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Autumn Greeting from LCMS President Harrison from VimeoLCMS on Vimeo.

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The appeal to emotion, a logical fallacy, is an old ploy used when someone wants to get their way. Politicians are notorious for using an emotional appeal to sway voters. Remember this scary moment from “Cabaret?” While not an appeal to emotion, the clip certainly shows the power of emotional appeal: In rhetoric, people use [...]

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Decade of Mercy (LCMS WR-HC) from It’s Time on Vimeo.

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HT: Rev. Matt Harrison at Mercy Journeys with Pastor Harrison.

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From my friend, Al Collver’s, ABC3s of Miscellany blog. Al is employed by LCMS World Relief and Human Care and is currently deployed with Rev. Matt Harrison and WRHC staff in Haiti. An update from Matt Harrison: I have been having trouble updating my blog for the past day or two. In fact, as I [...]

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The New York Times reports today on a myriad of problems associated with in vitro fertilization. Seriously folks, the risks–not to mention the troubling moral issues–of this type of emotional appeasement are far, far too great. Better to accept the Lord’s will and to adopt children who are already here. From the article: While IVF [...]

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At Lutherans and Procreation, Pastor Keith asks, Dr. Baker, could you please elaborate on the “strong divine command theory ethic”? I was recently accused of perpetrating the heresy of “taking the Bible literally”, an error which was portrayed as being a phenomenon which sprang up in the early 1900s in response to scientific advances. I [...]

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Dr. Judith Reisman: “Sexual beings” is “direct Kinsey fallout” This morning, I contacted Dr. Judith Reisman by e-mail, asking her if she knew the provenance of the term “sexual beings.” Dr. Reisman has spent a considerable part of her life exposing the fraudulent statistical data Kinsey used in support of changing sexual mores during the [...]

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Statement of the president of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod in response to certain actions of the 2009 Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America August 24, 2009 The two largest Lutheran church bodies in the United States are the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) with 4.8 million members and The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod [...]

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