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Joe Paterno’s fall, part 1: General thoughts, and Implications for the Church
I listen to ESPN radio on a daily basis, and since the Brett Farve-come-back-from-retirement story in 2008, there hasn’t been a story that gripped me to the radio then the Joe Paterno-Penn State sex...
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The Social Church: Everything is Under Control
There is another aspect to woman’s ordination that needs addressing and that is the aspect of the social church and civil religion. This has become a growing phenomenon in America, more so in the black...
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Young Man in an Old Man’s Church
With my service the worship committee and with the tape ministry, I’m always getting to church twenty to thirty minutes before service. Usually, about that time, there are a couple of older ladies...
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Church Work: What I Do For Worship Committe
Where I watch the sermon from when I’m on Worship Committee Duty A two years ago, I was asked to be a part of the worship committee at St. John Evangelical Lutheran. As I wasn’t doing a lot at the...
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Productive Lutheran Worship Discussion?
After reading Pastor Todd Wilken’s Worship Wars article in the Fall Issues Etc. Journal, I would like to examine the choices that lead a congregation to worship the way it does. While I agree that...
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Why go to Easter Vigil and Long Communion Lines
If you are good Lutheran, you will have been to church three times in four days by the time Easter is up, so why would it hurt if you went four times in four days? I get it: you’re physically spent,...
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John 17:20-26: One Because of Christ’s Glory
John 17 is a prayer, the sacerdotal prayer, that Jesus prays in the midst of the disciples, somewhat as a sermon. What is prayer? Jesus knew what was going to happen and what the Father was going to...
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Considerations while Receiving Communion
Remember This at All? “But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went...
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Church Work: Taping for Shut-ins
A while back, I saw a blurb in the St. John bulletin asking for someone to help with the tape ministry at St. John, which made audio tapes for the older adults at St. John. I called about, and it...
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