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On Teaching Human Precepts as Doctrine
I’ve been reading through the gospel of Mark, chapter 7, and I came upon this passage (verses 6-8): He said to them, “Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching human precepts…
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Remember
It’s wintertime. For me, that means dry skin. Loads of Lubriderm on my hands and arms throughout the season. But my fingers always get the worst of it. Cracks. Tiny cuts. I often go to bed with a band-aid or two on my thumbs, just because it makes it feel better. The most common place…
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An Advent Hymn
The season of Advent begins in the church in just a few days. Advent is a time of waiting. During Advent, we are invited to wait for three things: We wait for Jesus to arrive in Bethlehem at Christmas. We wait for Jesus to return and claim his kingdom. We wait for Jesus to come…
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Life without Afterlife
Trigger warning: This post gets dark toward the end. I am a Christian. I am, in fact, an ordained minister of Word and Sacrament in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, so I suppose that makes me a professional Christian. And yet, I find that I have a lot of trouble with one of the…
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The Hope of the Reformation
I write a monthly article for my congregation’s newsletter. I just wrote my October article today, focusing on the upcoming 500th anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation. As I wrote it, I thought, “This might work well as a blog entry too.” So here’s an adapted version of it. For those of you who are in…
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