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Does the Supreme Court Really Have to Tell the LCMS to Act Like Christians?
Today the Supreme Court is hearing arguments in the case Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC. The Wall Street Journal has an opinion piece here. Essentially, a teacher at the school became “rostered” and was then called as a Commissioned Minister, a Called Teacher, no longer under contract. Good for her. But then she fell ill, went on partial disability for a while and after several months informed the school that her doctor believed she would be able to go back to full time in several more months. Then the Church and School royally screwed up. They changed their health care plans, cutting her benefits, hired another teacher and asked her to resign her call. She threatened to sue under the Americans with Disabilities Act, and she was fired. So … Read entire article »
What to Do if the World Ends on Saturday
First, Don’t Panic. Second, remember that you have been wrong before, and before it’s all over you’ll probably be wrong again. Still not panicking? Good. Take a deep breath and keep reading. You see, the Harold Camping and Family Radio crew were predicting that all true Christians would be raptured, or magically disappeared from this earth on Saturday, May 21 at 6:00pm ET (or is it EDT? Don’t know now, but you know by the time you’re reading … Read entire article »
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Let’s Hope it Works
In reference to the Orwellian British Government I referenced in a sermon recently, the NY Times writes that they may be rolling themselves back from the precipice of fascism: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/world/europe/20britain.html … Read entire article »
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Lost Man Found and Answered Prayer
Ed Sutter, a friend of a member here, went missing Sunday morning. He left for his church at 9:30 and never showed up there, nor back at his home. At 88 and in poor health, his friends and family were very worried about him. Sheriff’s deputies, search and rescue and observation planes looked for him Monday and Tuesday. Thoughts were that Ed went West, where he owns a vast extent of property. But he was not found. With temperatures well below freezing at night and not much above during the day, hope of finding him alive was growing thin. Wednesday at noon the Senior’s Group gathered for lunch. Ed had joined his friend at these monthly lunches often for the last year or so, and his absence was on all our minds. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Theology
Off To Dallas Soon for the Regional Gathering
I’m heading to Dallas this weekend for the regional Pre-Convention gathering of delegates. The purpose of this is to be briefed on the restructuring proposals that the LCMS will be voting on this Summer. No, I’m not a delegate to the Convention, but as 3rd VP of the Oklahoma District, my District President asked me to attend so that I and the other VPs would be well-informed of what is happening. Some time ago I posted my thoughts on the initial proposal. The final proposal has changed somewhat and I haven’t offered comment on that yet. I plan to do so after this weekend. Restructuring our Synod probably needs to happen; it’s not a necessarily bad thing. But it’s not necessarily a good thing either. As it streamlines operating procedures it … Read entire article »
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Man in “Vegetative State” Answers “Yes” and “No” Questions
In a study that challenges the diagnosis of vegetative state, doctors found that the brain of a seemingly unconscious, vegetative man responded to yes-or-no questions in the same fashion as an alert, conscious person. This discovery not only complicates the medical definition of consciousness, but seems to call into question centuries of philosophy dealing with the nature of life and the self. Here’s the story If this pans out it doesn’t take a genius to see that it will revolutionize medical ethics. Lord help us! … Read entire article »
Orwell Was only 25 Years Off
This article And this one, which provides some more editorial comment. The Children’s Secretary set out £400million plans to put 20,000 problem families under 24-hour CCTV super-vision in their own homes. They will be monitored to ensure that children attend school, go to bed on time and eat proper meals. Private security guards will also be sent round to carry out home checks, while parents will be given help to combat drug and alcohol addiction. This has got to be a hoax. Please, Good Lord, make it be a hoax. HT: Hollywood … Read entire article »
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Boneheaded
This article highlights the “Conservative Bible Translation”–an incredibly stupid, irresponsible perversion of God’s Word. The argument of the project: scholars are liberal for the most part and translate the Bible too much like democrats. So they are going to translate it according to their conservative Republican values. Avoid this at all cost. Jesus is not a Republican. He’s not a Democrat either. Jesus is Lord. Jesus was not a “conservative” either, if by that you mean anything like modern American political conservatives. Nor is He a Progressive, Socialist, Communist, Liberal, Whig, radical, reactionary, fundamentalist or any other category we can put Him in. He is Lord of Lords and King of Kings. His ways are not our ways. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Theology
Health Care and our Christian Witness
So I think I have a case of the blog-writer’s block. In efforts to cure it, how about Health Care? I’ve got seriously mixed feelings. The problem is we have several fundamental tensions involved, centering around the question of the role of the government and so-called rights of Americans. Namely, do we have some sort of right to health care? History does not help us much. We cannot go back even 100 years and see how much government provided, controlled, or denied health care to its citizens because there simply wasn’t that much that physicians actually did to cure people. We’ve come a long way, baby. Theologically speaking, God established the governments to protect and defend its citizens, allowing us to live a “quiet and peaceable life.” How this is carried out is … Read entire article »
75th Anniversary and Oktoberfest Weekend
Redeemer’s 2nd Annual Oktoberfest begins tomorrow at 11am and goes until the food is gone. It’s shaping up to be tremendous fun. This year we sold advance tickets and have already sold the same number of meals that were served last year, and the committee has done an exemplary job in planning, decorating and putting everything in place. This is day one of our 75th Anniversary celebration. Sunday brings a guest preacher, Rev. Richard Peckman, the longest-serving pastor and oldest active pastor in our history. Between services we will be enjoying a continental breakfast, video slideshow of pictures throughout Redeemer’s history and a few letters of congratulations. All our choirs will be singing as well. I can’t say enough good things about the groups that have planned these events. Glory be to … Read entire article »
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