Pastoral Meanderings

The strength and weakness of our church (meaning here the Missouri Synod, but perhaps applicable across the spectrum) is the congregation.  ...

On another forum, where discussion revolves around what is Lutheran, a question of what is NOT Lutheran came up.  You know the old story of ...

Missouri has probably more congregations still using the voters system of congregational governance that other Lutherans -- by this I mean v...

While nearly all the world has joined the bandwagon for a version of the three year lectionary originally prepared by the Roman Catholics fl...

Luther's explanation to the second article includes:  That I may be His own and live under Him in His kingdom, and serve Him in everlast...

Where once the greatest question before a young man or young woman was "Who would be the best life partner?" the question today mi...

Sermon preached for Easter 6, Sunday, May 9, 2010.      I must admit that I get a billion and a half of those tear jerking emails that sh...

This is definitely NOT your father's Zinzendorf.... And He set me on fire, and I am burning alive. With His breath in my lungs I am ...

It occurs to me after reading Bro. Weedon's blogpost from the sainted O. P. Kretzmann that there is such a difference between the viewpo...

I just got a packet in the mail from the District Office... it is about the subject we either hate to talk about (most all of us Pastors) or...

With all due respect to the moms out there... the day on the Church Calendar that fits Mother's Day best in the Church is August. 15... ...

I am guilty of enjoying music... I listen online, I listen to my cds, I listen to Sirius XM, I listen to radio... But there are wonderful mo...

Once again our parish council dealt with but another request for an "Emphasis Sunday" by a parachurch organization (RSO to use the...

If you read some of the blogs and follow up on things -- even here, perhaps -- it is easy to get the impression that things are very bad in ...

The numbers game is always a precarious one.  According to Wikilist of the ten largest Lutheran bodies, we have some impressive numbers.  Th...

Paul McCain over at Cyberbrethren has posted a new story about a church in St. Louis that canceled services on Sunday morning in order to d...

Friend Pastor Wil Weedon has written a piece on church attendance that says some of what I should have said on my earlier post.  You can rea...

Somewhere along the way something changed.  Serving the Lord because a right demanded and gifts became an obligation for the Church to find ...

It is often strange to hear the upside of the flood in Scripture -- such as First Peter and its description of the saving action that took p...

On another forum discussing first calls, I posted my own story of disappointment and even disillusionment when I left the Seminary to meet t...