Archive for July, 2010

Blessed with Children

3 days into VBS this week and I can’t help but have children on the brain.  Many wonderful things go on at the typical VBS.  Young children get an “out of the ordinary” opportunity for social development.  Young Christians meet new friends.  Most importantly, children are introduced to their Lord and Savior, Jesus. Although VBS [ READ MORE ]

“I Can’t Believe You Just Said That”

Humans are emotional creatures + Humans are egocentric creatures = Humans often get their feelings hurt.  It’s a pretty simple formula. The fact that we are emotional shouldn’t bother us.  Sometimes we tend to think so since they can occasional cloud good judgment, but emotions are not bad.  God created emotive creatures so that we [ READ MORE ]

Lutherans & Homosexuality (Part 5 of 5)

Imagine giving a cymbal to a three-year-old.  Oh, he’d love it!  You, however, might lose your sanity as that child went around your home: CRASH! CLANG! CRASH! It would be very obnoxious.  However, put that cymbal into the middle of the right song and it adds enormously to the impact: “And the rocket’s red glare [ READ MORE ]

Lutherans & Homosexuality (Part 4 of 5)

In debate class you learn to recognize a slippery slope argument.  The slippery slope argument states that some small first step will inevitably have some monumental impact, much like pushing an object over the edge of a slope will cause that object to slide all the way to the bottom.  For example, Mr. Fuddy argues, [ READ MORE ]

Lutherans & Homosexuality (parts 2&3 of 5)

Lutheranism & homosexuality part 2 of 5 Person A loves to talk bad about others.  It makes him feel better about himself.  So he spreads rumors – some true, others false – about those he doesn’t like.  He tells his neighbor on his right that he’s worried that the neighbor on the left might drink [ READ MORE ]

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