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Higher Things Crucified
Don’t blame me for the title. That was of Higher Thing’s choosing. This article is not.
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Closed versus Close
I recently listened to an excellent presentation by a brother in the ministry on this topic. He gave it to his circuit. He went over the history of these two words and how they jumped from the Baptist to the … Continue reading
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You Could Learn a Lot from a Dummy
This post takes its title from the 1980s’ U.S. Department of Transportation ad campaign to get people to wear seatbelts. They showed you a crash using test dummies and then this tag line. In the 1990s Big Brother gave up … Continue reading
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Flotsam and Jastram
Yes, I know it’s flotsam and jetsam which properly speaking is “wreckage of a ship or its cargo floating on the water or washed ashore.” It also means “worthless or miscellaneous things.” I’m thinking of the later definition.
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The Big Purple Dinosaur Promise
I was sent the following by a brother pastor. It was used at the Call service at St. Louis. He thinks it was driven by the candidates not the faculty. If so they’re probably not ready for their first Calls.
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Much Ado about Something
I referenced in an earlier blog post Dr. Dale Meyer’s article “Pedagogy for a Politicized Church” in the Winter 2014 Concordia Journal, pp. 6-13. He references there a report to the 2010 convention that said the task force involved repeatedly … Continue reading
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How Crazy is That?
Seth McFarland of “Family Guy” fame, or infamy to some, either portrayed in an episode or said in a presentation, monologue, or routine something along these lines: A bunch of people sit in front of one guy while he yells … Continue reading
A Brief Statement about the Brief Statement
Had not the Brief Statement been adopted by the LCMS in 1932 there would not have been the Statement of the Forty-Four in 1945. Yet though confessionals bang the Brief Statement gong loudly and even LCMS, Inc. will appeal to … Continue reading
Everyone a Missionary
We tried “everyone a minister” then it was “everyone an evangelist” now it’s “everyone a missionary.” Sheesh, soon they’ll be no one in the pews to receive the gifts. Soon there’ll be no mothers and fathers raising kids. Soon will … Continue reading
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Is there an Imperative to Grow?
The sainted Reverend Father Rudolph Kurz once wrote a paper saying that there is no command in Scripture for the church to grow in numbers.