BOOM! That’s what I’m talking about. via GIPHY This week has been crazy. I tried to really hunker down and focus, especially since I knew that I was within spitting distance of the midpoint, the halfway point in my current work-in-progress’s story. It was so close I could practically smell…
This post is likely going to be a bit on the short side, and mostly because I probably gave away the entire point of the post in the title. Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve talked about how Lutherans understand communion. It’s not a symbol. We believe that “is”…
Okay, okay, okay. I could make the usual excuses, the same ones that I’ve been making for the past several weeks. I wound up taking four days off this week. Or maybe just three days. Life, work, family obligations, yadda yadda yadda. Second verse, same as the first. I won’t…
Sweet Christmas, this was an interesting show. So for those who aren’t in the know, Luke Cage is the latest superhero show from the pairing of Netflix and Marvel. It follows the adventure of a superpowered individual named…well, Luke Cage. Luke has superstrength and is well nigh indestructible. He also…
There’s an important concept tucked away in the Words of Institution. It’s so important that Jesus says it twice. See if you can spot it: For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took…
You know, I’ve shared a lot about my writing career (such as it is) in the Confessional over the past few months. I’ve talked about my attempts at writing for TV, movies, and the stage. I’ve shared my awful Star Trek/Star Wars crossover fanfiction. But it occurs to me, I…
Normally I wait until late in the evening to do this post on Wednesdays. But given the schedule I’m facing, I realized that no matter how long I wait, I won’t have the time or the energy to add to my wordcount today. In some ways, that’s disappointing. Last time…
This week, we’re going to move on from baptism to talk about the other Lutheran Sacrament, namely that of Holy Communion. Remember, Lutherans consider something a sacrament if it has the following three things: God says, “Do this.” God says, “When you do this, you will receive the forgiveness of…
Ugh. It would appear that I done lost my mojo. Remember how, two weeks ago, I reported that I had lost my momentum? Yeah…it kind of never came back. I’m not entirely sure why that is. For some reason, the schedule I had worked out to let me rack up…
Lutherans are inveterate paedobaptists. Okay, that’s a mouthful. Basically, it means we baptize babies. Always have and, so far as I can tell, we always will. And here’s the reason why: as we’ve seen over the past several weeks, we have a slightly different understanding of how a Christian comes…