Category Archives: Missouri Megatrends
We’re Emerging but into Where, What, Whom?
The January 2013 Texas District Supplement to the Lutheran Witness trumpets the 25th annual Church Extension Fund conference in April. The keynote speaker is Dr. Leonard Sweet. He is a world renowned leader of the Emergent Church movement, and that’s … Continue reading
American Lying
“’I do not believe that any who shall be so fortunate as to be received into heaven through the atonement of our blessed Savior will be asked whether they belonged to the Presbyterian, the Methodist, the Episcopalian, the Baptist, or … Continue reading
Of Broadway Plays and Joint Prayer Services
In 1969 there was a Broadway play “in which two male homosexuals make open love onstage…” The performance beat the charge of obscenity because while the two were thus engaged they talked about Vietnam. The play met the then litmus … Continue reading
A War of Words
Do you consciously say “chairwoman” or “spokeswoman?” How about making sure you refer to him or her and always having to follow up with he and she? You could resort to what Anthony Burgess does in his book 1985. He … Continue reading
Is Living Together “just another sin”?
In light of what the LCMS Catechism says about the office of the keys, I think every lay person has a right to know whether their pastor knowingly communes those living together, i.e. committing fornication. Here’s what the LCMS says … Continue reading
Mathematics, Medicine, and Theology
Don’t blame me for being bad at math; do blame me for being bad at theology.
Philosophies Men live By but Don’t Realize It
Surely it can’t be coincidence or accident that in God’s so-called silent years when He only spoke by the written Word and the visible Word of Old Testament Sacraments that the great philosophers did their speaking? Between the Word of … Continue reading
Walther’s Woodshed
I was going to take other’s to C.F.W. Walther’s woodshed, but I found myself being hauled in there too. Well if we’re going to get disciplined by the first president of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod let’s remember the … Continue reading
Why Don’t We Commune Those Who Believe in Open Communion?
This is first and foremost a matter of pastoral care. If I asked an LCMS Lutheran if they believed in infant Baptism and they answered “No,” you know I could not commune them. Well those who believe Christians believing different … Continue reading
What Will Get You Thrown Out of Synod?
All confessional guys have said this for as long as I’ve been in the ministry. “I’m going to stay in the Synod till they throw me out. That’s what Luther did.”