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‘Jesus Calling’ Author Sarah Young Dies at 77

‘Jesus Calling’ author Sarah Young passed away from cancer Thursday night, just days after it was reported she was failing health. She was 77.

Published in 2004, Jesus Calling has 45 million copies in print. It is one of the most recognizable devotional books in recent history and has spawned a multitude of spin-offs, all the while being one of the most dangerous books released in the last twenty years for it’s espousal of mysticism, speaking for God, extra-biblical assertions, automatic writing, and rejecting the sufficiency of the scriptures.

In an obituary released by her publisher, Laura Minchew, Senior Vice President and Group Publisher of the Children’s and Gift Book Group at Harper Collins Christian Publishing, writes, “Sarah was a dear friend who will be deeply missed. Through nearly 20 years of publishing with Sarah, I had a firsthand seat at seeing millions of lives changed through the Jesus Calling books. Her books have met people in their darkest hours, taught children about Jesus, and changed lives for eternity. Knowing Sarah professionally and personally has been the privilege of a lifetime.”

Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, Sarah earned her undergraduate degree in philosophy. She credited her background in philosophy and Francis Schaeffer’s Escape from Reason as her motivation for studying with L’Abri Fellowship, a Christian community in a tiny Alpine village in France, where she became a Christian. Sarah earned a master’s degree in biblical studies and counseling from Covenant Theological Seminary. There she met Stephen Young, whom she married in 1977.

In 1977, Sarah and Stephen joined World Presbyterian Missions, which in 1983 merged into Mission to the World (MTW), the global missions-sending agency of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). They spent eight and a half years planting churches and ministering in Japan. From 1987 to 1991, Sarah and Stephen were on loan to Mission to North America, working with the Westminster Japanese Church in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1991, Sarah and Stephen moved to Melbourne, Australia, and began a Japanese language church in cooperation with the Presbyterian Church of Victoria. In 2001, the Youngs moved to Perth, where Sarah began contemplating and eventually revising her personal devotional journals into the manuscript for what would become Jesus Calling. In 2013, Steve and Sarah returned to Nashville, Tennessee, where they remained active with the PCA.

Sarah is survived by her husband, two children, and six grandchildren.

‘Pro-Life Evangelicals for Biden’ Has Died

10 months ago, ‘Pro-Life Evangelicals for Biden’ launched to much fanfare. These men and women championed voting for the Democrats as having the most pro-life ethic of all. After a quick perusal of their mission statement and signees, it quickly became apparent that it’s about as dismal of a group as one might expect. After months of waiting to see which treacherous high-profile evangelicals would go a-dancing with the Democrats, it became clear that no one really did

Calling themselves “Evangelicals leaders’ and deeming the Democrat’s overall agenda to be closer than the Republicans of what they understand a “biblically balanced agenda” to be, the list of primary signers included:

Richard Mouw, President emeritus of Fuller Seminary (And The Gospel Coalition contributor)
John Huffman, Board Chair emeritus, Christianity Today
Jerushah Duford, “Billy graham’s granddaughter”
Ron Sider, President emeritus, Evangelicals for Social Action,
Brenda Salter McNeil, Pastor and Racial Reconciler
Pastor Richard Foster

Biden would deliver on the pro-life issue., Biden would save the babies.

But he didn’t, instead, he instituted a series of policies designed to shore up Roe V Wade and ensure abortion becomes entrenched in our society.

Five months ago, in one of the finest examples of “play stupid games, win stupid prizes” known to man, the progressive group became upset and cried foul that the Biden-Haris Presidency kept to their campaign promises and passed legislation that is anything but pro-life, becoming “disappointed” and “upset” that Biden’s $1.9 trillion bailout excluded provisions for the Hyde Amendment, a longstanding bipartisan policy that prevents taxpayer-funded abortion.

This prompted them to write and put out a sniveling, pathetic open letter about how they felt “used” and “betrayed” by the Biden Presidency, describing how “many Evangelical and Catholics took risks to support Biden publicly” and because they vouched for him, Biden and the Dems need to “honor their courage” by not supporting pro-choice legislation.

Within months of that open letter “Pro-life Evangelicals for Biden’ died as surely as the babies sucked out of the womb.

All their social media was deleted and their website was taken down. Everything is defunct. https://www.prolifeevangelicalsforbiden.com/ was no more, replaced with a sad testament to their great shame. They didn’t even last a year.

None of the founding signees have spoken publicly about the implosion of their organization, or repented of their naivety and stupidity, as far as we can tell.