COME LET US PLAY GOD

Thursday after Pentecost 9

July 28, 2010

The Lord be with you

The Lutheran Lecture Series is presenting a day of focusing on Medical Ethics. The theme for this year is: COME LET US PLAY GOD

Four outstanding Lutheran Scholars will be discussing critical issues on medical ethics. If you haven't already been faced with these issues, you certainly will be in the future. As Lutherans, we want to make sure our decisisons are God-pleasing. We hear much about abortion, assisted suicide, mercy-killing - what limits does God put on these and other life issues? The speakers include Dr. James Bachman who has produced numerous documents for our Synod's Commission on Theology and Church Relations (CTCR). The time you spend at this Lecture Series may be some of the most important time in your life. It will be held on October 30th at Augustana Lutheran Church (1523 16th St. SE, Hickory, NC, 28602). It will start at 11:00 AM and go until 4:30 PM. The schedule is:

SESSION I - A LUTHERAN UNDERSTANDING OF ETHICS (The Mind of the Maker)

Presenter: Rev. John T. Pless - Professor, Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, IN

SESSION II - THE RIGHT TO LIVE (It is good that you are here)

Presesnter: Dr. Robert Weise - Professor, Concordia Seminary, Saint Louis, MO

SESSION III - THE RIGHT TO DIE (The Considerate Hero)

Presentor Dr. James Bachman - Dean of Graduate Studies, Christ College, Irvine, CA

SESSION IV - A BRAVE NEW WORLD (Welcome to the Promised Land)

Presenter: Dr. Mark Mattes - Editor of LOGIA, Professor, Grand View University, Des Moines, IA

(The Lutheran Lecture Series is sponsored by Salem Lutheran Church (Taylorsville, NC, Pastor Ray Ohlendorf). For more information contact Rev. Ohlendorf at revxpistos@charter.net).

Blessings in Christ,

Pastor John Rickert