we passed the 575,000 mark for visitors (since I started tracking) on the blog without my noticing. Time to ask again: any visitors to the blog site like to introduce yourselves, especially if you've been mostly a lurker and not a poster (though posters feel free to introduce yourselves too).
Hi! I am a teenager who first heard you speak at SOLA this summer. I have loved reading your blog ever since!
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ReplyDeleteMy name is Rob Lyons. I discovered your site about three years ago through Latif Gaba's links, but have found it to be a regular destination over the past year and a half.
I am not a Lutheran – I consider myself a Primitive Catholic on account of my Sacramental, Ecclesiological, and Patristically-centered sensibilities – so I have found a home in a small ecclesial body, the Reformed Evangelical Synod of America. I trend towards the Orthodox and Lutheran views on many things, though because of my affection for the Church Fathers of the Ante-Nicene era, I am a pacifist and do not participate in civil government, which ultimately have kept me out of a confessional Lutheran Church body, in spite of my sympathy for much of what is to be found in the Book of Concord.
I am the Manager of Chaplaincy Services at Wishard Memorial Hospital in Indianapolis, and I am currently working to form a congregation, Saint Boniface Church, in my new home town of Bargersville, Indiana.
I have been married to my wife, Kristen, for 2 1/2 years (we celebrate the third anniversary of our Betrothal at the end of January), and we have a daughter, Clare, who as born in October and reborn through Water and the Word on January 1st. Our home is also the refuge of our dog, CoCo, a black lab / Australian shepherd mix.
Greetings,
ReplyDeleteI've only been visiting your Blog for a short time, but have become a regular visitor.
I am a former Anglican bishop (in the "continuing" movement), totally retired from that, and partially retired from ministry due to a heart attack and surgery about two years ago.
I have now openly adopted a fully confessional and orthodox Lutheran identity, and will continue my ministry as the Lord enables me firmly within this framework.
I've been married to my wife Carmen for 30 years, and am the father of two adult children, and in a matter of weeks a grandfather.
I'm from the U.S. island of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean.
Congratulations on your milestone!
ReplyDeleteMike Bryant here. Became a Weedon's Blog reader through Lutherquest (yes, THAT site).
For baptist / non-denom with charismatic leanings. Lutheran for a little over 10 years. Considering starting my own blog - but never seem to have anything to say until after I say it. :)
Not "for baptist / non-denom" but rather "FORMER baptist..."
ReplyDeleteAnother reason NOT to blog. I refuse to review prior to hitting enter. A dangerous habit!
Greetings from central IL!
ReplyDeleteDue to recent news about the ELCA, I stumbled on the ALPB forum website. I enjoy reading your comments on that site. Hard to believe, but it is easy to tell which comments on that site come from ELCA pastors versus the posts from LCMS clergy. I am confused why anyone would leave the ELCA and join CORE or LCMC, if those church bodies promote ELCA doctrine minus support of gay clergy. How can that be considered a break from ELCA theology. I had hoped that the turmoil in the ELCA would add to the numbers of those laymen and congregations wanting to leave ELCA and join confessional Lutheran bodies, such as the LCMS or AALC.
Watching the conversations on ALPB has motivated me to look for other blogs/conversations about Lutheranism. I now like to visit cyberbrethren and occasionally other Lutheran blogs, such as onroughseas.wordpress.com I have even started listening to Issues, etc. I do not understand why issues, etc. has ceased to be an official LCMS radio program. Would a new, post-Kieschnick administration reclaim it?
As a lifelong LCMS layman under the age of 50, I am shocked to discover so much disunity within the LCMS: Worship wars/open-close-closed communion/the role of women. Will Mark Harrison help rescue the church before it is too late? I hope that Lutheranism in general is moving in a more confessional direction. Is the pendulum starting to swing back towards confessionalism? Is outdated bureaucratic structure in the LCMS keeping the church from growing?
Are confessional churches growing in numbers/members, while liberal churches are declining? Is Christianity in general separating into opposite camps of Historical-Critical/liberal versus confessional? Do non-denominational (and therefore non-confessional) mega-churches even have a long-term future? These are the questions I hope pastors such as yourself will answer. Thanks!
