Recently, through the “Question of the Week” in our email newsletter, we found out that people wanted to grow most in the area of “understanding the Bible”. When we dug a little deeper, we found that this was coming from about three places: 1. “I feel like I don’t know where to start.” 2. “I…
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Posts from May 2019
I have heard that some people, when asking about your church will ask the following question, “what does your pastor wear to church?” The best answer is probably “underwear,” or if you want to get a little more specific, “socks”. (Sundays only, sometimes I come in wearing flip flops during the week.) As fun as…
Here’s your big word for the day, “Adiaphora”. “Adiaphora” literally means “it doesn’t make a difference”, and it is the Latin word used by the Lutheran Reformers to talk about things that don’t have a necessarily Biblical basis, but are a part of church practice. Confirmation is a good example of this. Nowhere in Scripture…
One of the aspects of worshiping at a liturgical church is that it has an ancient feel to it. That’s on purpose. Liturgical churches seek to connect the present day with the ancient reality of the faith. The sainted Robert Webber wrote a whole series of books on this topic called “Ancient-Future”. So our worship…
If you’re here on a Sunday morning, right after the Words of Institution (“On the night in which He was betrayed, our Lord Jesus Christ….”) and right before people come up to receive communion, you will hear something to the effect of “we believe that this meal is truly the Body and Blood of our…