Church Blog (Page 33)

Resolutions and Righteousness

The Winters family is trekking northward for vacation, and we stopped overnight on the 31st in a hotel for a break from the road. As such, Cricket and I (Jay) got up around 6:30am on January 1st to go get some hotel breakfast. Due to my normal travel schedule with District and such, I’m no…

Real Christmas

Recently I was speaking with Father Jerome of FSU’s Oriental Orthodox campus ministry. I mentioned that the Orthodox have a different way of calculating the date for the celebration of Easter. If you want to get into it, the way that Easter is calculated is that Easter is always the first Sunday after the full…

SparklyDivinityForgivenessFest – Worship Like a Lutheran

“Worship” “Liturgy” “Service(s)” “Eucharist” “Mass” “Gathering” “Church” “Meeting” – these are some of the words that Christians use to describe their Sunday morning experience. While none are terrible, some are preferred by some tribes. Our own Lutheran tribe has a preference toward “Service,” specifically “Divine Service” due to the German word “Gottesdienst” which literally means…

Lowercase Saints

“So what are some of the Lutheran holidays?” a student asked me recently. “Lutheran holidays?” I questioned back, “what do you mean?”  “You know, like Advent and Lent and…” I got the picture. “Those aren’t Lutheran holidays. Really the only distinctly “Lutheran” holiday is Reformation Day….the rest of those, they are just….historical Church holidays that…