Series: LFL National Conference
Keywords: 2013 national conference, pro-life conference, workshops, convention Speakers: James Lamb
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Over 280 Lutherans gathered November 8-9, 2013, in Urbandale (Des Moines), Iowa, from across the United States, for the 2013 Lutherans For Life National Conference. The theme: L.I.F.E. — Living In Faith Everyday.
Focusing on the conference theme in his opening worship sermon, Rev. Dr. James I. Lamb, executive director of Lutherans For Life said, “When we live in faith every day, when we live in His righteousness, then we have a righteousness and a truth from which to judge and to boldly, courageously, and unashamedly call wrong things wrong but doing so in love as a fellow sinner … We all know that sin is sin, but so many of you also know that sins against life can be more difficult to deal with than most sins. Some of you may know that on a very personal level because of an abortion decision in your past. If indeed you are here, allow me to pause and have a word with you, and it is a single word, ‘welcome.’ Welcome here with all the rest of us unrighteous ones … And the same can be said for those here who may be dealing with guilt or uncertainty about an end-of-life decision … Welcome here in the righteousness of Christ in which we all live, in which you live. Lean back in it and be lifted up by its constantly renewing grace.”