Stand firm in your faith, or you will not stand at all Exposing the threats to Confessional Lutheranism
The Last of the Seattle Summer
“I hope you’re not superstitious.”
You Don’t See This Every Day: Space Shuttle Endeavour Rolls Through L.A.
We’re So Serious About Being Church We’re Going to Cancel Church!
The Purpose of the District, by Joe Strieter
The King Tut Exhibition: Going, Going…
The Atlantic District of the LCMS – Dividing the House
Are You Generis? Probably Not. But Your District Might Be.
An Executive Pastor Position: The Kiss of Death
The Slave’s Purpose-Driven List of 'Encouragement'
Transhumanism: The Logical End Product of Evolution
The Four Stages of Church Growth Disease
Rev. Dr. Matthew Becker: Nature Interprets Scripture
In You Changing a Diaper, Christ Celebrates His Victory over the Devil
Fifteen Things Not to Do in a Sermon
What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate
Darwin vs. Beauty: The End of the Argument
God Hates Sin but Loves the Sinner?
Alchemy: The Pot Becomes the Potter
Jamming for Jesus: Giving Him My Everything
Pastor Joel Osteen on Piers Morgan Tonight: Word-Faith Confusion
Wooden Beauty – Churches of the Russian North
President Kieschnick is Right – This Really Isn’t Your Grandfather’s Church
You Can Take the Rast Out of Jamaica, but…
The Kilt Makes the Man – with Addendum
A Satisfactory Explanation for “Begotten”
America's New God - The Environment
Rev. Dr. Kieschnick’s Book Waking the Sleeping Giant: Cleaving Practice from Doctrine
Attention Open Communion Pastors
Universalism: The Gospel Message of Emergent and New Age Spirituality
Theological Pluralism in the LCMS
Institutionalism: A Lack of Confidence
Bursting the BRTFSSG Bubble Series
iPhone: There's a Pastor for Just About Anything
A Bag Full of Mercy, Grace, and Love
VBS 2009 - Jesus Makes All Things New
The Transforming Churches Network Series
Is the LCMS an Orthodox Church Body?
What Is a Confessional Lutheran?
When Business and Church Merge
The Liturgy is God’s Leiturgia
Given the Left Foot of Fellowship
Be Wise as Serpents and Innocent as Doves
The Pastor vs. The Clinical Ethicist
Terms You Must Use - Bureaucrat Style
The Top Ten List of Things You’ll Never Hear Scott Diekmann Say
WWJOD (What Would Joel Osteen Do?)
A Book Review of “Testing the Claims of Church Growth,” by Rev. Rodney E. Zwonitzer
Cutting Down on the Cost of Seminary Education: Is This the Next Step?
The Glamorous Life of the Airline Pilot
The Worldview Everlasting Studio Tour – Eye Popping, with a Dash of Intrigue
Issues, Etc. Takes a Giant Turn for the Worst
Absolute Truth Exists - Here It Is
President Harrison jamming with the Ditty Bops
Who’s the best presidential candidate in 2012?
President Harrison and Pastor Baue during Lutheran Heritage Week
Frank’s pietistic Ablaze! bracelet
Dr. Martin Noland in a previous lifetime
Dr. Larry Rast back in his Rastafarian days
The Wesleyan version of Law and Gospel
The Chair of the new LCMS task force
Todd Wilken making an exception to his “no autograph” rule
Pastor Walter Snyder caught moonlighting
Sola Scriptura + Sola Gratia + Sola Fide
7 comments:
Beautiful photos! Thanks for sharing!
Claudia Kuiper
Wow, I thought that it rained 360 days a year out there. I have heard that WA is a beautiful state. Are the beaches too cold for swimming?
I understand that most people in WA are "spiritual but not religious." I have always wondered why the Pacific Northwest was less Christian than the rest of the country. Will the liberal grunge mindset start to change anytime soon?
Seattle doesn't get much more rain than anywhere else - just more clouds. It's cloudy for the majority of the time from mid-October through May, and rainy but usually just light rain. June is often fairly cloudy as well. July 10 through September is almost all sun and warm. That's when to come visit.
The "spiritual but not religious" phrase perfectly fits the northwest. I think the grunge mindset has changed, but the liberal hasn't. We'll be "tracking the Spirit" for a long time to come.
I neglected to answer part of your question anonymous. There really aren't a whole lot of beaches around the Seattle area, at least not ones with broad sandy spots. Even in the summer the water is pretty cold, although it is possible to get in if you don't mind the initial shock.
Thank you Claudia.
Scott,
Thanks for sharing your pictures. My brother-in-law that lives out there said recently it's been raining a lot.
I liked the "Underground Tour" when we visited (some people laugh at me for liking it, but I did, but I love history). We also went out to some island, state park on a ferry and had a salmon meal, and the Indians danced. Hope to visit Seattle again someday.
BTW, you going to Houston?
I'm not going to Houston Kari. My employer moved my annual recurrent training up by two months, and conveniently placed it right on top of the convention.
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