Worship, Liturgy, & Lord's Supper

Why do Lutherans worship the way they do? What makes us right?
Rev. Timothy D. May gave a short talk on his paper concerning the subjects above. I believe it was way too short and will have to pay a visit to him since we live in the same city!
We discussed the practices of many churches today and could not find Scriptural evidence for most practices. For example, the Papists pray to dead Saints to interceed for them to the Father, GOD. They think that through all the grace and merit the saints earned on earth, especially Mary, that they will disperse it to us making us look better in GOD's eyes. In fact this grace differs punishment. Sounds like they don't need CHRIST anymore. Also discussed was the Non-denominationalists, which is an oxymoron. How they focus more on the people that attend church rather than the real reason for being there. They give up true historic teaching in order not to scare some away and mis-quote Paul to do so when he says,"I become all things to all people". We also brushed the Eastern Orthodoxy and their iconoclastic practises expounded here by Rev. McCain. While in a true church you will find GOD's word and sacrament, rightly distinguished and distributed, according to the commands of CHRIST, her groom. CHRIST came to be a servant, as he said, and he comes no closer to man than in his body and blood "given ans shed for the forgiveness of sins". The Lutheran church, therefore, does it's best to be Christo-centric and woe to us if we shadow the great gift of GOD's only Son with something else.

ON TO THE PICTURES!!
The drive up was uneventful, in a life changing sense. GOD kept us safe and allowed some good conversation and singing of Mozart's Requiem Mass. Vicar and I were mostly reading, Rachel was driving (thanks Rach!!), and Kevin was sleeping! When we got to campus we were admittedly lost, but only for awhile. It took us less time to get there than we thought so we wondered around a bit. We double-checked with the Information desk to confirm the location of the talk and then Rach, Kev, and I meandered into the cemetary. There were a lot of old graves from the Civil War era. After the talk, we went to Country Kitchen and had lunch with most of the peope that attended, including the Campus Pastor.
There was additional action on the way home, but that event has been deemed classified and YOU DON'T NEED TO KNOW! :-)
Rachel took all of these pictures and that's why she's in them.
We didn't stop at any bars this time!!

THANKS FOR DRIVING RACH!!!

P-salms

To meet new people and learn things you never knew about your confessional faith as a Lutheran, visit us on Sunday mornings at 10:30 in the Student Center to participate in Vicar Monterastelli's study on Christian prayer. Today we finished discussing the second petition in the Lord's prayer, "Thy kingdom come...". To find out in detail what we discussed see Vicar for materials, but one thing I can give you is a tiny project a few of us worked on.
Supposedly, you can find the Lord's prayer in the Psalms, the book of prayer. Among other things fornd in Psalms, this is true and a few of us did a little digging and found two psalms for this petition. Why two do you ask? Well, when we ask for God's kingdom to come, it is a twofold request. Not only do we pray for the Holy Ghost to come through the Father's word and sacrament, but also we pray for Christ's return. So for the "now" pray Psalm 43 and for the second coming reflect on Psalm 50. More on this project to come!!

Even so, Lord JESUS, quickly come!

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For all you Engineers, you understand the title, but for everyone else...You will just have to come to NightLIFE this Friday night at 6PM to find out. One of our own will be leading a discussion on Tolerance and how to deal with it. Eyebrows will be raised, voices will crack, and victuals will be masticated (did I use that right?). Anyways, come and be refreshed with the correct view of tolerance in this fallen world!