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Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from our coming King, Jesus Christ. In this holy season of Advent—these days of yearning hope, sober repentance, and steadfast prayer—we find ourselves living amid times that strain the heart.

“The Word became flesh” (John 1:14)—it’s a simple summary of what Christmas is all about. But it also points us to Easter and everything in between. It’s the miraculous story of how the Word of God came into our flesh and blood, into our hurts and heartaches, into our foolishness and frailty, to live as one of us in order to redeem all of us.

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.”