Installation In accord with our usage and order, recent Seminary graduate, Matthew Gurath, who was called as pastor to Faith Lutheran Church of Coloma, Mich., was ordained and installed on June 4, 2000. Pastors David Baker, Mark Bernthal, Timothy Holland, David Schaller, Walter Schaller, and Prof. Roland Gurgel assisted. –Pastor Todd Ohlmann Change Of Address… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Year/Month: 2000/07
100 Years Of God’s Grace (1899-1999) In the 1870’s and 1880’s a number of German Lutheran families came to settle in Hidewood Township in Deuel County, South Dakota. There was no established Lutheran Church in the township. The families first called a Norwegian Lutheran minister in the area to serve them in emergencies. A short… Read More »Month Archive Read More
May 20, 2000 President John Pfeiffer’s commencement address (entitled “With All Your Might,” based on Ecclesiastes 9:10; see page of this issue) struck the keynote for the entire repertoire of our school’s closing events. On Friday’s “Class Day” the usual awards were bestowed on those who had done their mightiest in sports, extra-curriculars, and academics.… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Due to space constraints, printed here are excerpts only, allowing the reader to “catch the flavor” of the President’s address at the ILC Commencement service on May 20, 2000. The text used by Prof. John Pfeiffer was Ecclesiastes 9:10-12: “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no… Read More »Month Archive Read More
vignette (vin-yet’), n. 1. short literary essay; sketch vignettist (vin-yet’ist), n. a maker of vignettes, painter, photographer, or writer Dateline: Middleton, Wisconsin DUANE W. RIGGERT, VIGNETTIST It has been a blessing to have so long a comfort with the CLC. When an organization is not so large, it is not as difficult to hew to… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going? . . . When Immanuel congregation in 1959 took up the matter of Christian higher education and gave its blessing to the beginning of a high school, college, and seminary, the North Chapel was put back into use. The owners offered it to Immanuel Lutheran College Board… Read More »Month Archive Read More
God Bless Our Native Land A Prayer for the Nation #577 in The Lutheran Hymnal It’s an election year! As you know, that means during the whole year (and more!) leading up to November the airwaves and various media will be filled with debates, politicking, arm-twisting, and not a little dirt-digging, mud-slinging, and name-calling. The… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Luke 16:1-13 The Parable Of The Unjust Steward To retell Jesus’ parable in a modern setting: “A wealthy businessman had an administrator whom he had hired to manage his financial affairs. Through poor decision-making the administrator had ‘managed’ to squander some of the businessman’s financial empire. “About to be called to account and soon fired,… Read More »Month Archive Read More
“That We Might have Hope” (Rom. 15:4) Second Samuel, Chapters Eleven and Twelve David’s Fall and Repentance Lust, adultery, deceit, murder, and scandal are words that could be torn from the headlines of most any newspaper today. What kind of individual do you expect to read about in these sordid tales? Low brows to be… Read More »Month Archive Read More
I HAVE HEARD IT SAID And what do you think? What bothers me is that I must be a veritable nincompoop! I can’t open my mouth, but that someone is saying to me: “Who are you that I should listen to you?” Here I stand and nobody seems to know me. You too, dear reader,… Read More »Month Archive Read More
The Bible says: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth…” Theistic evolution says: “In the beginning God created the Big Bang.” In spite of what the Bible clearly says, just how God created has been the subject of much debate over the years. On the one hand, the Bible says that God… Read More »Month Archive Read More
I don’t know if there is another holiday that calls forth the patriotic spirit in Americans like our Fourth of July celebrations. Again this year we have seen the parades, saluted our American flags, and blasted off tons of fireworks across our land. We know that we live in the best country in the world,… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Nations come into being in many ways. There might be a military coup, a civil strife, treachery and heroes, or a host of other conflicts between the old order and the new. Regardless of the manner that produces the rise or fall of a nation’s government, the Lord reveals the simple truth about all nations… Read More »Month Archive Read More