Micah Schmidt
@gospelhoard.bsky.social
Lutheran pastor in Kentucky. CTX and CSL grad. Leaning into the best of LCMS heritage: strong commitment to sound doctrine, deep appreciation for the liturgy, and genuine concern for social and political issues concerning the poor and oppressed.
Once in Royal David's City, alternate final stanza
Not in that poor, lowly stable
Do we find him anymore;
But upon the holy altar
Comes in flesh Whom we adore.
Here he brings us peace and pardon,
Here restores us to his garden.
Not in that poor, lowly stable
Do we find him anymore;
But upon the holy altar
Comes in flesh Whom we adore.
Here he brings us peace and pardon,
Here restores us to his garden.
December 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Once in Royal David's City, alternate final stanza
Not in that poor, lowly stable
Do we find him anymore;
But upon the holy altar
Comes in flesh Whom we adore.
Here he brings us peace and pardon,
Here restores us to his garden.
Not in that poor, lowly stable
Do we find him anymore;
But upon the holy altar
Comes in flesh Whom we adore.
Here he brings us peace and pardon,
Here restores us to his garden.
What does an amillennialist habitus look like?
It looks like being neither passive nor aggressive, but faithful in the relationships God has given us.
It's having urgency, but not fear.
It's being aware of the now because of the eternal.
My sermon for yesterday:
It looks like being neither passive nor aggressive, but faithful in the relationships God has given us.
It's having urgency, but not fear.
It's being aware of the now because of the eternal.
My sermon for yesterday:
He Died So That We Can Live with Him: The Otherliness of Living Eternity Now
Christ is coming soon, so we live on alert, on joyful alert.
middlethingsblog.wordpress.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
What does an amillennialist habitus look like?
It looks like being neither passive nor aggressive, but faithful in the relationships God has given us.
It's having urgency, but not fear.
It's being aware of the now because of the eternal.
My sermon for yesterday:
It looks like being neither passive nor aggressive, but faithful in the relationships God has given us.
It's having urgency, but not fear.
It's being aware of the now because of the eternal.
My sermon for yesterday:
Love arranges knowledge so that it reflects God’s design.
Lynn H. Cohick on Philippians 1:3-11 #sermonprep
Lynn H. Cohick on Philippians 1:3-11 #sermonprep
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Love arranges knowledge so that it reflects God’s design.
Lynn H. Cohick on Philippians 1:3-11 #sermonprep
Lynn H. Cohick on Philippians 1:3-11 #sermonprep
"There is no devil! There is no hell! There is no damnation! We refuse to be scared by these old bogies!"
Then man is his own devil, and all this hellish sin, cruelty, misery, and despair are man's own product.
RCH Lenski
Then man is his own devil, and all this hellish sin, cruelty, misery, and despair are man's own product.
RCH Lenski
November 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"There is no devil! There is no hell! There is no damnation! We refuse to be scared by these old bogies!"
Then man is his own devil, and all this hellish sin, cruelty, misery, and despair are man's own product.
RCH Lenski
Then man is his own devil, and all this hellish sin, cruelty, misery, and despair are man's own product.
RCH Lenski
There is no room for weaklings, cowards, and defeatists in the kingdom of God.
Lenski on Ephesians 6 ("Be strong in the Lord")
Lenski on Ephesians 6 ("Be strong in the Lord")
November 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
There is no room for weaklings, cowards, and defeatists in the kingdom of God.
Lenski on Ephesians 6 ("Be strong in the Lord")
Lenski on Ephesians 6 ("Be strong in the Lord")
My concern is not Artificial Intelligence, but natural stupidity.
Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro
October 29, 2025 at 12:38 AM
My concern is not Artificial Intelligence, but natural stupidity.
Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro
Election is not for the purpose of leaving some out, but the means of bringing all in.
Reed Lessing, citing Abraham 12
Reed Lessing, citing Abraham 12
October 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Election is not for the purpose of leaving some out, but the means of bringing all in.
Reed Lessing, citing Abraham 12
Reed Lessing, citing Abraham 12
Author Joel Biermann assessing our bloodlet culture with some zing
#bibleclassprep
#bibleclassprep
October 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Author Joel Biermann assessing our bloodlet culture with some zing
#bibleclassprep
#bibleclassprep
We believe, teach, and confess that our righteousness before God is this: that God forgives us our sins out of pure grace, without any regard to our antecedent, present, or subsequent works, merit, or worthiness.
