Territorial Bloggings

I felt good walking out of work this evening.
Sad thing is, I caught myself doing it.
That’s probably not a good thing, is it? Not trusting that the good thing/feeling will continue if you acknowledge that it actually happened, that is…
Inside my head can be a, shall we say, odd and often unpleasant place to be. [...]

Deciding what to write can be a pain. I know I want to write. I even have lots of ideas about what to write during times of the day (and night) when I can’t write. Then, when the time & opportunity come to write, I seize up.
I want to be significant, or at the very [...]

Something that I think will happen over the course of the next two months, is that the strawman dichotomy of “doctrine vs. mission” will get trotted out by a vocal contingent in the LCMS.
This false dichotomy is usually proffered in the bemoaning of a focus on “incessant doctrinal purification”, and that pastors need to be [...]

Youth Ministry - No sir, I don’t like it!
Neither does Jon over at Beggars All. In a recent posting — Youth Pastors Anonymous — he lays out a wonderfully cogent and timely case against the ghettoizing blight that is “Youth Ministry”.
I agree wholeheartedly with Jon. Herding the youth off into their own ghetto is wrong [...]