Only one thing surprised Dan Kimball about the Axis reorganization: it took 10 years. Kimball, who teaches and oversees the Sunday gatherings for Vintage Faith Church in Santa Cruz, California, has tracked many young adult ministries over the years. He estimates that 90 percent of worship services targeting a younger generation run into serious trouble after three years. One factor is the way these age-specific ministries isolate young people from the rest of the church.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
Statement on the Obama Health-Care Plan
From
Dr. Gerald B. Kieschnick, President
The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
The LCMS supports the protection and nurture of human life from conception through death. We would not endorse any component of a plan that includes funding for abortion. Currently, federal money cannot fund abortions (Hyde Amendment, 1976), and there appears to be nothing in the health-care reform plan at this time that would change that. However, some versions do propose a sliding scale of health-care premiums based on income, with government money making up for the lower premiums of poorer people. As pro-life advocates, we would want to prohibit any government money from being used, even indirectly, for insurance that covers abortion.
Read the entire article here.
Dr. Gerald B. Kieschnick, President
The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
The LCMS supports the protection and nurture of human life from conception through death. We would not endorse any component of a plan that includes funding for abortion. Currently, federal money cannot fund abortions (Hyde Amendment, 1976), and there appears to be nothing in the health-care reform plan at this time that would change that. However, some versions do propose a sliding scale of health-care premiums based on income, with government money making up for the lower premiums of poorer people. As pro-life advocates, we would want to prohibit any government money from being used, even indirectly, for insurance that covers abortion.
Read the entire article here.
Dr. Gerald B. Kieschnick, President LCMS
Statement of the president of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod in response to certain actions of the 2009 Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
August 24, 2009
Says in part:
Doctrinal decisions adopted already in 2001 led the LCMS, in sincere humility and love, to declare that we could no longer consider the ELCA "to be an orthodox Lutheran church body" (2001 Res 3-21A). Sadly, the decisions of this past week to ignore biblical teaching on human sexuality have reinforced that conclusion. We respect the desire to follow conscience in moral decision making, but conscience may not overrule the Word of God.
We recognize that many brothers and sisters within the ELCA, both clergy and lay, are committed to remaining faithful to the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, are committed to the authority of Holy Scripture, and strongly oppose these actions. To them we offer our assurance of loving encouragement together with our willingness to provide appropriate support in their efforts to remain faithful to the Word of God and the historic teachings of the Lutheran church and all other Christian churches for the past 2,000 years.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Address to ELCA Churchwide Assembly
Dr. Gerald B. Kieschnick, President
The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
Address to ELCA Churchwide Assembly, August 22, 2009
The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
Address to ELCA Churchwide Assembly, August 22, 2009
Here is a portion of his address:
I speak these next words in deep humility, with a heavy heart and no desire whatsoever to offend. The decisions by this assembly to grant non-celibate homosexual ministers the privilege of serving as rostered leaders in the ELCA and the affirmation of same gender unions as pleasing to God will undoubtedly cause additional stress and disharmony within the ELCA. It will also negatively affect the relationships between our two church bodies. The current division between our churches threatens to become a chasm. This grieves my heart and the hearts of all in the ELCA, the LCMS, and other Christian church bodies throughout the world who do not see these decisions as compatible with the Word of God, or in agreement with the consensus of 2000 years of Christian theological affirmation regarding what Scripture teaches about human sexuality. Simply stated, this matter is fundamentally related to significant differences in how we understand the authority of Holy Scripture and the interpretation of God’s revealed and infallible Word.
Read the entire address here: Address to ELCA Churchwide Assembly, August 22, 2009
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Silliness
Here's a headline I just read:
The article by Jeanna Bryner begins:
If you think you're generally good at resisting temptation, you're probably wrong, scientists now say.
"People are not good at anticipating the power of their urges, and those who are the most confident about their self-control are the most likely to give into temptation," said Loran Nordgren, senior lecturer of management and organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, in Illinois.
Read the rest of the article here.
Temptation Harder to Resist Than You Think, Study Suggests
Christians have long known that we do not struggle against flesh and blood. Our constant battle with the temptations of the World, the Devil, and our own sinful self can only be overcome with divine help!The article by Jeanna Bryner begins:
If you think you're generally good at resisting temptation, you're probably wrong, scientists now say.
"People are not good at anticipating the power of their urges, and those who are the most confident about their self-control are the most likely to give into temptation," said Loran Nordgren, senior lecturer of management and organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, in Illinois.
Read the rest of the article here.
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