Expository Lutheran: God Demands Democracy

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

God Demands Democracy

Book of Mormon
Mosiah 29:16
“Now I say unto you, that because all men are not just it is not expedient that ye should have a king or kings to rule over you.”
Not expedient to have government because not all me are just? Really. Seems to me a good reason to have a king, or some form of government. Why does God change his mind on that in Romans 13? But then Mosiah is the all American book, in verse 26 God demands democracy to be that which rules the day.

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My Morning Devotions, or Justification for a Pastor's Blog

I decided I need, maybe to post more often. My last year in seminary, I took a life saver of a class from Prof. Pless called the “Pastor’s Devotional Life.” In this class he suggested that a pastor’s devotions ought to be creative, in that something should be created out of them.I spend every morning in prayer and devotion, study. And I normally don’t look at the day to day of the office, Sermons, Bible Studies, visits, etc. until at the earliest mid morning. I find after spending time feeding myself from the green pasture of God’s word, I have a lot more with which to feed the sheep entrusted to me. These posts on this blog will be the fruits of my morning study, my breakfast from which I get my nourishment. I don’t want this to get complicated, it's breakfast not dinner. But I am willing to share my breakfast with you. Just thoughts that I have here and there as I read through the Greek New Testament, or the Book of Concord in German, or whatever else I happen to read in my morning devotions. Expect the musings to be eclectic.