Here's a basic yet profound thought from Nancy Damas Walgemuth.

People are extremely valuable.

Listen, you may love your pet, but I'm telling you your pet is nothing compared to you.

God has a unique affection for human beings,

for men, for women, for his creation

that it's different than the way he feels or thinks about any other

created thing.

This is the Reiber Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMasse Waldemuth, author of Surrender.

For January 18th, 2023, I'm Dana Gresch. Human life is precious. Why? Nancy Damas-Wagam is about to share with us the

biblical basis for the sanctity of human life. This message came from a

series she taught about the True Woman Manifesto which contains a statement about

the value of human life. By the way if you'd like to listen to that larger series

about the manifesto you'll find a link to it in today's transcript on our website

that's Revive Our Hearts.com. This teaching is

timely as this coming Sunday is the 50th anniversary of Roe versus Wade.

Now that ruling was overturned last year, but it's still an issue throughout our nation as the

banning of abortion is now up to each individual state. Now before we hear from

Nancy today we're going to begin with a poetic sermon written in 1927 by James Weldon

Johnson. Singer Wintley Phipps recites part of the poem.

Up from the bed of the river, God scooped the clay and by the bank of the river he kneeled him down and there the great God Almighty who lit the sun and fixed it in the sky, who flung the stars to the most far corner

of the night, who rounded the earth in the middle of his hand, this great God like a mammy bending over her baby kneeled down in the dust

toiling over a lump of clay till he shaped it in his own image then into it he blew the breath of life

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