Territorial Bloggings

For your consideration & edification, here are links to two very good postings.
First, FatherDMJ has done us all a service by posting Good Friday Preachment written by Rev. Todd A. Peperkorn. I must echo what FrDMJ wrote, namely that it’s worth the time to read it, because it is that good.
Second, Rev. McCain has posted [...]

Amidst the usual quality postings, Vicar Lehmann has given us a particularly useful gem of a post, entitled Non-negotiables.
While all 10 of the Vicar’s statements are good, I’m particularly fond of Nos. 3, 4, 6, & 9. Faithful preaching based on the non-negotiables is something that is lacking in far too many pulpits these days [...]

Rev. Bill Cwirla has, in the latest posting to his Blogosphere, done something that I very much appreciate — He’s written something that is intellectually useful AND incredibly funny, at the same time.
In Round and Round We Go, Rev. Cwirla does us the intellectually beneficial service of explaining the fallacy called “petitio principii” or “begging [...]

I’ve just finished reading The Fire and the Staff by Rev. Klemet Preus. It’s an outstanding examination of the relationship between doctrine and practice. Rev. Preus lays things out in a very cogent, witty, and easy to read way, both in assessing where Lutheranism has fallen away from orthodoxy, and in showing how that orthodoxy [...]