Make worship of God into something that you are comfortable with. Stay home on Sunday. You don’t need to go meet with a congregation to worship God, do you? Enjoy some needed and well deserved down time with your family. Teach your kids what really is important in life…the family. It’s more important than anything [...]
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Well, yesterday has come and gone. My wife and I went to worship the Lord Jesus and receive from Him (as my Pastor likes to say) “what the world could never buy…forgiveness of sins, life, and salvation.” We sang hymns, we confessed our sins, we received absolution, partook of the Lord’s Supper, confessed our faith publicly [...]
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“You Lutherans are too religious!” “You Lutherans have to stand up, and sit down and mindlessly repeat words that you just make up in some sort of man-made ritulal!” “Lutheran Pastors wear vestments and you have candles in your churches!” Have you ever heard this line of horse dung from fundamentalist Evangelicals before? I have. [...]
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