Category Archives: Missouri Megatrends

The April Reporter sports a blue LCMS cross. We who formerly preached under the burgundy cross are going to switch to a new color.  Blue is one choice.  Just like Wal-Mart has gone from brown, to blue, to tan, so … Continue reading →

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 →

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

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 →

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 →

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 →

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.

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 →

“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 →