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I had the opportunity to be a delegate to the Wyoming District Convention this past weekend. It was a good convention with relatively no controversy at all. The majority of resolutions were passed by a unanimous vote (including one attempting to correct TAALC [memorializing recognition of broken fellowship if they do not correct their errors], one asking Synod to restore AC XIV, one asking for Synod to return to our former (and biblical) understanding of women's roles in the church ... |
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Ever since the Missouri Synod has been “re-branded” in blue and even Gottesdienst Online got hip to the new trend and dressed up in blue for a few days, I have had blue on my mind. And it struck me that a rather large blue elephant in the room (that lots of people used to be very concerned about) has hardly been discussed of ... |
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Everyone gets bored. There isn't a parent alive who has not been plagued by a bored child. Not a boring child, but a bored one. "I'm so bored!" comes the moaning cry from one who has iPods, TVs, DVRs, a car, friends, malls down the street, and so forth. And there isn't a parent alive who wasn't once a bored child who is now a bored adult. Surrounded by stuff to do and things to see and engage in, ... |
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On Monday, May 14 and Tuesday, May 15, 2012 the Indiana District Northern Pastors’ Conference was held at Swan Lake Resort in Plymouth, Indiana. The keynote speaker was The Rev. Thomas Winger, acting president and academic dean of Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary, St. Catherine’s. He presented on the topic “One In Christ--Issues of Fellowship and Unity as presented in ... |
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And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father ... |
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Ladder theology is the idea that mankind ascends to God through his/her own will, emotions and intellect in order to draw closer to God. Ladder theology accepts the idea that mankind has fallen from ... |
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When is the last time you saw the word “liturgical,” in the same sentence with “boot camp”? Initially they don’t seem to have anything in common but upon further investigation this belief ... |
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Recently there has been a public debate ongoing on Facebook in regards to the ULC lawsuit against the MNS leadership. Rev. Mark Surburg wrote publicly confronting Rev. David Kind about his exegesis ... |
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Theological discussion centered in the article of Justification is one of the many treasures that Jesus Christ gives to His Bride, the Church, (Matthew 18:19-20). Wherever and whenever two or three ... |
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Training in God’s Word begins at home. With this in mind, Luther wrote this heading before each part of the Catechism, “In the plain form in which the head of the family shall teach them to his ... |
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A post found on Katie Schuermann's blog, He Remembers the Barren:
Dear Mothers,
There are so many things I like about you.
I like it that you give birth to and adopt children, no ... |
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Here are some good quotes for our moms this day:
The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
Genesis 3:20
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me ... |
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Another Great Stuff post on Pastor Philip Hoppe's blog, Meditations of the Heart:
Listen to his own words:
"I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked ... |
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The word "purpose" has become quite a money-making industry. Ever since Rick Warren's blockbuster book The Purpose Driven Life: What On Earth Am I Here For? hit the shelves in the fall of 2002, the ... |
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Christ is risen! He is risen, indeed! Alleluia! Our text for this morning's sermon is taken from St. John's gospel account the 15th chapter (John 15:9-17).
Beloved in the ... |
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I remember some years ago a friend of mine posted as a Facebook status something along the lines of, “I am using so-and-so’s hymn for the hymn of the day. Why do I have to preach afterward? ... |
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While you’re looking through the University Lutheran Chapel (ULC) website, take note of three reasons why so many of us in campus ministry see the ULC as the flagship for confessional Lutheran ... |
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In Jesus I find rest and peace-
The world is full of sorrow;
His wounds are my abiding-place;
Let the unknown tomorrow
Bring what it may,
There I can stay,
My faith finds all I need ... |
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This is a modern parable of the different views of mankind and God's salvation as expressed from four different theologies. The parables use the metaphor of a troubled swimmer in four different ... |
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Dear Friend of Issues, Etc.,
How does the science of archaeology confirm the facts recorded in the New Testament Gospels? What has archaeology discovered about ... |
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