So … so far… it is still black smoke above the Purple Palace (that is what we used to call the International Center of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod) in St. Louis…
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It’s Friday
So, how do we think of ourselves? As Western Catholics? Yes!
And I am using the term catholic, because we are. Why does Rome get to have it just because they claim it? Are they the universal church? That is what catholic means!
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It’s Friday…
As I began my sermon last Sunday… on Whitsunday… Pentecost… I mentioned that I couldn’t remember why it was called that. It was brought to mind … as I was reading a devotion from Luther in the devotional “Day By Day We Magnify Thee”— a good devotional, by the way, that has pieces of his sermons and commentaries… and other writings…
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It’s Friday
And what’s with the weather?
As a pastor that is one prayer request I used to get all the time in both my Wisconsin and Iowa parishes—to pray for good crop weather.
Not so much here in Chicagoland.
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It’s Friday…
I don’t say gas, because I have a VW diesel. Which means more pain even though I get good mileage out of each gallon.
So why don’t we have it better than before?
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It’s Friday
And I have been thinking…
My mother used to tell me (and if she were around… she is, just in North Carolina, not in Chicagoland…she would most likely be telling me still…) that doing that… thinking… is dangerous….
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