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 ‘Families’ Category
Let the Children Come to Me – Not!
Monday, October 5th, 2009A World Worth Noting
Monday, June 1st, 2009
I personally don’t like World magazine and would not read it if a member didn’t give it to me, but some observations I’ve found there are worth noting. (more…)
Animal Tales
Monday, April 27th, 2009I don’t like Veggie Tales; they are a memorable but moralistic retelling of Bible stories that many Christians think are good for children. Vegetables are but Veggie Tales aren’t. The behavior they teach isn’t distinctively Christian. Muslims, Jews, and Mormons will embrace the same morals, but that’s not the real problem. (more…)
Fancy Let Herself Down
Monday, April 20th, 2009Bobbie Gentry first recorded the song in 1969; most know the Reba McEntire remake of 1990, but no matter who sings it Fancy says the same schizophrenic thing. A woman can give up her body and still be true to herself. (more…)
The Myth of Sexual Moral Neutrality
Monday, February 16th, 2009There it is on a list of 60 or so clubs at my daughters’ high school. Amid the Chess Club, Karate Club, Astronomy Club, Powerlifting Club, and Robot Club is the Gay and Straight Alliance Club. With straight faces we have alliances like this at our high schools. (more…)
Exhorting to Frustration
Monday, January 19th, 2009I want to do auto mechanics. I yearn to be able to pop the hood and know what I’m looking at. I want to get under the car on a mechanic’s creeper and say, “Hand me that ¾ inch wrench,” and really know where to use it. Do you think all the exhortation in the world is going to enable me to become an auto mechanic? (more…)
Ugly Betty
Monday, January 12th, 2009Betty isn’t ugly but we are making her that way. In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe when Father Christmas is handing out gifts he gives to Susan a bow and a quiver full of arrows and a bow and says, “You must use the bow only in great need, for I do not mean you to fight in the battle.” To Lucy he gives a dagger saying, “And the dagger is to defend yourself at great need. For you also are not to be in the battle.” This puzzles her and she says, “’Why, Sir? I think – I don’t know – but I think I could be brave enough.’” Father Christmas responds as so many fathers today fail to, “That is not the point. But battles are ugly when women fight.” (more…)
“Hopelessness”
Monday, October 6th, 2008There is a phenomenon airline pilots experience after flying all night. They fly through the blackness awake, alert, and able, but when the sun pops over their horizon they instantly become sleepy. This is counterintuitive but not contrary to experience. (more…)
“Eve of Destruction”
Monday, September 22nd, 2008If you’re listening to the financiers, bankers, and politicians, we’re teetering on the brink. They’re saying what Barry McGuire sang in his inimitable voice: it’s the “Eve of Destruction.” Barry wanted everyone twisted in knots over war, racism, and nuclear holocaust. Today we’re invited to be in knots because mammon says our future is bleak. Christians, however, can be the one Barry is singing against, “And you tell me/ Over and over and over again, my friend/ Ah, you don’t believe/ We’re on the eve of destruction.” At least we don’t believe it they way the fearmongers want us to. (more…)
Female Elders
Monday, September 8th, 2008You’ll recall that the 2004 Convention said that woman can be elders as long as it doesn’t involve them in the function or accountability of the pastoral office. As of 31 July 2008 three of the nine elders at Trinity, Lexington Park, MD are women. If you would like to see for yourself go to here: (more…)