Category Archives: Contemporary Worship
Bumper Sticker Theology
You can tell a lot about a person by their bumper stickers. That must be what people mean to happen when the put them on their car.
I’d Rather Spend 90 Minutes in The Shack
Several weeks ago I warned of looking for truth in all the wrong places such as the novel The Shack. Well I’d rather spend 90 minutes in The Shack than one minute in 90 Minutes in Heaven.
Effeminacy and the Liturgy
Reading The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, I discovered I might not know the real meaning of effeminacy. It doesn’t mean weak or even sissified to the author of that work.
Keeping up With the Jones’
Contemporary worship didn’t come out of thin air. I think it genesis can be laid at the door of Vatican II which started from the principle of what is relevant to men not what is worshipful to God. Of … Continue reading
Personal Relationship or Faith in Faith?
You won’t have to troll through many LCMS websites to find a “mission statement” saying their mission is to “lead others to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.” You won’t talk very long to a member or a pastor … Continue reading
Plain Label Christianity and Hall Monitors
There are hundreds of shampoos on the market; far too many to make any logical, rational, certain choice, so I choose one called “Generic Shampoo.” There are hundreds of beers too. All have competing claims and counter claims so I … Continue reading
Don’t Even Bother to ask Your Doctor
Since the late 1990s prescription drug use has grown exponentially. In large part this has been due to the “ask your doctor if _____ is right for you” ad campaign. Doctors are hard pressed when you say, “I have these … Continue reading
Just in Time for Valentine’s Day
A member showed me an AT&T ad from Sunday’s paper. At the top of the page in block letters in the question: “How do I love thee?” He has written to the side, “Even AT&T understands what editors of modern … Continue reading
“Drift Away”
Who can forget this 70s classic especially since it’s still being recorded as of 2007? It begins plaintively like a good hymn in the “suffering” section of a hymnal should.
Bonheoffer, Hitler, and Holocaust
The January Concordia Theological Quarterly has an article entitled “Themes of the Cruciform Life in Bonheoffer.” Bonheoffer was executed for his participation in the plot to assassinate the one man every man thinks ought to have been: Hitler.