Address Correction Mark Bohde 92 Samlan Soi 6 Tambon Prasingha Amphur Muang Chiang Mai 50200 Thailand Bismarck Services Summer worship services at St Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church, Bimarck, North Dakota, are at 8:30 a.m. Installation As authorized by President Fleischer, I installed the Rev. Terrel L. Kesterson as Pastor, Gift of God Lutheran Church, Fairfax,… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Year/Month: 1995/07
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 — completed their studies last December. The other two, Mark and Paul, were scheduled to graduate at the end of May.… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Sign Posts Six young people formed the 1995 graduating class at Immanuel Lutheran, an area CLC High School in Mankato, Minnesota. Their graduation service was conducted at 2:30 p.m. on Pentecost Sunday, June 4. Pastor L. Dale Redlin served both as liturgist and speaker. His encouraging remarks to the graduates, their family and friends, were… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Construction Projects (Editor’s note: At our request Prof. John Reim was our on-site reporter for this year’s graduation at Immanuel, Eau Claire. We thank him.) The setting was unusual. Those attending the graduation events at Immanuel Lutheran College in Eau Claire, Wisconsin on May 20 found the traditionally serene landscape of the campus considerably less… Read More »Month Archive Read More
“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 a Bach concert, where he told my son, “If you want to translate, get a regular job. Translating doesn’t pay… Read More »Month Archive Read More
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. In our Bible the Holy Spirit has presented mind-boggling truths in “aspirin-size” words. For example: Scripture declares that Jesus is… Read More »Month Archive Read More
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 Church in America (ELCA), the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS), the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS — and its little… Read More »Month Archive Read More
“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 in this sinful world, are not always faithful in believing His promises. They become weak in faith and hope, and… Read More »Month Archive Read More
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 make extra money, the daughter got a job dancing in a bar. The money in this line of work was… Read More »Month Archive Read More
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 herself and others. The profit is spiritual and eternal — the best kind, a Bible notion. In Mark 8:36 Jesus… Read More »Month Archive Read More