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 Arkincounter 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.

If someone is denied the right to life, well there's not going to be any of their opportunity to exercise any other rights in life, so the right to life comes first and that's why it's preeminent.

Of course, since that time the Catholic universities have all become secularized.

While the dogma of the Catholic Church has no sway in those institutions, the dogma of DEI, diversity, equity and inclusion cannot be questioned.

The Church is the domain of the Word of Christ, and there is no salvation without the pure Word and the sacraments of the Word, and there is no spirit to be found without these.

It's not like the cross is an example of God's love, it IS God's love, this IS God's love, it's not just showing us God's love, it's the love of God manifest.

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I am a confessional Lutheran, that means I'm not just in the ordinary Lutheran, it means that I'm a Lutheran according to the teachings of the 1580 Book of Concord, the Lutheran Confessions, that's why I call myself a confessional Lutheran.

Well, there are those who say, well, the Book of Concord has nothing to say about this subject or that subject, so Lutherans are free to believe whatever they want to with regard to that.

Well, that may be true unless the Bible has something to say about this or that.

The Bible certainly has something to say about the sanctity of life, do the Lutheran Confessions say anything about the sanctity of life.

Greetings and welcome to issues, etc. live on this Friday afternoon, March 31st.

I'm Todd Wilkin, thanks for tuning us in.

Pastor Michael Salamink will join us from Lutherans for Life to answer that very question.

Dr. Stephen Park will be alongside a little bit later for our series, Responding Roman Catholic Proof Texts.

Today the fourth commandment and the veneration of Mary.

Pastor Chris Rose, bro, joins us for this week in Pop Christianity.

We'll talk about televangelist Jerry Sevelle's teaching on tithing and then Dr. Brad Wilcox, professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, will bring us some news on a new Pew report on parents' priorities for their children.

Pastor Michael Salamink is executive director of Lutherans for Life and author of a column for the Concordia Theological Quarterly titled Sanctity of Life in the Lutheran Confessions.

Michael, welcome back.

Good day and the Lord be with you.

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