What you believe about the beginning shapes what your hope is for the end in significant ways.

The Bible ties the two together remarkably.

Dr. Tom Eger making the case for the biblical account of creation at the 2025 issues, etc. making the case conference.

The Bible confesses the God of Israel and confesses Jesus Christ as the first and the last,

the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end.

And what we believe about how he brought about the beginning, I think ultimately

shapes or impacts our confidence and proclamation of what to expect about the beginning. I think ultimately shapes or impacts our confidence and proclamation

of what to expect about the end. For an online contribution of $300 by Holy Cross Day, September 14th,

we'll send you a link to video and audio recordings of Dr. Eggers' teaching and all of this

year's conference presentations. Find out more at Issuesetc.org or by calling

618223-83-85. At our cultural moment today in the United States, there really are two directions.

Often when we talk about a culture of death and one that is pervaded by abortion and the mindset that leads to abortion.

Something that gets lost in the process, in the process of so-called woman's choice, is adoption.

Welcome back to Issues CETRA. I'm Todd Wilkin.

Joining us to talk about adoption, Dr. Eric Fenske.

He's a married father of four children,

including an adopted daughter, and he's executive director of Lutherans for Life. Dr. Fenski,

welcome back. Thanks, Todd. Happy to be with you. Tell us a story about how you and your wife

decided to adopt. So we hadn't even really been thinking about it at the time.

We were approached by somebody else.

Long story short, a sister-in-law of a classmate of mine, I met her at his ordination in the summer of 2012.

And she was telling us the story about her sister, who was working with a young woman from

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