Great Lakes Delegate Conference The Great Lakes Delegate Conference will be held at Faith Lutheran Church, Coloma, Mich. Monday and Tuesday, June 7-8, beginning at 1:00 p.m. Delegates, pastors, teachers, professors who need housing and meals, please announce to the host pastor. Retirement Reception After twenty years of faithful service at Faith Lutheran School, Coloma,… Month Archive Read More
Year/Month: 1999/06
(By Chris Williams, Austin {Minn.} Daily Herald, February 28, 1999) It is a mix of Biblical teaching, traditionalism, and old-fashioned values designed to help prepare students for the modern world. St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran School began teaching students in the fall of 1972 with 29 students and two teachers to assist the parents of the… Month Archive Read More
A Synod Anniversary The constituting convention of a new confessional Lutheran church body known as the Church of the Lutheran Confession (CLC) took place August 9-12, 1960 at Trinity Ev. Lutheran Church in Watertown, S.Dak. The year 2000 will therefore find the CLC observing its 40th anniversary. A synodical committee is making plans for an… Month Archive Read More
Our staff members were invited to pass along what they may have written on the subject of the Littleton, Colorado tragedy for their local bulletins or newsletters. We offer the following Christian perspectives. * POSSESSED BY AN EVIL SPIRIT Is there such a thing as demon possession?–I mean apart from the scriptural examples like Mary… Month Archive Read More
Psalm 125 “LORD, thank You for keeping my soul safe.” A Psalm of Thanks Psalm 125 Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever. As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds His people from this time forth and forever. For the scepter of wickedness… Month Archive Read More
Luke 13:6-9 The Barren Fig Tree St. Paul uses words like “grace” and “love” to personify Jesus, as in Titus 2 and 3. There is another word which hasn’t been overly used or abused yet–the word “kindness.” Paul’s use of it in Titus and Ephesians 2 reminds one of Nehemiah 9 and Isaiah 54–where this… Month Archive Read More
Oh, that I Had a Thousand Voices Hymn of Praise to the Trinity #243 in The Lutheran Hymnal Our annual pilgrimage from Clarkston, Wash. to Eau Claire, Wis. takes us over Lolo Pass on the Idaho/Montana border. Lolo is a continental divide; to the west, rivers flow to the Pacific; to the east, they flow… Month Archive Read More
“In everything give thanks, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus” (1 Thessalonians 5:18) Imagine a beautiful, sunny day. Your plan is to hike a mountain trail. As you begin, you can’t help but notice the beauty of the trees, the blue sky, the birds and animals scurrying about. After walking for… Month Archive Read More
A GOOD START Ever notice if you don’t get the first button right, all the other ones end up wrong as well? Ever notice that if a child doesn’t have a good start in life, the rest of his life often goes bad? Without a good beginning to life, a child will often grow into… Month Archive Read More
As we come to the end of a century and move toward the year 2000, we are hearing more and more of end-time prophecies. Add in the Y2K concerns and there is a ready-made opportunity for fanciful interpretation as well as for fear and hysteria. There are, of course, those who do not believe that… Month Archive Read More
A knowledge of “god” is common to all people. The knowledge of the only true God is not. Christians describe God as Triune (three-in-one) in order to confess the only living God in contrast to endless guesswork by fallen man’s reason. Since the Fall into sin natural man can know God only by what can… Month Archive Read More