His Time - John the Steadfast, Christian Bioethics, Missionary Monday, Sexual Immorality Defiles the Church

Rev. Joshua Scheer of Our Svior Lutheran Church, Cheyenne, WY — Rev. Joshua Scheer

Morning Segment 1

Rev. Joshua Scheer talks about subjects from the Brothers of John the Steadfast webpage, www.steadfastlutherans.org.

Morning Segment 2

Dr. Bob Weise talks about issues related to Christian bioethics.

Bioethics is the study of controversial ethics brought about by advances in biology and medicine. Bioethicists are concerned with the ethical questions that arise in the relationships among life sciences, biotechnology, medicine, politics, law, and philosophy.

About Dr. Weise: Dr. Robert W. Weise is professor of practical theology. Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois (B.S. in Ed. 1967); University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois (M.S. 1970, Ph.D. 1973); Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri (M.Div. 1982); instructor, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas (1972-73); research associate, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan (1973-74); assistant professor (1974-78); pastor, Zion, Bunker Hill, Illinois (1982-85); senior pastor, Our Savior’s, Springfield, Illinois (1985-92); associate professor, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri (1992-2002); professor since 2002; The Lutheran Foundation of St. Louis Chair in Pastoral Ministry and the Life Sciences since 1992. Click HERE to read more about Dr. Weise.

Deaconess Gail Ludvigson Serving the Lord in the Dominican Republic — Deaconess Gail Ludvigson
Serving the Lord in the Dominican Republic

Missionary Monday

Deaconess Gail Ludvigson talks about missionary work in the Dominican Republic.

Deaconess Gail Ludvigson serves the Lord as a career missionary through The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod in the Dominican Republic. In this role, Gail writes and teaches courses for the diaconate program at the Lutheran seminary in the Dominican Republic, El Reformador, in consultation with other deaconesses. She helps to promote diaconate ministry in the Dominican Republic and the Latin America/Caribbean region through fundraising and communications. Gail also assists in ministry to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and serves the local churches as a deaconess in any way that is needed.

Learn more about Deaconess Gail Ludvigson at www.lcms.org/ludvigson.

Daily Lectionary

Rev. William Carney of Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Honolulu, Hawaii looks at 1 Corinthians 5:1-13 “Sexual Immorality Defiles the Church”. (Scroll down to read today’s text.)

Sermonette

Today’s sermonette is given by Rev. William Carney of Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Honolulu, Hawaii.

"The Bible is cradle wherein Christ is laid." - Martin Luther — “The Bible is cradle wherein Christ is laid.” – Martin Luther

1 Corinthians 5:1-13

Sexual Immorality Defiles the Church

5 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father’s wife. ²And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.

³For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. ⁴When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, ⁵you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.^[a]

⁶Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? ⁷Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. ⁸Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

⁹I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— ¹⁰not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. ¹¹But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one. ¹²For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church^[b] whom you are to judge? ¹³God judges^[c] those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”