This morning was a very sad day for reasons that will remain private. I stayed pretty stoic until I sat down for Divine Service, but the dam cracked for most of worship. Pastor Gau did give Law, Gospel, and Jesus in his sermon (unlike the “Lutheran” in the previous post), so that was good. His [...]
Frank Pastore at Townhall.com discusses the message given by the “Christian” representative of a convocation at Virginia Tech. Whether you are Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, etc., this is a must read. I can’t quote a single part that does it justice.
This is why we insist that pastors must “preach Christ crucified” (1 Cor 1:23). A “Christian” [...]
The Living Sermons blog hosts the forty-eighth edition of the Lutheran Carnival from our good neighbor across the International Date Line, Japan. Chaplain Boarts shares video of his Good Friday sermon, where he entertains a conversation with the Devil. Conversations between Christians and “the old evil foe” should be short — “one little word can [...]
UPI reports (link dead) that 82-year-old Venus Ramey, Miss America 1944, caught three thieves who were stealing farm equipment from her shed. She shot out one of their tires and held them on the business side of a .38 revolver until police arrived.
Way to go, Miss America!
NewsBusters reports on Rosie O’Donnell’s horror that there were five Roman Catholics on the Supreme Court. She suggested that violated the separation of church and state.
The point would have had merit if the Supreme Court decision cited church law. If you’re Justice Breyer or former Justice O’Conner, you might see binding external sources of law [...]
FT.com reports that the EU is introducing laws all across its member states that criminalize the trivialization of the Holocaust.
My first thought was, so now nobody can invoke Godwin’s Law?
The latest draft, seen by the Financial Times, will make it mandatory for all Union member states to punish public incitement “to violence or hatred directed [...]
HT: Drudge
AP reports that the Supreme Court has upheld the federal ban on partial-birth abortion, 5-4. Justice Kennedy has been the traditional swing vote between those “liberal” and “conservative,” so one wonders whether we have a de facto tyrant.
This is a band-aid on the use of the federal government to override the states’ [...]
I’ve been receiving disturbing news in the past couple of weeks regarding the mission that is officially “conceived” here. The missionary pastor has taken a different approach than what was expected of the Ohio District agency that was funding him. I’ve been told the agency itself is running out of money and will close [...]
