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PETA Killed a Shocking 94 Percent of Adoptable Dogs and Cats in its Care During 2010

PETA's "Animal Record" report for 2010, which the animal rights group itself filed with the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, shows that PETA employees killed 94 percent of the dogs and cats in their care last year. During all of 2010, PETA found adoptive homes for just 44 pets.

Lifted Up

A blessed Feast of the Holy Trinity and a Happy Father's Day to you. If you would like to hear the sermon preached at Trinity Lutheran Church in Layton, Utah for The Feast of Pentecost, "Lifted Up," click on this MP3 audio link.

The audio begins with the Hymn of the Day, "God Loved the World So That He Gave" LSB #571. The sermon begins at the 3:27 mark.



Have a blessed week as the Holy Spirit lifts you up with Christ to eternal life with His Father in heaven now and forever.

So That the World May Know

He is risen!

Alleluia!

If you would like to hear the sermon preached at Trinity Lutheran Church in Layton, Utah for The Feast of Pentecost, "So That the World May Know," click on this MP3 audio link.

The audio begins with the Hymn of the Day, "Come, Holy Ghost, Creator Blest" LSB #498. The sermon begins at the 3:10 mark.

Have a blessed week as the Holy Spirit keeps you with Christ in the One true faith for your eternal life, and to do the good works He has created you in Christ Jesus to do so that the world may know Him and receive eternal life also.

The Spirit of Truth

He is risen!

Alleluia!

If you would like to hear the sermon preached at Trinity Lutheran Church in Layton, Utah for Exaudi Sunday, "The Spirit of Truth," click on this MP3 audio link.

The audio begins with the Hymn of the Day, "Preserve Your Word, O Savior LSB #658. The sermon begins at the 3:18 mark.

Have a blessed day and week as the Spirit of Truth, the Helper sent from the Father by Christ who has brought you to him continues to help you by keeping you in Christ to do His work and guard you from all evil.

BTW, click on the graphic and give it a good look. Remember, "the devil is in the details."

The Ascension of Our Lord

Jesus’ Ascension to “the right hand of God” was not about leaving His people behind. It was about departing from sight to fill the whole world while remaining hidden in it amidst His holy Christian Church. There He has sent His Holy Spirit to work amongst baptized believers and keep them with Him through the means of grace in the Communion of Saints for the forgiveness of sins even unto the end of the age.

[Jesus said:] “Now I am going to him who sent me, . . . I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment:
. . . When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.” John 16:5-15

[Jesus said:] “When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me." John 15:26

So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. 20And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by accompanying signs. Mark 16:19-20

For(AR) through [Christ] we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit. Ephesians 2:18-22

A READING FROM THE LUTHERAN BOOK OF CONCORD
THE ASCENSION OF OUR LORD
THE SMALL CATECHISM
PART III: THE CREED

THE THIRD ARTICLE
Sanctification
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Christian Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.
What does this mean?
Answer: I believe that I cannot by my own reason or strength believe in Jesus Christ, my Lord, or come to Him. But the Holy Spirit has called me by the Gospel, enlightened me with His gifts, sanctified and kept me in the true faith. In the same way He calls, gathers, enlightens, and sanctifies the whole Christian Church on earth and keeps it with Jesus Christ in the one true faith. In this Christian Church He daily and richly forgives all my sins and the sins of all believers. On the Last Day He will raise up me and all the dead and will give eternal life to me and to all believers in Christ. This is most certainly true.

Prayer for the Feast of The Ascension of Our Lord:

Almighty God, as Your only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, ascended into the heavens, so may we also ascend in heart and mind and continually dwell there with Him, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.