λειτουργία: On Liturgies and other Public Works

REFERENCED IN HOW LUTHERANS WORSHIP – 5: FROM ALDENSWAN.COM As I’ve mentioned recently, I was raised Lutheran. Since leaving the Lutheran Church, I’ve attended and visited a number of different churches, from Greek and Russian Orthodox to Evangelical Free to independent charismatic and “third wave” churches, to post-modern experiments. I can say from experience that [...]

How Lutherans Worship – 5: On Liturgy …. Some different perspectives

While we are on the subject of liturgy and worship, I am providing links to some interesting posts from different perspectives. Love & Blunder has this article on Liturgy and Catechesis in her archive. The power of the liturgy. It is worth a read. I don’t know any thing about Alden Swan and his blog [...]

How Lutherans Worship – 4: The Liturgy: The Pattern for Our Worship

I would venture to say that many Lutherans use the terms Divine Service (or worship) and liturgy almost interchangeably. Yet this is not the most correct way to speak about the Divine Service or the liturgy. Truth be told, no great harm is done by this lack of discernment or care (while I am sure [...]

How Lutherans Worship – 3: Confession and Absolution

Moses was told to take off his shoes because he was standing on holy ground. Even so, we must cast away our sins to stand in the presence of God, as the Psalmist reminds us, “Who shall stand in his holy place? He that has clean hands and a pure heart” (Psalm 24). The Didache [...]

How Lutherans Worship – 2: Making the Sign of the Cross

In the previous part I said: “it is appropriate that all those who are baptized may join in making the sign of the cross as a remembrance of their baptism.” There has been some question about this. In response let me begin by bringing forward for your consideration the words of Dr. Timothy Maschke from [...]

How Lutherans Worship – 1: Invocation

[What I hope to bring forward in this series of posts is an exploration of not only the HOW and WHY of worship, but also the WHAT of what we do in worship. I will be looking at worship through the lens of the Divine Service and even more specifically, as it is practiced in [...]

New Blog Feature: The Morning Office from Concordia Theological Seminary

The Concordia Theological Seminary community invites you to listen to the Morning Office held daily at 10:00 a.m., Monday through Friday. The audio from the Chapel service is posted daily, and is typically available by 12:00 p.m. (Eastern). You can access these recordings directly from the links in the new sidebar feature, Daily Morning Office.

Kurt Marquart + Requiescat in pace

Out of my distress I called on the LORD;the LORD answered me and set me free. It is better to take refuge in the LORDthan to trust in man.It is better to take refuge in the LORDthan to trust in princes. I was pushed hard, so that I was falling,but the LORD helped me. Glad [...]

Lutherans Sought for Survey

I received this after having participated in the first part of the survey. Dr Burkee was appreciative of the idea of opening up to the widest possible Lutheran audience using this and other blogs to get the word out — he called it an innovative idea. Link to this post or cut-and-paste into your own [...]

9/11 – Sermon from the Sunday After

By now, the images are burned into your minds eye. The picture of the plane just before it hits the second tower. The fireball enveloping the tower. The collapse of tower one, then tower two. You will never forget these images… and so you shouldn’t. What are we to do? How can we respond? What [...]

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