50 Abortion Observations – Observation 41

What do you do when you want to find information about something or a picture of something? In today’s world you Google it. Yet when you search Google Images for an image of abortion you don’t see any images of abortion. The search result only shows pictures of people holding signs either for or against…

Everlasting Righteousness, Innocence and Blessedness

Martin Luther’s Small Catechism has a lot of memorable passages such as “What does this mean?” “We should fear and love God,” “This is most certainly true.” Young Lutherans as they go through their confirmation training have the privilege of memorizing portions of the Catechism. But the real power of Luther’s Small Catechism is that…

More Precious Than Gold, Part Two

In the first installment of this series, based on I Peter 1:3-9, Peter says that our faith in Jesus is more precious than gold. In part two, based on I Peter 1:17-19, Peter says that gold is inadequate as a means of ransoming us: “You were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers,…