2. Life Issues Complicated Confusing Controversial Uncomfortable

3. Life Issues Complicated Confusing Controversial Uncomfortable

4. But now thus says the LORD, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.” Isaiah 43:1 What has God done that gives value to human life?

5. But now thus says the LORD, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.” What has God done that gives value to human life?

6. Created Your hands fashioned and made me. Job 10:8 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. Psalm 139:13

7. Handmade by God

8. Handmade by God “Do you question me about my children, or give me orders about the work of my hands?” (Isaiah 45:11) “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘You did not make me’? Can the pot say to the potter, ‘You know nothing’?” (Isaiah 39:16)

9. Created Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. (Psalm 51:5 NIV)

10. Redeemed You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. (Luke 1:31)

11. Redeemed Power of the most high (Luke 1:35a) Son of God (Luke 1:35b) The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. (John1:14a)

12. Redeemed God-Man God-Embryo

18. Redeemed Bought at a price (1 Corinthians 6:20a) Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood. (Acts 20:28b) once for all (Hebrews 9:12)

19. What has God done that gives value to human life?

20. Redeemed Created

21. Called [God] wants all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. (1 Timothy 2:4) Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. (Isaiah 49:16)

22. Redeemed Created Called

23. Concluding Quiz Why do we strive to protect tiny embryos in Petri dishes or frozen in a fertility clinic? Created Redeemed Called

24. Concluding Quiz Why do we speak up for those in the womb who cannot speak? Created Redeemed Called

25. Concluding Quiz What do we teach our little children so that when they are older, sexual promiscuity and abortion will be unthinkable? Created Redeemed Called

26. Concluding Quiz What do we tell you young people about your identity as you struggle with temptations and tough choices, mood swings and confused feelings? Created Redeemed Called

27. Concluding Quiz What do we share with that unmarried, pregnant college freshman who is ashamed and afraid and sees only one way out? Created Redeemed Called

28. Concluding Quiz What do we say to women and men crushed in the aftermath of an abortion decision? Created Redeemed Called

29. Concluding Quiz What do we share with the infertile couple desperately desiring a child? Created Redeemed Called

30. Concluding Quiz What can we say to those who miscarry a child they already know and love? Created Redeemed Called

31. Concluding Quiz What do we have to share with the frail elderly who wonder about God’s purpose for their lives? Created Redeemed Called

32. Concluding Quiz How can we help the family struggling with a difficult end-of-life decision for a loved one? Created Redeemed Called

33. Redeemed Created Called