“We need to discuss whether we should continue with this treatment.” The doctor’s words stun us. He might as well say, “There isn’t anymore hope.” Have you ever heard those words concerning yourself or someone you love? Are you struggling because you made a decision about removing treatment and still wonder whether or not it was the right one? If so, you’re in hope!
The theology of the cross is all about suffering, Christ’s and ours. As we share in Christ’s sufferings by faith, we also share Christ’s comfort in the midst of our own sufferings by faith.
So, why this cruelty? … The answer is simple. I do not love cockroaches!
Throughout history the Church has called abortion sin. Only recently have some started calling abortion salvation—a way out of a difficult situation (but it is not a way out). It only creates guilt and despair to which the Church must apply its most powerful message, the Gospel of Jesus.
A Bible study on offering hope and healing.
We believe, as God says, “Marriage should be honored by all” (Hebrews 13:4). May God give us the faith, wisdom, and courage to bring honor to this great blessing from Him.
Eager anticipation, anxiously awaiting the arrival of a little baby, another precious gift from God -we were a bundle of emotions. This was our fourth child. It had been more than four years since our last baby was born, and for parents who wanted these gifts from God this was a long time. We had even started wondering if three was to be our limit and then, finally, God opened His hand and granted us another gift.
May the freedom that Jesus purchased with His blood on the Cross drive us not away from God into ourselves, but draw us out of ourselves in gratitude and faithfulness to Him. May what we do with our bodies glorify HIS righteousness and not our rights. Amen, may it be so!
A hurricane has a lot of power … .If you could somehow imagine that kind of power, you still would not be close to imagining the power of God!
The acceptance of abortion in America and even in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is evidence that the high view of life, held and practiced by Christians and defended by the church fathers and teachers down through the centuries, is being forsaken. We offer this analysis with the prayer and hope that it will cause those, especially in the Lutheran family, who support the abortion ethic to prayerfully reflect and reconsider their views. We offer this as encouragement to the many faithful believers and congregations within the ELCA who support the ethic of life that they will continue to pray, love, and work for change.