Your friend. Jesus loves you. Pastor at St. Andrew Evangelical-Lutheran Church (LCMS) in Rockton, IL. Owner of the Green Bay Packers. My wife is the best of me.
C.S. Lewis wrote his father about the young Communists he encountered at Oxford. His words remain hauntingly appropriate today, as we continue to see boys on the Far Left, and now also the Alt-Right, play at wicked accelerationist schemes:
This is dumb, dumb, double-dumby, dumb, dumb.
The location of the Holy Sepulchre was so widely known that Emperor Hadrian considered all the Christian pilgrims a nuisance and built a Temple to Venus atop it to attempt to deter them.
If the Romans disposed of Jesus' body, the location was unknown. If his family buried him, it would not be in Jerusalem. If the Sanhedrin, he would be unmarked in a criminal's graveyard. Joseph of Arimathea was a literary device created to fill an awkward plot hole. #goodfriday
Um.
If you are a man with a porn addiction, I do not recommend standing before the Judgement Seat of Christ and pleading “the wife didn’t put out enough.”
Man up and go to confession. Then “love your wife as Christ loves the church, and gave Himself up for her.”
Wives are God's main weapon against porn addiction in men and need to be reminded of the dignity of that role.
A thriving sex life is a tremendous spiritual help to a husband.
I should give an update.
Prayers were for my wife and our unborn child. God answered our prayers by taking our “Nugget” home to Himself.
This is not our first loss to miscarriage, but it is still hard. The physical recovery remains painful for my beloved.
Me and every other pastor, trying in vain to explain to parents the actual reason why their child apostatized when they left for college (it wasn’t the liberal professors):
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Prayers, please, for my sister and her unborn baby’s safety.
She is nine months pregnant, has Covid, and the winter storm in Virginia knocked out power and heat. Indoor temperature is down to 49°. Roads are still impassable, stores all closed.
Lord, have mercy.
Please pray for my wife, Emily.
The ectopic pregnancy is not resolving itself; the incomplete miscarriage risks her health. She is receiving care in the emergency room. The situation is not dire, but we pray for swift healing all the same.
There is an actual Christian denomination in the US that has a higher per capita percentage of adult converts than Mormons:
The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod.
We had a scary moment with our littlest saint last night. She woke up in terrible pain, saying: “Tummy need bandaid!” A trip to the ER provides no answers. She is home now, but we’ll be doing more testing in the days to come. Please pray for our sweet little one.