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Month: August 2019

The Heat is On

Evidently the EPA came out with a declaration that people should leave their Air Conditioners on 88 when they are gone and turn it down to 85 when they go to bed and turn a fan on.  They had some other crazy ideas about the...

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Critique of Reason

  There is much covered by Luther’s axiom that we should let God be God.  It is a good definition of sin when we don’t.  Mercy work where the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing is also a...

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There are Gaffes………

Gaffes are those things that happen that ought to embarrass folks, assuming they can be embarrassed.  When Mary spent all day making Veal Oscar for a dinner party and Mr. Grant loaded over half the dinner onto his plate on the...

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Promises –

  Preaching to preachers was a famous theologian named Oswald Beyer. He was trying to convey the truth that for preachers all we have to offer is the Gospel, the good news about Jesus. There are word structures that simply...

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Suicide Watch and Hubris – part 2

We wrote last time about the hubris of folks who look around everyday and see incompetence and sloppiness and still think there is a capability to do stuff that only God can do.  Luther talked about that kind of thinking as a...

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