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To be sure, we Lutherans do not walk with the archbishop, nor he with us. But we do stand sympathetically with him on a principle found in Article 28 of the Augsburg Confession.

Of course, this is not normally language we consider pastoral or biblical - but there are times for bluntness, sarcasm, and for raising eyebrows. Dealing with false teachers in the congregation is not a time to be nice or to worry about hurt feelings.

Early life experience taught me that spirits are most definitely not to be trifled with.

Happy Independence Day to our American readers!

I found these remarks by the notable writer Shelby Foote (1916-2005) to be somewhat analogous and applicable to preaching. After all, preaching is a form of writing, insofar as it requires preparation and thought, and is done by means of words woven together into a larger work of narrative - whether one preaches with a manuscript or not.

I would encourage everyone to take a look at this video and consider how much overlap there is with our own contemporary American context of confessional Lutheranism.

We LCMS pastors have a golden opportunity, and we are desperately needed. Pastors, please read this and prayerfully consider this opportunity!

It is often said that when the pope catches a cold, the Lutherans sneeze.

Most of these Romanizations are within the realm of Vatican II liturgical adiaphora, such as receiving communion in the hand while standing and going through a continuous reception line, the passing of the peace, the three-year lectionary, the freestanding altar, etc.

The account of the death and resurrection of Lazarus reaches its pinnacle today in the daily lectionary of the Treasury of Daily Prayer.

We Christians are confessors, and confessors are those who speak. We need to confess and speak with clarity. We need to make it clear that we don’t believe as the world believes.