It 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
Either 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. Continue reading
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Food for Thought
A 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.” Continue reading
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Setting Out for Elert but Not Even Making it to Akron
St. 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. Continue reading
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There’s a Bathroom on the Right
A 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. Continue reading
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Losing One Eye or Going Blind
Everyone 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. Continue reading
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Let the Children Come to Me – Not!
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.” Continue reading
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New Roman Missal Finally Out and LSB is Really
The 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. Continue reading
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Bumper Sticker Theology
You 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. Continue reading
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And That’s not the Worst of It
I was going to title this “St. Louis Seminary President Throws Fort Wayne Seminary Under the Bus,” but I thought it too long, and that was before I realized that wasn’t the worst of it. Continue reading
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