The Nihil Rule

  ... I hesitated to post this because I know the winsome police will clutch pearls; but let me explain. Certainly, there's no false doctrine in  what was written . The quote is the theme for the WELS Foundations Sermon Series  for this week, the seventh Sunday of Easter, eyeing up the celebration of Pentecost on the following Sunday, following our liturgical calendar. Certainly, we do not follow the liturgical calendar of the world. But as Christ chided the Pharisees who did not know the sign of the times, we also need to be able to recognize the sign of our times. The graphic absent any context - "Christ creates unity within diversity, the Church's unity is built on truths that transcend those differences" - are words that could be spoken from any rainbow-flag-waving ELCA pulpit on the opening day of Pride Month. To the casual Facebook reader, who  spends about 1.7 seconds on a post while doomscrolling on their mobile device, this fits into the bevy of advertiseme...

  Tuberville, Cruz Introduce Resolution to Officially Name June “Life Month” » Coach Tommy Tuberville ... WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and 25 senate colleagues in introducing a resolution declaring June as “Life Month” to recognize the historic overturning of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court in June 2022. “Ever since I got to Washington, I have been a champion for the unborn,” said Senator Tuberville. “If we are going to dedicate entire months to recognizing every group under the sun, the least we can do is dedicate June to protecting the most vulnerable among us. Now that Republicans control the White House, Senate, and House, we have to send a strong message: Republicans are the party that stands up for life.” Joining Senators Tuberville and Cruz in introducing the resolution are U.S. Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Josh Hawley (R-MO), John Kennedy (R-LA), Ted Budd (R-NC), Pete ...

  Pride month is upon us, and it is a doctrine of demons. Many of us will not hear anything of it from our pulpits this month. Some might get vague references curbed by the caveats that "all sins are equal" and "look at the plank in your own eye before the spec in theirs." Very few will have a Pastor willing to speak against these sins as being distinctively evil and damaging to both body and soul.  This month I intend to be being laser-focused on the cultural sins of our age. To start - let us make it abundantly clear that pride month is a doctrine of demons. Paul in 1 Corinthians 6:9 calls out both the "active" and "passive" participants in homosexual relationships, using the sexual slang of his day. A chapter earlier he tells the Corinthian congregation to "deliver over to Satan" a man in the congregation who was having sex with his stepmother. Such sexual relations were considered unnatural even by the Romans: you didn't have to...