It starts with fat, old Eli. He is a lousy father. Scripture records that Eli honored his sons above the Lord. He would not properly discipline them for despising the offering of the Lord and for sleeping with the women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting. This was one father who certainly didn’t know best. (more…)
G.K. Chesterton said that “every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things” (The New Jerusalem, 211.) (more…)
Spoiler alert: If you haven’t seen the movie “Atonement” and want to, don’t read this. (more…)
Please note I’m not saying the following aren’t Christians, but it is not a Christian response to respond with, “I know,” when someone speaks the Gospel truth to you, yet, this often the response I get. (more…)
This being a presidential election year politics is amped in the secular news. This being an “off” year in the LCMS with neither District nor Synod conventions (Honestly, who but bureaucrats isn’t thrilled by this?) means in LCMS-ville politics are now ramping up.
Abraham Lincoln, so the story goes, once won a court case by saying in his summation to the jury nothing more than, “The prosecution has the facts of the case 100 % correct, but they have come to the wrong conclusion.” (more…)
