A Conference on Biblical Marriage in Canada!

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A LUTHERAN CONFERNCE ON BIBLICAL MARRIAGE MAY 3-5, 2024

Grace Lutheran Church

136 Margaret Ave, Kitchener, ON N2H 4H9, Canada

AnnouncementsJason BraatenMarch 16, 2024Marriage, Conference, CanadaComment

Whimsical Winkels

It should be simple for circuit pastors to get together for the Divine Service, study the Scriptures and Confessions, to enjoy some casuistry, and have a meal together. Instead…

John BussmanMarch 13, 2024Winkel, Liturgy Comments

Out of the Barn!

The long-awaited Easter issue of Gottesdienst has bolted! It has been released from the barn, and it flies through its appointed pathways to a mailbox near you. Is your subscription up to date?

Burnell EckardtMarch 11, 2024 Comment

The Writing Life

In my first year of seminary, one of my professors told me that my undergraduate education in English would serve me well in the years to come. As time went on, both during seminary and afterward, he was proven right again and again.

Stefan GramenzMarch 11, 2024Writing, Annie Dillard, Literature Comments

I Disagree!

One argument for the validity of lay consecration is that it is not by virtue of the man speaking the words, but the words of Jesus, that make the sacrament a sacrament. And this is true. These are not the pastor’s words, but Christ’s words. The pastor’s “virtue” is not what consecrates the elements, but Christ, by means of His Word.

Larry BeaneMarch 9, 2024 Comments

Should Elders Administer Holy Communion?

The pastor is not necessary because he is the only one capable of saying the Words of Institution—a parrot could be trained to do that. The pastor is necessary because it has been given to him to know the spiritual state of his flock.

Evan ScammanMarch 9, 2024 Comments

Luther on Making the Sign of the Cross

What follows came from a listener of The Gottesdienst Crowd in response to a discussion with Petersen on making the sign of the cross. He pointed us to a wonderful online resource, a digital Loci Communes of sorts Luther Theology Web Page

On Marriage

Last month, my wife Grace and I celebrated our thirtieth anniversary. Grace ran across this essay, and shared it with me. And in fact, we put on the audio and listened together. It struck us just how much this resonated.

Larry BeaneMarch 4, 2024 Comment

I Do Not Permit a Woman to Teach

You can be sure there’s a kind of soft-antinomianism* in play when you detect a reticence about dealing with certain parts of the Bible. One such part is St. Paul’s admonition to Timothy: “I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence” (I Tim. 2:12).

Burnell EckardtMarch 3, 2024 Comments

On Headcoverings

The question of women covering their heads in church has emerged on several online forums lately. There is quite a range of opinions on this issue…

Larry BeaneFebruary 27, 2024 Comments

On Christian Nationalism

“Christian Nationalism” is the latest fear-porn slur by both believers and unbelievers from both Left and Right.

Larry BeaneFebruary 26, 2024 Comments

Conference: Art, Beauty, and Confession Art May 6-8, Ft. Wayne with Scaer, Riojas, and Hrehov

Information about Gottesdienst Conference on May 6-8, 2024 in Ft. Wayne on Beauty, Art, and Confession. https://redeemer-fortwayne.org/events/the-gottesdienst-conference/

Luther on the Passion of the Christ

“It therefore remains a fixed fact, eternally unalterable, that the passion and death of Christ took place for our sin…”

Fr. Mark BradenFebruary 21, 2024Comment

The King of the Feeding Trough

In His rescue mission to save mankind, our Lord was dropped covertly behind enemy lines. The defeat of Satan by a baby born of a woman is a humiliation of the devil. The humiliation of our Lord is temporary. The humiliation of Satan is eternal.

Larry BeaneFebruary 17, 2024 Comments

"Why Do We Tolerate This?"

“Out of town for Christmas Eve. Attend local LCMS church for service... women reading the Gospel lesson and women in albs distributing Communion. Why do we tolerate this?”

Larry BeaneFebruary 13, 2024 Comments

St. Caesarius of Arles on the Approach to Lent

If we notice carefully, dearest brethren, the holy days of Lent signify the life of the present world, just as Easter prefigures eternal bliss. Now just as we have a kind of sadness in Lent in order that we may rightly rejoice at Easter, so as long as we live in this world we ought to do penance in order that we may be able to receive pardon for our sins in the future and arrive at eternal joy.

Stefan GramenzFebruary 11, 2024St. Caesarius of Arles, Lent Comments

Cooties in the Chancel

In the same way that the fall into sin was tied to the first case of women’s ordination, so the falling enrollment at our seminaries is inversely connected to the surging ranks of the acolythae feminae.

Evan ScammanFebruary 9, 2024 Comments

"They Worship the Liturgy"

At Gottesdienst we are familiar with the kind of complaints our adversaries like to level: that we’re legalists or modern-day Pharisees, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. I think of these complaints as indicators of very poor worship practices on the part of those who make them.

Burnell EckardtFebruary 3, 2024 Comments

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