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Life after Death

Posted in Christianity, Culture, Issues Etc., Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, Lutheranism, Lutherans, Pastors, Theology, tagged , on 29 May 2008 | 1 Comment »

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The Lesser of Three Evils?

Posted in Abortion, Culture, Politics, Supreme Court, tagged , , , , , on 23 May 2008 | 15 Comments »

The question is, when there is no single presidential candidate that particularly excites you, for whom should you vote?  Besides the obvious anti-life consequences of electing a Hillary or an Obama, John McCain doesn’t get me too excited.  I think his strongest point would be his foreign policy, but here he is on life issues.  [...]

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“Issues, Etc.” Q&A

Posted in Issues Etc., Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, Lutheranism on 21 May 2008 | 3 Comments »

I had not seen this before, and didn’t know it existed until Pres. Kieschnick mentioned it at a conference. Haven’t had a chance to read it, but I wanted to make sure people know about it.
“Issues, Etc.” Q&A [PDF]
UPDATE: My comments: there is very little else that can be said.  When the questions have [...]

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Northern Minnesota, May 10, 2008

Posted in Global Warming, Miscellaneous, tagged , , on 10 May 2008 | 2 Comments »

This is what I saw out our window this morning (May 10) at 8:00:

It may be a little hard to tell, but, yes, that’s snow.  We also had snow on April 11 and 26.  I have a feeling we’re just going to skip Spring altogether.
Timotheos

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A Couple of Links

Posted in Children, Christianity, Concordia Seminary, Culture, Issues Etc., Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, Lutheranism, Media, News, Parenting, Theology, tagged , , , on 9 May 2008 | 5 Comments »

Happy Mother’s Day, indeed.  Happy Mother’s Day to my mother and my wife.
I didn’t know that Dr. Nagel (Professor Emeritus at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis) was writing for CT.  That’s a joke, but do yourself a favor and listen to any or all of these mp3s in the “Issues, Etc.” archives.  Nagel deserves to be [...]

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The Consequences of a Pseudo-Gospel

Posted in Christianity, Church, Culture, Episcopal Church, Homosexuality, Jesus, Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, Lutheranism, News, Religion, Scriptures, Sin, Theology, tagged , on 5 May 2008 | 8 Comments »

If anyone would like to see the future of the LCMS if we continue to deal with the Scriptures in a pure Law/Gospel way (i.e., Law versus Gospel), read this.
Gene Robinson is the product of a mainline American denomination that has clearly played Law against Gospel and is reaping the harvest of such an approach [...]

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“Worship from the heart”

Posted in Christianity, Church, Jesus, Liturgy, Theology, Worship on 4 May 2008 | 2 Comments »

Fads come and go in the Church. Anyone who tries to keep up with trends in order to attract people will inevitably fail. The Church is not built on or sustained by trends, not even in “style” (as if form could be divorced from content). Christianity Today has an article on how [...]

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Who Said It?

Posted in Authors, Christianity, Liturgy, Lord's Supper, Theology, tagged , , on 4 May 2008 | 5 Comments »

I received an e-mail from the American Chesterton Society saying that Chesterton did not actually say this.
Here’s another one: can anyone tell me which Church Father said something to the effect of, “We go to the Sacrament as if to our death, so that we go to our death as if to the Sacrament”?  I [...]

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Why “Diversity” in Worship?

Posted in Christianity, Church Growth, Culture, Liturgy, Lutheran, Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, Lutheranism, Theology, Worship, tagged , on 1 May 2008 | 2 Comments »

David Berger of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis has written an essay on worship diversity and the use of statistics to evaluate the “worship experience.”  So far only 93 visitors.  His words deserve far wider dissemination and discussion.
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