thinking-out-loud

This week is uniquely focused on the Good Shepherd, spanning, as it does, "Good Shepherd Sunday" in the historic lectionary (yeste...

Christ our Lord summarizes the Ten Commandments and the whole Law of God in this way: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your h...

So, how many Lutheran congregations require their communicant members, regularly and individually, to recite from memory the six chief parts...

When did it become normal for preachers to be funny, to tell jokes, and to solicit laughter and guffaws from the congregation? I have witnes...

Your Savior, Christ Jesus, has risen from the dead. He who bore your sins in His Body on the Cross, who was crucified for your transgression...

Third Sunday of Easter Acts 3:11–21 1 John 3:1–7 Luke 24:36–49 　 Hymn of Invocation Send, O Lord, Your Holy Spirit (LSB 681) 　 Hymn of the D...

I don't offer this as any kind of criticism, but simply as an observation of something that has struck me this week, and which I find in...