tower tour

[@laurapeter3857]

Pastor: “I think that’s the door to the roof. I don’t want to go out there.” Pastor: Goes out onto tiny ledge around the top of the tower with no handrails. “This is responsible tower climbing.” LOL 😝 🤣😂 Thank you for taking us along with you. Glad you made it safely. God be praised!

[@ryanballantyne1811]

First 10 seconds, "...it's a half an hour until Bible class and I'm trying to stay out of trouble." Let's just put a pin in that for now. Okay, proceed.

[@KM-hc3gx]

5:42: "if I fall you'll never see the video, so don't worry" - that's what I think when I watch Sunday Drive Home!

[@ViceAdmiralHoratioNeIson]

5:14 I pray that I would have as much faith in God as Pastor Wolfmueller has in that ladder😂

[@susancorvalan6765]

Pastor, you are just having so much fun! Thanks for taking us on the adventure.

[@davidcurtis2246]

This is what happens when the pastor gets the facility keys and is left unsupervised.

[@nataliesmith5086]

"Ive got half an hour and am trying to stay out of trouble. So I thought I'd climb the bell tower". Hmmmm. I think I'll start praying for you wife daily. I've got me one of those. His tombstone will read, "it'll be fine" 😀

[@jwmeyer83]

Thanks for the tour. I'm an '06 grad of CUA, and worshiped at St. Paul's quite often. Truly fascinating to see how the area has transformed since then! Blessings!

[@IsaiahJohnsonTIReviews]

You should do a tour of the church! Beautiful building

[@gardens76]

Wow! Very nice and interesting! Wonderful that you're there. May God continue to bless you and your church!

[@MichelleB-ju6nx]

👍 tour! Thank you. Love the bell info. Lol at the comments you made about the guy and his dog...haha!

[@tiinabailey3922]

A delight....God bless you.

[@stevebriner3362]

What a beautiful building! Looks like old an old church in rural England! (except for the computer/tech equipment!

[@amierikke6225]

Very cool! I’ll bet members of your church don’t get to see this. Austin is an awesome place. When was the church built? We ring our bells everyday at noon, in Omaha Nebraska. We also play hymns. “A Mighty Fortress “.

[@aaronceyanes9656]

The tower was built in 1959. The congregation built the sanctuary in 1958 with plans to add the tower later, but funding came through and they begin the tower as they were finishing the sanctuary. Congregation was established in 1891, school in 1893. It has been in 3 locations... all on Red River Street, each time moving a few blocks North. The first location was at 13th Street under what is now part of a hospital complex. The second location was at 16th under what is the University of Texas' Frank Irwin center, commonly referred to as "the drum." At this location, the current "fellowship hall" was built as a multi purpose gym and sanctuary in 1951. The next building was the school in 1952.

[@philhoward179]

What a beautiful church!

[@beverleyflo]

That's FANTASTIC! Thanks for sharing

[@katherinecornette5315]

May all of Austin hear the Gospel and be changed!

[@jenniferrovey2650]

Thank you for sharing. Something fun to do and see for these solemn times.

[@lindaarbogast7841]

Very cool! Thanks for the tour!

[@jeffhein7275]

Up is zenith - down is nadir. Thanks for the tour Pastor! God be praised!!

[@everybodyloveschris7734]

Very beautiful.

[@lc-mschristian5717]

Loved the tour

[@B27-o2c]

Enjoyed the video. I’d like to see the chapel!

[@OgreMum]

Oh, Pastor, thank you. I know how much you loved the towers of Germany (as you mentioned in the video), and now you actually have an office and studio in one. God be Praised for His graciousness to you and your congregation. I appreciate your work and teaching from afar. May it please the Lord to let you continue for years.

[@kittyanderson6085]

I had De ja vous from Pastor Wolfmueller’s Reformation trip to Germany. We climbed so many tower steps to see the tower view..Beautiful.

[@terrya.]

That was so cool! Thanks for the tour!

[@mrscms831]

OH MAN!!!! My stomach went to places its not supposed to be when you went outside and started looking down. That was scary! Sadly we are not allowed anymore to sound our bells so the neighborhood could hear them. They complained to the village. :( I think I might look into that coz I want our bells ringing loud and clear when we get to go back to church!!!!!

[@pastordbeck]

It's likely a good thing that I didn't see this video in college. I think I experienced the top of nearly all of the roofs at the old CUA campus. Thanks for the tour!

[@markanderson6707]

Our bell at Zion Lutheran in Snohomish, WA is similar in size and age. I snuck up the tower once and checked it out. The clapper is worn out of round from years of praise.

[@henryfirus6856]

Thank you Pastor Wolfmueller, very generous of you, the bell is wondrous, the "Bible and Luthers words alone" should be understood as living, therefore growing in understanding. Reformation is a growing project, involving all Christian denominations, all have something to contribute.

[@annhoover2201]

OK...heebie jeebie time looking down from there....but very cool!

[@dabuya]

Thank you for sharing that view! That would be a great place to sit with a premium cigar and coffee while meditating on the Word.

[@realestateunplugged6129]

Great views! And what a beautiful sound it is to hear Church bells in a neighborhood. Glory to God in and through it all!

