Territorial Bloggings

Lemming that I am, since I’ve been tagged by the Seminarian-formerly-known-as-Vicar Lehmann & The Tarheel Lutheran, I’ll give it a whack…
nb: I’ve changed the listings from one to two/three/four books, because, well, I can & I don’t want to limit myself…
1. Two books that changed your life:

The Hammer of God by Bo Giertz
The [...]

Maybe that Martin Luther guy actually knew something when he wrote his catechisms… ya think?
I certainly think so!
And it would seem that, at least in terms of the value of a catechism, some other folks do too. In fact, Tim Challies has just posted on The Benefits of the Catechisms — and it’s a nice [...]

You might recall both my anxious anticipation & my joyous reaction when I received my copy of Concordia: A Reader’s Edition Of The Book Of Concord. I stand by those reactions — if anything, I feel more strongly about the doctrinal & theological quality of the book now than I did then.
In today’s LCMS, though, [...]

Some random, if not intemperate, thoughts — [i.e., I know I'm painting with very broad strokes here, but I'm feeling cranky enough to just say them...]
I wonder how the majority of “average” Joe & Janie Pewsitter-type folk in our LCMS congregations would react if they had their congregational constitutions read to them in place of [...]