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Draft 1.0 There are some very simple statements that are rarely expressed that are the seed bed of faith. You get close to them if you look at the world and just say what you see. Do you see millions of atoms randomly moving around? Do you see a tragic beauty? Maybe just beauty? . . . → Read More: The Milk of Faith First some pictures… #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } Here is the Spotlight Drama CD as a zip file. Just download and extract to disk to see the story . . . → Read More: VBS Ending Full Text The office of the Keys is all about who has the authority, responsibility and accountability to forgive and bind sins. The good news in Lutheran doctrine is that Christ himself rules the kingdom of the gospel. If sins are forgiven here, they have already been forgiven in heaven. Heaven acts first. And . . . → Read More: The Office of the Keys This was a short article from the WSJ that explores some of the background behind a few recent news stories. The stories I’m thinking of most recently are: the Calvin College professor named in the article, Michelle Bachmann and the pope/antichrist or on submission, Tim Tebow, and World Youth Day. Think for a second . . . → Read More: How do you read the Bible? Full Text I would be real interested to know what people actually heard from this sermon. I think it had a high emotional register, but I’m not sure if I used that emotion to the proper end. The core concern that I think the text addressed is God’s truth. And God’s truth can be . . . → Read More: Truth in the midst of Ugly I’m hesitant to paste in anything directly political, but Congresswoman Bachmann is (or was) a Lutheran and from about the 15:00 mark everything is religious in nature. To me this is an example of pure theological dumbfounding. Just listening to David Gregory ask the questions the “I can’t believe this crazy woman” or “I don’t . . . → Read More: Theological Dumbfounding I ran across this list from the Modern Library Association of the 100 Best Novels (I believe it is of the 20th century or since the 20th century). The interesting thing is the comparison of “The Board’s” picks and then “The Reader’s” picks. The picture is the top 10 of each. The Randians and . . . → Read More: 100 Best Our vacation bible school is going to be August 22 – 26. It will be from 9 AM until 11:30 AM. We are hosting it jointly with West Henrietta Baptist. Openings & Drop off will be across the street. Closing & Pick up here at St. Mark. The theme is Group’s Panda. You can . . . → Read More: VBS Full Text The Bible un-apologetically holds that God is Sovereign and that we are responsible. Paul hits that wall over and over in Romans 9 and 10. Romans 9 concludes that it is all in God’s election. Romans 10 says we better get busy spreading the word. I’d be lying if I thought there . . . → Read More: Have you heard the message?…What you going to do about it? This might be the update to a the Ohio 1896 law. For those of you who don’t know the Ohio 1896 law: In Ohio, the entire state, in 1896 there were two automobiles. They got in an accident. The link is to a story about the Google computer driven car. It got into an accident, . . . → Read More: Human crashes Google self-driving car |
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