Coordinating Council The Coordinating Council will meet in Eau Claire on March 1,2, 2000. Individual boards meet on February 28,29. The meeting which is ordinarily held after Easter was advanced because of the late date of Easter and the need to get materials for convention to the delegate conferences in good time. –D. Fleischer, President… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Year/Month: 2000/02
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 CLC exploratory missions in Cadillac, Mich. Visitors are warmly welcomed. Those who are considering a move or are just traveling through the area are encouraged to contact these… Read More »Month Archive Read More
* DATELINE — JANUARY 1968 (In December 1999 Missionary David Koenig submitted to us the following thoughts) In a CLC Mission Newsletter of January 1968 there was the following: “MORE ON INDONESIA — One man responded by saying that rather than bewail the fact that we don’t have men and money to go there and… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going? ” . . . The gift of God’s grace caused us to separate from the church body with which we were formerly affiliated. God made salvation precious to us. He had created a deep love in our hearts for Jesus who came to us through His holy… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Psalm 131 “LORD, teach me to be content” A Psalm of Instruction Psalm 131 LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty. Neither do I concern myself with great matters, nor with things too profound for me. Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother; like… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Fifth in a Series THE RAPTURE The living will be “caught up” or “raptured” on the last Day when our Lord comes. So the Apostle Paul wrote to the Thessalonians and so most believers have understood these words to this day. But in March of 1830 a certain Margaret McDonald claimed that she had seen… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Jesus, Grant that Balm and Healing A Lenten Hymn #144 in The Lutheran Hymnal About the writer of this month’s hymn The Handbook to the Lutheran Hymnal says: “He was indeed well grounded in the school of affliction.” The sole survivor of five children, Johann Heermann lived through a childhood illness during which his mother… Read More »Month Archive Read More
“That We Might have Hope” (Rom. 15:4) First Samuel Chapters Twenty-One To Thirty-One DAVID AND SAUL — HOW DIFFERENT WERE THEY? Both were chosen by God to lead Israel. Both started out as humble servants of their God. Both were wicked sinners, guilty of hatred, anger, pride, and jealousy. Both of them deserved to go… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Proclaiming the Unsearchable Riches of Christ (See 3:8) Chapter 3:1-14 WE’VE GOT A SECRET Secret societies were already popular in the Apostle’s time. Today there are still numerous lodge-like organizations that claim they have certain great truths or wisdom that can only be had by being initiated into the club. Some initiates put a terrible… Read More »Month Archive Read More
“Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed; and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost” (1 Corinthians 12:3). ‘Jesus is the Lord . . . ‘ It’s old news to you who saw it on the… Read More »Month Archive Read More
The Mount of Transfiguration (You may first wish to read Matthew 17:1-9) We have a little fellow at our house who daily does his impersonation of the Eveready Bunny. Four years old and just a shade over three feet tall, he keeps going and going and going. After a long day of trying to keep… Read More »Month Archive Read More