Last night the Herberts family treated the Weedons to a wonderful meal and time for visiting at McGurk's in Soulard. What a great pla...

Today is the glorious feast of our Lord's Epiphany (the Eastern Churches refer to it as the Theophany). I'll be preaching along the...

You are 100% Lutheran! This is most certainly true.   Nicely done! Martin would be proud of you! You may or may not have room for growth...

In the Lossky entry below, I quoted from the Small Catechism the opening words of the third article's explanation, words that ended: ...

I had occasion to write to a friend recently about this topic, so I thought: why not blog it? This past year I read Eduard Preuss' litt...

Marianne's second surgery went off without incident; the sponges were removed and she showed no more signs of bleeding. Dr. says that t...

My brothers and sisters in Christ, Marianne, our parish's organist and my secretary, is in grave condition. She had surgery before Chri...

The human race has been so created and then so redeemed that we as the image and temple of God might celebrate the praises of God. For Go...

This is He whom seers in old time Chanted of with one accord, Whom the voices of the prophets Promised in their faithful Word. Now He shin...

Lossky is one of my favorite non-Lutheran theologians (he's Orthodox). He has a comment on Tradition that I've found remarkable for...

During Advent, our Wednesday Vespers replaces our usual Wednesday Bible Study and Compline. So we haven't prayed Compline together fo...

The press gets it right: click here Hat tip to both Paradosis and Chris Jones

The holy catholic Church condemns anyone who says that the human flesh of our Lord is not to be worshipped and adored as the flesh of the Lo...

[I just love this one!] "That's why the foremost teacher of the Church, Gregory of Nasianzus [NOTE!] composed the sufferings of Chr...

...you take your hound dog for a two mile walk down Church Road in the middle of the day, and you meet only one truck, see and hear two trai...

You who put the Lord in remembrance, take no rest, and *give him no rest* until he establishes Jerusalem and makes it a praise in the earth....

That's David (blue), Bill (green), Bekah (brown), Lauren (green), Cindi (blue). Don't ask me how Bekah ended up brown, but we'r...

...NOT!!!!! Hey, but at least she smells a bit better. For at least 24 hours...

And was his coming, as a man might suppose, in power, in terror, and in dread? Not so; it was in gentleness and humility. As a king sendin...

Christ was not subjected to the Law because of His Person, especially since He was the Lord of the Law according to His divine nature. Also...