathered over 1,400 signatures for the Ohio Personhood Amendment and gave away hundreds of petitions.

Historically, Personhood movements and large pro-life groups like Cleveland Right to Life have not always walked hand-in-hand. In the 2011 campaign for Mississippi’s Personhood Amendment, the Catholic bishops were divided, with only half of them supporting the Amendment. Ohio Right to Life has not supported the Ohio Personhood Amendment and National Right to Life leaders have opposed Personhood Amendments, preferring to spend their resources regulating abortion and electing Republicans to office. In the past year, however, there appears to be a growing tsunami of support for attempts to protect every unborn child statewide in state law.

Personhood received a huge endorsement from a former Personhood opponent in North Dakota, Christopher Dodson. He is the Executive Director and General Counsel for the North Dakota Catholic Conference, the public policy voice of the Catholic bishops of North Dakota. He used to train personhood-opposing attorneys on behalf of the Catholic bishops. But not anymore.

Now, he encourages support of North Dakota’s Personhood Amendment, which will be on the ballot this November: “It gives the people of North Dakota the opportunity to decide whether the state should recognize a legal right to life for North Dakotans. A state constitutional amendment respecting the right to life is not unconstitutional. The U.S. Supreme Court has said that states may enact their own laws and constitutional provision to protect human life, including unborn human life. Nor is a state constitutional amendment respecting the right to life made moot by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on abortion… Let’s affirm in our state constitution that which this Legislative assembly and the people of North Dakota consistently affirmed with its own laws – that every human being has a right to life that should be respected and protected to the greatest extent possible.”

Following Esq. Dodson’s lead, the Catholic bishops of North Dakota donated $100,000 to North Dakota’s Personhood campaign.

Dr. Patrick Johnston, the family physician who directs Personhood Ohio, states, “As the Catholic bishops of Ohio have discouraged signature-gathering in their churches on the basis of some of the bad arguments that the North Dakota bishops firmly reject, pray that the Ohio bishops will now be open to protecting every preborn Ohioan in state law this year.” He says that Personhood Ohio will continue to lobby pro-life groups to endorse their Personhood Amendment and help with signature-gathering. If their goal of 385,000 signatures is reached by July, the Ohio Personhood Amendment will be on the ballot in November and a simple majority vote could protect every preborn child statewide by January 1, 2015 – including children threatened by abortifacient drugs.

Certainly, if Ohio passed their Personhood Amendment, the battle would be far from over, but it would be refreshing to see opponents of abortion unify behind a two-sentence Amendment that, for once, simply expresses what they all believe: that human life begins at conception and every person should be protected by law.

Dr. Johnston is available for comment through www.personhoodohio.com/contact.

Doc Johnston has written an amazing article which takes all argument away from the “Life of the mother” exception clause. I was so blessed to read it because, for the first time, I was able to see the heart of God smashing to smithereens this very subtle lie of the devil. Most of us have had great difficulty dealing with this issue simply because we are not physicians and do not have the knowledge that doctors have to know what God would have us do in difficult cases like “the life of the Mother.” Doc takes God’s Word and opens it up for us to see what God Himself would have us do.

Thanks for your labors for Jesus’ precious preborn children Doc. You have glorified our Lord (given the correct estimation of Him) and helped us all to unsheathe the Sword if the Spirit and allow it to do its terrible yet magnificent work!

 

Doc Johnston and his whole wonderful family will be with us for our National Event here in Charlotte this July 21-28.  They have been working hard for “Personhood” in their state of Ohio.  Most importantly, they have been steadily advancing the Kingdom of God in their neighborhood, their city, their state, and their nation.  Where does vision like that come from? 

