World Relief and Human Care has put together a special section of the LCMS web site about the healthcare “reform” debate.  The site should help readers engage in the debate and find useful information about the areas of moral concern (abortion, end of life care, and ethics) that Christians can—and should– monitor.  They have create [...]

From Christianity Today: The Shawshank Redemption is about a prisoner convicted of a murder he didn’t commit. That prisoner escapes by crawling through a sewer line until he’s outside the prison’s walls. The narrator describes the transaction this way: “He crawled through a river of [dung] and came out clean on the other side.” God the Son did that, and he did it for the likes of me—so that I, too, and many more like me, might come out clean on the other side. That truth doesn’t just change my life after I die. It changes my life here, now.