Entries Tagged as ‘Life’
September 23, 2009
The Holiness of Changing Diapers…ala Martin Luther
“Now observe that when that clever harlot, our natural reason (which the pagans followed in trying to be most clever), takes a look at married life, she turns up her nose and says, “Alas, must I rock the baby, wash its diapers, make its bed, smell its stench, stay up nights with it, take care [...]
August 3, 2009
A Spirit Opposed to All Authority: Conception Just Doesn’t Happen
Ample food for thought from one of Dr. Albert Mohler’s archived commentaries:
“Once human life is reduced to an accidental product of blind naturalistic mechanisms, human dignity is destroyed and the Culture of Death is inevitable. Roe v. Wade did not emerge from a vacuum. The inheritors of Christian civilization had been ransacking the culture for [...]
July 24, 2009
Southern Baptist Invasion of St. Louis (at least for this weekend)
I just wanted to forewarn St. Louis that at least one Southern Baptist will be invading in the wee hours of Saturday morning, to visit my friend Matthew Synnott who is a seminarian at Concordia Lutheran Seminary there. Last I heard, he got us registered for the 2009 National Lutherans for Life conference that’ll be [...]
July 23, 2009
Tattooed with the Masses, and Pierced with the Classes: Addressing (Contemporary) Cultural Clichés
Go to a college campus today (it can be secular or religious, it makes no difference at this juncture) and find the nearest Christian. Chances are very likely (though I do not wager a percentage here) that they’re gonna have some kind of religious tattoo. Cross on an ankle, fish on the wrist, or Bible [...]
July 17, 2009
Are You Living as if Children are Blessings or Curses?
A powerful excerpt from what may become my default wedding gift for my friends and family getting married, Steve and Candice Watter’s, “Start Your Family: Inspiration for Having Babies“:
“‘Choose life” – it’s the pro-life movement’s rallying cry adopted from Deuteronomy 30:19. But that Scripture isn’t just for those in a crisis pregnancy. We also see [...]
July 7, 2009
Pickin’ and Grinnin’
I just bought this today, and hope to get some lessons squared away later this week. As one of my bumper stickers reminds the world, we should “Clean up Air Pollution: Play Bluegrass Music”.
Indeed.
July 2, 2009
Praying for Hospital Babies
I work in the surgical instruments department at a local hospital to support my seminary education and miscellaneous forays into ethical inquiry. If it has to do with instruments, we do it; from cleaning, organizing, fixing, sterilizing, packing, dispatching, etc. If a surgery happens in the hospital (as many do every day), we see the instruments.
This [...]
June 3, 2009
On Blog Critics
From Carl Trueman:
“Luther knew what temptation looked like; he knew his own wickedness; but he also knew the all-surpassing perfection and grace of Christ. So, in closing, I want to thank my blog critics, the crass, the colourful, the profane, and the plain old crazy, for helping me to understand better my sin and my [...]
