A Church Unashamed of the Gospel
Pastor’s preface: Our LCMS strives to hold fast to the clear words of the Bible and thereby to the Apostolic and historically faithful church. When we are misunderstood by various churches, it almost always boils down to their misunderstanding of the Bible and incorrect theology. This difference often makes our teachings and worship practices unintelligible…
You may have seen the movie based on the old novel: Ben Hur. This was the best-selling novel of the 1800’s. The book’s full title is Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ. Ben-Hur was translated into at least 20 different languages, including Arabic, Portuguese, Thai, and Hebrew. It has never been out of print. It is a tale…
Judges 17:6 In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes. An evangelist of recent years working hard to explain how the Christian faith is truly the most reasonable, consistent, and adequate answer to man’s needs summarized modern western cultural fragmentation by highlighting four pervasive dynamics in…
Fascism is a word often used to villainize people or groups whose views and politics are essentially NON-Fascist. One of our retired scholars who has written extensively and quite predictively of modern cultural direction summarizes the fundamental wrongness exercised by many who shout “fascist” or “semi-fascist” about their political rivals. Following is Dr. Gene Edward…
Revelation 7:13-14 Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, “Who are these, clothed in white robes, and from where have they come?” I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in…
The historical, theological, and philosophical details of several massive shifts in Christianized religious belief and worship are too many to discuss in this article. However, a large part of what characterizes modern Christian worship and theology today flows from the work of a very intelligent man who provided an intellectual argument that shifted the focus…
Luke 2:8, we read: ”And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.” You may have read or heard arguments that sheep are born in the spring, not the winter. But my own congregation members with sheep will strongly disagree with that notion. Here, January…
Recent research, while not conclusive, seems to point to 1 BC as the year of Jesus’ birth, not earlier as has been most commonly held. The following post is from Gene Edward Veith. There have been many attempts throughout the centuries to ascertain exactly when Jesus was born. Researchers in Italy have offered a new…
A loudly touted theory about the origins of the Christmas date(s) is that it was borrowed from pagan celebrations. The Romans had their mid-winter Saturnalia festival in late December; barbarian peoples of northern and western Europe kept holidays at similar times. To top it off, in 274 C.E., the Roman emperor Aurelian established a feast…
Many Christians think he did. But a closer look at the Bible might change that. The presentation is a downloadable PDF version of a slideshow developed for other use, but seemed like a possibly interesting item for the blog. This is a large file, so may load slowly. If unable to download or view, please…