We all want out natural trees to be fruitful. Why not our family trees? ... It is not for us to cut off branches, hindering fruitfulness. Yet this is exactly what we do when we refuse to have children. To the natural man, it is not spiritual to have children. On the contrary, to the spiritual man, having children is not only for natural fruitfulness, but it also increases spiritual influence. Why? Because every child born and raised in God's ways has the potential to be fruitful in the things of God. No one in their right mind would go around lopping off fruitful branches from trees. Why do we want to lop off fruit from our family trees? Read more

The common misunderstanding about God’s command to “be fruitful and multiply” is that reproduction is a private choice, affecting only the private lives of each family (therefore, “stay out of my business”). We fail to understand that many principles of Scripture are not individualized; they are given to “a people” and the obedience or disobedience affects “a people”.  God’s ways are not always meant to be interpreted as a tool to improve or hinder our personal lives, though He is deeply concerned with us on a personal level.  But “His ways are higher than our ways” and we would do well to just trust that. Read more

A garden. It's meant to bear fruit. Seeds are planted, rain comes, sun comes, and God does a supernatural work under that soil that we can't explain. And no one scratches his head!!! Can you imagine..."Good gracious, CORN! Everywhere, corn!" Read more

I was intrigued by this question and the possibilities it presented, and I was not ready to accept the assumption that failure to aggressively treat an ectopic pregnancy amounts to suicide. I foolishly stayed up until 1:00 that evening researching the subject, and here is what I learned. Read More