Should “casual” ever be someone’s impression of the miraculous Presence of God Incarnate in our midst in Word and Sacrament?

There’s a better option than simply discriminating for the other side.

In Psalm 119:104, the psalmist declares, "Through Your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way." We explore what it means to hate false ways in light of God’s Word, with a particular focus on the often-ignored topic of birth control.

A repeated lament in LCMS circles - usually coming from the non-liturgical contingent - is that “we don’t trust one another in the LCMS.” And it is lamentable. But it should be understandable.

“The traditional liturgy is the real “best practice” that provides a tried and true guardrail to assure that our worship is biblical, evangelical, Christocentric, cruciform, and in accordance with our shared Lutheran confessions. Far from limiting our evangelical freedom, guardrails provide a range of freedom while at the same time protecting us from crashing the vehicle by veering too far off course.”

Reproducible builds are a set of software development practices that create an independently-verifiable path from source to binary code.

"For the Christian, then, a man-made utopia is truly “no place,” and the failure to bring it about is to be expected—and even in a sense desired, as any attempt to perfect man by natural means will necessarily be forced, violent, and totalitarian. Only God who has made man can perfect man. It was the desire of our first parents to grasp at that perfection for themselves that put us on this long road. Defeat in this life, far from threatening our faith, is one of its basic assumptions. As is the conviction that God has already won the victory."