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The Scripture says, "Behold, I make all things new." All things. Creation groans, as with birth pangs, for that Day, as Scripture also says. The restoration of all things, it seems to me, applies to the animals, since they by no fault of their own were subjected to death through the First Adam...

The Papacy has run the papal church for much longer than that! :p Contemporary worship notwithstanding, the Sacramental Union is effected by the Word of God, not some magical power of the priest. And, if you doubt its validity without apostolic succession, please know that all of our pastors...

To the OP: We answer these questions in one of our Communion Hymns: Lord Jesus Christ, You have prepared This feast for our salvation; It is Your body and Your blood, And at Your invitation As weary souls, with sin oppressed, We come to You for needed rest, For comfort, and for pardon. 2...

I was just reading this passage in my daily readings today! How providential. I have a bit of a different take.... One of my professors at Concordia indicated that this was in fact not a customary mandate from St. Paul; to the contrary, the common custom in Judaism was for the *men* to cover...

"High church" is really part of an Anglican dichotomy. There are certainly strands claiming the Lutheran moniker that pride themselves in romish ceremony, but I'm not sure that's representative of our Evangelical Tradition. All that being said...for a liturgically and historically Lutheran...

In his Examination of the Council of Trent, which is sort of the 'golden standard' of Evangelical-Lutheranism compared with counter-reformation Papism, Chemnitz outlines eight kinds of "tradition," with the Evangelical understanding of Tradition contra the Papal view. Among these are: •The 1st...

I like to call the "Saxon Order" the basic rite from which most Confessional Lutheran bodies in the United States descend, which is reflected by the Saxon Agenda; here is an English translation of the 1540 version...

We've been doing Luther's prayers out of the Holy Catechism as a family lately. So, we begin with the appointed Psalm verses, the Pater Noster, then "Lord God, Heavenly Father, bless us and these Thy gifts, which we receive form Thy bountiful goodness, through Jesus Christ, our Lord" when asking...

You'd have to explain more what you mean. We have Scripture, the Sacraments, the Liturgy, the Sign of the Cross, the Apostolic Ministry, and other like things. Is this what you mean?

Luther mainly intended his Latin Mass for schools, where he expected Latin would be studied as a core component of academia. For huge city churches this would be acceptable, perhaps. But it wasn't really done in Lutheran tradition. That being said, in the city parishes, many Latin elements...

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Would you say that the song "Hallelujah" by David Cohen is secular? In particular, what is your take on this rendition of the piece: ‪Hallelujah as preformed by Leonard Cohen (Kirk Baker)‬‏ - YouTube

In baptism, our old natures are drowned, and a new nature is created. However, the old nature never really leaves us temporally . . . though he was "drowned" in baptism, it has been said that he is a "good swimmer." ;) In other words, we always have the struggle between old self and new self...

lol you people with eighteen lists are ridiculous. Rhamiel and Edwards1984 seem cool from this section of the board. There are some folks in other sections who I wouldn't mind meeting as well. And then there's folks who used to be at CF but are no longer whom I would like to meet. Oh and I...

You're not weird at all. Sinatra was the best singer of all time, after all. ^_^ No but really, as far as thinking the past was better or whatever, I used to all the time. But you know what? In the past they were saying how horrible their generation is and wishing for an earlier one; and...

Still do. :wave:

I'm no fan of Evangelicalism or President Bush for that matter, but that video is dubious from a Biblical and particularly Lutheran perspective. It is a leader's job to defend his country and lead it in war, defending its interests, ensuring its prosperity, etc. After all, the authorities are...

Exactly.

I got a three on that one. don't know how accurate that is, but make of it what you will.

"Be ye in the world, but not of the world." "Our attitudes should be the same as the of Christ Jesus." In other words, our focus should be on the interests of others, specifically on our brothers in the faith, and in maintaining and upholding the pure and unadulterated Gospel. HAVING SAID...