A blog of the Evangelical Lutheran Liturgy
It is the Word of Jesus on His way to the Cross that defends you against those false and misleading voices of doubt and despair. So faith persists in the confidence of His Word, which declares that He is close at hand. And His Cross has taught you to know and believe these two most basic facts: You need Him, who alone is able to help and save you; and He has come for you in divine love.
Read MoreWith his confession of Christ Jesus, St. Polycarp blesses and glorifies the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and he gives thanks that he is considered worthy “to receive a portion in the number of the martyrs.” By way of his martyrdom, he enters into the Holy Communion of Christ the Crucified, into a participation in the Cross and Passion of Christ Jesus, unto the resurrection of eternal life in both body and soul.
Read MoreThere is no peace in a state church - only what is outward, false, and forced, a conformity that knows no peace, only sheer compliance.
Read MoreJoy Pullman has done the world a service by writing about the trials of the hero Harold Ristau.
Read MoreThere is a petition circling to help Rev. Dr. Gregory Schulz after highlighting the issues of CRT that are going on at Concordia University Wisconsin as they seek a new president. Please consider signing it.
Read MoreThe above quote was in response to my post called “Cancel Culture and the Cross.”
It amuses me for several reasons, and has given me fodder for writing more. So thank you, “Boomer Luther.”
Read MoreBack in October, I had the privilege to visit Zion Lutheran Church in the Orlando, Florida area. Pastor Rojas has a lovely family and congregation. They desire to be authentically Lutheran, and they are!
Read MoreWe just learned (thanks to our Sabre of Boldness columnist Jon Shaw) that a verdict is now expected on March 30th in the trial of Dr .Päivi Räsänen and Bishop Juhana Pohjola, which resumed on Monday of this week (February 14th).
Read MoreAs Dr. Stephenson noted, The Rev. Dr. Harold Ristau is faithfully confessing and standing against the tyranny of the Canadian government.
Read MoreAfter recording the Thinking Out Loud podcast on Sexagesima with Fr. Petersen, I thought I’d put some words to paper as some more food for thought. If it gets the writing juices flowing great. So use it all. Use some. Or use none of it.
Read MoreMy 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?”
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