From a family built upon the rock solid foundation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ! ~ Flip

A Milestone Reached En Route to Justice for the Preborn in Ohio

As of July 4, over 370 Ohioans have gathered 21,422 signatures and donated to help protect every preborn Ohioan under Ohio law. The past eight months, we have sent 40 thousand mailings and made 55 thousand phone calls! Tens of thousands of dollars of radio ads have gone out over the airwaves. We’ve been interviewed on television and radio, printed in the USA Today, World Magazine, in every major newspaper in Ohio, plus dozens of other newspapers and online news organizations. Praise God, donations come in as fast as we spend the money! The Ohio pro-life grassroots are showing that they are tired of regulating abortion – they want “liberty and justice for all” Ohioans! It’s so exciting to be a part of what God is doing in Ohio. The state that led the way in abolishing slavery is leading the way in abolishing abortion.

We have our sights firmly set on 2014 to get on the Ohio ballot. You can help us make Ohio the first state in the nation to protect every preborn baby since Roe v. Wade. Catch the vision! Don’t be a bystander – join the mission! Help us get into churches! Help us with desperately needed funding for mailings! Help us protect “the least” of God’s children. Visit www.PersonhoodOhio.com

to learn how you can help.

“That Photo Is Way Too Controversial!”Picture on the<br />
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That was the comment we received soon after we designed our last postcard, delivered to 10,000 pro-life Ohioans last week. The striking concept the picture conveys is a painful one to comprehend, but true nonetheless: abortion kills a baby and hurts a mother. Scientific studies are proving the truth of the claim of Scripture, that sooner or later, sin produces misery. Abortion increases the mother’s risk of breast cancer,  depression, suicide, premature deliveries of future babies, and a host of other problems, but you would never know that if you got your news from the mainstream media.

The Holocaust of over 50 million Americans can only thrive under an environment of censorship. The American public and the media cannot tolerate pictures such as the one on our postcard.

For being so accustomed to images of violence and gore from Hollywood, don’t you find their abhorrence at having to view images of aborted children peculiar? The pictures of dead babies killed by abortion paint a thousand words, and emasculates all of the pathetic justifications for abortion. Did you know that over the last four decades, abortion is the most common surgery in America? And yet it has been wholly censored from the eyes of the American public.

Sometimes, God leads His prophets to show the people their sin.

“Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show My people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins” (Isaiah 58:1).

 

“Truly I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin” (Micah 3:8).

The American public is way under-horrified by abortion. In our pursuit of justice for the preborn, one of the things we must do is awake the public to the horrifying reality of child-killing. We must show the people their sin. Just as a physician may need to show the patient the evidence of the diagnosis and prognosis before prescribing a remedy, those that have had abortions, paid for abortions, and justified abortion will never experience forgiveness until they come to grips with what they have done.

One of the ways you can activate the public to be concerned about the plight of the preborn is to share the images of aborted – images like the video on the website of the Center for Bioethical Reform – www.AbortionNO.org

. This video is a lightening bolt of truth to awaken people from their apathy and slumber. If you spread this link to your friends on facebook and on your Email list, you’ll find many of them will be enraged about the images of the slain, especially those whose hands are stained with blood. Be quick to offer the mercy available through Jesus’ death and resurrection. Others simply protest because the pictures are difficult to look at. However, if something is too horrifying to look at, it is too horrifying to tolerate. God sees these babies being dismembered every single day, and He is angry with Ohio for the shedding of innocent blood. We must feel God’s heartbeat for “the least” of His children, and we must be energized by His Spirit to intervene and “rescue those being led away to slaughter” (Proverbs 24).

 

To study more thoroughly the theology of displaying the images of the aborted children to the public, click here

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If It Looks Like Judgment, Sounds Like Judgment, Smells Like Judgment…

Storms Wreak<br />
                                                    Havoc on D.C.

