David Petersen

Defining Lust

June 29, 2010

My friend Pr. David Petersen recently noted some new research on pornography addiction, with a pastoral admonition to seek help if you have come under its spell. The core problem, as Joshua Harris observes, is lust. In his book Sex Is Not the Problem (Lust Is), Harris writes, John Piper explains lust with this simple [...]

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Retarded Charismatics

May 29, 2010

Warning: This will offend everyone. Go away now if you take yourself too seriously. Came across this hilarious Scaer quote: Musicians are just a retarded form of charismatics. They’re so happy but they don’t know why. There’s an entire catalog of the Proverbs of Scaer here. Warning: If you didn’t have David Scaer for a seminary [...]

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Luther on the Benefits of Worthy Communion

October 17, 2009

In the summer of 1997 I took a course with Dr. John Stephenson on Luther and the Lord’s Supper. It was a wonderful class and, in retrospect, was highly influential in my view of the Supper. I was reminded of this when I overheard my friend David Petersen and another pastor talking about whether there [...]

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Preaching the Sunday

April 20, 2009

My friend David Petersen (at least I think it was him; I can’t find it now), pastor of Redeemer Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne, wrote somewhere recently, “Preach the Sunday, not the text.” I was thinking about that during the reading of the first lesson yesterday, Ezekiel 37.1-14, on the valley of the dry bones. [...]

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Annunciation diversions

March 25, 2009

The great Rose Vestment Controversy of Laetare 2009 has generated enough heat to make Al Gore even more nervous than he already was. You can read about it (in somewhat chronological order) from Sandra Ostapowich (and again), Pr. George Borghardt (and again), Pr. William Weedon, Pr. David Petersen, and Pr. Richard Heinz. Related, Pastor Weedon [...]

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