This is what I wrote on Cyberbrethren:
ReplyDelete"Tapani Simojoki
Curate (= vicar in US terms)
Our Saviour Lutheran Church
Fareham, Hampshire
United Kingdom
A Finn in semi-permanent, self-inflicted and perfectly contented exile. A life-long Orthodox pietist (i.e. Finnish) Lutheran. Erstwhile missionary kid. Married father of 4. Blogger of sorts".
Have been following for some months now, thanks to a mutual friend. I enjoy the daily readings and theological reflections in particular, not to mention discussions of caffinated drinks.
This is the best ever -- bienvenido Juan!
ReplyDelete"Past Elder" is Terry Maher, born in Chicago to parents of English (Suffolk) descent except I didn't know that until I was 50 or so, adopted by parents of Irish descent and raised preconciliar RC, moved with the family to Minnesota at three and was promptly surrounded by German and other Germanic type Lutherans (don't eat the lutefisk!) which my first Lutheran pastor maybe jokingly said was the grace of God preparing me to be Lutheran so I could lapse into German when ranting (a very minor flaw I rarely indulge as anyone will tell you), went to university at a school sponsored by an abbey founded by money from King Ludwig out of Abtei Metten and a hotbed of what went into the "reforms" of Vatican II, which also had a dependent priory in Bayamon whose graduates there adopted me saying I must really be PR since I think like one and there being no Spanish for Terence named me El Teraco, left Christianity altogether for 20 years after the implosion of the Catholic Church thinking there can be no other church so it's all bogus but you gotta give that LCMS credit for trying, was a Righteous of the Nations in Orthodox Judaism until God threw me a curve, a bunch of them actually, in the form of an LCMS girl that I just had to marry, then was astounded to find in looking into Luther and the BOC that the catholic faith had been there all along, professed in WELS in 1996, later was elected an elder in my parish, hence the "Past Elder" thing, and joined LCMS in 2006 where I am a butt in the pew.
And God bless me if it's not 4 below here in Omaha headed for 25 below to-night, 31 in Ipswich from around which my ancestor came, and 80 in San Juan from around which I'm starting to think my descendants should come from, or at least Miami.
Hi again Pr Weeden. I enjoy this blog and also your appearances on Issue Etc. I love that excitement you have when discussing items with Pr Wilken.
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God's peace. †
Rev. Paul T. McCain
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http://www.cyberbrethren.com
Besides all the "closet Romanism" posted here, this is the best LUTHERAN blog around! ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks again, Pr. Weedon, for all you do! :)
First year seminarian @ CLS, Edmonton,AB.
ReplyDeleteI met you at when you presented at the preaching retreat at Lumsdem, SK.
Vicar Karl Gibbs, current vicar at Salem Lutheran Church--Salem, IL
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Tom, don't be so hard on yourself.
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ReplyDeleteDave Lambert, Troy, MI USA. Member of Our Shepherd Lutheran (LC-MS), Birmingham, MI. My wife and I have a blog (http://lambert-blog.com) in which we often link to your excellent blog. We are friends of Jennifer & Jason Balaska. “Simul Iustus et Peccator”
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Hi there... I am Brenda Bomberger, Member of Faith, La Grande OR. My son,Ken Bomberger, pastor of Mt Olive Grand Rapids, steered me this way a few weeks ago and I also have been visiting pretty regularly. I nearly posted on the coffee post, but time constraints were what ther often are...
ReplyDeleteThank you for a nice blog!
I am a pastor in Indiana, having connected to your blog through Gene Veith's blog.
ReplyDeleteEvery once in a while I make a good play.
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My name is Eric Spaeth. Found this site through Gottesdienst which I found when researching Lord's Supper practices. Been reading ever since.
ReplyDeleteI live around Peoria, IL and attend Trinity Lutheran in Pekin since we moved here ~4 years ago. I am a Pastor's kid, Teacher's kid, Teacher's husband, Engineer.
Hi,
ReplyDeleteMy name is Tom. I love Issues Etc. and have recently started reading your blog more consistently after listening to you on the program. I'm Lutheran and my dad is a pastor. I thankful to God every day for faithful Pastors like yourself and Pastor Wilken.
God Bless!