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9 mins read|07/09/18It can be argued that this scene sets a pattern for Christian activity on the first day of the week from that time until the present.
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10 mins read|05/25/18That’s where a true encounter with God leaves you. Unable to point the finger at anyone else, all you can do is fall on your face, confess your sin, be absolved, and join the angels in singing, “Holy, holy, holy.”
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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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10 mins read|01/05/18Instead of burning them up with unquenchable fire, He comes in solidarity, to be God with us and God for us. Jesus is baptized into our life, so that He could gift us His life.
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7 mins read|11/01/17Luther accepted Augustine’s view of the church as a mixed body.
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9 mins read|09/08/17This emphasis in Luther also applied to his understanding of the sacraments, and particularly comes out in his writings on the Lord’s Supper in his Large Catechism.
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13 mins read|11/16/16The redeemed are dressed in white robes.
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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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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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8 mins read|05/19/16The chief verb of the liturgy is the gift of God’s forgiveness for the sake of Jesus Christ.
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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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