CLC Teachers’ Conference Place: Immanuel Lutheran School, Mankato, Minnesota Time: Wednesday-Friday, October 13-15, 1999, beginning at 10:00 a.m. Program: * A study of Proverbs and applications for living today -- Pastor Wayne Eichstadt * Is there a proper use of rewards (special, privileges, material "prizes" etc.) in the Christian classroom? What does Scripture say about… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Year/Month: 1999/10
Gethsemane Ev. Lutheran Church Saginaw, Michigan Gethsemane Ev. Lutheran Church was organized on November 5, 1959 by members who had left the WELS, under the leadership of Pastor Otto J. Eckert, because of the false teaching concerning termination of church fellowship. There were 27 communicants. For three years services were held in rented facilities. In… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Psalm 129 “LORD, thank You for saving me from my enemies.” A Psalm of Thanks Psalm 129 “Many a time they have afflicted me from my youth.” Let Israel now say–“Many a time they have afflicted me from my youth; yet they have not prevailed against me. The plowers plowed on my back; They made… Read More »Month Archive Read More
* ‘EMBARRASSING KANSAS’ An editorial so titled appeared in the August 16, 1999 Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller-Times. A subtitle comes closer to identifying the supposed source of “embarrassment” for the state of Kansas: “Students will be the losers if valid science is not taught.” According to the article, what is meant by “valid science” is… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Third in a series THE KINGDOM Sin’s Pollution Created in the image of God, but losing that image and being expelled from Paradise, meant that each person would be born in sin, would sin, and would merit eternal damnation. Thus SIN became everyone’s problem. But the solution of that problem lay beyond the moral capabilities… Read More »Month Archive Read More
“That We Might Have Hope” (Rom. 15:4) First Samuel Chapter Seventeen David And Goliath Everyone is familiar with the Bible account found in 1 Samuel 17. It is the narrative of David and Goliath. We love to hear the words of that great victory. David, a young man, a shepherd, son of Jesse of Bethlehem,… Read More »Month Archive Read More
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God A Hymn for Reformation #262 in The Lutheran Hymnal Both under King Saul and as king himself, David experienced some amazingly great military feats, many of them against extremely great odds. He had single-handedly slain the great Philistine giant Goliath (see article elsewhere in this issue). He and his… Read More »Month Archive Read More
In the Fall of 1998 a political dark horse from the Reform Party, a man by the name of Jesse Ventura, came onto the scene of Minnesota politics and, as he said, “shocked the world.” He shocked the world with a fresh take and new ideas about politics and government in Minnesota. He shocked Minnesotans… Read More »Month Archive Read More
“The Reformation was about a return to Scripture and the authority of the Word of God. By its actions over the last years ELCA is turning the calendar back to pre-Reformation times. . . . ” Whence Lutheranism? As I had written an article for Reformation and was letting it percolate before sending it to… Read More »Month Archive Read More
As the years have gone by, this festival which we know as Reformation has suffered from many distractions. For example, many even among our own people are more likely to think of October 31st as Halloween than as Reformation Day. In recent years many churches have relabeled this church festival as the Festival of Reconciliation… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Late on October 31, 1517, Dr. Martin Luther nailed ninety-five theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, a city in Saxony, Germany. Luther offered the theses for scholarly debate over the sale of indulgences. Indulgences were documents promising time off in purgatory. They were sold by Pope Leo X in order to… Read More »Month Archive Read More