Life Week 2025: Sunday, January 19 – Saturday, January 25



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Life Week 2025 Zoom Link

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Meeting ID: 823 0198 5273
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Use the link above for all Life Week 2025 online presentations.

All Zoom presentations will be at 7:00 p.m. CT/8:00 p.m. ET with the exception of Saturday, January 25, which will be at 9:30 a.m. CT/10:30 a.m. ET.


Life Shines in Darkness | Life Week 2025

Sunday, January 19, 2025

  • Life Shines at Church with Virginia Flo

Focus: An overview of the created-redeemed-called Gospel motivation and practical suggestions for those speaking and showing the sanctity of life in and with the local congregation.

Life Week 2025 Zoom Presentation – Life Shines at Church:


Monday, January 20, 2025

  • Life Shines at School with Michelle Bauman

Focus: Identifying life issues that students especially encounter and outlining the opportunities educational communities have for celebrating sanctity of life in curriculum and on campus.

Life Week 2025 Zoom Presentation – Life Shines at School:


Tuesday, January 21, 2025

  • Life Shines in Children with Marie MacPherson

Focus: Emphasizing the blessings that God gives through procreation and parenting and finding ways both to oppose the cultural adult-first outlook and affirm receiving kids—one’s own and those of others—as privileges, particularly inculcating in them their worth as well as their neighbors.

Life Week 2025 Zoom Presentation – Life Shines in Children:


Wednesday, January 22, 2025

  • Life Shines in Money with Dave Probst & Rev. Michael Salemink

Focus: Exploring how a consumption economy pressures against the sanctity of life, attending to a Biblical theology of income and expenditure as service to neighbor, and inventorying how to convert cash into investment in Gospel proclamation.

Life Week 2025 Zoom Presentation – Life Shines in Money:


Thursday, January 23, 2025

  • Life Shines in Dialogue with Josh Brahm

Focus: Strategies and practices for speaking the truth in love about life issues, overcoming barriers and opening relationships through conversation and advocacy that displays both courage and compassion to warn and win over.

Life Week 2025 Zoom Presentation – Life Shines in Dialogue:


Friday, January 24, 2025

  • Life Shines in Civic Action with Kim Laube

Focus: Reaching beyond voting toward educating oneself about advancing legislation, engaging elected representatives with grace, and local governance arenas that affect sanctity of life matters.

Life Week 2025 Zoom Presentation – Life Shines in Civic Action:

Life Week 2025 Zoom Presentation – Life Shines in Civic Action (recorded presentation only):


Saturday, January 25, 2025

  • Life Shines in Vocation with Rev. Jeff Leininger

Focus: Leveraging one’s relationships, occupations, interests, and environments to demonstrate the sanctity of neighbors and declare to them how God loves every human being.

Life Week 2025 Zoom Presentations – Life Shines in Vocation:


Additional Life Week Presentations and Devotions

A Life Week 2025 Devotion by Pastor Simeon Radditz:

A Life Week 2025 Devotion by Pastor Harrison Goodman:

A Life Week 2025 Devotion by Pastor Michael Salemink:

Life Week 2025 – Katy Faust on in vitro fertilization and other biotechnologies:

Life Week 2025 – Panel Discussion – Deaconess Rachel Geraci, Rev. Chad Hoover, and Rev. Tim Pauls discuss marriage, family, and dating:

Life Week 2025 – Pastor Chad Hoover on “Life Shines in Relationships” and identity:

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