Before I Formed You — Life, Death, and the Hardest Questions
The debate over abortion has been reduced to slogans on both sides. This plan refuses slogans. It examines what Scripture teaches about the unborn, the ethics of life and death, real reasons women seek abortions, the church's obligation to both mother and child, and extends to a consistent ethic of life including euthanasia and capital punishment.
Few issues in modern life are more painful, more personal, or more politically weaponized than the question of when life begins and when it may end. Abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment — these are not abstract policy debates. They involve real people, real suffering, and real moral complexity that slogans on protest signs cannot capture.
This 10-day plan takes the question of human life with the seriousness Scripture demands. It begins with God as the author of life, examines the Bible's direct statements about the unborn, and then does something few plans from either side are willing to do: it listens. It asks why women seek abortions. It asks whether those who call themselves pro-life are consistently pro-life. It asks what the church owes to both mother and child. And it extends the conversation to end-of-life questions that our aging society can no longer avoid.
What to Expect
Each day pairs key biblical passages with insights from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Tim Keller, Augustine, and J.I. Packer. The approach is deliberately balanced: it takes the biblical witness about the unborn seriously while refusing to ignore the suffering and circumstances that drive desperate decisions. It challenges the political left's reluctance to acknowledge the moral status of the unborn, and it challenges the political right's tendency to fight for life before birth while neglecting life after birth.
Who This Plan Is For
This plan is for anyone willing to think more carefully than the culture demands — anyone who suspects that the truth about life, death, and human dignity is more complex and more beautiful than any political platform has managed to express.