Millions without electrical power…

Drought across the Midwest…

Washington D.C. blanketed in darkness for days…

Record-breaking heat waves with no A/C…

Violent, record-breaking storms in the east…

Record-breaking wildfires in the west…

Iran launches long-range missiles at mock targets…

Unemployment skyrockets as the dollar’s future grows grim…

Chinese stinkbug destroys tens of millions of dollars of crops in 38 states…

Obamacare becomes the largest increase in the size of government in our nation’s history…

The Republican-dominated Supreme Court lurches to the left…

More taxpayer funding of abortion…

In the Bible, the shedding of innocent blood was often the last straw before God finally sent judgment. God promised and sent judgments to Israel such as economic disaster, defeat in battle, natural disasters, and “madness of heart.” Because they did not end the killing of other people’s children, God told them “your children will be dashed in pieces against a stone” (Hosea 10). Under God’s judgment, the Jews starved, were crucified, and cruelly enslaved because they refused to repent and do justice to protect the innocent. Many nations and empires greater than us have been annihilated because of their sin. If God did not exempt Israel – His chosen people, the apple of His eye – from judgment for her sin, why do we act like the U.S.A. is exempt?

Our nation shows no signs of even slowing the momentum into socialism and godlessness. With the passage of Obamacare, we’ve never had more taxpayer funding for abortion in our nation’s history. Large pro-life and pro-family groups in Ohio watch abortion-abolition movements like Personhood Ohio from the sidelines, preferring to regulate abortion than end it. Entrenched pro-life leaders believe that we are obligated to submit to judicial tyranny, and that we need to work to get pro-life presidents to appoint pro-life justices. You’d think that Robert Thompson’s vote for Obama’s communist, abortion-funding healthcare bill would help them re-think their failed pro-life strategy, but they don’t appear to be budging. Too many of them are far too comfortable with child-killing. They don’t see “the hand-writing on the wall” for America. Judgment is coming to our land, and Ohio’s opportunity to avert judgment is brief. We must protect the children, or we will lose our freedoms and our posterity will be enslaved.

All God’s looking for is a remnant “whose heart is perfect toward Him” in order to “show Himself strong” (II Chronicles 16:9). All God’s looking for is a remnant to avert judgment (Ezekiel 22:30-31). God prefers to resurrect leaders out of the grassroots than to prop up the status quo. He loves to do exploits through His underdogs. Just as Israel’s faith was tested in the wilderness before they could conquer their Promised Land, so our faith will be tested, for it is through faith we’ll cross the Jordan River into our Promised Land of “liberty and justice for all.” Ohio’s Personhood initiative draws a line in the sand between those who “sigh and cry” over the sins of the land that are bringing judgment upon us, and those who are comfortable to conserve the status quo (Ezekiel 9).

Will you sigh and cry with us? Will you mourn the 25,000 Ohioans who are slaughtered every year in our abortion clinics, and pray for their deliverance? Will you believe God with us, that every child will be protected under Ohio law?

Below is a report from Nicholas Jackson, one of the young men involved in our National Event in Columbus, Ohio, in July, 2004.  Nicholas reports that another abortion mill, Capital Care  in the city of Columbus, Ohio, has shut its doors for good.  To God be the glory!

Enjoy!   ~ Flip

Dear Champion of the Lord and the Preborn,

Another one bites the dust! To those of you who remember our Walk Across America in 2004, our national event that year was held in Columbus, Ohio. A brother who participated in that event just contacted me with this note and article. God is watching over His Word to perform it, time and time again. ~ Rev. Rusty Lee Thomas

From Nicholas A. Jackson, “The Lord is moving in Ohio! Thank You Rusty for helping spur the hearts of the saints in Columbus when OSA was here several years ago! Here is fruit!” The following is part of the report.

An abortion clinic in Columbus, Ohio will be closing this week, according to local pro-life activists.

Capital Care has reportedly been plagued with decreased business and financial problems. They recently cut back clinic hours due to difficulty keeping abortionists. An increasingly strong pro-life presence in Central Ohio is credited with contributing to the decision to close.

