Jesus requires ignorance (and other mysteries)

Mark 4, Psalm 1, The Three Stages of Error, the Death of Friendship, etc.

1/ Jesus wants us ignorant about how the church grows

He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how.

-Mark 4:27

• Here’s a short sermon about it.

• Or, if you prefer, a Sunday Drive Home.

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2/ The Beauty of Psalm 1

This was fun to make. Maybe a new Grappling Series?

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3/ Scholia Audio

Pr McCoy has a boatload of great free Lutheran audio books here. He recently started a new YouTube channel with the audio: Scholia Audio. (Please take a look, and subscribe if that’s your thing.)

Here’s a short video on the three stages of heresy:

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4/ A Requiem for Friendship by Anthony Esolen | Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity

Read it here.

Here’s a tidbit:

That is partly because our lives, for better and for worse, no longer involve the risk and the sweat that was the cement of deep friendship. No man will help hew the oaks for our cabin, because we no longer live in cabins. No man will stand by as we jump overboard to set the trawling net, because we have no boat and set no net; we live too comfortably for that. Under such fortunate circumstances, we need all the more the camaraderie and intellectual risk of the club.

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I hope to see you all soon, perhaps you can visit St Paul, Austin, or we’ll see each other at the Issues, Etc Conference in Chicago in July, or for the continuing ed class about Luther’s Letters here in Austin this August.

Remember to go to your pastor's Bible Class this week and, read old theology books. (If you don't have a pastor or congregation, click here. If you don't have old theology books, click here.) 

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Thank you, again, for your time and attention, and for your prayers.

Please keep in touch. 

Lord's Blessings, 
Pastor Wolfmueller

2 Corinthians 1:3-4

www.wolfmueller.co

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• The riddle of the strongman (Mark 3:27) solved!

• Families, Sports, and Church , A Conversation with Jeff Schwarz

• The Spirit-filled Year

• 1462. What I Wish My Non-Lutheran Family Understood About: The End Times – 5/26/21

• Spirited New Man

• Mourning, Moses, and the Pastoral Office, Reflections on Numbers 20