Installations As authorized by President Fleischer, I installed Karl Stewart as the pastor of Grace Lutheran Chruch in Live Oak, Florida. The installation took place during the morning worship service of December 17, 1995. –Pastor Wayne Eichstadt As authorized by President Fleischer, I, with the assistance of Pastor Arvid Gullerud, installed Matthew C. Thurow as… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Year/Month: 1996/02
Meet: Thomas Skinner Thomas Skinner is presently teaching at St. Paul’s Lutheran School in Austin, Minn. He is a graduate of Immanuel Lutheran High School, and received his B.S. degree in elementary education from ILC in May 1995. His most memorable experience in teaching thus far came during his student teaching at Messiah Lutheran School… Read More »Month Archive Read More
“One generation shall praise Your works to another…” (Ps. 145:4) Alfred Stolt holds his great-great grandchildren, twins Kolten and Kelsey Jensen, born Dec. 6, 1995. All five generations are active members of Grace Lutheran Church. The first three were charter members of the church in 1959. Mindi, the twins’ mother, is a 1992 graduate of… Read More »Month Archive Read More
“…People are needed … In this way we have the chance to spend more than just money in preaching God’s Word to the nations.” A green light now shines on the avenue to lay participation in a broad range of mission related activities. At the last synod convention the delegates approved the Mission Helper Program… Read More »Month Archive Read More
The CLC Board of Missions, along with several Congregations and their Pastors are presently holding exploratory services on a regular basis in many areas throughout the United States. These are in addition to their regular established Mission Congregations of the CLC. We would encourage you to attend services in these communities when you are in… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Last fall Newsweek magazine used this headline to tell of the latest inclusive language version of the New Testament and Psalms. In this new version God is no longer “Father” and Jesus is no longer “Son.” The hierarchical title of “Lord” is excised, it is said, as an archaic way to address God. Nor does… Read More »Month Archive Read More
How The Formula Of Concord Was Forged (Ten Parts) Part Four: Melanchthon And The Majoristic Controversy After the death of Luther, Philip Melanchthon’s weakness led to the Smalcald War, the defeat of Lutherans in 1547, and the hated Interims. Goaded by the treachery of Charles V, the treacherous Maurice turned on the Roman Catholic ruler… Read More »Month Archive Read More
“That We Might have Hope” (Rom. 15:4) Genesis Chapter Thirty-seven The Lord Graciously Rules That We Might Have Hope God had promised to make of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob a Messianic nation. Our chapter marks the beginning of the account of His wondrous ways in bringing His gracious promises to fulfillment. A part of the… Read More »Month Archive Read More
(A chapel talk given at Immanuel Lutheran High School, Mankato, Minn. Teacher Kevin Hulke is the Gospel messenger.) People often have a hard time understanding what life is like after being married. Obviously for young adults the understanding is even harder to come by. A careful study of what Scripture says about marriage will help… Read More »Month Archive Read More
(Joshua 24:15) Twenty five years ago, as our distressed nation viewed a generation of its youth angrily protesting the evils, real or imagined, of their parents’ society, one of those angry young voices, Graham Nash, wrote a song that sounded like an island of contentment in a stream of discontent: Our house is a very… Read More »Month Archive Read More