SOME THINGS DON'T CHANGE

From an All Saints’ Day sermon of Dr. David P. Scaer:

All Saints’ Day is not about change; it is about how things stay the same…

Karl FabriziusNovember 7, 2021 Comments

Opus Praedicatoris

Worth a thousand words.

Larry BeaneNovember 6, 2021 Comments

On Relevance

Yesterday, I was struck by just how relevant our print journal is.

Larry BeaneNovember 4, 2021 Comments

Glad I Wasn’t on Sixth Avenue That Day

I really hate to be lumped with Protestants who reject the real presence of Christ in the Sacrament, but sometimes it can’t be helped.

Burnell EckardtNovember 3, 2021 Comments

Free Subscriptions

Gottesdienst is sending a free one-year subscription to all new LCMS pastors and deaconesses.

Larry BeaneNovember 2, 2021Comment

Contemplating the Cloud of Witnesses on All Saints Day

David PetersenNovember 1, 2021Thomas H. Petersen, All Saints, The Immortality of the Soul, The intermediate state of the soul, The faithful departed, The Great Cloud of Wtinesses, Soul sleep, Fighting Temptation, Eschatology, Realized Eschatology Comments

Gottesdienst is for Everyone

If my one-year old granddaughter is reading Gottesdienst…

Burnell EckardtOctober 30, 2021Comment

Luther on the Law

“The Law does not make me a better person; it does not make me loving or hopeful or obedient. Indeed, it cannot.“

Fr. Mark BradenOctober 29, 2021Comment

Jesus Is a Friend of Yours

Here within His Church all your sins are freely and fully forgiven. Here you are safe, and here you are loved by God Himself in the Flesh. Here you are fed with the good Fruits of His Cross. Here you are given the Life of your dear Lord Jesus Christ. And though you do not yet see Him, what is now revealed to you by the Gospel, under the Cross, shall be openly revealed in the Glory of His Resurrection at the last, when your faith and life in Christ Jesus will be shown to be more precious than gold. As it was for St. Simon and St. Jude and all the Holy Apostles, so it is for you and all the friends of Jesus, and so shall it be for you and all the faithful, forever and forevermore.

Saints, Sermon, Sanctoral Calendar, Feasts & FestivalsRick StuckwischOctober 28, 2021St. Simon & St. Jude the Apostles, sermonComment

Draconis Cauda

The Tail of the Dragon is a popular stretch of road for tourists near the Tennessee-North Carolina border. It boasts 318 curves in 11 miles.

Larry BeaneOctober 27, 2021 Comments

Living Well is the Best Revenge by Travis Berg

Note: This blogpost was written by the Rev. Travis Berg

Others have mentioned George Herbert (3 April 1593 – 1 March 1633) in his capacity as a metaphysical poet.

Larry BeaneOctober 26, 2021 Comments

What's sacred about sacred theology

The dethronement of theology in the church is the attempted dethronement of God in the church. The church speaks definitely because it understands God’s revelation in Holy Scripture to be definitive in its source and in its relevance.

Doctrine & Practice, Ministry, Synod, TheologyAdam KoontzOctober 23, 2021 Comments

A Tale of Two Magazines

When I was in seminary (twenty years ago), we had a nickname for the Lutheran Witness. We called it the Witless. Frankly, it was not much of a witness and it was barely Lutheran.

Larry BeaneOctober 22, 2021 Comments

Burnell EckardtOctober 21, 2021Comment

On the Blessing and Benefits of a Seeing Eye and Hearing Ears

“It is a very rare blessing for godly priests to have a safe and quiet place where they may teach. It is an extraordinary gift, which the devil, the most malevolent enemy of God and the salvation of man, often obstructs and disturbs. But where there is such harmony that the princes of a land honor, protect, and support ministers for spreading abroad spiritual things, one may truly say that a paradise of the world is there. But if ministers are despised, ridiculed, and treated with contempt, as happened to Isaiah and other Prophets, although they were most excellent and faithful teachers, it is the surest evidence of God’s wrath and of impending disasters; for contempt of so great a blessing as is tendered to men by godly ministers has never gone unpunished.”