FC III, as translated in the Appalachian Christian Book of Concord
FC III, as translated in the Appalachian Christian Book of Concord
October 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
We believe, teach, and confess that our righteousness before God is this: that God forgives us our sins out of pure grace, without any regard to our antecedent, present, or subsequent works, merit, or worthiness.
FC III, as translated in the Appalachian Christian Book of Concord
FC III, as translated in the Appalachian Christian Book of Concord
Play is the affirmation that we humans are not so important or life so deadly serious that every human action must be justified as worthwhile and productive.
-Day 7 by Joel Biermann
#biblestudyprep #FirstArticle #FirstArticleWorksRighteousness #goms #IStillDoHashtags
-Day 7 by Joel Biermann
#biblestudyprep #FirstArticle #FirstArticleWorksRighteousness #goms #IStillDoHashtags
October 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Play is the affirmation that we humans are not so important or life so deadly serious that every human action must be justified as worthwhile and productive.
-Day 7 by Joel Biermann
#biblestudyprep #FirstArticle #FirstArticleWorksRighteousness #goms #IStillDoHashtags
-Day 7 by Joel Biermann
#biblestudyprep #FirstArticle #FirstArticleWorksRighteousness #goms #IStillDoHashtags
I'm seeing a lot of stuff on FB and YT about how the LCMS is dying and what we should do about it. It starts with honest reflection and repentance:
grow or die: a random pastor’s thoughts on church growth in 2025
Close the news. Open your bible. Go out to a local festival or neighborhood event.
middlethingsblog.wordpress.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:35 AM
I'm seeing a lot of stuff on FB and YT about how the LCMS is dying and what we should do about it. It starts with honest reflection and repentance:
my five-year-old has made up a new word
to pooze on: to blow a raspberry on someone
Example sentence "I'm going to pooze on you."
to pooze on: to blow a raspberry on someone
Example sentence "I'm going to pooze on you."
September 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
my five-year-old has made up a new word
to pooze on: to blow a raspberry on someone
Example sentence "I'm going to pooze on you."
to pooze on: to blow a raspberry on someone
Example sentence "I'm going to pooze on you."
too often
we don't leave work to pursue being truly human
we spurn work to devote ourselves to entertaining and amusing ourselves
that’s not rest
that’s idleness
adapted from day 7: for work, rest, or play
we don't leave work to pursue being truly human
we spurn work to devote ourselves to entertaining and amusing ourselves
that’s not rest
that’s idleness
adapted from day 7: for work, rest, or play
September 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
too often
we don't leave work to pursue being truly human
we spurn work to devote ourselves to entertaining and amusing ourselves
that’s not rest
that’s idleness
adapted from day 7: for work, rest, or play
we don't leave work to pursue being truly human
we spurn work to devote ourselves to entertaining and amusing ourselves
that’s not rest
that’s idleness
adapted from day 7: for work, rest, or play
There are times God’s Word calls us to kill sacred cows and break down the cultural barriers to people receiving Christ’s completion.
My sermon for yesterday:
My sermon for yesterday:
From the Mansions to the Hovels
“Now it’s time to celebrate the Redeemer and the Savior. Now it’s time to celebrate that the One who completes us; that the One who makes us complete, the One who makes us matter:…
middlethingsblog.wordpress.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
There are times God’s Word calls us to kill sacred cows and break down the cultural barriers to people receiving Christ’s completion.
My sermon for yesterday:
My sermon for yesterday:
Call me old fashioned, but this is the Missouri Synod I want back (Una Sancta, Volume XIII, 1956)
#sermonprep #StMatthewsDay #whiteflight
#sermonprep #StMatthewsDay #whiteflight
September 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Call me old fashioned, but this is the Missouri Synod I want back (Una Sancta, Volume XIII, 1956)
#sermonprep #StMatthewsDay #whiteflight
#sermonprep #StMatthewsDay #whiteflight
Reposted by Micah Schmidt
Clara Bow understanding social media back in 1926
September 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Clara Bow understanding social media back in 1926
"Because of the second Adam, Christ, the cross is now the tree of life. Eat of its fruit and you will live. Eat of its fruit and you will matter, now and forever."
My sermon for Holy Cross yesterday:
My sermon for Holy Cross yesterday:
At the Cross We Find a Redemption that Works
In the incarnation, all our ugliness was fastened to the cross until it took its last horrid gasp and gave up the ghost; all our nothingness was pierced through and drained of its juice till the la…
middlethingsblog.wordpress.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"Because of the second Adam, Christ, the cross is now the tree of life. Eat of its fruit and you will live. Eat of its fruit and you will matter, now and forever."
