If the leaders will not lead with the truth, why should the people take a stand on the truth?
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“Cancel Culture” operates based on the logical fallacy of “Guilt By Association.”
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Texas District President Michael Newman sent out a Thanksgiving Eve missive regarding the ongoing attempt by Concordia University Texas to declare independence (well, kind of) from the Missouri Synod.
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The Gottesdienst liturgical calendar for 2023 will be featured in our Christmas issue of Gottesdienst (which, incidentally, is already at the printer, so if you need to renew or subscribe, do so right now), and, as our courtesy to all of you, The Gottesdienst Crowd, is also available for free at this website.
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How do we find the way back to the thing that so many people long for, which is the vision of beauty? What I mean is not some saccharine, Christmas-card image of human life, but rather the elementary ways in which ideals and decencies enter our ordinary world and make themselves known, as love and charity make themselves known in Mozart’s music.
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After putting forward 8 Theses on Women Teaching in the Church, there have been helpful comments on a number of them, especially how they could be improved, modified, and some cases removed.
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Here we go again. The liberal cancer has come back, and the tumor needs cut out.
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We are pleased to present our first translation of a published Gottesdienst piece in Spanish.
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With a whopping two posts so far in 2022, one has to wonder if Congregations Matter is going to dust off the old Model T and take her out for an election year joyride. After all, next year is a presidential election in our synod.
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On August 15th, I wrote a rebuttal of a published article by Jason Lane.
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This Communion of Saints is no mere thought but an unshakable certainty. I know from the mouth of God that I am not alone. I rejoice over this from the bottom of my heart, [for the] brethren of whom I speak are just hidden from my sight and have been placed in higher positions in the Kingdom of God.
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If your church promises you something in exchange for your offering, it is no longer offered in love, rather it is a payment for something.
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Somehow, my congregation got on the mailing list of “Religious Product News” magazine
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Physical death is for us the portal to life eternal.
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After considerable consultation with the other editors and contributors…
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Not only a physician, but one of those doctors who connects with his patients in such a way as to merit the epithet ‘beloved’. …So loyal a member of St Paul’s travelling ministerium that the Apostle remarks touchingly from his condemned cell, ‘only Luke is with me.’
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