The Very Lutheran Project

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Streaming in an hour! Let's read our Bibles! Find the stream here only at 9pm EST: https://t.me/VeryLutheran

I have a suspicion that God gave us the ability to laugh so we could learn more easily. Yes, this tale shows an incredibly stupid young man not knowing that he ought to use oven mitts. If we reacted to this story with horror, boredom or frustration, none of us would learn from it. But since we can all laugh about it, we are reminded very quickly to exercise wisdom in our cooking.

I know it's a little early for reminiscing about how this year went, but I'd say that this made me laff the hardest, and I don't think anything will top it before 2027 comes along

I believe in Christ as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because I see everything else. ~C.S. Lewis

LEVITICUS BIBLE STUDY STREAM TONIGHT! Let's talk about the other feast days in the first liturgical calendar, and how they relate to the Church today. Catch the stream here at 9pm EST: https://t.me/VeryLutheran

Also can we all admit how weird it is that the climate cult has its own version of eating kosher now?

God has given me the Christian freedom to eat beef and I will take advantage of that opportunity. This minister here ought to repent for worshiping the weather instead of telling us what we can and can't eat.

​Woke Dem pastor running for US Senate demanded Kansas congregation repent for eating steak over 'climate change' https://postmillennialnews.com/yvio4i

Pressure Suit Podcast – Narnia Series by C.S. Lewis Magnus Williams is joined by Myles Poland of The Godcast as they dive through the Wardrobe to explore the wild and wonderful land of Narnia! Romance, Chivalry, Theology, and Apologetics are blended beautifully in these classic tales. More fairy tale than fantasy, C.S. Lewis transports the reader to his lovingly rendered ‘Other World’ where Greek Myths, Arthurian Legend, Teutonic poetry, and Christian doctrine mix and mingle with the wry wit and plain and practical prose of wartime England. https://amerikaner.org/pressure-suit-podcast-narnia-series-by-c-s-lewis/

3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. 4 But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. 8 The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent and profitable for people. -Titus 3:3-8 How does one become a good person? For most people such a question is irrelevant. They assume that they are good already and do as they please... that is, until they inevitably sin and their conscience assails them. Then they harden their hearts, drug themselves, or find empty ways to reassert their claim to "good person" status. When you look at the state of the world today, consider that much of the nonsense we see is based on a stubborn refusal to repent. Eventually drugs, drinking and pleasure do not do enough to quiet the voice of the Law within our hearts. Eventually man feels the urge to do something, so the world is replete with sources of fake righteousness for people to draw from and thus assuage their guilt. It is fake precisely because none of it fulfills the Biblical conception of moral uprightness. -Activism tells people that if they fight "climate change" or "institutional racism" then they are Good People. The logic is simple: destroy the world and countless lives over things that do not affect you, and you will be a Good Person. -Slacktivism, the sort of pseudo-activity that made Joseph Kony infamous, tells the lazy that they are Good People if they forward something on social media. After all, a man might not have the time to go to a protest, so his token gestures are a sort of indulgence payment for the activists above him. -Asceticism tells the guilty that if they are hungry and in pain, then they are Good People because they "discipline" themselves. You know, because nothing says Good quite like hating the material world - including your own flesh. These methods of accruing fake righteousness operate on a distortion in our understanding. The world teaches men that in order to be good they must do good. To be a Good Person must be *earned* in the world's eyes, you see. Thus every nonbeliever goes out of his way to feel as though he did enough things to feel like he can claim this status, or at least assume it while going about doing his own thing. But this is entirely backwards my friends. St. Paul teaches us that a man does good works because he is made good in the first place. One must be born righteous to be righteous and do righteous things. It must be inherent to our nature before we can claim the label for ourselves. It cannot be earned, for all have sinned and all fall short (Romans 3:23). Therefore to become good, one must be *made* good by the transforming work of our Lord. The Holy Spirit renews our nature, we are born again in Baptism, and we are forgiven of our trespasses by the shed blood of Christ. THEN, when made anew, we can say that we are good people - not because we have earned it, but because God has made us so. From the point of conversion onward, our lives must be lived with good works so as to reflect that new nature - and *true* works from the Commandments of God, not fake-righteous deeds from the world.

