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An LCMS pastor, who is a friend of mine, often says that he envisions his sermons like a father pulling up a chair to the kitchen table and saying, “Family? We need to talk about something important.” Missouri? We need to talk about In Vitro Fertilization or “IVF.”

You can get yourself in trouble when you set out to confess the Word of God. Take Stephen, for instance (see Acts 6 & 7). He had a holy calling, yet it was pretty ordinary and mundane. He and six other men had been divinely appointed to relieve the Apostles of waiting on tables, so they could focus on prayer and the ministry of the Word.

What is truth? How do you know it? Who gets to determine it? Where does it come from? From morality to mathematics people look for it. From Aristotle to Einstein people contemplate it. From detectives to doctors people are constantly searching for the truth.