Snapshots of Congregations from Around the Church of the Lutheran Confession St. John’s Lutheran Church was founded in May of 1895 by German immigrant farmers… Read More »St. John’s Lutheran Church Okabena, Minnesota
TLH = The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941; WS = Worship Supplement 2000; [ ] = Biblical Events Noted
Date Verse Reading Comments [Festivals of the Church Year]
Oct 1 TLH 267 Psalm 46 With God as our fortress, we find safety amid any turmoil.
Oct 3 TLH 340 Psalm 92 We “bookend” our days with the Lord’s love and faithfulness (v. 2).
Oct 4 TLH 570 Psalm 136 A refrain for the ages.
Oct 5 TLH 339 2 Chronicles 9:13-23 Solomon’s riches and wisdom were as great as we can imagine. But think now—one even greater than Solomon is here (Luke 11:31).
Oct 6 TLH 658 1 Timothy 6:3-16 Even as Christ fought the good fight of faith before Pontius Pilate, we as Jesus’ children flee the world’s evil and pursue eternal life.Read More »“BREAD OF LIFE” READINGS October 2016
As evidenced in the famous Reformation hymn he wrote, Martin Luther was one person who did not have to be convinced of the existence of the devil, nor of the great danger that Satan poses to the souls of men. The monstrous nature of our old evil foe is aptly depicted in Revelation 20, where he appears as a dragon: “Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished” (1-3).Read More »The Old Evil Foe STILL Means Deadly Woe
Thousands would die that day in Lűtzen, Saxony. Everyone on both sides knew it. November 6, 1632. The Thirty Years’ War between the Roman Catholic Imperial forces and the Protestants had been raging for fourteen years. Camped in the fields of Lűtzen, the Protestant army of Sweden was awakened and assembled. They would attack the formidable Roman Catholic Imperial forces of Duke Albrecht von Wallenstein. Wallenstein was prepared for them with well-sited and well-defended positions.Read More »Hymn 263 “O Little Flock, Fear Not the Foe”
Tension was running high. The air was thick with anticipation. On the one hand, 250 men, censers in hand, burning incense, ready to prove their… Read More »The Priesthood of Believers: God’s Choice
“For where there is a testament, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is in force after men… Read More »A Necessary Death
[Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from an obituary that appeared in the September 1969 issue of the Lutheran Spokesman, reflecting the very high… Read More »Edmund Reim 1892-1969
Four years have already gone by since St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church of Clarkston was blessed with the celebration of one hundred years of God’s… Read More »St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church Clarkston, Washington
The chief concern for Christians in all things is to glorify God. Scripture says, “So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do… Read More »“What are the Concerns for Christians Regarding ‘Legalized’ Marijuana?”
If two aspirin tablets take the edge off a headache, then four must be even better. If sixty minutes on the treadmill is good for… Read More »“Reform” Can Go Too Far