She's ready for a new work week as well (lots of barking at leaves and making sure the kids don't relax too much)

Been enjoying a relaxing yet productive Sunday, hope y'all's has been just as blessed. But tomorrow we go back at it.

The latest Godcast is now out! Episode 394: The Libtard Captivity of the Church (Shepherds for Sale Pt.2) Oh Boy, it’s time to talk about Shepherds for Sale again. Let’s listen to Super recount some of the facts on the ground regarding the great pastoral betrayal of the past 25 years. Following that, a couple more audio chats from his Modern Theology series about why liberalism fails and why conservatives lost. We got a guest coming on next week, and will also catch up on emails then too. Find the SHOW NOTES here: https://amerikaner.org/the-godcast-episode-394-the-libtard-captivity-of-the-church-shepherds-for-sale-pt-2/ Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thegodcast/GC_394.mp3 Support the show! https://verylutheran.gumroad.com/

SUNDAY RESOURCES NOW UP! For this week's homily, let's talk politics, namely the rebellion of kings against God. Audio: https://soundcloud.com/verylutheran/fear-joy-and-trembling Video: https://youtu.be/K2mT-kqaxSU And for the LEVITICUS BIBLE STUDY, let's chat about Leviticus as the starting point for the Church calendar. Audio: https://soundcloud.com/verylutheran/leviticus-pt-27-origin-of-the Video: https://youtu.be/xVHeFtOqNZ0 PDF manuscripts can be found here: https://verylutheran.biz/resources Support the VLP! We have BIG THINGS coming soon, and we need all the help we can get! https://verylutheran.gumroad.com/ https://verylutheran.biz/contact God bless your weekend everyone!

Sorry corey but I am NOT getting my wife to touch my feet with my son's foreskins or sitting with an old widow during a drought.

Hmmm, seems like this series has been paying off: https://soundcloud.com/verylutheran/sets/sex-marriage

✝️ 🇺🇸 🐣 Religious Couples Avoided the Sex Recession "No group of Americans seems to be having more sex—and more satisfying sex—than married men & women who regularly attend a place of worship. In fact, we find the only Americans who have avoided the country’s “sex recession” are husbands & wives who attend religious services at least twice a month." "In the popular imagination, religious faith and a thriving sex life don’t tend to go together. Movies, books, and TV shows depict religious couples as sexually inhibited or dysfunctional. But the data tell a different story." According to our new report, published today by the Institute for Family Studies, no group of Americans seems to be having more sex—and more satisfying sex—than married men and women who regularly attend a place of worship. (This group is made up mostly of Christians, but also includes Jews and Muslims.) In fact, we find that the only Americans who have avoided the country’s “sex recession”—in which fewer and fewer men and women are having regular sex—are husbands and wives who attend religious services at least twice a month. In the 1990s, 64 percent of married people aged 20–54, both churchgoing and secular, had sex at least once a week, according to the General Social Survey. Now only 48 percent of secular couples (who never or rarely attend church) have sex weekly compared with 62 percent of their religious peers. In America today, the faithful are having more sex. Religion frequently gets a bad rap in our public conversation about sex. One recent New York Times op-ed, for instance, argued that conservative Christian women are pushed to “submit to their husbands, sexually and otherwise” in churches marked by “misogyny and hypocrisy.” Of course, some religious women are in coercive or unsatisfying marriages. But blanket commentary like this leaves the public with the impression that religion is an obstacle to a happy marriage and a good sex life. Yet in an atomized, individualistic age, faith has turned out to be one of the few institutions still nurturing one of the most powerful expressions of human intimacy. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/09/religion-sex-recession-marriage/688774/ https://archive.ph/Qf7ED 📎 Brad Wilcox