Joe Muench

Husband, Father, & Pastor | CTSFW Alum | CSP Baseball Alum

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Confirmation, Catechesis, and Communion — notes on an article by Geoff Boyle https://t.co/SN8K2r0tVB

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@WmWeedon @LutheranSage Amen!

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The Scourge of Sports Betting https://t.co/773hef21qV

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Guys, THIS is the pamphlet our Lutheran brother and sister in Finland are being persecuted for sharing. I say, we should make sure that it is shared everywhere! https://t.co/1tpawJj7Rh

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Rehumanizing: My notes on a good interview about reclaiming our humanity from our smartphones.
https://t.co/A3FSLbEMVw

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Philip Melanchthon has a lot to say about what Lutheran preaching ought to look like:
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Reflections on a sonnet of John Donne for the beginning of Advent: https://t.co/BylAWQvRjm

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"Sola Scriptura is a confession that Jesus is Lord... He must have an independent voice in His church...
We need to allow ourselves to be confronted and corrected by the Bible... We should strive to make Scripture's emphases our own."
~ Peter Leithart

[Peter Leithart @PLeithart]

Some argue that we shouldn't recognize any OT types unless the NT explicitly identifies them as types.

Even this narrow standard encompasses much of the OT: Adam, Abel, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, exodus, Aaron, tabernacle, wilderness, sacrifice, David, Solomon, Psalms, prophets like Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Isaiah, and Jonah.

But the narrow standard is in error.

Luke 24, the primary passage on "typology," is notoriously vague, so vague that many wish Luke had given us more detail.

No! Luke doesn't want to spoon-feed. He deliberately leaves it open-ended to awaken curiosity. A taste leaves our hearts burning, craving more.

Luke treats us as kings, not servants: It's the glory of God to conceal a matter, the glory of kings to search out a matter.

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Helpful explanation to a common question: https://t.co/X2cr3jNAo3

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A little book review of "Vocation" by Michael Berg for the forthcoming Crookston Circuit newsletter: https://t.co/1t4839m4wh

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"We may pray as beloved children of a loving Father. By His death Christ made us the sons of God and, being sons, we may trust boldly that our Father will withhold no good if we ask."

~ Fred Lindemann, on the Gospel for Rogate (Jn. 16:23–30)

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"Most belief in immortality, in survival after death, is less than Christian, just as mere belief in the existence of God is less than Christian. Easter is not a festival of immortality. Easter is the festival of Christ's destruction of death by His death."

~ Fred H. Lindemann

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@WmWeedon Thank you!

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F. Lindemann made me chuckle. The alternate Collect in TLH concludes with "My flesh is meat indeed..." Lindemann's comment: "For those who are convinced that in John 6 our Lord does not refer to the Lord's Supper, the last two verses of the Gradual may present a difficulty."

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From the end of this post: https://t.co/VZ54Z8mKRp

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"Some things are so idiotic that it takes an intellectual to believe them."

~ Rod Dreher

(Widely applicable, but this was related to academics justifying Mayan child sacrifice: "it's not that they were violent, it was their way of connecting with the celestial bodies.")

[William Weedon @WmWeedon]

On Fasting: The Lutheran Book of Concord rejects the distinction of meats (as in, eating fish on Fridays, not steak). But it does encourage fasting as a practice. In German, Lent is called Fastenzeit (Fasting time).