Installation In accord with our usage and order, Jay Hartmann, who was called by Peace Lutheran Church of Mission, S.Dak. and St. Paul’s Lutheran Church of White River, S.Dak. to be their pastor, was installed on December 6, 1998. Assisting were Pastors George Dummann, Michael Schierenbeck, Steven Sippert, Timothy Wheaton, and Michael Wilke. –Pastor Michael… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Year/Month: 1999/02
Dr. Dobson: Turning Hearts Toward Home: The Life and Principles of America’s Family Advocate, by Rolf Zettersten, Word Publ., 1989. (Reviewer: Prof. Em. Paul R. Koch, Spokesman assistant editor; this review first appeared in the Newsletter of Messiah Lutheran Church, Eau Claire, Wis.) From time to time I scan Messiah’s little library in the hallway,… Read More »Month Archive Read More
This is a list of “start-up” congregations who are being served by an off-site pastor. Some meet in homes, others in rented facilities. Also included are our two CLC exploratory missions in Gold Canyon, Ariz. and Grand Rapids/Cadillac, Mich. Visitors are warmly welcomed. Those who are considering a move, or are just traveling through the… Read More »Month Archive Read More
* EXCERPT FROM A NIGERIAN JOURNAL Even as wife Celeste kept a diary (many of our readers have enjoyed the book A Peek Into My Nigerian Diary), so did the missionary himself. Pastor Norbert Reim has sent us almost 100 pages of what he calls his Nigerian Journal from the years 1945-1948. Now 50 years… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Psalm 121 “LORD, You are my almighty Guardian. In You will I put my trust.” A Psalm of Comfort Psalm 121 I will lift up my eyes to the hills–from whence comes my help? My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. He will not allow your foot to be moved; He… Read More »Month Archive Read More
“What must I do to inherit eternal life?” might be a good test question for instruction class–as the Christian pastor leads a soul to the arms of Jesus–but the expert in Jewish legalities who asked it was more interested in challenging Jesus’ theology than in searching for the way of salvation. It has not been… Read More »Month Archive Read More
“That We Might Have Hope” (Rom. 15:4) Judges Chapters Thirteen Through Sixteen Samson: Sun-like, but not Son-like There are only a few individuals in the Scriptures who had their births foretold by heavenly messengers. John the Baptizer is usually thought of by most of us. Our own Lord Jesus’ birth was announced to Mary by… Read More »Month Archive Read More
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross A Good Friday Hymn #175 in The Lutheran Hymnal “Give us something better, young man!” That stern rebuke launched Isaac Watts, then only 18 years old, into the work of hymn-writing. He had voiced his displeasure with the psalm-singing in the English Reformed church of his day. It was… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Historians have little or no problem with the fact that a man named Jesus of Nazareth was crucified by the Romans in Jerusalem sometime around 30 A.D. History books will tell you that Jesus was stricken, smitten, afflicted, wounded, bruised, and chastised. Even the Jewish historian Josephus records this fact and the events that surrounded… Read More »Month Archive Read More
“Now therefore, says the Lord, turn to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning. So rend your heart, and not your garments; return to the Lord your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness; and He relents from doing harm” (Joel 2:12-13). ”… Read More »Month Archive Read More
As we enter the season of Lent, we remember it also as the Passion season. The original meaning for the word passion, and the first still given in my dictionary, is suffering or agony, with special reference to the suffering of our Lord Jesus. And so it is that His suffering and His death on… Read More »Month Archive Read More