After looking around the internet and seeing what pastors, particularly my generation, were posting, I decided that my audio only catechism classes were better than some of them, even the video ones, that sounded liked the biology professor in Wonder Years. What started me thinking in this vein was a Confessional Lutheran college student who in a sea of meh Lutheranism remained firm and is now a parish pastor. He grew up in a remote area; he said that he learned Confessional Lutheranism from the internet. That was 7 or 8 years ago. I’ve been thinking about doing this ever since. Continue reading
Adult Confirmation Class 4
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Radio Free Catholicism
Well, it’s not really radio free, but it is real Catholicism. To a point. Relevant Radio came on the air 25 years ago. It started in Austin in 2005 having taken over the Protestant Christian radio station that interestingly enough gave Issue’s, Etc. the boot for being too Lutheran. I think the issue was Baptism. Give Relevant Radio a listen. They are more Baltimore Catechism which ruled the United States in a sort of semi-official manner from the late 19th century to the 60’s than they are The Catechism of the Catholic Church which was published in 1992 in French and in English in 1994. This is the official confession of the Roman Catholic Church today. Continue reading
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Adult Confirmation Class 3
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“He who Lives by the Sword Dies by the Sword”
My title is Jesus’ words to Peter in Matthew 26:52, but they are also the 2013 tweet of then Congressman Ron Paul at the murder of Chris Kyle, the most efficient sniper the service has ever seen. I was incensed at the time at the misuse of Jesus’ words, and was reminded of this again when I watched the 2014 move about Kyle titled “American Sniper”. Continue reading
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Adult Confirmation Class 2
After looking around the internet and seeing what pastors, particularly my generation, were posting, I decided that my audio only catechism classes were better than some of them, even the video ones, that sounded liked the biology professor in Wonder Years. What started me thinking in this vein was a Confessional Lutheran college student who in a sea of meh Lutheranism remained firm and is now a parish pastor. He grew up in a remote area; he said that he learned Confessional Lutheranism from the internet. That was 7 or 8 years ago. I’ve been thinking about doing this ever since. Continue reading
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“At All Costs”
That is what the upcoming season of Lent is about. But without a little military background, you might not know how foreboding, far-reaching, how significant those three little words are. Continue reading
Adult Confirmation Classes – First Class
After looking around the internet and seeing what pastors, particularly my generation, were posting, I decided that my audio only catechism classes were better than some of them, even the video ones, that sounded liked the biology professor in Wonder Years. What started me thinking in this vein was a Confessional Lutheran college student who in a sea of meh Lutheranism remained firm and is now a parish pastor. He grew up in a remote area; he said that he learned Confessional Lutheranism from the internet. That was 7 or 8 years ago. I’ve been thinking about doing this ever since.
For the next 15 Fridays you will find my classes on Luther’s Small Catechism. The edition I am going through and referencing is the NIV version of the 1991 Catechism published in burgundy color in 2005. You can use an earlier version, published in blue, but the pagination is different. You can also you the 2007 (I think) edition also in burgundy but with ESV Bible translation. I would not recommend the 2017 Catechism. Confessional Lutheran pastors I respect studied it and were very critical. I did not study it because I knew that after 35 years of teaching the ’91 catechism, I wasn’t switching. Continue reading
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Domestic Tranquility, The Trad Wife, or Feminism – The enemy of the female and femininity
Without a doubt Domestic Tranquility [i]is the best book I’ve read on feminism. It’s subtitled “A Brief Against Feminism” because she was a lawyer by training. She was about the same age as Ruth Bader Ginsberg the feminist icon, heroine, and example. She pooh-poohs the idea that opportunities were limited for the women of her generation, and she faults feminism for breaking the woman-code and ridiculing women who could be happy with a loving supportive husband and raising their children. Continue reading
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Egalitarianism
This is a picture of one of my son’s over 30 years ago in my LBE, Load Bearing Equipment. I’m sure they have other names for this gear now. In fact in the 70s it was called something else too. Anyway, isn’t he cute, adorable, and in some sense laughable as when children try on adult shoes or clowns wear oversized ones? Continue reading
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Sobriety, Ecstasy, Revivalism, and Church Growth
Here’s a title to rival Lutheran sermon titles from the 17th and 18th centuries. Let’s see if I can make it make sense. Continue reading
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