St. Antony’s Cave

Bart Simpson cleared it all up for me.  I’m not a regular watcher of the goggled-eyed little guy but I happened to catch a re-run of a Christmas episode.  Dad, Homer, had only received 13 dollars for a part-time job he had taken to fund the family Christmas.  Being far below what he had expected, he was in despair.  A co-worker suggests that Homer go with him to the local dog track and parley that meager check into a real Christmas bonus.  Bart tries to discourage Homer.  Homer remonstrates.  Bart says something like, “What the heck.  TV has taught me that at Christmas time I should Continue reading →

   That’s a proverb Luther quotes.  He says what is to be feared is not the trying, difficult, despairing times, but the good times.  The Church has always believed this.  From this sort of theology comes the oft quoted remark, “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.”

   But being a pastor, a shepherd under Christ is tremendously difficult these days.  Who in their right mind would really want to do this? Continue reading →

When I learned that a paper on why to stay in the LCMS was being given at a free conference in Brenham, Texas, I told one of my members he should go and hear it.  He is contemplating going to seminary, and he needs to know what the best reasons for staying in the LCMS are.He went to the conference.  When he came back he got a copy of the paper from its author.  He asked me to read it.  I replied that I would read it if he would go back through all the Convention Workbooks for the Texas District and the LCMS from 1984 to date to see how many resolutions were submitted from St. Paul, Wilson, Texas while Pastor Rohde was pastor there, 1984 – to the present.  Continue reading →

Now that it looks as if there will be no special convention for the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod in 2009, I have a modest proposal. Continue reading →