Saturday, June 17, 2023

Two Dailies - Luther and Hebrews

 


I have had many responses - all favorable - about the Daily Luther Sermon Quotes, which are verbatim from the Lenker series - Luther's Sermons.

I decided to read through Hebrews slowly, so I added that for daily encouragement. Hebrews is so rich in language, eloquence, and meaning that a few verses at a time are plenty to consider. A pastor in a far-away land thought it was a good idea, so that became a second daily series.

Whenever I see a new corporate church fad being peddled, I think, "How far from the Gospel can these troglodytes go?" The latest was Unstuck, which sounds exactly like the baloney they used and abused so many times before. Their patron saint, Donald McGavran, was a sociologist from the Leftwing Disciples of Christ denomination. He advocated Planned Parenthood as a parish project in his classic book. Did the "conservative" Lutherans know, or care, or bother to read it?

What members, pastors, deaconesses, and teachers need is the substance of Luther and the fuel of regular Scripture reading. Both are radical and new, but well worth trying.