The two abortionists known to work at Capital Care are Harley Blank and Thomas Michaelis. Blank, who also works at the Founder’s Women’s Health Center abortion clinic in Columbus was honored by Planned Parenthood earlier this year for his 30-year career as an abortionist in Columbus.

Michaelis, who now works at the Capital Care Network abortion clinic in Toledo, has a history of a different sort. In 1991, he was convicted of two counts of Attempted Gross Sexual Imposition, one count of Voyeurism, and one count of Public Indecency. The convictions involved incidents where Michaelis engaged in sexual predation on minor girls.

 I have received a lot of grief over this article which only reaffirms everything that we say, do, and stand for.  We have been “Personhood” since I became director of Operation Rescue in February of 1994.  Our “Emancipation Proclamation for the Unborn Child,” made its debut during the tenth anniversary of the “Summer of Mercy” in Wichita, Kansas, in July of 2001.  This proclamation makes it abundantly clear that the only Biblical response to abortion is declaring the truth of God’s Word.  “Personhood” does exactly that.  ~ Flip

Personhood – God’s Way!

Personhood is on the move in the state of Ohio.  Men are unsheathing the Sword of the Spirit (the Word of God) to cut the throat of the abortion industry and render it dead, Dead, DEAD!  Thank God the state of Ohio has some Godly men who have not fallen prey to the devil’s deceitful trap of praising the “Ohio Heartbeat Bill.”  This bill may indeed save some babies, but it will never deal with the sin of abortion.  The ‘Ohio Heartbeat Bill” represents the same tired and failed political strategy the pro-life movement has been initiating for the past thirty-nine years.

Incremental legislation is a failure because it always ends with the unwritten seven word caveat, “…and then you can kill the baby.”  It is a failure because it uses the devil’s means to accomplish God’s ends – the devil is the ultimate incrementalist.  It is a failure because it never allows us to wield the Sword of the Spirit – God’s Word is left in its sheathe.  It is a failure because it always seeks compromise – never a good idea to compromise God’s Word.  It is a failure because the devil himself would sign on to it – every piece of it! 

Yes, that includes the big three exception clauses (rape, incest, life of the mother).  It includes parental notification, the 24 hour waiting period, parental consent, fetal pain bill, partial birth abortion ban, infant born alive act, the Ohio Heartbeat Bill, ad nauseam.  All of these may save some babies, but they will never end abortion.  Even Dr. Dobson, a strong supporter of all this incremental legislation, admitted that, “…the Partial Birth Abortion Ban will probably not save one baby.” 

Unfortunately, for many of us in the pro-life movement, political strategy has replaced God’s Truth.  None of these pieces of political strategery, no matter how well-intentioned, deal with the sin of abortion.  They are simply attempts to regulate it so that a mother can kill her baby, and feel good about it.  That’s right!  The upshot of incremental legislation is that it assuages a mother’s guilty conscience for killing her child.  After all, she has done all she possibly could to have a safe and legal abortion, why is she at fault?  Unintended consequences anyone?

The one piece of political legislation, the only legislation we will support, is that which allows us to unsheathe the Sword of the Spirit (God’s Word).  Personhood is that legislation.  It deals with the sin of abortion.  It stops all compromise – let God be true and every man a liar.  It elicits God’s Help – He promises to watch over His Word to perform it.  It spells an end to the devil’s deceitfulness, for the Word of God exposes his lies.  It protects every child – no matter how small.  The gates of hell cannot prevail against God’s truth and God’s church.

“Abortion will come to an end in America when the Church of Jesus Christ makes up her mind it will come to an end – and not one second sooner.”   

Thank you Jesus for the Godly men in Ohio: Dr. Patrick Johnston, Pastor Bill Dunfee, Coach Dave Daubenmire, and Jason Storms.    Please pray for them.

