Right now, many churches are planning their budgets for the next fiscal year.

You can promote your confessional Lutheran Church and support the World Wide Outreach

of Issues, etc. by becoming a congregational sponsor.

When your church pledges $1,000, we'll publicize your congregation on the podcast, at our

website, and in the Issues, etc. journal.

Learn more on the support donate page at issuesetc.org.

Don't miss your congregation's budget deadline, become an Issues, etc., a congregational sponsor.

The new left has consistently been anti-humane since the 1960s, and I think they want so deeply

to remake the human person in their image that they're willing to run over acres and

acres of bodies to get there.

You wouldn't tell someone in the 1860s, who's fighting for abolition, but don't be a

culture warrior.

Now you'd say that's great, it's good that we should be fighting against the abomination

of slavery.

But in the same way, you also wouldn't want them to ignore spiritual reality, only for

the sake of anything political.

One of the things that is perhaps becoming more and more obvious in our contemporary context

is an awful lot of people who have perhaps sat in church every Sunday of their lives

but do not always know what God considers pleasing.

So our prayer for Israel is not only that the war that is currently ravaging that region

would come to an end, but we pray that their war against the Messiah would have brought

to an end, so that they can be grafted back into the olive tree that they were broken

...