Facts About Pastor!
Pastor Engelder's wife's name.
What is Savannah Engelder?
She is the interim youth director here at Redeemer Lutheran Church.
There was a Christian in the Early Church, taught by John the Apostle, named Polycarp.
True!
Lots of people are called Paul, and Peter, and John. I haven't met too many Polycarps, though.
Gratia
What is Theology?
Gratia is the latin word for grace.
Grace is God's undeserved kindness toward sinners.
"With great power comes great responsibility"
The big city where Pastor Engelder went to college.
What is Chicago, Illinois.
Go Cubs, Go!
Martin Luther King Jr. started the Reformation in Germany in 1517.
False!
Martin Luther started the Reformation in 1517.
Martin Luther King Jr. was the great American civil rights activist, born in 1929.
Ibuprofen
What is Medicine?
Ibuprofen is a pain reliever.
"If you're being met with resistance, that probably means you're doing something new"
What is Taylor Swift?
When Luther returned the Church to the pure Gospel, he was returning the Church to something new. Salvation by works is everywhere. To be saved by God is something entirely new.
Pastor Engelder's favorite superhero.
What is Batman?
Pastor Engelder have a lot of favorite superheroes, but Batman is the best.
When the Pope declared Luther an "Outlaw", Luther was kidnapped, locked in a castle, and renamed as Junker George.
What Is True?
Pastor Engelder got to visit Castle Wartburg and see Luther's office.
Pax is the latin word for peace.
Peace is achieved when God's wrath is ended, and God calls us forgiven.
"Thoughts damage not the brain, but the heart."
For Luther, if Christians begin to question God's love and forgiveness, though it is an intellectual question, it won't finally hurt the mind, but heart.
Pastor Engelder's favorite funny movie.
Napoleon Dynamite.
When the proto-reformation Theologian Jan Hus was martyred by the Catholic Church, his last words were "Today you roast a goose (Hus), but in a hundred years a swan will rise whose singing you will not be able to silence"
Hus in Czech means goose. So, he's practicing a play on words.
Of course, he also predicted the rise of Martin Luther, who one hundred years later had many of the same reformation ideas as Hus.
Paraclete
What is Theology?
Paraclete means advocate.
The Holy Spirit is our Paraclete. When we are troubled by our sin, he shows us Jesus.
"I can do this all day"
What is Captain America ( Captain America: The First Avenger)
When it comes to the earthly kingdom, it might help to encourage ourselves with phrases like "I can do it."
Before God though, we can do nothing. Our salvation is in his hands alone. And, indeed, he accomplished it!
Pastor Engelder's childhood pet was named after this pasta shape.
What is Macaroni.
It's not so much that he looked like a macaroni, as he was the color of the cheese.
In latin, A- is a negative prefix (alpha primitive). So A-theism means no-gods.
So today, when people refuse to believe God could exist, we call them atheist.
But when the Roman courts tried Christians, they accused them of denying the Pan-theon (All gods).
Theotokos
What is Theology?
Theotokos means mother of God.
Because Jesus is totally God and totally man, when Mary gave birth to Jesus, she was giving birth to both God, and a man.
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces. I would still plant my apple tree."
Luther was all about our daily duties. We shouldn't let the world so scare us that we lose sight of our neighbors needs.