the daily purge 10-31-16

Ever since The Ascension, Christians have been waiting, praying, begging for Jesus to return but before He does, it reads in the Bible according to some, that certain things have to happen before God sends Him back. One of those things has to do with the rise of the anti-christ. Every generation that has come……

the view from the pew (10-29-16)

After a one week hiatus from Holy Cross, I was pleased to see that our soundboard man, Brad, had been found and returned safely to his duty desk as electronic page flipper. Yay! Aleksandrs, Susan and I made our ways into a pew near the back. It’s a fact, at least with Lutherans (minus those……

the daily purge 10-28-16

I know some people have a lot of gripes about God and how He runs His universe. They question His goodness because a dear friend has died suddenly. They wonder why a ‘good’ God allows mountains to tumble onto villages. Why isn’t being ‘good enough’ good enough to get into Heaven? These questions are hard……

the daily purge 10-27-16

It’s a handy dandy hand purse owned by My Sweet Rib (MSR) but now gone gone gone to the Goodwilly down the road from here. The Purging Lutheran thinks they ought to have a special wing for items donated by the curators of The Gatwick Gallery of Sad and Usual Purchases. MSR has had many……

the daily purge 10-26-16

The Purging Lutheran will never argue with Earl Tupper again. And by ‘never argue’ I mean ‘never purge another of Earl’s tuppers ever again’. The fine folk at Goodwill Industries have made at least a handful of shiney nickels from the T’ware I’ve sent them. But no more!  My Sweet Rib and I used this particular……

the daily purge 10-25-16

[ editor’s note: Ooops! The Purging Lutheran purged this back in April of 2016. The president of TPL Industries of Walla Walla, WA. deeply regrets this error and has resigned his position to go live in a hole. Again, we apologize for this most embarrassing incident. ] Guy Fawkes Day, November 5th, lands on a……

the daily purge 10-24-16

It’s a bag of markers and crayons. They used to be called ‘magic markers’ but someone figured out how they worked and it turned out it wasn’t magic after all, just a bunch of ink inside a tube. These belonged to Our Marta when she was an artíste. Then she got a job and now……

skats no baznīcas sols (the view from the pew) 10-23-16

(I hope the translation of this article’s title from English to Latvian came out OK. If not … oops!) About ten times a year the Latvian church I attended as a youngster offers a Lutheran service in English. I don’t speak the language well but can understand it to a point but not well enough……

the daily purge 10-21-16

Ay, caramba! (minced oath) The dollars bills spent on Dvds and Cds and tapes and tapes for recording Indycar and F1 races, movies, music videos and news events. Dzīpers! And how many of these has T Purging L ever gone back to watch? Hardly any, meine Freunde, hardly any. I am business’s best friend. Show……

the daily purge 10-20-16

G-mom made this probably 25(?) years ago. This is from her ‘perty girly’ period. The Purging Lutheran doesn’t know if she still makes art but she otter because she is very talented. If she does, she might still be in her ‘perty girly’ production. She made/makes beautiful suns as well. My Sweet Rib and I……

the daily purge 10-19-16

Before The Purging Lutheran explains what I am tossing out today, I feel it necessary to apologize for yesterday’s purge. I apologize. Honestly, who ever heard of someone who kept bugs from escaping a house just so they could find a way to abuse themselves? Only a dumb bunny would suggest that and yesterday I……

the daily purge 10-18-16

Hello. What we have here is a door screen. Not a screen door. A screen door opens and closes and opens again. This door screen fits over a door where a door window can be opened to let fresh air in and keep bugs and leaves out. However, what if someone wanted to let fresh……

the view from the pew 10-15-16

No kids, no kids, no kids and not their parents this weekend so attendance is back to a comfortable 35 – 40 ‘rarin’-to-go-to-Heaven’ Lutherans spaced evenly throughout the sanctuary. It’s not unlike theater seating during the third weekend of a semi-popular movie: enough people to justify the feature continuing its run but not too many……

the daily purge 10-17-16

Exodus 16:13-15 That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost on the ground appeared on the desert floor. When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, “What is it?” For they……

the daily purge 10-14-16

Before The Purging Lutheran starts in on these gloves, I feel it necessary to talk about something uncommon, related to gloves but also underwear. Handerpants. I won’t dignify them with a picture as you can easily gloogle them and see what they look like. Suffice it to say if your palms suffer from incontinence or……

the daily purge 10-13-16

I call this a lei. It is several fake flowers tied together which is what a lei is except the flowers are real … I guess. (Once a flower is cut from its stem, is the flower dead?) A Hawaiian, born and bred, would most likely disagree. She might say that this as much a……

the daily purge 10-12-16

Ka-ching! Ka-ching! Ka-ching! Ka-ching! Q: That’s the sound of The Purging Lutheran’s money being: 1. Thrown out the window of the car. 2. Swirling down the drain of the terlet. 3. Rung up in an old-fashioned register. A: #3. Old registers used to make ka-chinging sounds when I wanted to spend/waste money on VHS tapes.……

the daily purge 10-11-16

Thus sez Wiki: The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca, literally “black and white cat-foot”; Chinese: 大熊猫; pinyin: dà xióng māo, literally “big bear cat”) The Purging Lutheran isn’t sure why the World Wrestling Federation uses “big bear cat” for its logo. Aha! See, that was a joke, son. You can tell by reading the side of the……

the daily purge 10-10-16

If you have a daughter, and The Purging Lutheran does, then she wanted beads to make bracelettes and necklaces, and My Marta did. Most girls, I figure, start down the road of hard plastic jewelry in fourth grade with their friends. I think that’s about the age where they’ll listen to ma and pa to not……

the view from the pew 10-8-16

Kids, kids, kids! Pres-schoolers and ‘gartners filled the sanctuary with their parents to sing for service. The children sang “Child of God”, “He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands” and “We Love Because God First Loved Us”. Donna played a more-than-able piano while the children sang to God. As always, Lutheran kids never sing……

purgepourri 10-8-16

Sometimes a guy has something to say about an ‘it’ but doesn’t have much to say about it but still wants to say it but it doesn’t deserve its own post. After awhile these ‘its’ build up and they need to be dealt with. Purgepourri is meant to be a sort of internet kitty litter……

the daily purge 10-7-16

The The Purging Lutheran doesn’t want to make it too easy for anyone to get free advertising on The Purging Lutheran. My prized 18-35 year old readership is worth protecting from advertisers. If they want to risk being persuaded to buy something they might not need then they’ll have to turn the purge upside down……

the daily purge 10-6-16

This is a picture frame made of soft, red leather and wood. It is very pleasant to look at. My Sweet Rib and her The Purging Lutheran probably bought this at a big, box store on a Friday evening after noms at a burger doodle. Do people even frame pictures of their loved ones anymore?……

the daily purge 10-5-16

It’s an ‘Our Marta’ purse which when backtracked through its etymological past winds its way through the late Latin word bursa which meant ‘purse’ and further back to the Greek word bursa which meant ‘hide’ and ‘leather’. It’s where you get that odd term, ‘bursar’s office’, you know, the place you send your retirement funds……

the daily purge 10-4-16

Probably twice a year the color in our house goes a little screwy, not unlike on the old television sets when the vertical hold goes slightly insane and the screen looks like modern art. We get the control board out of the closet and twist and turn the knobs trying to make it right. If……