 In Christian love,

 Flip

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The National Emancipation Proclamation for the Un-born Child

We, the Pastors, elders, and citizens of theUnited States of America do hereby declare on this _____________________, in the year of our Lord two thousand and __________, that all children, from conception forward, are human beings.  They are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 

In regard to these children, our government has been in overt rebellion against the Law of Almighty God since January 22, 1973.  The Supreme Court of theUnited States of Americadeclared that children in their mother’s wombs were not fully human and therefore not entitled to the full protection of the laws of our government.  Because of this open rebellion and blatant disregard for the Law of God and for life, our nation is suffering under the remedial judgments of God Himself.  Blood is coursing down the corridors of our schools, work places, and streets.  Because we have not hated bloodshed, bloodshed is now pursuing us.  (Ezekiel 35:6).

We, the pastors, elders, and citizens ofAmerica, do hereby this day hold the Supreme Court of theUnited States of Americain contempt of the court of Almighty God.  We hold it in contempt of the lives of the children it was sworn to protect.  We hold it in contempt of the Court before whom every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.

By virtue of the power and authority vested in us as pastors elders, and members of the Church of Jesus Christ, we declare that the lives of all children (born and unborn) are sacred to God and worthy of our defense.  We with one voice decree, the unborn child shall now and forever more be set free to live inAmerica.  He shall be welcomed in life and protected by law.  Upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, we invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

We enjoin our brothers and sisters inAmericato join us in this noble endeavor to speak for those children in the womb who cannot speak for themselves.  (Proverbs 31: 8-9).

Done in the United States of America______________________________________________________________________

                                                                              Signature                                                       Date

Personhood is on the move in the state of Ohio.  Men are unsheathing the Sword of the Spirit (the Word of God) to cut the throat of the abortion industry and render it dead, Dead, DEAD!  Thank God the state of Ohio has some Godly men who have not fallen into the devil’s deceitful trap of praising the “Ohio Heartbeat Law,” which may indeed save some babies but will never deal with the sinof abortion.  The ‘Ohio Heartbeat Beat Law” represents the same old tired and failed political strategy the pro-life movement has been initiating for the past thirty-nine years. 

Incremental legislation is a failure because it always ends with the unwritten seven word caveat, “…and then you can kill the baby.”  It is a failure because it uses the devil’s means to accomplish God’s ends.  The devil is the ultimate incrementalist.  It is a failure because it never allows us to wield the Sword of the Spirit.  God’s powerful Word is left in its sheathe.  It is a failure because it always seeks compromise.  It is never a good idea to compromise God’s Word.  It is a failure because the devil himself would sign every piece of the incremental legislation we have come up with so far.

Yes, that includes the big three exception clauses (rape, incest, life of the mother).  It includes parental notification, the 24 hour waiting period, parental consent, fetal pain bill, partial birth abortion ban, infant born alive act, Ohio heartbeat law, ad nauseam.  All of these may save some babies, but they will never end abortion.  Even Dr. Dobson, a strong supporter of all this incremental legislation, admitted that, “…the Partial Birth Abortion Ban would not save one baby.” 

None of these pieces of incremental legislation, no matter how well-intentioned, deal with the sin of abortion.  They are simply an attempt to regulate it so that a mother can still kill her baby, and feel good about it.  That’s right!  The upshot of all this feverish incremental legislation has resulted in mother’s feeling good about killing their own babies.  Unintended consequences anyone?

The one piece of  political legislation – the only legislation we will support and work hard to get passed – is that which allows us to unsheathe the Sword of the Spirit (God’s Word).  Personhood is that legislation.  It deals with the sin of abortion.  It stops all compromise – let God be true and every man a liar.  It elicits God’s Help – He promises to watch over His Word to perform it.  It spells and end to the devil’s deceitfulness – the Word of God exposes the lie.  It protects every child – no matter how small.  The gates of hell cannot prevail against this.

“Abortion will come to an end in America when the Church of Jesus Christ makes up her mind it will come to an end – and not one second sooner.”   

Thank you Jesus for the Godly men in Ohio.  Pray for them.

In Christian love,

Flip

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