I am prompted to write something on this topic by a heartbreaking incident that has recently occurred in a small vacant mission congregation in Ontario under my pastoral care.
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WHAT GOD HAS JOINED TOGETHER
A LUTHERAN CONFERNCE ON BIBLICAL MARRIAGE MAY 3-5, 2024
Grace Lutheran Church
136 Margaret Ave, Kitchener, ON N2H 4H9, Canada
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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).
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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…
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“Christian Nationalism” is the latest fear-porn slur by both believers and unbelievers from both Left and Right.
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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/
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“It therefore remains a fixed fact, eternally unalterable, that the passion and death of Christ took place for our sin…”
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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.
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“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?”
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