I'd have called this blog Also Sprach der Vorsteher, except I'm not an elder now or even in the same synod. I'm an LCMS layman with a quia subscription to The Book of Concord. If we are not confessional, we ignore all of what it is to be missional. The mission is to spread the confession. If we are not doing that, we are not sent, by Him anyway. And, if we are not missional, we ignore part of what it is to be confessional. MT 28:16-20.
Here's the 2009 version of my Advent post.
Why Have An Advent?
Scripture records the birth of Jesus, but it records no direction to celebrate either it or a preparation for it. But it records no prohibition of doing so either. The Christian Church...
I remember things better by the day than the date.
For example, in my mind my wife Nancy died the night before Thanksgiving, 2140 hours, 1997, rather than 26 November 1997. Dates fall on different days in different years, and the night before...
As a counterpart to my post on what became of Sukkot as the Christian liturgical calendar emerged out of the Jewish one, here's a little something on the secular Sukkot here in the US called Thanksgiving.
Turns out, there were two "first"...
Here is what the world knows, I hope. 11 November was originally Armistice Day, from the armistice that ended hostilities in the First World War on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, GMT (or UTC), in 1918. Later, with another and even...
Here's something, regarding the position that our problems in the LCMS derive from, or continue because of, the lack of a correct polity.
On the Beeb (the BBC) I see a story reporting that The Church of Sweden, a Lutheran body, will starting November...
