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I just read about confessions in the Concordia, and I'm just wondering how many Lutheran Churches still practice private confessions. I know we do the public confession every week, and our pastor offers private confession, but it's not advertised much.

Muslim arguments are simply getting worse by the day 🤦‍♂️

We're cooked, boys and girls. What will we ever do about the mustard seed dilemma?

When you join a confessional Lutheran Church. 🦬😎

Can someone please tell me how we're the Nazis?

On this date in 1525, Martin Luther married Katerina von Bora. The former monk and former nun's marriage was a "crime" punishable with death according to canon law. But their love would stand until Martin passed away twenty-one years later.

Everything wrong with the Catholic faith reduced to a single sentence. If it's about credits and merits, is the importance of faith diminished?

Pride of such a sneaky thing. I got to the point in my career where I was feeling untouchable. I have three masters degrees and I get results in education. I practice a method of instruction that even gets the reluctant to learn. This is pride. And it set me up for a great fall.

Luther on the Gift of Prayer for the Christian: This is a miserable world for unbelievers. They work so hard, yet accomplish nothing. They may even pray a lot, search all over, and knock at the door. Yet nothing is gained, found, or achieved, for they’re knocking on the wrong door. They do all these things and even pray as if they were doing any other work. In other words, they do all this without any faith. That’s why they can’t really pray. Prayer is the work of faith alone. No one, except a believer, can truly pray. Believers don’t pray on their own merits, but in the name of the Son of God, in whom they were baptized. They’re certain that their prayers please God because he commanded them to pray in the name of Christ and promised he would listen to them. But the others don’t know this. Instead, they pray in their own name and believe they can prepare themselves.... But Christians pray in response to God’s command and promise. We offer our prayers to God in the name of Christ, and we know that what we ask for will be given to us. We experience God’s help in all kinds of needy situations. And if relief doesn’t come soon, we still know that our prayers are pleasing to God. We know that God has answered us because he gives us the strength to endure. - LW, AE 14:47, as found in By Faith Alone

There is no other option. Vote for Matt Harrison.

I've now broken 100 followers. I would like to thank all the little people that helped make this possible.

May every Christian Church continue this righteous stance.

🚨 I’m a Black man, a proud conservative, and a follower of Jesus Christ. When I see protesters outside the Collin County Courthouse chanting “FUCK WHITE LIVES!” after Karmelo Anthony’s sentencing for murdering Austin Metcalf, my soul grieves. This isn’t justice. This isn’t “community.” This is demonic hatred — plain and simple. All lives are made in the image of God. Every single one. Black, White, Brown — doesn’t matter. Celebrating the loss of any innocent life, or cheering on evil because of skin color, is straight from the pit of hell. And here’s the truth they don’t want you to say out loud: When Black conservatives, Christians, or truth-tellers like me call this out, we get labeled “traitors,” “Uncle Toms,” or “betrayers of the community.” Let them talk. I’d rather be disliked by some in my own community than stand before a Holy God and be found guilty of excusing evil, hating my neighbor, or twisting justice for racial points. My allegiance is to Christ first — not color, not tribe, not political pressure. “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil…” (Isaiah 5:20) I choose truth over tribe. Light over darkness. God over man. Who else is tired of the hate? Drop a 🙏 if you stand for real justice — not skin color. #AllLivesMatterToGod #FaithOverFear #TruthOverTribe

Amen

Ok, I know it's campy, but this was a fun little video about the Trinity. youtube.com/shorts/IUmfrqUF-…

Plot twist....

Here's a man who saw nothing of the court, but decided that the whole thing was about race. You know, because clearly Karmelo couldn't just simply be guilty.

Jury has found Karmelo Anthony guilty of murder in the death of Austin Metcalf

The people you love and consider the best people on earth? The spouse you would die for? The friends you cherish beyond words? They're mostly just very normal people who happened to be in the same geographic vicinity you were. And you would have found equally wonderful spouses and friends if you'd lived your life in a different area. This doesn't mean that the people you love aren't as wonderful as you think. It means that everyone else is more wonderful than you think. You didn't luck out and find the only saints in a sea of sinners. You found people who just are what people are--sinners who nonetheless are capable of being profoundly loving and beautiful and fascinating. Something that's probably worth considering the more that bitterness consumes our hearts by living our lives online.