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Recent content by SemStudent08

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    Need Study Bible Recommendation

    Nothing wrong with NIV. That would be the study Bible I use here at my ELCA seminary (when not using my Greek NT or Hebrew Bible). Here is a brief exerpt from the ELCA website on some of the Bible translations: "If you have one or more Bibles in your home, look at the cover or in the front...
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    Resoltuions to the 2005 ELCA ChurchWide Assembly

    Oh! And this topic is not really meant to become a debate on any of the resolutions. If you want to do that, take it up with your Pastor, Synod Office, or Synod Rep. to the Churchwide Assembly. I posted this entirely as a means of helping people find the resolutions themselves.
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    Resoltuions to the 2005 ELCA ChurchWide Assembly

    196 Resolutions from the various Synod Assemblies were memorialized to the ChurchWide Assembly for a vote. They range from ELCA engagement in the Holy Land, the adoption of Renewing Worship materials, changes to the ELCA Constitution, to CCM and the Recommendations concerning the ordination of...
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    Confession/Absolution

    As far as I can remember, every Sunday worship service I have been to (and a few not on Sunday too) has begun with Confession/Absolution. Looking through my MDE (Minister's Desk Edition), it looks as though the only Sunday morning worship that doesn't have a rubric concerning...
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    Communion

    *stretch* Wow...this oughta be nice...our own room! Well, here's my two cents anyway. I think ecumenical agreements are wonderful things. We cannot grow in our own faith without being exposed to other ideas and perspectives. I never learned so much about my own faith than when reading how other...
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    A bit disheartened

    Ok, I will officially "come out" as it were (in regards to where exactly I am a Seminary Student anyway, though I'm sure some of you may have already pieced this together)...I am currently attending Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, IA. Give us a look-see, Bridget, at...
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    Outline of Lutheran Liturgy?

    Here is another resource on Lutheran Liturgy http://www.elca.org/dcm/worship/worship/sacraments/umg.html Its not so much the Order of Liturgy, but an explanation of some of the Lutheran understandings behind them (with plenty of footnotes).
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    Attention: I have a question

    My...how quickly respect for others deteriorates...dimissing someone else's entire church with one demeaning comparison...wow...no wonder I hardly hang around here any more...
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    Lutheran Practices

    From the LCMS website - L. The no. of sacraments depends either on arbitrary listing or on definition of “sacrament.” RCs list 7 sacraments, without defining “sacrament.” Ap XII 41: “Absolution* may properly be called a sacrament of penitence”; this must be understood in the sense of LC IV 74...
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    Lutheran Practices

    Ok, please allow me to navigate through all of your underhanded insults towards my intelligence and understanding and respond to the ONLY argument you have to offer (even after I handed you one on a platter with regards to what Luther says in "The Babylonian Captivity of the Church"). Once...
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    Lutheran Practices

    The great Lutheran theologian Martin Chemnitz (1522-1586) writes: “Our teachers have publicly professed in the Apology of the Augsburg Confession that they do not greatly wrangle about the term “sacrament” or about the number of sacraments, since this term is not found in Scripture. It was also...
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    Lutheran Practices

    Thanks for dismissing my reading and understanding of the Book of Concord. That always makes me feel good. I understand that you are reffering to elsewhere in the Apology where Melanchthon says that in a cerain way ordination is also a Sacrament. "rites which have the command of God and to...
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    Lutheran Practices

    Wow...way to alienate your audience. Thanks for calling my church and the churches of most of the members here in TCCL infected. Hey, wow...what I offered was from the same source...however, I offered quotes from the sections written by Luther, you quoted the Apology...written by Melanchthon...
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    Lutheran Practices

    I will grant you that Luther included Confession in the Sacraments in his early writings, but later he reversed this understanding and narrowed it down to two - Baptism and Eucharist. He had a great deal of respect for Confession and Absolution, but in the end he couldn't call it a Sacrament...
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    Lutheran Practices

    Ok...well, if I'm wrong then every Lutheran denomination in the US that I know of is too. ELCA website - "Lutherans accept two Sacraments as God-given means for penetrating the lives of people with his grace. Although they are not the only means of God's self-revelation, Baptism and Holy...
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