To Our Readers
Behind An Editorial Groan Almost as soon as last month’s issue arrived at our home in finished form I knew I was in trouble. My wife asked me if I looked closely at the cover.…
In The CLC Classroom…
Meet: Seth Schaller Seth Schaller received his elementary education teaching degree from Immanuel Lutheran College in May 1993. Through the Call Committee on Graduates, he received a call to teach at Redeemer Lutheran School in…
Prophets And Profits
Business and Industry are out to make a profit. But the Church is called a “nonprofit organization”. In a way that’s too bad. NonProfit Organization Think of the Church as a “profit” institution — for…
Free Indeed
A mother wrote to her state senator complaining about laws that allow women as young as eighteen to perform as dancers in bars. She had sent her daughter to Houston to go to college. To…
Lessons From The Old Testament
“That We Might have Hope” (Rom 15:4) Genesis Chapters Twenty-seven Through Twenty-nine Jacob’s Ladder The Lord is forever faithful to His promises — that we might have hope. Believers, yet in their sinful flesh and…
Floundering In A Sea
Those who keep abreast of what is going on within the churches know that the larger Lutheran synods are often recipients these days of many thousands of dollars of fraternal grant monies. The Evangelical Lutheran…
Aspirin-sized Words
Customer: “I want to buy some acetylsalicylic acid.” Druggist: “Do you man aspirin?” Customer: “Yes I can never remember that word…” Most people can remember and understand simple words more easily than “jaw breaker” terminology.…
Book Review
“The Second Martin the Life and Theology of Martin Chemnitz” by J A O Preus Concordia Publishing house, 411 pages $35 I last saw Jack Preus, former president of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, at…
Graduates Of The Martin Luther Bible School
With this issue we are happy to take note also of the graduation of four young men from our Bible School (Seminary) in India as well. Two of these men — Binoy and Mani —…
We Now Implore God The Holy Ghost
Or do we? How often do we use the word “implore” anymore? “Implore” seems to fall into a category with ideas like “appeal”, “beg”, “petition”, — all of which suggest that the implorer/appellant/ beggar/petitioner is…