A blog of the Evangelical Lutheran Liturgy
A lawyer, desiring to justify himself, asked our Lord, “And who is my neighbor.” And our Lord, desiring to justify the lawyer, flipped the question around and asked him, “Which of these three proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?”
Read MoreBefore COVID, there were already casual Fridays, and in companies where it was mainly young people every day was casual. Even nicer restaurants are often full of casually dressed people. Now people may never dress for work when they work from home. This has affected the church as well.
Read MorePastor Aaron Rock, a Neo-Evangelical minister who serves Harvest Bible Church in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, seems to understand ecclesiology better than a lot of Lutherans.
Read MoreTo go along with the new podcast episodes on sermon preparation, I’ve put together some notes (some from my own hand and some from one of Petersen’s sermons on the text) for Trinity 12. Use some, all, or none of it. But maybe it will just get the sermon writing juices flowing.
Read MoreThe text below is written in Vilmos Vajita’s work Luther On Worship: An Interpretation. I have found the book to be quite helpful and one that is tangible also for the laity. In the very beginning, he speaks the truth that worship and theology belong together. They cannot be divided.
Read MoreAnd ode to Mary, on the vigil of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God
Read MoreI would like to thank the Rev. Dr. David S. Luecke for providing a stark contrast between his Church Growth Movement (CGM) approach to liturgy and sacraments vs. what Gottesdienst has been not only advocating, but putting into practice for going on thirty years.
Read MoreRobert P. George is one of the most well known and influential public intellectuals of the Roman Catholic Church in America. Right alongside him is Anthony Esolen.
Read MoreA quiz for the Gottesdienst Crowd. How many dreadful things can you spot in this picture?
Read MoreDivine Service 4 in Lutheran Service Book sports a preface that comes to us as a revision of the Swedish tradition. It is loosely based upon the form Olavus Petri employed in his 1531 revision of the Mass…
Read MoreSt. Laurence, Deacon and Martyr, August 10
Read More… not only on account of the spate of church arsons, but also because of the increasing marginalization, hatred, and open calls for violence against our brothers and sisters in Christ.
The above Chesterton quote is fitting to describe the ongoing work and ministry of the newly consecrated Finnish Lutheran Bishop Juhana Pohjola.
Read MoreWhat follows is the text of the Keynote Presentation I gave at the 2021 Bugenhagen Conference in Racine, Wisconsin. I look forward to this conference every year. If you have not attended, or not attended in a few years, commit to it.
Read MoreThe five settings for the Divine Service in Lutheran Service Book have each retained the Sanctus
Read MoreIn 1961, the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) broke fellowship with the LCMS. They understood that there are impediments to church fellowship between our synods.
Read MoreA brief discussion of the most commonly used post communion Collect in the LCMS.
Read MoreI used to enjoy movies, that is, before they all became preachy and “woke,” eager to push a Critical Theory Neo-Marxist narrative, and turning Christians and other demographic groups, into villains.
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