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The Tyranny of the Urgent
Luke 10:38-42 Poor Martha, one might be tempted to think. Mary is just sitting there, soaking in Jesus’ words and letting Him feed her mind and heal her soul, while Martha is clearing out the dust bunnies (in my case, dog hair) from under the table and making sure the meal is just so. I…
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“Come Home to Rome?”
Recently I accepted my mother’s invitation to visit her church on their 125th anniversary celebration. It was a bit unnerving as well as enlightening. The building is stunning since its most recent renovations, in spite of a catastrophic fire and even more catastrophic “renovation” in the 1970s. I was impressed by the art and the craftsmanship…
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Why I Practice Headcovering
Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you. But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife[a] is her husband,[b] and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or…
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The Created Order, the Headship of God and Christian Women
I am a product of my generation, a generation of women who grew up believing they had something to prove. The media gave us the message and we were happy to go along. I was one who thought I could do it all. Perhaps that’s why the apostle Paul adjured his protege Titus: Older women…
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The Hardest Petition to Pray?
As Luther’s Small Catechism teaches the Lord’s Prayer: The Third Petition Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. What does this mean? The good and gracious will of God is done even without our prayer, but we pray in this petition that it may be done among us also. How is God’s…
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Confessional, Liturgical and Authentic
I’m sorry I waited so long. I was fascinated with the Lutheran Confessions the first time I perused them. But for the life of me I don’t understand why so many Lutheran churches have abandoned not only the richness of liturgical worship but the veracity of the Confessions and even of Scripture itself. I made…
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A New Year and a Different Perspective
In January we hear all of the usual hopeful entreaties- “this year will be better than last,” grand resolutions are made, the eternally physically unfit make their way to the gym, and so forth. Unfortunately, by the snow booger grey butt end of February, we realize entropy marches merrily along as it has for every…
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Life, Law, and the Curse of Coercion
One of the reasons I am completely thankful for the overturning of Roe v Wade is that in many states abortion will be heavily regulated or abolished. It will be harder for husbands, boyfriends, one night stands and other male progenitors to coerce or force their partners into abortion. It happens much more often than…
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The Importance of Maintaining the Apostolic Faith
I am a bit of a reluctant traditionalist. While I am intrigued by technology and I like to try new things, the Christian faith passed on to God’s saints is not open to innovation, as it was handed down to the apostles once and for all time in Holy Scripture as the apostle Paul teaches…
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