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We Make Our Beginning? Say What?
We Make Our Beginning? Say What?

A reader recently sent me a note worthy of considering. He wondered whether we have addressed the matter of opening the Divine Service with the words, “Remembering our Baptism, we make our beginning in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”

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Burnell Eckardt Comments
On the Benefits and Significance of Tradition
On the Benefits and Significance of Tradition

The important social traditions are not just arbitrary customs, which might or might not have survived into the modern world. They are forms of knowledge. They contain the residues of many trials and errors, as people attempt to adjust their conduct to the conduct of others. They exist because they provide necessary information, without which a society may not be able to reproduce itself. Destroy them heedlessly and you remove the guarantee offered by one generation to the next.

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Rick Stuckwisch Comment
I Couldn't Resist
I Couldn't Resist

Normally it’s expected of our friend and compatriot Larry Beane to post on our website examples of outrageous and ridiculous things that provide further evidence of the need for Gottesdienst.

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Burnell EckardtComment
Marquart on The Question of Procedure in Theological Controversies
Marquart on The Question of Procedure in Theological Controversies

Given the current climate that Christians face in this world—a world that has lost its mind—here is a little sanity. It is a good reminder of what the task of the church in general, and her ministers specifically, are charged, yes, commanded, to be, do, and say. “In the world you will have trouble, but take heart (have courage, be bold, speak plainly and forthrightly), for I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). And “For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God” (1 John 5:4—5)? We have overcome the world. Let us act like it!

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Culture, Doctrine & Practice, PreachingJason BraatenKurt Marquart Comments
Boomers and Generalizations
Boomers and Generalizations

Obviously, just as not every Jew attacked Jesus and the Church, so it is true that not every boomer is part of the problem - and those who are dissidents against the decay will often join in the criticism of Boomerism. But it is undeniable that there is a demographic culture in which the exception proves the rule.

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Larry Beane Comments