Don’t Be A (F)ACOG

Posted on January 13, 2015 by the Rev'd Dr SG Rindahl

OFACOGne might consider it strange that a blog dedicated to Christian Comment is featuring an ACOG – Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight but please read through and you will understand. Continue reading →

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Your Wounds are Healed by the Wounds of Christ

Posted on October 27, 2014 by the Rev'd Dr SG Rindahl

The Bible says, Jesus “himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.” (1 Peter 2:24)
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You Are A Dog

Posted on August 11, 2014 by the Rev'd Dr SG Rindahl

Dog_and_ScrapsHow would you feel if the most important person you know called you a dog? Continue reading →

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Why the Crucifix?

Posted on August 9, 2014 by the Rev'd Dr SG Rindahl
Trust In Me – I Know Your Pain

Trust In Me – I Know Your Pain

When I was growing up I heard a lot of comments from a variety of sources raising concern with the practice of some denominations to use the crucifix as an emblem of Christian faith. “The problem with _________ is that they keep Jesus on the cross.” I heard from Continue reading →

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Words to a New Priest

Posted on April 27, 2014 by the Rev'd Dr SG Rindahl

Ordination Rob GoebelYou will preach the Word of Christ and people will hear His voice

You will celebrate the Sacrament of the Eucharist and Continue reading →

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The Unknown Priest

Posted on April 24, 2014 by the Rev'd Dr SG Rindahl

The Unknown PriestThis photo hangs near my desk in my office at work. I have no idea who it is or when it was taken. The subject is a young priest and obviously Continue reading →

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For Ash Wednesday and Fridays During Lent

Posted on March 14, 2014 by the Rev'd Dr SG Rindahl

For Ash Wednesday and Fridays during Lent:

TURN thou us, O good Lord, and so shall we be turned. Be favourable, O Lord, be favourable to thy people, who turn to thee in weeping, fasting, and praying. For thou art a merciful God, full of compassion, long-suffering, and of great pity. Thou sparest when we deserve punishment, And in thy wrath thinkest upon mercy. Spare thy people, good Lord, spare them, And let not thine heritage be brought to confusion. Hear us, O Lord, for thy mercy is great, And after the multitude of thy mercies look upon us; Through the merits and mediation of thy blessed Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.

~Augustus Duncombe, Manual of Family Devotions: Arranged from the Book of Common Prayer (London; Oxford; Cambridge: Rivingtons, 1868), 47.~

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A Solitary Life

Posted on February 12, 2014 by the Rev'd Dr SG Rindahl

He was born in an obscure village,
The child of a peasant woman.
He grew up in still another village,
Where he worked in a carpenter shop
Until he was thirty.

Then for three years
He was an itinerant preacher.
He never wrote a book.
He never held an office. Continue reading →

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They Hold Their Manhoods Cheap

Posted on January 15, 2014 by the Rev'd Dr SG Rindahl

I just read an article about a controversy over the new 2 pound coin in the UK.  I offer this reply: Continue reading →

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The Holy Innocents

Posted on December 28, 2013 by the Rev'd Dr SG Rindahl

Today is a “Feast Day” – It is the Feast of the Holy Innocents

The Holy Innocents are the first Christian Martyrs – the young male children of Bethlehem killed by order of Herod in his fear of losing his throne to the Continue reading →

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