Dear Brothers & Sisters - This morning I want to share a personal note. An incredible, exciting thing will occur for me during the 9 AM service this morning you might not know about. Since I turned 60, I made, after much prayer, a decision to "go public" with my lifelong struggle with Bipolar II Depression. I have shared this with you and with my men's group (Castillo-Hurlburt). In fact, once last semester I had an opportunity to share this with the entire Men's Ministry. I

Brothers & Sisters — Well the weather doesn’t look good for a second week in a row!  I’ve had several thoughts about it - and of course the first thought is for everyone’s safety we not meet.  But then when I heard Church would be closed, I thought hmm… I wonder if the Mission at Takara — those who live here — might choose to become the Church at Takara for Sunday?  I’ll wait to hear from some of you about that. Anyway, in case we don’t meet I thought I’d share some of my tho

Dr. Damon Cudihy -- " So then, why not IVF?  There are a litany of reasons, but for the sake of brevity, I’ll start with seven of them. 1 KILLING TO CREATE In the words of the well-known Catholic fertility specialist, Dr. Thomas Hilgers “IVF is killing babies to make babies.” A careful assessment of the available data reveals that only about 4% of the human embryos (a.k.a. human children) conceived will survive to birth. Most are intentionally destroyed as these children’s

Lesley Stahl from CBS/60 minutes freaked out a bit after Dr. Singer made this claim. I feel like absolutely no one in the Church or the pulpit is talking about what could be civilizational destruction. What happens to the nuclear family when EVERYONE is choosing IVF? A world without genetic defects, yes, but could it be that God's Design is, in fact, the overall best for us? Please check out our new Vision for IVF Reform in 2026 at TakeUp.Org/2026 . "Dr. Tomer Singer, a fe

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The first TakeUp Video was a "thought experiment" based on the idea of the "slippery slope." If "love" is the only condition for legal marriage ... where might that lead? Produced in late 2003, the video imagines a potential outcome. Video plays beneath the image below.