Unexpected

A neighborhood cat adopted our yard last week. We have a small garden fountain and he joined the squirrels and birds who drink from it on a regular basis throughout the season. He didn’t look too healthy, he was skinny and . . .reliant. I had my thoughts, which I did not share with the [...]

The End of the World as We Know It — or maybe not?

Today, Stephanie Pappas of LiveScience.com reports that 2012 apocalypse scheduled for December 21, 2012 has been postponed. It would appear that the dates the Mayan “Long Count” may have been incorrectly converted and could be off by as much as 50 to 100 years.

Summer Reading: Book of Concord

Pastor Johann Caauwe over at A Shepherd’s Story is starting a summer-read of the Book of Concord and invites us to read with him. For many, the more relaxed schedules of summer allow for adding some extra reading to a daily devotion, or for others, replacing the regular devotion with a project like reading of [...]

Easter & the Easter Season 2010

Easter is a victory celebration, a time for all Christians to proclaim boldly their faith in a risen and victorious Savior. For the early Christians, Easter was not merely one day, it was (and is) a whole season that also includes the celebration of Jesus’ ascension. The fifty days between Easter and Pentecost, known as [...]

on the radio 3.30.2010

Issues, Etc. with Todd Wilken. Topic: Classic Christian Worship. Click here to listen or go to the Issues, Etc archive here.

Representatives of God’s Authority

The Scriptures are the source of God’s authority, be it in the Church or in the civil realm. The authority God gives to the Church and government are signs of His love for us, providing for our spiritual and temporal well-being.

Last Week on Twitter 2010-03-14

Just home from serving the good folks in Du Quion the gifts of Word & sacrament. Good fun. Now, time for a nap. # Powered by Twitter Tools

Last Week on Twitter 2010-03-07

Sitting in the jury assembly room waiting to see if my miner is called. # They got my number. # Spring must surely be near: the ice cream man just made his first circuit of the neighborhood. # Powered by Twitter Tools

Ember Days–Lent 2010 are soon upon us

The handy shortcut for remembering the holidays that herald the Ember Days is “Lucy, Ashes, Dove, and Cross: Sant Crux, Lucia, Cineres, Charismata Dia Ut sit in angaria quarta sequens feria. Which for those of us who don’t think in Latin: Holy Cross, Lucy, Ash Wednesday, Pentecost, are when the quarter holidays follow. This coming [...]

Defining Who Is A Person

The January 21, 2010 Supreme Court ruling in CITIZENS UNITED v. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION is getting a lot of play because of corporations funding campaign speech. That is not the big news. Rather, the big news centers around the word “person” and how it is defined and used. This has monumental ramifications on all of U.S. society and in the historic Christian Church.

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