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February 2009

February 19, 2009

Considering the Small Catechism

LAJ suggests a blog series on Luther's classic "Small Catechism." Good idea. Since, as my...

February 16, 2009

The Leprosy of Sin

It was good to have our pastor back. Pastor Douthwaite has been in Kenya for...

January 2009

January 30, 2009

Rejoicing at gains and weeping at losses

Thanks to Tickletext for this pertinent and timely quotation from Augustine: “Many weep with the...

January 13, 2009

Church removes crucifix for being too scary

As a coda to our series on the Theology of the Cross, consider this story...

January 12, 2009

Theology of the Cross and the Problem of Evil (#6)

Our final installment of our consideration of Carl Trueman's article Luther's Theology of the Cross:...

January 09, 2009

Theology of the Cross and Suffering (#5)

Carl Trueman, whom we have been blogging about all week, goes on in Luther's Theology...

January 07, 2009

Theology of the Cross and the Gospel (#3)

More from Carl Trueman's article Luther's Theology of the Cross: This insight is one of...

January 06, 2009

Theology of the Cross, Power and Language (#2)

Carl Trueman in his article Luther's Theology of the Cross we introduced yesterday, on the...

January 05, 2009

Theology of the Cross, definition

As promised, I am going to post this week excerpts from an article by Carl...

September 2008

September 29, 2008

Enemy of the Baptized

I hope you had a happy St. Michael and All Angels day yesterday, a day...

September 24, 2008

McCain the Manichaean?

Democratic criticisms of John McCain are so partisan, so unmeasured, and so hysterical that they...

September 12, 2008

Elizabeth’s Baptism

We'll be taking off today to travel to Ft.Wayne for our new grand-daughter Elizabeth's baptism....

July 2008

July 23, 2008

Doctrine does not divide but unifies

I do not understand the contention that "doctrine divides." In what sense is a church...

July 14, 2008

An atheist’s testimony, continued

The readers and commenters on this blog are a rare group, pursuing a higher and...

July 03, 2008

Closed communion in the news

Did you hear about how non-Catholic, apparently non-Christian took Communion at Tim Russert's funeral? Last...

June 2008

June 25, 2008

Reaching the churched in the LCMS

Thanks to Lutheran Kantor and Dan at Necessary Roughness for mining the data in that...

June 20, 2008

Details about the “Issues, etc.” return

Mollie Hemingway gives more details about the return of "Issues, etc.": Jeff [Schwarz] and Todd...

April 2008

April 15, 2008

Zen Calvinism

To show this is not just a Lutheran blog, I offer here Carl Trueman offering...

January 2008

January 28, 2008

The Kingdom of Satan

In church yesterday the sermon was about the Kingdom of God as opposed to the...

January 22, 2008

The Gospel of the Adorable Huggables

Anthony Sacramone goes off on a sublime rant occasioned by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of...

January 21, 2008

Roman Catholic universalism

Avery Cardinal Dulles, after surveying Roman Catholic teaching through the ages about who can be...

January 16, 2008

Witnessing and Witnessed-to Stories

FW wrote this comment on yesterday's witnessing post: I literally got goosebumps reading this post....

January 15, 2008

Witnessing through the model of our lives

Related to yesterday's post on people looking to their Christ-likeness for the assurance of their...

January 14, 2008

How do you know you’re a Christian?

Christianity Today had a column on the assurance of salvation, addressing the question of how...

January 14, 2008

Christ’s Baptism and the Gospel

What a great service we had again at our church. Military chaplain the Rev. Keith...

January 14, 2008

John Warwick Montgomery is in the house

I picked up John Warwick Montgomery at the airport last night. He is now back...

January 09, 2008

Preterists?

Can someone explain to me the position of the "preterists"? I had assumed that had...

January 04, 2008

Lutheran church burned in Kenya

In the rioting in Kenya over a disputed election that has sparked inter-tribal warfare, Springs...

January 04, 2008

Statistics on belief in creation

Still more from Gallup: A recent poll on how many Americans believe in Evolution, Creationism,...

January 03, 2008

Statistics on believing the Bible

Another interesting tidbit from is a poll on what Americans believe about the Bible. It...