$500 will be given to 2 lucky souls who attend Lindenwald Baptist on April 24.

I wonder if we’ve trained our kids to think that this is somehow OK. This reminds me of this:

http://paleoevangelical.blogspot.com/2011/03/if-we-wanted-to-produce-le…

With all due respect to what I am sure are some very Godly people in this church and to the pastors who — by at least some of the schools they are associated with, frankly, ought to know better — this, to put it bluntly, makes me want to throw up. :Sp

When I remember my experiences in the Lutheran church where I grew up, attending services and ushering on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday (afternoon and evening) and Easter (sunrise and morning worship), I can still sense an indescribable feeling of sorrow and awe mixed with joy. I will go back to confessional Lutheranism before I will be part of this type of absurdity.

(For a different perspective of the importance of Easter, listen to David Jeremiah’s broadcast from today, http://www.davidjeremiah.org/site/radio_archives.aspx] March 22 . Pick it up at 18:23.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM6x-udOF84] Easter Song

I’m preaching somewhere else that morning… Can’t make it.