My sermon for Holy Cross yesterday:
My sermon for Holy Cross yesterday:
he shouldn't have been killed
the HS shooting the same day likewise should not have been
but also...
4 HBCUs received terrorist threats last week in reaction to the assassination
like, how it is that multiple people see a white man shoot another white man and think, "Black people!"
ya know?
the HS shooting the same day likewise should not have been
but also...
4 HBCUs received terrorist threats last week in reaction to the assassination
like, how it is that multiple people see a white man shoot another white man and think, "Black people!"
ya know?
September 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
he shouldn't have been killed
the HS shooting the same day likewise should not have been
but also...
4 HBCUs received terrorist threats last week in reaction to the assassination
like, how it is that multiple people see a white man shoot another white man and think, "Black people!"
ya know?
the HS shooting the same day likewise should not have been
but also...
4 HBCUs received terrorist threats last week in reaction to the assassination
like, how it is that multiple people see a white man shoot another white man and think, "Black people!"
ya know?
Today is a great day to sing the Litany
September 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Today is a great day to sing the Litany
If we were but part of nature, death would be as "natural" as life, but we have been awakened out of the meaningless cycle of nature to believe in and be a part of One who leads us into a new world.
Lesslie Newbegin. Exposition of the Fourth Gospel
Lesslie Newbegin. Exposition of the Fourth Gospel
September 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
If we were but part of nature, death would be as "natural" as life, but we have been awakened out of the meaningless cycle of nature to believe in and be a part of One who leads us into a new world.
Lesslie Newbegin. Exposition of the Fourth Gospel
Lesslie Newbegin. Exposition of the Fourth Gospel
On the cross, the kaleidoscopic Unity of humankind is openly displayed in the Person of Jesus Christ.
#Roodmas #HolyCrossDay #sermonprep #fullyhuman
#Roodmas #HolyCrossDay #sermonprep #fullyhuman
September 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
On the cross, the kaleidoscopic Unity of humankind is openly displayed in the Person of Jesus Christ.
#Roodmas #HolyCrossDay #sermonprep #fullyhuman
#Roodmas #HolyCrossDay #sermonprep #fullyhuman
Why does there have to be a point to everything?
Why does everything have to have a purpose or serve a greater cause?
That’s works-righteousness!
God is the one who matters! Christ is the one who matters and gives meaning to our lives!
#LaVidaReceptiva
Why does everything have to have a purpose or serve a greater cause?
That’s works-righteousness!
God is the one who matters! Christ is the one who matters and gives meaning to our lives!
#LaVidaReceptiva
September 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Why does there have to be a point to everything?
Why does everything have to have a purpose or serve a greater cause?
That’s works-righteousness!
God is the one who matters! Christ is the one who matters and gives meaning to our lives!
#LaVidaReceptiva
Why does everything have to have a purpose or serve a greater cause?
That’s works-righteousness!
God is the one who matters! Christ is the one who matters and gives meaning to our lives!
#LaVidaReceptiva
a book I'm reading just used the term "kaleidoscopic unity" and I'm obsessed
September 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
a book I'm reading just used the term "kaleidoscopic unity" and I'm obsessed
Nephew and godson of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Grandson of composer and N@zi resister Ernst von Dohnányi
Grandson of composer and N@zi resister Ernst von Dohnányi
The Cleveland Orchestra mourns the passing of Music Director Laureate Christoph von Dohnányi, who led the Orchestra with distinction from September 1984 to August 2002. Dohnányi passed away on September 6 at the age of 95.
September 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Nephew and godson of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Grandson of composer and N@zi resister Ernst von Dohnányi
Grandson of composer and N@zi resister Ernst von Dohnányi
We incomplete human beings consumed with guilt and the fear of death do not need only more condemnation or to be gaslit that our sin doesn’t really exist.
Give us Christ's completion!
Give us Christ’s witness!
Give us Christ’s mercy!
My sermon for yesterday
Give us Christ's completion!
Give us Christ’s witness!
Give us Christ’s mercy!
My sermon for yesterday
The Ministry that Brings Completion
Jesus never only teaches or only heals. His ministry is one of both witness and mercy, to bring us together, so that we too can become complete human beings.
middlethingsblog.wordpress.com
September 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
We incomplete human beings consumed with guilt and the fear of death do not need only more condemnation or to be gaslit that our sin doesn’t really exist.
Give us Christ's completion!
Give us Christ’s witness!
Give us Christ’s mercy!
My sermon for yesterday
Give us Christ's completion!
Give us Christ’s witness!
Give us Christ’s mercy!
My sermon for yesterday