tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post3476170604173595010..comments2024-03-27T15:47:46.091-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: God does not need a fancy temple, but we do. . .Pastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-6039824585249408002018-12-29T22:49:51.444-06:002018-12-29T22:49:51.444-06:00If you use the Apple App store for your ministry, ...If you use the Apple App store for your ministry, then no amount of renovation will fix this:<br /><br />https://www.faithwire.com/2018/12/28/apple-bans-texas-ministrys-app-over-biblical-view-of-marriage/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-90774550527398782592018-12-29T21:20:15.962-06:002018-12-29T21:20:15.962-06:00The images in the YOUTUBE video are very familiar ...The images in the YOUTUBE video are very familiar to me, as the churches of my youth in Milwaukee show. St Josephat’s Bascillica in Milwaukee rivals any church I have seen in Italy, Germany or Poland. I have never seen a Lutheran Church that I consider beautiful, even in Germany. When a well delivered Liturgy of Word and Sacrament (Divine Service) in most parts of our Synod, there will be comments about “chancel prancing”, or “too Catholic”. I have given up and crossed over to the other side as I now routinely preach and preside in street clothes....I don’t see how it is any more inviting, but I am now old and I value getting the Word and Sacrament to the folks more than what I am vested, or even whether I am vested.<br /><br />None of you here know me, and if you knew what this change has done for me, you too would be amazed. Yet, in today’s Synod, inviting is more important than devotion or Tradition.<br /><br />I have a few chasubles for sale cheap if anyone wants a set, just shoot me a note at padredave1@cox.net and I will get you fixed up. I will never have the privilege of vesting in this way again, so they would be better in your sacristy than my spare room closet.Padre Dave Poedelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14033503960196272783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-10886681625048648692018-12-29T16:19:02.110-06:002018-12-29T16:19:02.110-06:00I recently wrote a similar article for the Canadia...I recently wrote a similar article for the Canadian Lutheran. http://www.canadianlutheran.ca/a-defense-of-beauty-lutherans-and-church-art/Kelly Klageshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05183748589797441794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-6239105207422050242018-12-29T15:12:47.691-06:002018-12-29T15:12:47.691-06:00The churches aren't empty because they are bea...The churches aren't empty because they are beautiful, they are empty because of ugly hearts that refuse their Christian heritage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-60755409933789980702018-12-29T14:30:21.772-06:002018-12-29T14:30:21.772-06:00The disdain for beauty, for elegance, for meaning,...The disdain for beauty, for elegance, for meaning, and for timelessness in modern architecture says a lot about the debauchery of our ruling classes.<br /><br />It was Solomon, after all, who gradually allowed the high places of the pagan gods to have equal prominence with the temple.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-74469745079739061022018-12-29T14:29:24.704-06:002018-12-29T14:29:24.704-06:00How many of those beautiful church buildings in no...How many of those beautiful church buildings in northern Europe and Scandinavia are filled with confessional Lutherans every Sunday?Carl Vehsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00348831096001668813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-15369165123472160032018-12-29T12:28:20.888-06:002018-12-29T12:28:20.888-06:00May I suggest you begin your exploration of Luther...May I suggest you begin your exploration of Lutheran worship space with the St. Ann's Church at Augsburg. What Fuggar money and taste did there is truly remarkable and closely connected with Luther. He stayed in a related cloister nearby when he was at Augsburg to meet with Cajetan. The German version of Wikipedia (along with www.kirchbau.de) has an article with pictures of almost every church in Germany.<br />https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Anna_(Augsburg)Joannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09777514643611989502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-37683686047371340352018-12-29T07:00:13.665-06:002018-12-29T07:00:13.665-06:00Nothing proves how earnestly the LCMS wanted to &q...Nothing proves how earnestly the LCMS wanted to "fit into" American protestant culture than the fact that many LCMS congregations ripped out their beautiful altars, crucifixes and statues of Jesus and the Apostles and replaced it all with generically bland, bare wooden tables and pulpits, and little else in the chancel. Far too many LCMS Lutherans were raised to believe that the crucifix was "Catholic" and that Lutherans "use the bare cross." Face palm!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com