Pious Lutheran

The Virgin of the Lilies,  1899, William-Adolphe Bouguereau Human life is valuable because it is made in God’s image, therefore: Fertility is a blessing, not a curse There is a reckoning for those who hate life A business of death. Planned Parenthood, along with the other abortion mills in Minnesota and throughout our nation are in the business of death. At this abortuary they do chemical abortions using the abortion pill every Wednesday. Based upon my research they charge between five and seven hundred dollars for that. At other abortion mills where they do later term surgical abortions the price goes up to a couple thousand dollars. In years past we learned that Planned Parenthood, and other abortionists, sell baby body parts and perform experimentation on them, and have even received funding from our government, using our taxes, to do all of these nightmarish things with the bodies of babies. This business of death places a price tag on these lives, and gives them a value of a f...

Christ Among the Pharisees , Jacob Jordaens, 1670 What do you think about the Christ? He is no mere worldly king, but He is the Son of God He is no mere lawgiver, but He is your God who has fulfilled the law “ What do you think about the Christ? ” In a way this is a huge question that could take many hours to answer, but in another way this is a very simple and straightforward question and that is the genius of this question for us to consider today. Because the way in which you answer this question reveals quite a lot about your faith. So that is the question I want you to chew on today: “ What do you think about the Christ? ” Among the Jews the Christ was a worldly king. Immediately preceding today’s gospel reading Jesus dealt with the Sadducees, a group of powerful Jews who were largely responsible for the temple. The Sadducees were the theological liberals of their day, since they rejected some basic tenets of the faith, most notably the resurrection of the dead. Jesus put them to ...