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Alleluia! Christ is risen!
And we have heard the sweet reports of his resurrection, we have heard them! Sweeter than honey to our taste are they! So let us recount these glad reports again on this glad Easter Day. And especially the report of the first witness to the resurrection, Mary Magdalene, as we recounted in the ancient Sequence Hymn for today: Dic nobis Maria, quid vidisti in via?
Read MoreNote: Fr. Sean Daenzer wrote this wonderful piece in 2019. It seems that the Seder Meal ritual remains popular among some Lutherans and other Christians. I recommend reviewing Fr. Daenzer’s "Beware the Unleaven of the Pharisees” ~ Ed.
Read MoreThere seems to be a ruckus on X (formerly “Twitter”) over whether or not it is socially acceptable to say, “Christ is King.” And of course, it isn’t socially acceptable. We live in “negative world.”
Read MoreThe hymns of the Lutheran Church teach us how to be martyrs for Christ. Martyrs are witnesses. The most extreme form of witness is shedding our blood to seal our testimony to Christ, but before a Christian can do that, he must (usually) learn to be a faithful witness in smaller things.
Read More2023 Christian Culture Conference at Luther Classical College
Read MoreNoah Hahn defends Walther’s position on lay consecration as a hypothetical possibility without endorsing it or suggesting that it should be done.
Read MoreI 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.
Read MoreThe Passion according to Zechariah
Read MoreA LUTHERAN CONFERNCE ON BIBLICAL MARRIAGE MAY 3-5, 2024
Grace Lutheran Church
136 Margaret Ave, Kitchener, ON N2H 4H9, Canada
Read MoreIt 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…
Read MoreThe 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?
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreOne 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreWhat 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
Read MoreYou 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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