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Message History

Trinity XXVI (observed)

St. Matthew 25.31-46

November 16, 2025

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“I think I’m going to hell.” A text like today’s can provoke such a thought.

One wonders if the invention of purgatory was in part to deal with texts like today’s. I don’t m...

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Pastor Zach Zehnder published a video on YouTube today taking exception to the age requirements for the LCMS “Specific Ministry Pastor” program [SMP]. The SMP is a (mostly) non-residential program for pastoral formation that relies heavily on local mentoring and...

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From the chapter “Responding to the Transgender Revolution” in my book (Dis)Ordered: Lies about Human Nature and the Truth That Sets Us Free (CPH 2023):

“A theologian of glory calls evil good and good evil. A theologian of the cross calls the thing what it actually is.” Never in the history of the world have we more needed brave people to call...

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All Saints 2025

The Festival of All Saints (Observed)

Revelation 7:14

November 2, 2025

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Many, perhaps willfully, misunderstand and misrepresent the meaning of Sola Scriptura. It is not an abandonment of patristics or tradition. Rather, it means that all things are subject to God’s own Word. Martin Chemnitz applies this truth to the question of the authority of Church Councils:

The authority of councils is most salutary in the chu...

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