Save the date. The 2023 Lutherans for Life National Conference is October 11th through 13th at the holiday in Cincinnati Airport in Irlangur, Kentucky, with visits to the Ark Encounter and Creation Museum.

Look for more information in early 2023 at LutheransforLife.org slash conference, Lutherans for Life, equipping Lutherans and their neighbors to be gospel-motivated voices for life, LutheransforLife.org.

They are promoting modern families, which is code for child loss. Modern families simply means that the child had to lose their mother or father to be in that family.

Conservatives here tend to want a smaller government. The Nazis wanted a government that controls everything. Modern-day conservatives in America put a big emphasis on freedom, liberty. The Nazis wanted to squelch individual freedom and liberty.

For a Christian, your absolute priority is always that your children would know the Lord God and know Him, especially in His grace and His mercy in Jesus Christ, and that they would know those things on their deathbed.

That's something that I would hope for anyone who would raise in their daughter's system or in another system that teachers who claim to seek for God but didn't, that they would come to know the beauty of Christ for who He truly is.

This is Mike from Illinois, and Lutherans marching for life, love, issues, etc.

Well, we're broadcasting from the Illinois March for Life in Springfield, Illinois. It's an event that is, well, a lot of Roman Catholics and a fair amount of Lutherans. It's kind of a Roman Catholic Lutheran event marching, advocating for the protection of the unborn.

We thought it would be a good occasion to get a number of perspectives on pro-life efforts in the Lutheran Church of Missouri Senate. There were a lot of those kinds of Lutherans here today as well.

That's what we'll be doing on this Tuesday afternoon, March 21st. I'm Todd Wilkins. Thanks for tuning us in. We'll start with a historical perspective on the Lutheran Church of Missouri Senate on abortion.

We'll spend some time talking about synodical efforts with Pastor Matt Harrison and Deaconess Tiffany Manor, Director of Life Ministries for the LCMS.

Pastor Tim Sharer and Pastor Michael Moore, President of the Southern Illinois District of the Lutheran Church of Missouri Senate, and the Central Illinois District of the Lutheran Church of Missouri Senate.

We'll join us to talk about district-wide pro-life efforts. Then we go to the congregational level with Pastor Mark Cerberg and Dr. Kirk Clayton.

We'll round everything off with a conversation with Bishop Thomas John Paparaki. He's Bishop of the Diocese in Springfield, Illinois, talking about Roman Catholic pro-life efforts.

Joining us to discuss the history of the Lutheran Church of Missouri Senate on the issue of abortion, Dr. Ken Sherb, as a Ph.D. in Church history.

From Ohio State University, he's Director of Evangelism and Missions, Stewardship and Human Care for the Central Illinois District of the Lutheran Church of Missouri Senate, formally served as a theology professor at Concordia University and Arbor Michigan, and as an assistant to the President of the Lutheran Church of Missouri Senate.

Ken, welcome back.

I'm delighted to have you here, Todd. Usually I'm kind of coming to you this time you came to me.

Yes. I guess big picture first. Has the Lutheran Church of Missouri Senate historically been a pro-life church body?

Yeah, I told Jeff that I was going to say yes to that question and then see what you were going to do as a follow-up. But the fact is, the Missouri Senate has, and it goes back really even before the Roe versus Wade decision.

All the way back to 1971, remember Roe versus Wade was decided in January of 1973. So on this one, and this may not be all that characteristic of the Missouri Senate, we got our or in the water early.

So how did we do that? We're going to walk through significant dates here, the two most significant being the first two in 1971.

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