For several generations, our culture has struggled to define the value of human life.

And since January, marks Sanctity of Life Month in our country, this is the perfect time

to search the scriptures and discover God's perspective.

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuckswindall tackles one of the most sensitive and significant issues of our time,

with pastoral wisdom, biblical clarity, and genuine compassion.

What does God's word reveal about the value of life? When does life truly begin?

And how should followers of Christ respond?

Chuck titled this message, The Sanctity of Life.

I want you to picture with me the large, thick tapestry, the veil that hung in the tabernacle of God.

This beautiful, ornate piece of fabric separated the Holy of Holies from the general public.

The book of Exodus says that this veil was woven together by hand.

Later, in the book of Psalms, the Lord uses that same Hebrew verb

to describe his work in weaving or knitting together our bodies in our mother's womb.

Think about that.

In your mother's womb, God put you together just as it pleased him.

All of your design, including your interests, your abilities,

your skills, your gifts, all the things that you grew into as the years followed. These were originally knitted together by God. They were carefully designed in a specific

pattern while you were yet unborn. Amazing, isn't it? During the nine months between your conception and your

birth, God was hard at work. This process was so amazing to King David

that he wrote about it in the form of a prayer found in Psalm 139. Listen as I read verses 13 through 16

from the new living translation.

David prayed,

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