Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going? AS WE BRING THIS FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY YEAR TO A CLOSE, AN ANNIVERSARY PRAYER– O God, our Refuge and Fortress, who in Christ has brought us into Your… 

Proclaiming the Unsearchable Riches of Christ (See 3:8) Chapter 5:1-7 The Christian Life–A Fragrant Sacrifice What does a sacrifice smell like? We who are long separated from life in the camp of the Israelites may… 

As this article is being written the United States is in the final month of the campaign for the general elections that are to take place on November 7. By the time you read this,… 

“Finding God on Flight 232” was the caption of an article that appeared in July of 1989. “232” was the ill-fated flight of a commercial aircraft that lost power from one engine, then had its… 

(Ps. 34:8) When we lived in Marquette, Michigan, the Apple Man would come with a truck load of apples to sell. He didn’t try to convince us to buy some by TELLING us how fresh… 

–The devotional reading for November 25, 1999 in the booklet prepared by Pastor Roland H. Gurgel, at the time pastor at Minnesota churches Faith Lutheran Church, Nicollet and Faith Lutheran Church, New Ulm. Pastor Gurgel… 

Now Thank We All our God A Hymn of Worship and Praise #36 in The Lutheran Hymnal My parents used to have a couple of record albums of a comedy act called “The Bickersons.” It… 

Eighth in a series– THE GREAT TRIBULATION (Part I) Popular Conception In the popular endtime fiction of our day, “the great tribulation” is the name given to the seven-year period between the “rapture” of the… 

(The Scriptural Requirement for the Practice of Church Fellowship) or The Wisconsin Synod’s Confession–What Is It? by Joel N. Krafft From the editor: The following Review first appeared in the CLC’s Journal of Theology, June… 

Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going? (Editor’s note: The following excerpt reveals that literally “from the beginning” the new synod–yet in its earliest formative stage–placed the matter of missions on the front burner.…