Admonished: Pronunciation: \ad-ˈmä-nish\ Function: transitive verb 1 a: to indicate duties or obligations to b: to express warning or disapproval to especially in a gentle, earnest, or solicitous manner I was admonished on Sunday by my missus for not properly conducting a Sunday school class. We g...

I asked in the last post “I wonder if anyone thought of doing an audio version of something like the TDP?� I was in fact asking a rhetorical question as I already had in mind someone who is providing just such a service for our edification. Dan over at Necessary Roughness has a great series of p...

Today is Ash Wednesday for those of us who follow the historic liturgical calendar and I must say that I’m stoked! Ash Wednesday is the church catholic’s big kick off to the Lenten season. Lent, the Church’s original forty days of purpose, is considered a penitential period where the focus of ...

I really wanted to get this up on Sunday but I’ve been sort of busy the last few days. Last Monday I took some time to answer an email that where the writer complained among other things that I talked a lot about hymnody but never enough about Scripture. I guess this post is a continuation of my p...

I was shocked and dismayed to hear Pastor Todd Wilken, the host of Issues, Etc., support restructuring on yesterday’s show. At about the eighteen minute mark of Friday’s Soundbite of the Week segment Pr. Wilken begins a passive aggressive rant where he proposes a new regime, a one man rule, gove...

In the inbox this morning was a story in the Reporter, the official LCMS newspaper that Concordia University, Irvine, Calif., has approved a minor in worship arts leadership. From the story; The minor includes courses in music, theology, song selection, how to put a service together, and how to sele...

Every now and again I get an email that chastises me for, well, just fill in the blank because it’s a long list. I’ve been accused of not being mission minded because I don’t want separate doctrine from the mission as if two could be separated. I’ve been called an antinomian because I’ve s...

Back when I was growing up in the orphanarium, the overseers would often ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up. Right next to my standard answer of world dictator would be “well, I always thought I could be an apostle.� The overseer on that day's shift would always respond; “Frank, you jus...

One of the quickest ways to get my Sunday high school class to perk up and take notice is to talk about history. It has been my experience that one of the things that youth love to learn is the whys and the hows of how we got to where we are today. In their European history classes they all learn th...

Issues, Etc. host extraordinaire Todd Wilken used the opportunity of an “open mic� web extra to address the Issues, Etc. trademark dispute and the LCMS legal threat against both him and producer Jeff Schwarz. In the segment, Todd Wilken lays out the case of the dispute going all the way back to ...