Someday, posterity will look back on this generation and ask where we stood on the defining battle of our culture at this moment in history: The family. They will ask where we stood on a pivotal issue of that defining battle: Life. They will want to know if we viewed life, the way God views life, as a blessing greatly to be desired. Posterity will discover the truth — that most Christians of our generation, including Christian leaders, advocated the cutting off of the godly seed and unwittingly embraced the culture of death, by distorting the natural purposes of their bodies and thwarting the blessings of the womb. The result is a generation of males stripped of their manhood and women with empty wombs. The Bible calls debt a curse and children a blessing, but our culture applies for curses and rejects blessings. This will be the tragic legacy of far too many Christians.

All of this brings me to Knoxville. If there is one simple principle embraced by Bill Gothard and the ministry of IBLP that has left the greatest and most positive impact on our nation, it is their vigorous, uncompromising, unequivocating view of children as a blessing and birth control as a perversion of God’s design for husband and wife. Today, there are thousands of precious babies walking the earth because their parents heard this message from the IBLP ministry. For this I am grateful. Below is pictured a choir of “reversal babies” who came to sing praises to God. What a joy to see how God has blessed these many families who acted in faith to restore the manhood of the husbands and the wombs of the wives.

At the 2003 Knoxville home school conference, it was a joy to meet hundreds of families from around the country who had been blessed by the ministry of Vision Forum. One of the staff members commented that, before listening to the tape The Blessed Marriage, she had a very negative view of marriage, but that the message opened her eyes to the wonderful message God intends to be broadcast in the life of the Christian through the nobility and beauty of a Christian marriage. This thrills my heart. Also, exciting were the many young people met and for whom I signed bibles who commented that they had seen our film Raising the Allosaur. One little boy told us that it was “his favorite movie in the whole world.”

Dr. Jim Leininger and bride Cecelia spend a few moments together before he delivers a message to the main Knoxville auditorium on the significance of giving to the Lord. This message, borne out of a lifetime testimony of experience with both failure and success, was one of the most tender, personal, and meaningful messages of the 2003 conference. It is my hope that many will be able to hear the testimony of my dear friend on this subject so crucial to the Body of Christ.

The Lavin family is one of the many faithful families seeking God for healing. Please remember them and daughter Jaimee who suffers from a serious back problem. We have known and worshipped with the Lavins for several years. Their testimony of faith amidst excruciating pain has been instructive to all of us.