Coordinating Council The Coordinating Council will meet October 18-19, 2000 at Immanuel Lutheran College in Eau Claire. The first session will begin after chapel on the 18th. The individual boards meet at the call of the respective chairmen. –Daniel Fleischer, President 2000 West Central Pastoral Conference Date: September 19-21 beginning at 10:00 a.m. (CDT) Tuesday,… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Year/Month: 2000/09
Mountain View, So. San Francisco Bay — St. Stephen celebrated thirty-five years of God’s grace by dedicating a parsonage. It was four-plus years abuilding, mostly by volunteer labor under the direction of project managers Donald Drews and Richard Dick. The dwelling was received with joy as a gift from God, for the real estate costs… Read More »Month Archive Read More
EDITOR’S NOTE: At the close of last school year — and thanks to some grateful and imaginative students — retiring Professor Clifford Kuehne holds a “kuehne baby” and a plaque from his Greek Room #7 in the Cottage. Below are a retiree’s touching remarks. Dear Friends in Christ, Martin Luther once described a Christian as… Read More »Month Archive Read More
The Lord hath Helped Me Hitherto A Hymn of Worship and Praise #33 in The Lutheran Hymnal It is not surprising that The Handbook to the Lutheran Hymnal speaks of this month’s hymn as “one of our most popular hymns of praise from the German.” The sentiments expressed by Amilie Juliane are universal among Christians.… 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: Hales Corners, Wisconsin PAUL R. KOCH, VIGNETTIST first pastor of Messiah Lutheran Church Led by his guiding hand The Lord does things in such a marvelous way. For example, when we (family of four) left… Read More »Month Archive Read More
* EDITOR’S NOTE: The words below are taken from the message our CLC President delivered to the synod Convention in June. We think the words–only a portion of what was said under the broader subject head “DOCTRINE” and subtitled “American Legion”–deserve careful consideration by all. In our opinion the good words have something to say… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going? . . . Now we can attempt a summary of the Missouri Synod in 1920 after 75 years of history. It was a strong church, loyal to the Gospel, confessionally courageous, filled with a mission zeal that had caused it to be a mustard tree indeed where… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Luke 16:19-31 The Rich Man And Lazarus Here our Savior gives us a view beyond the grave. He reveals that bodily death is but introduction to eternity; that the very person separated from the body arrives at either a) Abraham’s side, where he “is comforted,” or b) hell, where he is “in torment,” desiring pity… Read More »Month Archive Read More
“That We Might have Hope” (Rom. 15:4) Second Samuel, Chapters Fourteen through Nineteen A Son Of David “Thus says the Lord: “‘behold, I will raise up adversity against you from your own house. . . . ‘” (2 Sam. 12:11). Sin has consequences. In today’s lessons we will see how the prophecy spoken in the… Read More »Month Archive Read More
What do you know about love? we say it a lot: “I love you.” Husbands say it to wives, wives to husbands; children say it to parents, parents say it to children. People say it to their boyfriends and girlfriends. What does it mean? Do we mean the feelings that we have one toward another?… Read More »Month Archive Read More
As the word Christian means different things to different people, so also does the term Christian education. Many of the catalogues advertising Christian schools will say that they are “Christ-centered” and “Bible-based.” That certainly sounds good, but experience teaches that further investigation is required to discover whether or not we would agree with those claims.… Read More »Month Archive Read More