tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post7045222429689957874..comments2024-03-27T15:47:46.091-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: VOTE TO END all prejudice against Pharisees NOW!!Pastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-15862068712999945172010-11-17T14:58:16.194-06:002010-11-17T14:58:16.194-06:00The best book about the joy of grace
is THE RAGAMU...The best book about the joy of grace<br />is THE RAGAMUFFIN GOSPEL by Brennan<br />Manning. The unconditional love of<br />God for everyone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-73238449060262705762010-11-17T14:44:23.709-06:002010-11-17T14:44:23.709-06:00I have not earned my righteousness and so I'm ...I have not earned my righteousness and so I'm in no position to insist the Pharisee or the Publican earn theirs.ErnestOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13077415409728022160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-17129946197377921732010-11-17T12:56:42.593-06:002010-11-17T12:56:42.593-06:00Arrrggghhh...
The sad truth is no believer escape...Arrrggghhh...<br /><br />The sad truth is no believer escapes being a pharisee. Just as none of us escape being murderers or adulterers (by Jesus' definition of the Law), none escapes being an idolater, or a pharisee.<br /><br />Thanks be to God for the scandal of the Cross!Janis Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02947508427040251166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-38648992753786562182010-11-17T11:11:34.494-06:002010-11-17T11:11:34.494-06:00Could it be that the parable of the Pharisee and p...Could it be that the parable of the Pharisee and publican is so familiar that the shock is lost on us?<br /><br />I seem to recall Capon's imagined extension of the parable... We jeer the Pharisee and cheer the humble publican. But imagine that the Pharisee spends the next week praying, tithing, and helping feed orphans. The publican, however, slips right back into his old ways. He cheats, he steals, he exploits. The next week the two men come back to the church to pray, and the publican again walks out justified!<br /><br />Are we still cheering for him and for the God who justifies the wicked?<br /><br />Thanks for the post. Grace is shocking and scandalous.Rev. Jon Micheelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-59818098230618487542010-11-17T07:15:57.065-06:002010-11-17T07:15:57.065-06:00some language thoughts based on your well written ...some language thoughts based on your well written musing on our tongue-fumbles...<br /><br />I grew up with the Slovak liturgy (or German liturgy) and who knows how or when or why that was changed since Hus or Luther until I saw the English in the early 1940s in a mustardy green LCMS hymnal (they weren’t service or worship books then by title or reference).<br />And then came the blue (albeit a few had red covers and one Milwaukee parish along maybe with Valpo U. had special bound brown) covers of The Lutheran Hymnal (TLH). 1941-ish times were war years (surviving and rebuilding and having babies were enough to do) and until 1978 the book was unparalleled in LCMS use (except of course for the Worship Supplement). It seemed like forever that there was no change in wording. Even the KJV was unchallenged until the RSV. But it was only a little more than 30- years (37 years), the time of a schooling plus a doctorate… when again it was a little less than 30 years (28) until in 2006 the LSB (not enough) and ELW (groan, too much) appeared. Change is not so rapid though it often feels rabid. And of course the new forays into de-paternizing the Father and motherizing things is a whole other line of disgusting discussion. Just think of the number of books that are now published and the trend now to e-books and self-publication. If Gutenberg marked a changed in course, what of how things are done today with words and their gathering. Printing is hardly the issue, texting the thing. What one says can almost immediately appear in text on my iPad and in another app be translated faster than one can type, oops process, in one of scores of languages and be spoken aloud in that tongue. The church is arguing about the liturgy projected on screens (which I hate) but I think the use of words (and ultimately the Word of Scripture for us) is moving far beyond that. We fight about feminizing the language of God (albeit it a terrible thing to do) and are we missing the opportunities our time is offering us to gospelize the world in some rather special ways that other ages did not have at their disposal? Harvey MozolakAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com