TLH = The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941; WS = Worship Supplement 2000; [ ] = Biblical Events Noted Date Verse Reading Comments [Festivals of the Church Year] Nov 1 TLH 190 Isaiah 35:1-10 Jesus brings redemption, peace, and joy to His people. Sorrow and sighing flee away! Nov 2 TLH 503 Isaiah 37:14-20 Hezekiah prays that… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Year/Month: 2016/11
“I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints” (Ephesians 1:18, NIV). As you read this article, there’s a festival fast approaching on the church year calendar. It’s a… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Elvis Presley sang “Home is where the heart is.” Computer techies would suggest “home is where your Wi-Fi connects automatically.” Poet Robert Frost said, “Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” How about you? Where is your “home?” After being gone from “home” with my wife to… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Hymn 463 “For All the Saints, Who from Their Labors Rest”
Written by Craig Owings | November, 2016
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If William Walsham How, the author of this hymn, saw it in The Lutheran Hymnal, I think he might not entirely approve. The words in our hymnal are his, but the order is not; and three of the original stanzas have been left out. In this long hymn, How develops the theme of the Church… Read More »Month Archive Read More
The Real Thing
Written by Chad Seybt | November, 2016
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“Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Joshua A Minority Voice Who Served as a Leader for a Major Power
Written by Mark Gullerud | November, 2016
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(Numbers 13:25-14:10; Joshua 1:1-11) Should it be surprising to us that as Christians we are in the minority in this world (see Matthew 20:16b)? Is it startling that many are vehemently opposed to us when we bear witness to the truths of God out in the world (see John 15:18,19)? Is it a futile cause… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Pastors Answer Frequently-Asked Questions No. Yes. “Conservative” means different things to different people. For some, a conservative church is one that uses a traditional liturgy or sings from the old hymnal. For others, conservative equals “strict,” as in, “You mean that your church is more conservative (strict) than the Missouri Synod?” A better word is… Read More »Month Archive Read More
As we approach the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, we take a brief look at the lives of influential and important Lutheran leaders and theologians. Carl Monrad Gullerud was born into the Norwegian Synod in 1908. His father was a pastor in that synod, serving in Tracy, Minnesota; and when the majority agreed (in 1917)… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Good News Transportation!
Written by Edward Starkey | November, 2016
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In this series, thoseinvolved with CLC foreign missions profile one aspect of our overseas endeavors. When Jesus said; “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature,” He did not say how to get there. In the US we usually do all our going by car. But throughout the world, transportation for… Read More »Month Archive Read More
St. John’s Lutheran Church Okabena, Minnesota
Written by David Ahrens | November, 2016
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Snapshots of Congregations from Around the Church of the Lutheran Confession St. John’s Lutheran Church was founded in May of 1895 by German immigrant farmers in West Heron Lake Township, Jackson County, Minnesota. It started as a satellite congregation of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, seven miles to the southeast. In 1904 a Christian day school… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Gift of God Lutheran Church, Mapleton, North Dakota
Written by Nathanael Mayhew | November, 2016
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Each month our CLC Board of Missions updates us with the latest news from various mission fields. If your last visit to the little town of Mapleton, North Dakota, was more than a year ago, you might not recognize it today. Mapleton, which serves as a bedroom community for Fargo, has benefitted from the recent… Read More »Month Archive Read More