Pro-Life Resources

Description

Here’s another list, gathering up Lutheran Pro-Life Resources for you and your family.

Curriculum

Teaching for Life – Sunday School/Preschool offers a positive set of nine lessons with reproducible graphics to help teach pro-life concepts. Although it is geared toward a class setting, for $10, it is affordable for Lutheran homeschoolers also.

Reading Material

(Arranged in order of younger to older)

Alive Before You Were Born: God’s Gift of Life by Kim Bestian is a “simple-concept illustrated children’s book” about the relationship between God and every child, from the moment of conception.

God’s Gift of Family by Brenda Jank gives thanks for families for all families.

The January 2013 issue of Lutheran Witness focused on life issues, and you can find that as a download here under Documents and Writings.

Also on that page, John Pless offers A Small Catechism on Human Life, a free download of about 100 pages, examining abortion, bioethic, end-of-life, and sexuality issues via Luther’s Small Catechism. Also available in Spanish and Russian. It includes both text and discussion questions. Appropriate for junior high, high school, and adult study.

In the Hands of God: 30 Day Devotional Booklet by James Lamb, former executive director of Lutherans for Life.

Grounded in God’s Word: Commentaries on Life offers commentary on topics including moral worth, abortion, evolution, suffering, life and death decisions, biblical manhood and womanhood, and other sanctity of life issues, as grounded in Scripture.

(Lutherans for Life also offers a wide variety of booklets, available through their site or CPH, including How Luther Nailed It on Life Issues. Lutherans for Life also offers supplements like Lenten devotions.)

Videos

Lutherans for Life produced “For Life: Equipping Lutherans to be Gospel-motivated voices For Life,” as a DVD available free of charge through CPH.

Website Resources

Here’s a link for Lutherans for Life. Their Resources Page includes resources connected to the church year, weekly quotes, Life Blogs, and the LifeDate journal. There is also, on the Life Issues Page, additional information for the following:

• Abortion
• Abortion and the Church
• Adoption
• After the Abortion
• Bioethics
• Christian Responsibility
• Contraception
• Creation
• Crisis Pregnancy
• End of Life Issues

There are also Lutherans for Life around the world, including the Lutheran Church of Australia’s Lutherans for Life!

There are also articles and essays available from the LCMS Life Ministry Library and the LCMS Resource Page on Life.

Lutherans march in the annual Marches for Life. You can find more information for the national march here and state marches here.

Other Things to Know

Many congregations hold a Life Sunday, once a year, and many pregnancy centers also have resources, including little shops staffed by volunteers.

Finally, here’s an article by Students for Life of America: “Students for Life of American Finds Planned Parenthood Infiltration at Christian Colleges & Universities Widespread.” Thankfully, the Lutheran schools listed are either ELCA or independent and vary loosely tied to its historically Lutheran roots.