I want to thank the LCMS and their wonderful teachers/parochial schools. Our children all went through the 8th grade and it helped prepare them for high school and college.

Spiritual Warfare: They were given challenges every day to make choices about right and wrong. And even though they knew they were saved by grace through Christ's blood shed on the cross, they chose to honor the God of love who has an ordained purpose for all of us.

And many times they were warned against bringing up certain issues. But, God says "Fear no evil..." (Psalms 23)

And they took a stand against abortion, sex outside of marriage, evolution and for protecting our religious freedoms. And many times they won debates about these issues in the classroom. Or someone who was considering an abortion, now choose life.

And sometimes this lead to a classmate wanting to hear the truth about a God who loves mankind enough to become human, through the Word/Son of God. Who died in our place redeeming us back from our true enemy... Satan the father of lies.

So many of our brave young people are willing to die to protect the freedoms we still have in America. And I consider all who join the military- my hero's.

Is the time coming... where we need to take a stand for Truth and be willing to die for what we believe? Jesus is LORD, and The Savior of the world.

And He is Risen Indeed! ❤