People will usually describe themselves as either a morning or a night person. The Lord doesn’t care for as the hymn says, “Day and night are both alike to Thee.” Some people do, however, care. Lord help you, and I don’t mean this in a frivolous manner if you are night pastor in morning country. People who get up with the chickens think this is the only way to be. But whether you’re like the morning or night you’re still a person. It’s a different manner when it comes to being a mourning person. These are the only kind that rightly value the ministry. (more…)
Archive for November, 2009
A Mourning Person
Monday, November 30th, 2009It started with the goddess
Monday, November 23rd, 2009It started with the self-proclaimed “Digital Goddess” Kim Komando. It was exacerbated by sports commentators saying this or that player was a “god.” It burst into flames when the PBS cook referred to another as the “goddess of flambeau.”
Laughing and Crying with Strange Bedfellows
Monday, November 16th, 2009Either I’m not being sent the memos or I don’t know where to pick them up. I didn’t get the memo that the confessional position had changed on the order of creation. The roles of men and women now apply only in the home and in the pastoral office not in the world or in church offices made by man. Apparently I also wasn’t sent or failed to pick up the memo about the new understanding of Romans 16:17. (more…)
Food for Thought
Monday, November 9th, 2009A cereal named Ezekiel 4:9 has just shown up on my grocers shelf, and even for a town that prides itself in keeping things weird, this is weird. Here’s what the package says, “As described in Holy Scriptures ‘Take also unto thee wheat and barley and beans and lentils and millet and spelt and put them in one vessel and make bread of it…..’This Biblical Cereal is truly the Staff of Life.” (more…)
Setting Out for Elert but Not Even Making it to Akron
Monday, November 2nd, 2009St. Paul Lutheran Church, Austin, Texas wants to be a confessional Lutheran congregation. You might say they want to get to Elert, but they don’t even make it to Akron. (more…)