Dave’s Lenton Lutheran Paradox is amazingly cool! A must read for all faith based bloggers.
It appears more and more Pastor’s are writing their sermons at Starbucks, Panera, and other WiFi enabled coffee shops. Are such firms the new secratarium or pastors office? Its a powerful thing in many ways. I must admit it would be interesting to walk in to a Panera and see 20 folks wearing clerical collars. My guess is most protestan pastors wear civies, but might make for an interesting clerical mashup some time.
Greed is insideous, it propagates a great deal, and seemingly morphs to self righteous justice on others, and coveting as a cover in reference to an observation of comments on Carlos the realtor loosing his shirt. Very sad in many ways, both for Carlos, but also folks attacking him. I found myself called on the carpet by Mark Thoma as concerns my opposition to the bailout. Its very little different than the folks on the ABC news site, that I was fuming about above. I disagree with the govt plan from a long term point of view, but I also admit I was thinking punitive measures for those who got us into this mess, rather than focusing on the least of these who likely will be hurt the most.
A great exposition on suffering by the Reverend Dr. David von Schlichten, followed by a call to pick up the cross. Very powerful.
Can someone somewhere come up with an analogy for the trinity that doesn’t present one or more heresies? I’ve read far too many of them this week.
Some folks think Pietism is a positive, go figure, but it does serve to explain why folks are attracted to Islam and the Jehovah Witnesses. Sadly pietism doesnt last, and it will eventually fail them. Luther had it right with his Law and Gospel approach, the law alone doesnt work. BigNorsk has an excellent discussion at CF.
Why are folks always wanting to lean towards Chiliasm, and why doesn’t Revelation in and of itself provide hope. Looking forward to reading Barbara Rossing’s The Rapture Exposed this week, perhaps it has some answers. Just arrived via interlibrary loan for Monday pickup.
This week, I need to group twitter pastors in tweetdeck, as there is a lot of cool stuff going on, but i need to sort out business, science, and aviation to find them. I only have 600 or so folks I follow. I can’t imagine how the twitter power users handle it.
Great news, Alan Henley will get further therapy!!! Prayer is very powerful, and I’m certain God changed some hearts to make this happen.
Eek, I gotta set my clock ahead, egads, I will be tired for church in the AM, even more so now. At least I remembered now rather than at 7AM LOL
