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. Read the rest of this entry »
A Mourning Person
November 30th, 2009It started with the goddess
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
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. Read the rest of this entry »
Food for Thought
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.” Read the rest of this entry »
Setting Out for Elert but Not Even Making it to Akron
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. Read the rest of this entry »
There’s a Bathroom on the Right
October 26th, 2009A Lutheran woman once told me she grew up thinking the chorus to Creedence Clearwater Revival 1969 hit “Bad Moon Rising” wasn’t “There’s a bad moon on the rise,” but “There’s a bathroom on the right.” I use to think that was because her hearing was poor; I now think it’s because she was a Lutheran. Read the rest of this entry »
Losing One Eye or Going Blind
October 19th, 2009Everyone knows Santayana’s quote that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, but I prefer Russians to Spaniards. A Russian proverb says, “Dwell on the past and you will lose an eye; forget the past and you will lose both eyes.” I’d rather lose one eye than two, so I point you to the past. Read the rest of this entry »
Let the Children Come to Me – Not!
October 5th, 2009This 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.” Read the rest of this entry »
New Roman Missal Finally Out and LSB is Really
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. Read the rest of this entry »
Bumper Sticker Theology
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. Read the rest of this entry »