It’s the week before classes, and all through the FSU campus you’ll see girls in different stages of finery walking or running to sorority houses in full make up, clothes meant to impress, and battery operated fans. This is panhellenic sorority recruitment on our campus. About 2,000 of the approximately 3,500 female freshmen at least…

The year was 1529, and Martin Luther had gathered together with some others who were pushing away from the Roman Catholic church — but who were also seemingly afraid that Luther hadn’t gone far enough in his reform movement. They were getting together to talk through if they could agree to work together. The person…

If you drive through Carabelle FL, you might notice that the city of Carabelle proudly touts the honor of having “the World’s Smallest Police Station.” This police station is nothing more than an old style telephone booth like Superman used to change in before the advent of the iPhone destroyed payphones. Another little box that…

I’ve spent a little more time in the air this summer than I did last summer. This summer I flew to North Carolina for a wedding (congrats Emma and Hunter!), to Tennessee for a wedding (congrats Mara and Ben!), and to the National Convention of the LCMS. We all know that before you get to…

Martin Luther wrote a little pamphlet when he was a pastor called “A Simple Way to Pray.” It basically takes some of the content of the Small Catechism and turns those things into headings for prayer. It was all written down in a letter to a guy named “Peter the Barber,” and was recently translated…

I will be flying out this Friday to do something that I have ended up doing once every 3 years – going to the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod National  Convention. I have learned that not a lot of people understand what this event is about. So I’m going to spend a little time outlining what…

The Holy Spirit is probably the mysterious person of the Trinity. I think we see that in the way that the 3rd article of the Creed gets written. The 1st and 2nd articles seem to have this formula that goes, “I believe in (Father/Son), and this is what He does…(creates, comes to earth and redeems).…

It is always dangerous to come up with a metaphor that describes the Trinity. Sooner or later, you’re bound to commit some kind of heresy if you take the metaphor far enough. So as I get into this, please don’t read too much into this metaphor. Consider the endeavor of making a film. It usually…

Our word “economy” has its roots in the Greek word for “household,”: oikos. Economy is the “nomos”, the laws, of the oikos, the “household”. It is how things work in the household. The study of economics is supposed to show how all of the people in the “household” of a country or a society work…

This summer, I’m planning walking through a little refresher on the Small Catechism. If it has been a while, you can always check it out at http://catechism.cph.org . Luther didn’t invent the idea of the catechism. Catechisms had existed for quite some time, some argue from even around 70 AD, not long after Jesus had…