Category Archives: Missouri Megatrends
How Come Growing up I could Say the P Word but not the N Word?
I really don’t get this. Growing up my parents didn’t use and I was not allowed to use the “N” word, but I could use the “P” word. Though my parents weren’t Polish (I could say “thank God” here and … Continue reading
Lutheranism 101 is Really LCMS 2.0
Surely someone has already pointed this out. Lutheranism 101 published in 2010 is the popularization of the positions taken in the 2004 synodical convention. It’s LCMS 2.0
BTO Is Back
Bachman Turner Overdrive was a 70’s band with hits such as “Let it Ride,” “Taking Care of Business,” “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet.” To say or read these titles is to hear them all over again. But of that band … Continue reading
Idols for Destruction
I’m rereading Herbert Schlossberg’s book Idols for Destruction. I first read it 25 years ago; I always planned on rereading it. What I’m struck by is how many American idols I have set up in my life that need destroying. … Continue reading
From Pulpit to Pew
I had occasion to attend Divine Service as a lay person for the first time in almost 20 years. What follows is not all that I experienced but all that pained me. I know; I know; “you got to accentuate … Continue reading
Libya Comes to the LCMS
If you think of what is going on in Libya and what went on in Egypt as popular uprisings against unjust governance, then you can say Libya has come to the LCMS in the form of ACELC.
Churchyard Saints
In a sermon written circa 1520 entitled “A Sermon on the Three Kinds of Good Life for the Instruction of Consciences” (LW, 44, 235-242), Luther breaks the church down by churchyard, nave, and sanctuary. “A churchyard saint, Luther says, is … Continue reading
Scripture as Graffiti
They finally got rid of the dingy Mobil gas station across from the church. After hearing it was to be a new bank and then a wine bar, it became another gas station. But this is not your father’s gas … Continue reading
Antichrist – a Teaching to be Ignored
“Luther’s judgment of the papacy as Antichrist is no longer accurate with respect to the modern papacy. But at that time it did apply, insofar as the papacy was destroying God’s order in the world because of a false understanding … Continue reading
What’s Worse than a False Dichotomy?
What’s worse than a false dichotomy? The failure to recognize a true dichotomy. President Harrison’s latest discovered truth is in his words garnered from “studying and paging through my Greek New Testament” yet, strangely enough, it is quoted from Kittel’s … Continue reading