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Was Pr. Heinemeier the brother of Pr. James Heinemeier, who served in the Sierra Pacific Synod of the ELCA for many years?
Was Pr. Heinemeier the brother of Pr. James Heinemeier, who served in the Sierra Pacific Synod of the ELCA for many years?Yes
We do not own a radio station. We purchase time between 8:00 and 9:00 AM on Sunday mornings. I believe the Bible Baptist church is on before us and Trinity (ELCA) afterwards, but I could be wrong as I am kinda busy at that time. I think the station charges us $125 for the roughly one hour we get. I always say it is the best money we spend: LOTS of non-members listen (including many members of other churches, as they get ready for their own services later in the morning). Shortly after I arrived in Crookston, I got a letter from a woman near the Canadian border who said if the weather cooperated, she listened to us weekly. The radio station is now available via internet and so a few years back we had a former member and her husband listen north of the Arctic Circle where they were teaching Eskimo children.
Pastor Bohler:Wow. Really contorting yourself to be contrarian here. The meaning is obvious. The radio format constrains service times just like the drive between services constrains service times, so they don’t do extra long services. Sheesh. Nobody was blaming it on the radio station.
Also, being on the radio rather forces us to stay within an hour timeframe.
Me:
No, you are not “forced.” You have accepted limitations on your liturgies because you want them on the radio. (And just how does radio do liturgy?)
Genesis 17:12RSV uses "money," "he that was bought with your money."
"money." The note points out this is literally silver, which is important to the cultural setting. There was no coinage at this early time, just bit-silver or gold. I wonder whether the translation "money" is necessary.
I'm curious about your statement that there was no coinage at the time that is referred to or at the time this account was written. When are you thinking about, and when did coinage begin?
Peace,
Michael
Coinage shows up in the seventh century. I think it becomes common in the Persian Era. The Books of Moses present themselves as compiled in the fifteenth century and Genesis reaches back centuries earlier. Genesis 37:28 tells us that Joseph sold for twenty bits of silver, which was the going price from the patriarchal era according to ANE literature. (It's interesting that the EHV for Genesis 37:28 has "pieces of silver.")
The ELCA has three interdependent expressions of "church": the congregation, the synod, and the churchwide expression. Any one of those can be called "church." Thus, when the synod is in assembly, it is church. When we talk about the call being through the agency of the church, it involves all three expressions. As an ordained pastor in the ELCA (meaning: I'm on its roster of ministers of word and sacrament,) I can preach and preside at any ELCA congregation (at their invitation, or at the request of a synod bishop) and at any congregation of our full partner church bodies (at their invitation). It is our synods who are responsible for the rostering. The synod council can remove pastors from the roster. Pastors' synodical membership gets transferred when they move to a new synod.
The bolded portion is new to me, Brian.
New to me, too. Can you cite the constitutional provision that allows this?
The particular circumstances that were in my memory were pastors who were "on leave from call" 7.31.07.
In researching this, there's also 7.43.01 when a pastor under call from the Synod Council is no longer in that Call.
The "slow motion schism" is still in motion, at least into the NALC, and I would suspect the LCMC as well. It's a couple of dozen churches a year, but it continues.
Don't think anybody's trying to write any sort of scholarly history yet, though Mark Granquist mentions it briefly in his history of American Lutheranism.
Bunk! Peer review means that other scientist at other institutions, who do not have the same agenda-drive processes, do the same experiment and reach the same conclusions - or their experiment shows the errors in the original conclusions.
(I believe that in the Roman Catholic Church and Anglican Communion, bishops still officiate at confirmation services. This is one reason why The Episcopal Church has about 100 diocese where the ELCA has 65 synods; while they have about have the membership of the ELCA.)
Peter, you have been heading down your road for some time. No surprises there. But I’m concerned that you may have kidnapped Pastor Weedon, who now offers advice from a fictional elf.Actually, he was a fictional man. Boromir of Rohan.
Actually, Dave, the Caesarean section was named after Julius Caesar, who supposedly was born that way approximately 100 BC.A hotly debated legend, especially since his mother was alive at the time he invaded Britain.Most likely, it comes from the Latin word caesus meaning "to cut."
I can't find the link, but Episcopal Bishop Michael Curry spoke this morning on MSNBC and gave a powerful Christian witness for reconciliation and the "hard work" of forgiveness. It wasn't really an interview; he just preached on it for six or seven minutes. And it represents what you're interested in seeing, not so much from political leaders only, but from Americans.This may be what you're looking for:
Dave Benke
