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A Little Yeast, a Little Hole, a Little Pregnant
What do yeast, holes, and pregnancy have in common? There really is no such thing as a “little” of any of these, and if nothing is done they will only get bigger. Sane people want the mother to grow bigger … Continue reading
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Where Have you Gone Joe DiMaggio?
So Simon and Garfunkel lamented in their 1968 song. Having read the biography of the Yankee Clipper, Mickey Mantel, Ted Williams, and Stan Musial, history can have all of them save for Stan the Man. My lament is for the … Continue reading
Faithless in Big, but Faithful in Little?
The LCMS, Inc. or some such entity connected with this behemoth wants to do for your church’s finances what LCMS, Inc. has already done to your doctrine. Don’t let them.
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The Word of Cambronne
I was hunting with my eldest son. He happened upon a snake in tall grass. Seeing it at the last second before stepping on it he sprang to one side, as only youth can do, yelled, “Snake!”, and as kind … Continue reading
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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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