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April 2014

April 17, 2014

On the night when he was betrayed

We commemorate quite a lot of things on Maundy Thursday. Jesus washed His disciple's feet,...

April 17, 2014

People who just come to church on Easter

Church attendance is down, but lots of people--including those who don't come the rest of...

April 16, 2014

Easter did NOT come from a pagan holiday

You're probably already hearing the old canards about Easter and its customs being based in...

April 15, 2014

What the Bible is all about

On Sunday we read the entire Passion narrative from Matthew 26-27. Read what our pastor...

April 14, 2014

A God who doesn’t act like a God

Our pastor on Palm Sunday said that people's confusion over Jesus--so that they hailed Him...

April 11, 2014

Church of Norway says “no” to gay marriage

Surprisingly, the state church of Norway--unlike that of Sweden--has rejected same-sex marriage. Pastors will also...

April 02, 2014

Death penalty for helping a missionary

Thirty-three people have been arrested and face the death penalty in North Korea for helping...

March 2014

March 28, 2014

Lutheran tattoos

Members of the Cross in Mt. Dora, Florida, a congregation of the Lutheran Church Missouri...

March 28, 2014

How important is Church?

Not very, according to a new Barna study, at least for 51% of Americans. What,...

March 27, 2014

The Annunciation and “Lord of the Rings”

More belated Annunciation thoughts. From Isaac Augustine Morales, The Annunciation and the One Ring |...

March 26, 2014

Annunciation as a pro-life holiday

Yesterday was the celebration of the Annunciation, the ancient church holiday nine months before Christmas...

March 24, 2014

How Fred Phelps helped the gay-rights movement

The late Fred Phelps with his Westboro Baptist Church, who picketed funerals of soldiers killed...

March 21, 2014

Fred Phelps of Westboro Baptist dies

Fred Phelps, founder of Westboro Baptist church in Topeka, Kansas, is dead. This congregation of...

March 17, 2014

Converting the barbarians

Today we express our appreciation to the Irish for saving civilization. St. Patrick converted the...

March 11, 2014

When the church “doesn’t really stand for anything”

Newsweek has an article about how Protestantism is dwindling in the land of Luther. It...

March 10, 2014

A Reformed & a Lutheran take on Lent

The online periodical the Federalist has two articles on Lent--specifically, on observances such as giving...

March 05, 2014

Fasting for 40 days before Easter

Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. There are those who claim that...

February 2014

February 26, 2014

“They’re not the enemy”

Have you noticed how Jesus fulfilled the Sermon on the Mount--turning the other cheek, returning...

February 25, 2014

Be different

We had another great sermon on Sunday. This one was about holiness, based on the...

February 18, 2014

Why the family & the church are prior to the state

In the context of a discussion of the movie The Wolf of Wall Street, Dr....

February 06, 2014

UN panel tells Church to change its teachings

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has issued a statement directing...

February 04, 2014

The end of cultural Christianity

There was a time, not long ago, when people were just expected to go to...

February 03, 2014

Are Lutherans boring?

Yet another definitive answer to the question, Why not Lutheranism?, has been written. This one...

February 03, 2014

Lutheranism is not boring–vocation is

For me, growing up in perhaps the blandest version of mainline liberal Protestantism, Lutheranism, far...

January 2014

January 28, 2014

J. Gresham Machen on the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod

J. Gresham Machen was one of the 20th century's leading Reformed theologians, a Princeton faculty...

January 27, 2014

Lutherans, Catholics, & Orthodox

We may have solved, with the help of James R. Rogers, our perennial question of...

January 24, 2014

More on Lutherans, Calvinists, & Evangelicals

James R. Rogers (a Lutheran) advances our perennial topic of why evangelicals tend to prefer...

January 23, 2014

The church’s “Kodak moment”?

We've been pretty hard on the Church Growth Movement lately, so let's allow an advocate...

January 23, 2014

What Tullian Tchividjian learned from Lutherans

Tullian Tchividjian is Billy Graham's grandson and the successor to D. James Kennedy as the...

January 21, 2014

Why not Lutheranism?

Mathew Block, communications director of the Lutheran Church Canada, posts about that article on the...