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15 mins read|02/01/18“In a culture that promotes self-interest, children in church learn that something much bigger and more important than themselves is going on in their midst."
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9 mins read|10/11/16Many Christians (including preachers) have succumbed to the idea that good preaching must be about practical living, and so most sermons are geared to scratch this pragmatic itch.
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15 mins read|10/10/16I once heard an old, retired Lutheran professor give in interview on a podcast. He was asked by the interviewer why people should bother going to church if they could just be saved through a personal relationship with Jesus?
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10 mins read|07/07/16We are continuing our summer series on a theology of worship through the lens of language. Before moving forward, let me highlight a few points by way of review.
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13 mins read|06/14/16Like any language, the liturgy has syntax—a structure that provides order and intelligibly communicates meaning through all that is said.
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11 mins read|04/29/16Over the next few months, I invite you to join me in looking at what the Bible and the Lutheran Confessions have to say about the subject of worship through the lens of language.
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8 mins read|12/22/15People lamented that ancient paganism was dead, but the same people who profess that they would love an old pagan feast ignore Christmas, where the best of paganism has survived.
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11 mins read|11/16/14Ultimately, however, I fell in love with traditions—and specifically, traditional worship—for a single, overarching reason: its components, to varying degrees, are all in the service of the Gospel.
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12 mins read|10/03/13Why would God reject from Cain what he later accepted from and mandated of his people? So as far as the material itself, neither Cain’s nor Abel’s offering was superior.
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11 mins read|09/09/13In accordance with their views of what a church is, or what a church ought to be, they planned and executed each of these sanctuaries. In other words, theology designed architecture, and architecture signaled theology.
