This is from Crossbridge Community Church, Lakeway, Texas an LCMS mission: “The Kidz begin the morning in worship services with their parents so that they can enjoy the uplifting, contemporary music that begins our Sunday mornings. Pastor Peter then blesses the Kidz before dismissing them to the care of their instructor for the remainder of the service time.” (more…)
Archive for the ‘Contemporary Worship’ Category
Let the Children Come to Me – Not!
Monday, October 5th, 2009New Roman Missal Finally Out and LSB is Really
Monday, September 28th, 2009The following is from http://www.usccb.org/romanmissal/examples.shtml . The Third Edition of the Roman Catholic Missal is finally out as of August 21, 2009, and look what they changed back to. (more…)
Bumper Sticker Theology
Monday, September 21st, 2009You can tell a lot about a person by their bumper stickers. That must be what people mean to happen when the put them on their car. (more…)
I’d Rather Spend 90 Minutes in The Shack
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009Several weeks ago I warned of looking for truth in all the wrong places such as the novel The Shack. Well I’d rather spend 90 minutes in The Shack than one minute in 90 Minutes in Heaven. (more…)
Effeminacy and the Liturgy
Monday, July 27th, 2009
Reading The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, I discovered I might not know the real meaning of effeminacy. It doesn’t mean weak or even sissified to the author of that work. (more…)
Keeping up With the Jones’
Monday, July 13th, 2009
Contemporary worship didn’t come out of thin air. I think it genesis can be laid at the door of Vatican II which started from the principle of what is relevant to men not what is worshipful to God. Of course, people from less liturgical churches and ones that already worshipped from that premise took it much further. (more…)
Personal Relationship or Faith in Faith?
Monday, June 29th, 2009
You won’t have to troll through many LCMS websites to find a “mission statement” saying their mission is to “lead others to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.” You won’t talk very long to a member or a pastor of a contemporary worshipping church (Yes, there is a double entendre there.) without a personal relationship to Jesus coming up. I think what they are really talking about is having faith in faith, and I think it absolutely inimical to the Lutheran Faith and just plain sad for Christians. (more…)
Plain Label Christianity and Hall Monitors
Monday, May 11th, 2009There are hundreds of shampoos on the market; far too many to make any logical, rational, certain choice, so I choose one called “Generic Shampoo.” There are hundreds of beers too. All have competing claims and counter claims so I drink one called Beer. There are dozens of cars on the market each claiming to be the best, so I drive one called “Non-Detroit, Japanese, or European.” I reported for jury duty to a large courthouse with many rooms; I couldn’t decide which one to enter, so I stayed in the hall. (more…)
Don’t Even Bother to ask Your Doctor
Monday, March 16th, 2009Since the late 1990s prescription drug use has grown exponentially. In large part this has been due to the “ask your doctor if _____ is right for you” ad campaign. Doctors are hard pressed when you say, “I have these symptoms, and this drug says it treats them all.” (more…)
Just in Time for Valentine’s Day
Monday, February 2nd, 2009A member showed me an AT&T ad from Sunday’s paper. At the top of the page in block letters in the question: “How do I love thee?” He has written to the side, “Even AT&T understands what editors of modern Lutheran hymnals do not.” (more…)