Report on the 31st Convention of the CLC THEME: God Our Savior Desires All Men to be Saved! 1 Timothy 2:3-7 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. Read More
Year/Month: 2014/08
“Turning the World “Upside Down”
Written by Michael Eichstadt | August, 2014
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CLC President’s Report to the 31st Convention Dear saints in Christ and fellow workers in His kingdom: Does it matter? Does what we do here make any real, significant, positive, lasting difference? If it does, we have reason and incentive to get to work; if not, what’s the point? From a human perspective we have… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Jesus is the One Meditator of that Truth! The year was 1976, and I was ten years old, growing up just outside of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The company where my Dad worked was a union shop, and a strike was called because of a disagreement between management and the union. The strike lasted for… Read More »Month Archive Read More
“I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever.” (John 14:16, NIV 1984) PARACLETE—It’s a name we probably don’t use too often in our prayers. It may ring strange in our ears when we sing it in hymns at church. What does that name mean and why… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Camp Koyquin 2014
Written by Lutheran Spokesman | August, 2014
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Camp Koyquin 2014 “Campers gather together after a fun and faith-filled week at Camp Koyquin 2014 in Pillager, Minnesota. 158 campers and 31 staff members made up the largest youth camp that has been put on in the many years it has been running. What a blessing to everyone involved to be able to spend a week in… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Christ’s Rock-solid Foundation for Life
Written by Nathan Pfeiffer | August, 2014
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MEDITATIONS ON JESUS’ SERMON ON THE MOUNT: MATTHEW’S GOSPEL, CHAPTERS FIVE THROUGH SEVEN Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and… Read More »Month Archive Read More
LAST OF FIVE PARTS OF A SERIES ON THE SECOND ARTICLE “This is most certainly true!” THE APOSTLES’ CREED I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth. And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Looking in All the Wrong Places
Written by David Koenig | August, 2014
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(Ninth of a Series) Now behold, one came and said to Him, “Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?” So He said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep… Read More »Month Archive Read More
“For we are not overextending ourselves…” (2 Corinthians 10:15). You would be hard pressed to find another Lutheran synod that has the outreach overseas based on per capita stateside that the CLC has. We need to thank our Lord that He has given us—who are so few—so very much to do beyond the national borders… Read More »Month Archive Read More
FROM A CONFIRMATION SERMON The Word of God that deserves special attention on this Confirmation Day is: “If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved” (Romans 10:9). In the early days of the Christian Church “Jesus is… Read More »Month Archive Read More
CLC Announcements
Written by Lutheran Spokesman | August, 2014
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Great Lakes Pastoral Conference • September 30-October 2, 2014 (Tues-Thurs) Messiah Lutheran Church, Eau Claire, Wisconsin Agenda: + Old Testament: Introduction to Habakkuk and Exegesis of Habakkuk 2:1-4 —Pastor Joel Fleischer + New Testament: Introduction to Revelation and Exegesis of Revelation 20:1-6 —Professor Steven Sippert + Comparison of the term “Son of Man” as used… Read More »Month Archive Read More
“The same, but different” is an oxymoron—two ideas that are seemingly contradictory. Yet when one talks about our unchanging, eternal God in the context of a changing world, “the same, but different” often applies. An example of “the same, but different” was evident at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Mankato on June 8, 2014. In the… Read More »Month Archive Read More