The Biblical View of Abortion with Tom Pennington

Life and Books and Everything

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🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

What does the Bible say about life in the womb? When does life begin? What about personhood? What has the church taught about abortion over the centuries? How should we respond to familiar slogans like “My body, my choice”? In this important episode, Kevin talks with Tom Pennington, Pastor at Countryside Bible Church in Southlake, Texas, about his new book The Biblical View of Abortion: God’s Heart for Life in the Womb. Listen in as Tom and Kevin try to equip Christians to defend life and love the unborn, just like God does.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Sponsors

1:39 Greeting & Salutations

2:48 Who Is Tom Pennington?

4:16 Grace To You Origins

5:04 Tom’s Time In Texas

7:24 Let’s Talk About The Book

9:08 What’s Happened Since Roe v. Wade Overturned?

11:40 The Effort To Persuade & Promote Biblical View

15:17 Counterargument To “Historical Acceptance”

18:33 Counterargument To “Might As Well Make It Safe”

20:13 Counterargument To “Keep State Out Of Bedroom”

21:35 Counterargument To “My Body, My Choice”

22:19 Counterargument To “Can’t Legislate Morality”

24:30 Positive Rights & Negative Rights

29:28 Lack of Scientific Debate About Origin Of Life

30:25 How Do We Diagnose This Issue Spiritually?

33:55 Sponsor Break

35:54 Speak To The Person Who Hates What We’re Saying

39:42 Counterargument To “When Personhood Begins”

42:24 Connections To Jesus Christ & Christology

45:25 The SLED Acronym

47:08 Church History Related To Abortion

49:10 Rape, Incest & Life Of The Mother

57:04 Ending Treatment vs Ending Life

58:38 Pray For Us Pastor Tom

1:00:55 Thank You & Goodbye

BOOKS & EVERYTHING

The Biblical View of Abortion: God’s Heart for Life in the Womb by Tom Pennington

CROSSWAY | A Light On The Hill

DESIRING GOD | Be Happy Event

GREENVILLE SEMINARY | Pastoral Theology

WESTMINSTER SEMINARY | Theological Studies

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0:00.0	This episode of Life and Books and Everything is brought to you by Crossway, publisher of a new book by Caleb Morel, A Light on the Hill, the surprising story of how a local church in the nation's capital influenced evangelicalism.
0:19.3	This is a biography of Capitol Hill Baptist Church,
0:24.4	known to many people because Mark Devere has been ministering there for decades, but it has a much
0:29.4	longer history than that. I love biographies of churches or ecclesiographies and Caleb is very sharp, it's well researched,
0:42.0	it's well written, and whether you know much about CHBC or not, I'm not a Baptist, but I am
0:49.8	thankful for this church and love the work that Caleb has done to present this story to us.
0:55.9	So check this out, a light on the hill.
0:59.0	We also want to thank our friends at Desiring God for supporting the podcast.
1:03.3	You can join John Piper and other DG teachers on June 6 for an evening of teaching and worship.
1:10.6	John is preparing a live look at the book session.
1:16.4	Tony Rankie, David Mathis, DG, CEO Marshall Segal,
1:20.7	will join him and teach around the topic.
1:23.5	You still want to be happy what it means to desire God. So this is a live event. You can get online.
1:32.3	Space is limited. Go to desiring god.org slash be happy.
1:40.1	Greetings and salutations. My name is Kevin DeYoung, senior pastor at Christ
1:44.6	Christ-Cevident Church in Matthews, North Carolina, just outside of Charlotte. And I am joined today
1:49.7	with my special guest, Tom Pennington. And we are talking about Tom's new book,
1:57.2	The Biblical View of Abortion, God's heart for life in the womb.
2:03.3	Just a little bit, Tom and I were just saying, I don't think we've met before, but we have
2:07.2	lots of mutual friends.
2:09.4	Tom has been the pastor-teacher at Countryside Bible Church in South Lake, Texas.
2:13.7	That's Dallas area, right?
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