Category Archives: Missouri Megatrends

“Luther’s judgment of the papacy as Antichrist is no longer accurate with respect to the modern papacy.  But at that time it did apply, insofar as the papacy was destroying God’s order in the world because of a false understanding … Continue reading →

What’s worse than a false dichotomy?  The failure to recognize a true dichotomy.  President Harrison’s latest discovered truth is in his words garnered from “studying and paging through my Greek New Testament” yet, strangely enough, it is quoted from Kittel’s … Continue reading →

That’s what the headline of the press release should have been from the latest meeting of the ACELC Steering Committee and the LCMS.  But below is what it was.  I kept the ! and didn’t change it to 1 because this comes … Continue reading →

I wrote this 14 years ago for Vox Sine Nomine. It’s still true to today.

That’s a slogan for Bayer aspirin, but I think it might apply to the German theologian by the same surname.  Granted he has a lingering case of higher criticism, but two doses from him can spare us in Missouri some … Continue reading →

The CTCR’s latest report “Together with all Creatures” April 2010 perpetuates a modern myth: that the space program first taught us how small we are.

I loath long titles, so I apologize, but the war has been joined and one if by land and two if by sea didn’t seem to apply.  Our side (confessional, conservative Lutheranism) is electing to keep our powder dry.  Their … Continue reading →

Aristotle said it first, and I think this is what the Association of Confessing Evangelical Lutheran Churches with their Admonition is seeking to avoid.

Have you been party to the recent brouhaha over Dr. Laura’s repeated use of the “n” word during a broadcast?  She was trying to show a caller that it really was just another word.  She came out looking like a … Continue reading →

This falls under the topic: You’ve got to be kidding me!  This information is taken from Acts Church Lakeway, Texas and is current as of August 2010.  Acts Church is a mission of the Texas District of the LCMS.  Here … Continue reading →