Faith at Last
October 10, 2014 Daily Devotion from Lutheran Hour Ministries
ZimZum?
Your browser does not support the HTML 5 audio tag. Click Here to Download this episode Program segments: • Rob Bell’s ZimZum Nonsense • Kong Hee and the 7 Mountains • Bill Woolsey Creates His Own Ecclesiology • Recap of…
IE: A New York Times Column Titled, “The Church’s Gay Obsession” – Sherif Girgis, 10/9/14
Sherif Girgis, co-author, “What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense” “What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense”
IE: The Movie, “Annabelle” – Pr. Ted Giese, 10/9/14
Pastor Ted Giese of Mount Olive Lutheran-Regina, Saskatchewan “Annabelle” by Ted Giese
Great Stuff — Sacramental Minions
Found on a new site, sacramentalminions.com:
Minion: a servile follower or subordinate of a person in power.
Our Lord Jesus Christ said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me” (Matthew 28:18). God has put all things under His feet and gave Him as the head of the church (Ephesians 1:22). Therefore, sacramental minions seek the blessing promised by Christ when He says, “Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes” (Luke 12:43). Sacramental minions seek to be faithful as “as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God,” not seeking to do things according to our own designs, desires, and will, but being faithful . . . Read All
Why read the Bible?
by Mike Bieber
What’s the benefit of reading the Bible? As far as questions go, that doesn’t seem too hard to answer! But when I begin to answer it, a different question immediately comes to mind: the Bible is so full of wisdom and direction, so where do I start?
Nevertheless, we are confronted with some shocking statistics: only 12 to 19% of Christians in Canada say they read the Bible at all, and of those, only 14% say they read it regularly—at least once a month. That includes all Christians, not …
Movie review: ‘Annabelle’
“Annabelle,” the follow-up to the horror film, “The Conjuring,” falls short of its goal. The truly horrifying elements of the film are bad preaching and bad theology.
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Trinity 17 2014
Today, as is the case each Sunday here, we will celebrate the Eucharist. The reason for this weekly celebration is that it is the one single place in the course of the Liturgy where heaven literally bends down to kiss the earth, and heaven only kisses that which it loves—deeply.
We celebrate it weekly because it is that one single place that Christ our Lord comes to us in the intimacy of a body broken and blood poured out, for us.
We celebrate it weekly because when the bread and wine are transformed by the power of the Spirit and become the holy body and blood of our Lord, they bring to us mercy, compassion, healing and the forgiveness . . . Read All
Thy Strong Word – Hebrews 7 “The Priestly Order of Melchizedek”
Hebrews 7 “The Priestly Order of Melchizedek” with guest Todd Wilken, host of Issues, Etc.
Field Visit to South America #1
Representing the ELS Board for World Outreach, Rev. Tom Heyn and I arrived in Santiago early Wednesday, August 20. Missionary Tim Erickson met us…
Faith’n’Family – Missionary Life: Rev. David Faulkner, Missionary to Uruguay
With guest Rev. David Faulkner.
Paul Begins Preaching at Antioch
“Men of Israel and you who fear God, listen. 17 The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it. 18 And for about forty years he put up with [2] them in the wilderness. 19 And after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance. 20 All this took about 450 years. And after that he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet. 21 Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. . . . Read All
Commemoration of Abraham
Today we remember and give thanks for Abraham, Patriarch. Abraham (known early in his life as Abram) was called by God to become the father of a great nation (Genesis 12). At the age of 75 and in obedience to God’s command, he, his wife Sarah, and his nephew Lot moved southwest from the town of Haran to the land of Canaan. There God established a covenant with Abraham (15:18), promising the land of Canaan to his . . . Read All
His Time – Lutheran Senior Services, Prayer and Praise Walk, “Have No Fear”
(1) Jane Wilketalks about Lutheran Senior Services, (2) Nicole Ridley talks about Prayer and Praise Walk, and (3) Rev. Kirk Clayton looks at Matthew 10:24-42 and gives today’s sermonette.
Law and Gospel – Ruminations, Reluctance to Preach the Law
(1) Ruminations with Wes Reimnitz. (2) Caller: Reluctance to preach the Law. (3) Caller: Know your works.
RTA: Lecture 99- The Gospel According to St. Isaiah Chapter 8 Part 1
The Gospel According to St. Isaiah- Chapter 8 Part 1 Rev. Brian L. Kachelmeier In this lecture we begin our study on Chapter 8 which further explains the promise of the Christ who saves. He is Immanuel, that is, God with … Continue reading →
The trivializing of fellowship. . .
I am one of the offenders. I call that part of the building the “Fellowship Hall”. It should better be named the “Parish Hall”. Fellowship is too important a word to be diminished by assigning a space to it and giving it an agenda defined by coffee, donuts, an occasional pot luck, and the other kinds of things that usually come to mind when we think “fellowship”.
The real fellowship hall is where the people of God gather around the Word and Table of the Lord. We enter this fellowship through the initiation of baptism, the death that raises us to life and the water that makes clean what we cannot. The real fellowship hall is the one where fellowship. . . Read All
The Catholic debate over liberal society
Rod Dreher describes what happened at a conference sponsored by First Things on the future of religion in the public square. In the course of doing so, he describes a current controversy among conservative Catholics: The “Murrayites” believe that Catholicism is compatible with American-style political and economic liberalism. (Not so much liberalism as left-wing ideology, [Read More…]
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Borderism
We have racism (1932), sexism (1936), classism (1971), speciesism (1975), heterosexism (1979), ableism (1981). (See this discussion of “ism.”) Now someone is proposing “borderism,” for discriminating against people based on what side of a border they were born in. From Markus Bergström, Losing the birth lottery – The Washington Post: What’s the difference between a [Read More…]
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Both matter and anti-matter
Paradox of nature: a sub-atomic particle has been discovered that acts like both matter and anti-matter. From Elusive Particle that behaves both like Matter and Antimatter discovered | Maine News Online: Physicists at Princeton University claimed to have discovered an elusive particle that behaves both like matter and antimatter. Using a two-story-tall microscope in one [Read More…]
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Thursday, October 9, 2014
Light for My Path Daily Devotion Bible Reading For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there…
+ Abraham, Patriarch +
9 October, Old Testament The Lord called the Patriarch Abraham (first known as Abram) to become the father of a great nation (Genesis 12). At age 75, in obedience to God’s command, he, his wife Sarai (later Sarah), and his nephew Lot moved southwest f…
Herrenhuter readings for Thursday, the 9th November 2014
“I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.” (Exo 20:2 KJV) By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son … Continue reading →. . . Read All
Thursday of the 16th Week after Trinity
Daily Lectionary: Deuteronomy 8:1-20; Matthew 10:24-42
You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day. And if you forget the Lord …