[@karlkunze7172]

For those of us, who take to heart the truth that the Church is not a building, the Church is not a steeple, the Church is not a resting place, the Church is a people, a tour of a physical building, like in this youtube edition, takes us away from the focus, and the focus is Christ and His word. Building styles are a focus of real estate agents, whose job it would be to focus on the type of building intending to be advertised. Since the focus is not Christ in this youtube edition, a good real estate agent, not a Christian pastor, would have to focus on the fact that this building is Romanesque(Norman) architecture style. All bell tower spires originated in the 12th century A.D. at the time the migrating Normans left Southern Italy and settled in France. Spires added to Romanesque bell towers, in the 12th century A.D., are believed to have originated with stave buildings in Scandinavia. The rounded tops of the windows, doors, and apse, define the building as Romanesque(Horizontally built). Gothic buildings are vertically built with the feature of flying buttresses, and pointed tops of windows, doors, and apse. The spire was absent on Gothic bell towers as well, until the 12 Century A.D. Regretfully, the building becomes the focus of the pastor here, and this can be inflammatory to true believing Lutheran Christians (Pastors and people alike).

[@realestateunplugged6129]

@@karlkunze7172 Amen the church is not any building, but instead the church is the body of believers and followers of Jesus Christ the Son of God, our savior who paid the debt for our sin we could not pay, whose holy blood makes us white as snow. Thank you for the reminder, and also thank you for the architectural lesson. I really enjoy architecture and design for the beauty, the feelings and the stories which in my thinking gives you the atmosphere.

[@karlkunze7172]

@@realestateunplugged6129 Dear Real Estate unplugged: Happy Thanksgiving to you! We thank the Heavenly Father for sending His Son Jesus to do for us what we could not do. All of us are under condemnation for our sins, but whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.

[@karlkunze7172]

@@realestateunplugged6129 Dear Real Estate Unplugged: As a Real Estate Agent the following info may be of interest to you. The high priest's bells(Exodus 39: 25) gave worshippers without, assurance of his presence as their intercessor. Though the high priest's bells were not used when people gathered in the early Church, bells began to be used to announce worship gathering. In this context, bells marked the beginning of acceptable worship after Christ's resurrection. Pure religion(James 1: 27/1 John 3: 18).

[@realestateunplugged6129]

@@karlkunze7172 I'm not a real estate agent i just enjoy land. Thank you for sharing. I don't worship bells although I admit i do like the sound of them. Your point is taken, worship God by loving Him and loving others. In this I want to do so badly and have fallen short. I pray to God in Jesus holy name that I will get to that place. Amen

[@paulo7200]

Matt Risinger would love to remodel that bell tower.

[@christinepalola5148]

Last June I was able to climb the tower at the Kaukola (once Finnish Lutheran church) in Käkisalmi (Priozersk, Russia). There's a great story there. I often get a kick out of the fact that when I need some lightheartedness I turn to the LCMS pastor. 😉 Thanks!

[@raulgriego7482]

Those are some awesome views of Austin. :-)

[@marekfoolforchrist]

doctor: you have 12 minutes and 58 seconds to live me: watches this video

[@travist7777]

...I hope you don't have many 12-year olds in your congregation, because, if I were twelve again, and I saw this, the mission would be ON to get past that locked door and go to what you did! Thanks for being as curious, enthusiastic, and brave as a kid, Pastor. Our Lord's peace and love to you!

[@samsnell9241]

Could you do an office tour

[@jbreg2]

To cool thank you for that tour!

[@philschielke]

You could definitely fit a few more cast bells of various pitches up there!

[@aaronceyanes9656]

They would fit, but would the floor hold out??

[@kwt7667g]

Is that parapet as low as it looks??!?!?! Had a church bell just like that at my old church in Houston; the bell came from an old church in Minnesota. Never looks close enough to see what was cast into it.

[@MrGassemann]

Beautiful. Assassins creed flashback.

[@swm1700]

"I don't know if I'm supposed to be up here.". You're not , but thanks for the tour. I was hoping you'd meet Martin Luther in one of those tower rooms.

[@GenevieveW]

Molly watched this with me and said, "Mama! I need to go to Austin, TX!"

[@dandsberg]

Interesting!

[@stevebriner3362]

I'm afraid of heights, so 7:55 got the hairs on my neck to stand.

[@marekfoolforchrist]

All churches should have tall towers.

[@St.Morose]

That was fun, thanks. The beard is looking good, by the way.

[@shellieperreault6262]

There is a Hadith that says that the sound of bells attracts demons, so Muslims tear down and silence all the bells they can with iconoclastic zeal.

[@karlkunze7172]

For those of us, who take to heart the truth that the Church is not a building, the Church is not a steeple, the Church is not a resting place, the Church is a people, a tour of a physical building, like in this youtube edition, takes us away from the focus, and the focus is Christ and His word. Building styles are a focus of real estate agents, whose job it would be to focus on the type of building intending to be advertised. Since the focus is not Christ in this youtube edition, a good real estate agent, not a Christian pastor, would have to focus on the fact that this building is Romanesque(Norman) architecture style. All bell tower spires originated in the 12th century A.D. at the time the migrating Normans left Southern Italy and settled in France. Spires added to Romanesque bell towers, in the 12th century A.D., are believed to have originated with stave buildings in Scandinavia. The rounded tops of the windows, doors, and apse, define the building as Romanesque(Horizontally built). Gothic buildings are vertically built with the feature of flying buttresses, and pointed tops of windows, doors, and apse. The spire was absent on Gothic bell towers as well, until the 12 Century A.D. Regretfully, the building becomes the focus of the pastor here, and this can be inflammatory to true believing Lutheran Christians (Pastors and people alike).