In making the case for the LCMS, I could channel Garrison Keeler and talk about Lake

Wobagon and Pastor Inchfus problems and the picky and his troubles between the Missouri

Senate and the other Lutherans. It would all be delightful. I could talk about potlocks and the

smells wafting out of church basements on a Sunday morning.

Pastor Matt Harrison speaking at this year's issues, et cetera, making the case conference. But finally, that would all just fade away like so much pleasant aroma in the wind.

Without Christ, without this public confession of Christ, it would all be or not all of it.

You can watch Pastor Matt Harrison's presentation making the case for the Lutheran Church,

Missouri Synod from our 26 Making the Case Conference.

For a contribution of $250 by Labor Day, we'll send you a link to conference video and audio recordings.

Order online at Issuesetc.org.

Prolethingcompancy have done very well since Dobbs. Not one pro-lif incumbent has lost a state-wide race.

Margaret Thatcher very famously said, socialism works great until you run out of other people's money.

In the Islamic system, the system works great until you run out of the infidels money.

I love this quotation from Luther. He says, spare me from a church in which there are no sinners.

The essential character of being a Christian is to be a redeemed sinner.

If we are Christians and we suffer, is that so unbelievable that we should bear a splinter

of Jesus cross after he has gone through so much as a perfect one.

Hospice nurses driving around from patient to patient, love listening to issues, etc.

Everyone agrees that we are living in a post-Christian age.

We may not agree about what that really means, but we do agree that we have crossed a threshold,

perhaps a point of no return. But that's where the disagreements begin. In a post-Christian age,

should we be forming our pastors more intensely or less intensely? Should we be spending more time

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