Google Blogger changes its rules every so often. Do they ask me? No. Sometimes I have to fix the fixes to make them come out right. Once I had the blogs listed in one package, the Daily Lutheran Sermon Quote was halfway to Uruguay, sinking lower on the left column. I had to recreate it above the Ultimate Blog List and erase the former position.
I will keep the Lutheran Sermon Quote of the Day because I learn something every time,
- from thinkin ahead about the sermon,
- from selecting a moderately short - but very choice - sermon quotation,
- from seeing how far Luther went with his unified Biblical teaching - not dogmatics, not silly Latin quotations (except to mock Romanism).
Those clergy who mock Luther are sure to say, "There he goes again," because they are so enamored of themselves and the leaders who cannot even earn a seminary "doctorate."
Let us reflect upon the word "doctor." The term simply means "teacher" and was originally used only for the man who spent enough time with theology and philosophy to be a university teacher. Seminaries dispensed the Doctor of Sacred Theology degree to add dignity to proud pastors, until they no longer wanted to "pick up an STD" at St. Louis. The DMin was quickly substituted and made more glamorous by being printed at Fuller Seminary, Pasadena, home of the Rose Parade.
Every DMin I know sent stationery with "Dr." on the outside and inside, the moment the ink began drying. That is like stealing first base, no?
No wonder the tiny college in New Ulm took away Luther's genuine doctorate - Dr. Martin Luther College - and yet allowed Larry Olson DMin to call himself "Dr." at that school - only answering questions from undergraduates who called him Dr. Olson.
Yes, I use excessive graphics because they highlight doctrinal points from the Scriptures because someone might say, "I will save it and send it to a friend."
