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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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Wittenberg Preacher: Homily for Ash Wednesday - Gunsmoke
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A BLOG BY REV. MICHAEL C. LARSON: MEDITATIONS ON CHRIST AND HIS CHURCH. Thursday, February 18, 2016. Homily for Ash Wednesday - Gunsmoke. Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.". And yet it all leads to the cemetery – no one is spared from boot hill - each grave marked with a wooden cross sticking out of the dusty earth. He promised life but he gave us death. Ever since we’ve limping off to boot hill, dragging our feet as we go to a dusty death. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Wittenberg Preacher: February 2016
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A BLOG BY REV. MICHAEL C. LARSON: MEDITATIONS ON CHRIST AND HIS CHURCH. Thursday, February 18, 2016. Homily for Ash Wednesday - Gunsmoke. Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.". And yet it all leads to the cemetery – no one is spared from boot hill - each grave marked with a wooden cross sticking out of the dusty earth. He promised life but he gave us death. Ever since we’ve limping off to boot hill, dragging our feet as we go to a dusty death. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Wittenberg Preacher: April 2016
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A BLOG BY REV. MICHAEL C. LARSON: MEDITATIONS ON CHRIST AND HIS CHURCH. Monday, April 11, 2016. The Sunday of the Confession of St. Thomas. This morning we see the disciples minus Judas and minus Thomas. They’re scared, deathly afraid, and hiding behind locked doors in the upper room. It’s the evening of Easter. That morning Mary Magdalene and the women had already reported that they had seen the risen Christ. 8221; The first words out of his mouth are the same words announced by angels at his birth....
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Wittenberg Preacher: March 2015
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A BLOG BY REV. MICHAEL C. LARSON: MEDITATIONS ON CHRIST AND HIS CHURCH. Thursday, March 19, 2015. Homily for St. Joseph, Guardian of Jesus. When the Wise Men had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him” (Matthew 2). We know them as the holy family but they were more ordinary than we give them credit for. It should...
