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Garden of Gethsemane: January 2007

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A Lutheran Pastor's Blog on Theology, Liturgy, and Church. Wednesday, January 17, 2007. 2nd Sunday after Epiphany. It's been awhile since I've gone ablogging, so here is my new post. It is taken from my last sermon. Grace, peace, and mercy from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. That God gives man wine to cheer his heart. One of the Messianic signs. Alluded to in our Old Testament lesson is that, “The mountains shall. Good here and a sign of the Messianic kingdom. Blesses that couple with His firs...

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Garden of Gethsemane: Missions Gone Wild

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A Lutheran Pastor's Blog on Theology, Liturgy, and Church. Monday, May 12, 2008. Thanks to 'the Old Parson' for posting this blog. It's bad enough when members of the synod try to accommodate the Divine Service to reformed sensibilities, but to have the chair of the missions department at one of the Concordia's suggest that we should accommodate it to Muslim sensibilities is unthinkable. The gist of the Professor's proposals is that we should alter Christianity itself, at least in the Muslim mission cont...

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Garden of Gethsemane: The Kingdom of Heaven Belongs to Such as These

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A Lutheran Pastor's Blog on Theology, Liturgy, and Church. Tuesday, September 21, 2010. The Kingdom of Heaven Belongs to Such as These. On the surface, my friend is right; baptism is not explicitly mentioned. But the failure to see the connection between this text and the Sacrament of Baptism says something about the way he views Baptism as well as revealing the way he does theology. First, what does Scripture tell us Baptism does? How can the kingdom of heaven belong to the little ones? Children become ...

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Garden of Gethsemane: Confessions of a Lent Lover

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A Lutheran Pastor's Blog on Theology, Liturgy, and Church. Sunday, February 10, 2008. Confessions of a Lent Lover. The Season of Lent begins with Ash Wednesday and continues 40 days, Sundays excluded, in preparation for Easter. Lent is a season of repentance and reflection, a time to turn from our sin and to look to Christ in faith. It is especially a time to remember the sufferings of Christ and His atoning work. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A Lutheran Pastor in Marion Ohio.

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Garden of Gethsemane: June 2007

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A Lutheran Pastor's Blog on Theology, Liturgy, and Church. Thursday, June 28, 2007. Some Thoughts on Birth Control. Alright, this is going to sound really wierd. But in other parts of the world, reproduction goes on. Live births in other parts of the world, especially the third world, far outstrip western cultures. To paraphrase 'the Doors,' we may have the guns, but they have the numbers. Through birth control, has the west forgotten a fundamental principle of human existence? Monday, June 25, 2007.

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Garden of Gethsemane: May 2007

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A Lutheran Pastor's Blog on Theology, Liturgy, and Church. Wednesday, May 16, 2007. Confusion of the Kingdoms. Whitehead should stick to constitutional law and leave theology to the theologians. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A Lutheran Pastor in Marion Ohio. View my complete profile. Confusion of the Kingdoms. Cyberstones Fr. Peterson. De Ecclesia Et Liturgia.

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Garden of Gethsemane: May 2008

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A Lutheran Pastor's Blog on Theology, Liturgy, and Church. Monday, May 19, 2008. Also, do they know who that God is whom they are to fear and love? It seemed to me that a conscientious partaking of the Lord's Supper required an informed knowledge of the faith in all its chief parts. I still believe that. Is this a double standard? Why should we deny communion to children who have not completely mastered the memorization of the Small Catechism and give it to adults who haven't even tried? This blog, of co...

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Garden of Gethsemane: April 2008

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A Lutheran Pastor's Blog on Theology, Liturgy, and Church. Tuesday, April 15, 2008. On Making the Sign of the Cross. At the seminary, the baptismal font stood at the entrance of the nave. As we passed the font, many of the seminarians would put our fingers into the font and sign ourselves upon entering and leaving the services. For some time now, our church has had a font near the entrance of the nave to give people the opportunity to remember their baptism in that way. Thursday, April 10, 2008. A local ...

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Garden of Gethsemane: September 2010

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A Lutheran Pastor's Blog on Theology, Liturgy, and Church. Tuesday, September 21, 2010. The Kingdom of Heaven Belongs to Such as These. On the surface, my friend is right; baptism is not explicitly mentioned. But the failure to see the connection between this text and the Sacrament of Baptism says something about the way he views Baptism as well as revealing the way he does theology. First, what does Scripture tell us Baptism does? How can the kingdom of heaven belong to the little ones? Children become ...