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Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 6th, 2010
This weekend, in anticipation of the the Focus on the Family ad featuring former Gator and Heisman-trophy winner Tim Tebow and his mom, which will appear during tomorrow’s Super Bowl game, I’ll post a few pro-life goodies and commentary. I’m calling the series “Tebow Truth,” in honor of Tim and his mom’s courageous confession about [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 3rd, 2010
Within hours of my January 30 post Ladies, your clock really is ticking: 88% of eggs lost by age 30, I already had two responses, both negative. Seems the information presented in the post, which I had retrieved from The London Telegraph, struck a nerve.
Saturday before the Divine Service, I mentioned these responses to a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 15th, 2009
Seems this summer’s ELCA General Assembly has sped up the “who can fracture the Church as quick as the Episcopal Church can” game. From the ELCA News Service:
Voting 10 to 5, with one abstention, a resolution on the “bound conscience” of the synod said that the ELCA’s current ministry polices, adopted in 1990, “shall remain [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 11th, 2009
I call out the Rev. Mark Hanson, Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, for false teaching. A respected colleague in the ELCA made me aware of the latest evidence of this fact by pointing me to Bishop Hanson’s December 6 videotaped, virtual “Town Hall” meeting, which you may view here. Another colleague [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 7th, 2009
Threatening an already fragile worldwide Anglican Communion, on December 5 the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles elected Canon Mary Glasspool, a lesbian, as suffragan bishop for the diocese. Canon Glasspool becomes the second openly gay bishop in the PECUSA after V. Gene Robinson, who was consecrated bishop of New Hampshire in 2003.
Canon Glasspool is the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 2nd, 2009
In a stunning blow to same-sex marriage advocates, the New York State Senate rejected (38 to 24) efforts to legalize same-sex marriage, despite prior approval by the State Assembly and heavy lifting by Democratic Governor David Paterson. This action is sandwiched between last month’s voter rejection of Maine’s same-sex marriage law and a similar contest [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 25th, 2009
Just ask one or more of the following questions:
How did humankind know that God’s design for marriage was one man and one woman for life before the Bible was written?
How do non-Christians know that today?
Was same-sex activity sinful before Moses wrote the first four books of the Bible? Why or why not?
If you believe it [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 23rd, 2009
Well, I’ll let the Scriptures answer. Here are the words of St. Paul:
12Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: 13Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: 14In whom [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 20th, 2009
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 18th, 2009
MESSAGE FROM THE MEETING OF THE BALTIC LUTHERAN BISHOPS
The leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Estonia, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia and Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lithuania met in Tallinn on the 3rd and 4th of November, 2009 to strengthen the long experience of unity of the Lutheran churches in the Baltic countries and [...]
The Reverend Robert C. Baker, B.B.A, M.Div., is an ordained pastor in The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, and serves the Church as an editor at the denomination's publishing house. He is currently pursuing an M.S. degree in Health Care Ethics at Creighton University. He is the author of What Happened To Merry Christmas? and How Do You Start a Fire with Water? and has authored or edited numerous Bible studies and books.