A blog of the Evangelical Lutheran Liturgy
My colleague Dr Harold Ristau brings much experience and many gifts to his exercise of a seminary professorship, in which he is rightly celebrated for his emphasis on personal, sacramental, and liturgical piety and for his focus on teaching and living out the whole great area of Christian Ethics.
Read MoreThank you to the Fr. John Bussman and the saints at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Cullman, Alabama for their Southern hospitality in hosting Gottesdienst - South on January 31, 2022!
Read MoreLast Sunday, many of us celebrated the Transfiguration of Our Lord, and the closing Sunday of the Epiphany season. Septuagesima, approaching this Sunday, sees us say farewell to the Alleluia and to the Gloria in excelsis, recalling to our minds the seventy-year exile of the people of God in Babylon and our own exile from Paradise.
Read MoreMany of us wear uniforms.
Read MoreA member of an LCMS congregation posted with great gusto and passion on a Facebook group concerning the Sign of the Cross, of which he disapproved, because it is a “tradition of men.”
Read MoreWe are taught as Christians to submit to one another, to obey the law, to submit to our rulers, to our pastors, to our parents.
Read MoreAn admonition to pastors to pray for their people by name.
Read More“If the liturgy was originally framed after the form of a Great Thanksgiving, then what is to prevent one from thinking of the Preface as a part of it?”
Read MoreTo the delight of all Irish Lutherans, the favorite hymn of St. Paul Lutheran School of Hamel, as voted by her school children, is…
Read MoreIn case you missed it, Joy Pullman from The Federalist had a nice article on the trial of Päivi Räsänen the other day. Here’s a link to it.
Read MoreFor our sins, says the Apostle, we had pierced ourselves with ten thousand evils and deserved the gravest punishment; and not only did the Law not deliver us, but it even condemned us, making sin more manifest, without the power to release us from it or to stay the anger of God. But the Son of God made this impossibility possible, for He remitted our sins, He restored us from enmity to the condition of friends, and He freely bestowed on us numberless other blessings.
Read MoreThe pastors and confessors of Christ Jesus bear and suffer His Cross in their body and life, as surely as they proclaim His Cross in their preaching and distribute the fruits of His Sacrifice by the Ministry of His Gospel. And they are content with the food and drink, the clothing and shelter that God provides through His people — just as the Lord also feeds His people and quenches their thirst with His Holy Supper, clothes them with His righteousness in Holy Baptism, and shelters them within His Church on earth through the labors of His called and ordained servants.
Read MoreLast night, I and my fellow podcasters got together to do a live show in frigid, windswept Iowa. It was cold and snowy, so only the die-hards braved the elements to listen and to interact with us.
Read MoreThis week is National Lutheran Schools Week. Our school is observing by having a schoolwide favorite hymn contest. Each child was able to give their personal top three favorite hymns.
Read MoreThis verbatim from today’s Euronews.
“Päivi Räsänen: Finland's ex-interior minister goes on trial for anti-LGBT+ hate speech
Read MoreNo one wants to hear about enduring hardship until hardship comes. Now we face hardship all the more boldly because we are being rooted and renewed in Christ in ways we did not imagine three years ago.
Read MoreDear Gottesdienst crowd,
You may be wondering what happened to the recent post by one of our editors linking to Dr. Adam Koontz’s excellent lecture at the seminary symposium a few days ago.
Read MoreDear Burnell F Eckardt
I am deeply grateful and touched for this award. Thank you very much. This kind of support means a lot to me and I truly appreciate it from the bottom of my heart.
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