Category Archives: Missouri Megatrends
Who Really is Practicing Selective Fellowship?
Because I won’t commune members of the LCMS who believe that communion should be open to all who want it, or all who have been baptized, or all who believe in the Real Presence, I am accused of practicing selective … Continue reading
A Non-Compete Clause
We don’t have non-compete clauses among pastors, but perhaps we should in our own heads because there ain’t no way I’m competing with this Missouri Synod church.
Fiel pero desdichado
That’s the Churchill family motto since 1661. It’s not Latin but Spanish, and nobody knows why. It expresses how I have frequently thought about my relationship to the LCMS.
Lutherean
That’s what the pen had printed on it – Trinity Lutherean Church. I know this is a typo, but it seems to me that it describes what many Lutheran churches have become.
Hold the Line or Dance their Tune
It’s well-known that in a battle one running man or one charging man can turn the tide of battle. Macarthur’s’ father won the Medal of Honor for picking up the fallen standard of his Civil War unit and continuing the … Continue reading
Is He a Churchill?
A while back I opined that the President of the LCMS is not a Lincoln, but is he perhaps a Churchill?
Failing Homosexuals
“Preach the Law as if there is no Gospel; preach the Gospel as if there is no Law,” is a Lutheran dictum, and it is here we have failed homosexuals.
Why Don’t We Do That?
Years ago a pastor said to me that the Lutheran Witness serves to raise the question in your congregation “Why don’t we do that?” That’s true to this day. The Reporter which goes to that churchly office of “professional church … Continue reading
The Structure of Synodical Revolutions
This title might ring a bell. It’s a shameless rip-off of Thomas S. Kuhn’s landmark book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. It was published first in 1962. I bought it circa 1996 after finding it referenced time and again in … Continue reading
Not Locking the Barn Door at All
It’s considered foolish to lock a barn door after the horse has gotten out, but it’s more foolish still not to lock it even after the horse has fled. There may be other animals still in the barn, other important … Continue reading