Newsletter (Page 40)

Preachers and Priests

There’s a new TV show that is coming out on AMC, the same folks who brought you Mad Men and the Walking Dead. Except this time the story line isn’t about advertising executives or living in a post apocalyptic zombie infested world. Instead, it’s about a guy with a past who takes over his father’s…

Recognizing the Saint

At lunch last week, after last week’s newsletter, a good friend told me that I let myself dwell too much upon my sinful and broken nature. This good friend reminded me that what Jesus Christ has done for me has, indeed, made me a new creation. It was Gospel. It was Gospel that was tough…

Grit and the Gospel

I was on the radio this morning talking to probably about 3 listeners who tuned into KFUO-AM out of St. Louis, MO. KFUO is the radio station that is owned and operated by our church body, and they do this show called “His Time” that looks at readings from the Daily Lectionary [pdf] of the LCMS.…

How to forgive

I’m currently taking some training from the Ambassadors of Reconciliation, a Lutheran group that trains all different kinds of churches and organizations how to resolve conflict. One of the things that we have been talking about quite a bit is that the church has dropped the ball in one specific area – we haven’t taught…

A Second Listen

University Lutheran routinely records and puts the sermon from Sunday online both at the University Lutheran website and at universitylutheran.sermon.net (where you can point your podcast app to automatically subscribe to our sermons).  Since we started doing this, it has afforded me (Pastor Jay), the opportunity to listen to my own sermons for a second…

Lutheran Mythbusters – Ruining your Reformation

Being a Lutheran means celebrating the Reformation, but many of us have gotten sloppy in our Reformation celebrations. Martin Luther himself said that the life of a Christian is a life of repentance. So this Reformation, University Lutheran challenges you to repent of some of those old Lutheran myths and to celebrate the Reformation a…