Month: July 2018
https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/michael-foust/judge-christian-parents-who-don-t-like-new-transgender-policy-can-pull-their-children-from-school.html This judge avoided the issue on the basis of individual likes and dislikes
Believers go to church. http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/07/28/americans-still-believe-in-god-so-why-do-so-many-us-see-church-as-just-optional-rental-car-insurance.html
https://www.gottesdienst.org/gottesblog/2018/7/17/a-threefold-christological-definition-of-preaching
The Telegraph: "Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If’ poem scrubbed off wall by students who claim he was a ‘racist’" This reminds me of the Anabaptists smashing stained glass windows in the 1520s. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/07/18/rudyard-kiplings-poem-scrubbed-wall-students-claim-hewas-racist/
New article by Pr. Burnell F. Eckardt up over at Gottesdienst https://www.gottesdienst.org/gottesblog/2018/7/17/a-threefold-christological-definition-of-preaching
That we even need to ask questions like this only highlights the wisdom of our forefathers in regards to maintaining the harmonious order of creation for men and women instead of advancing an atomistic individualism that pits them against each other. In Christian Dogmatics (the standard dogmatic textbook of the Missouri Synod), Dr. Franz Pieper, wrote, "Woman ought not be dragged from her place of honor into public life." The world has now devolved to the point that women run from their place of honor into a competition they cannot even hope to win. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/opinion/trump-midterms-gender-gap.html?rref=collection
"NALC Bishop John Bradosky, invited NALC women theologians to come and train Christian women leaders in the doctrines of the faith from an orthodox Lutheran perspective. Because ELCM (Evangelical Lutheran Church in Malawi) does not have enough pastors to preach and teach in all of its congregations, lay people, including women, provide preaching and teaching. The ELCM does not ordain women, but church leaders have expressed desire to begin that process." https://www.thenalc.org/projects/theological-training-in-malawi/
So, we’re helping churches in Africa get away from the ordination of women, but cozying up with an American church which is sending female pastors to teach African churches. This is far too confusing. https://www.thenalc.org/projects/theological-training-in-malawi/
Great deal over at CPH’s Not Quite Perfect section: https://www.cph.org/p-25234-nqp-inside-the-reformation.aspx?REName=Sales&plk=2700&Lk=0&rlk=0
Maybe the way of life changed first and then led to these closings. http://www.startribune.com/as-minnesota-churches-close-a-way-of-life-fades/486037461/
“Now our children have moved away. The grandkids have volleyball, dance on weekends. People are busy with other things." Too bad many folks will studiously avoid translating this into repentence: We failed to instill in our children the importance of God and His Word above all other things, and now the chickens is coming home to roost. http://www.startribune.com/as-minnesota-churches-close-a-way-of-life-fades/486037461/
Praise Be to God! https://fox6now.com/2018/07/06/2-months-after-massive-blaze-trinity-lutheran-church-starts-to-rebuild/
No, this really isn’t a Babylon Bee post, but an article that somehow actually got published. https://www.thenation.com/article/founders-showed-greater-respect-islam-trump-supreme-court/