Last Sunday Phil was installed as the Associate Pastor of our new church.
Archive for the ‘Phil’ Category
A New Beginning
Sunday, August 23rd, 2015
Marriage in a Godless Culture
Thursday, July 2nd, 2015
Signing The Register by Edmund Leighton
Last week Phil presented the lengthy version of his opus on Marriage, “Marriage in a Godless Culture” at the Nebraska Lutherans for Confessional Study gathering in Lincoln. Timely indeed.
Briefly to pique your interest:
This paper will give a comprehensive definition, history, and theological description of marriage. The major focus will be on the role of government and Church in relation to marriage and how Christians should view the legal redefinition of civil marriage. It will analyze the exegesis of Eph. 5 and the implications for understanding marriage. It will also describe how to see male/female roles in light of the Gospel and contrast them to emotional love. This paper will deal with the sins of homosexuality, cohabitation, adultery, divorce, and premarital sex. The biblical, Lutheran view of marriage will be contrasted with that of Rome, Geneva, and modern pagan culture.
I told him he HAD to open with this clip but he opted out.
You can download and read the paper HERE or if you’re busy and have a lot of laundry to fold you can listen to it the presentation he gave by using the player below or downloading the mp3 HERE.
Sermon on Islam and America
Friday, March 20th, 2015
Sermon on Islam and America
Preached March 15, 2015 for Lent 4B
The Islamic government known as ISIS beheaded 21 Christians recently. They have killed over 200 people, including Americans. This shocks us because it seems like we are past violence and inflexible convictions. We have been sold the lie that we can all just get along—that peace is our right. But truth and error cannot coexist.
Our problem is that we do not see anything worth fighting or dying for. We do not understand truth, the way these Muslims do. They are willing to die for their false religion. But we who have the true religion can barely be inconvenienced to come to church or give a few percent of our income. Do we see any truth as worth dying for? Our nation is completely secularized. Uncompromising religion is hard for us to comprehend.
Phil’s Claim To Phame
Friday, December 19th, 2014
Look who made the cover of Christian News.
Herman Otten loved Phil’s paper on Child Prevention and wanted to publish it along with tons of pictures of him with the babies. We didn’t know he’d be all over the front page.
