Financial Aid Applications. Immanuel Lutheran High School, College, and Seminary has a financial aid program that helps students to attend by assisting with loans, multi-student grants, individual student grants, scholarships, and work study. All students are encouraged to submit an application, especially since this year the application includes the possibility of a High School tuition… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Year/Month: 2022/04
West Central Delegate Conference St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Lakewood, Colorado May 24-26, 2022 Agenda: • Is It a Sin to Disobey Illegal Laws, Guidelines, Regulations, Etc.?—Mr. Loren Hansen“Blessed”—Does It Refer to a Preceding Action or Subsequent Action or Both, and How to Tell the Difference—Pastor James Naumann • The Athanasian Creed: Is the Unexplained Use… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Items of interest from various sources of religious news and opinion, in print and on the web. Christian Leader Murdered in Liberia. “William Richard Tolbert III, a Baptist pastor and the youngest son of a former president of Liberia, William Richard Tolbert Jr., was murdered in his apartment on November 1. The elder Tolbert was… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Every other month our CLC Board of Missions updates us with recent news from various mission fields. With COVID restrictions slowly being lifted, opportunities for international travel are again opening up. This allowed Missionary Todd Ohlmann to visit Tanzania in December 2021. He accompanied Ted Quade, who serves as the Christian School Instruction Supervisor, on… Read More »Month Archive Read More
TLH = The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941; WS = Worship Supplement 2000; LSB = Lutheran Service Book, 2006 Date Hymns Reading Comments April 1 TLH 339 Psalm 2 Jesus Christ is God’s Anointed One, Whom no earthly power can overcome. He is the very Son of God, and King overall. “Blessed are all who take refuge… Read More »Month Archive Read More
FROM THE DESK OF THE PRESIDENT Sometimes life seems routine and lackluster, like watching black and white reruns of an old TV series. Would you like renewed appreciation and enthusiasm for this time of grace? Then realize what a gift it is. A COVID patient walking out of the hospital after months in an ICU… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Breaking Bad Habits Does Not Make You a Christian “T hesis XVI—In twelfth place, the Word of God is not rightly divided when the preacher tries to make people believe that they are truly converted as soon as they have become rid of certain vices and engage in certain works of piety and virtuous practices.”… Read More »Month Archive Read More
What’s New With YOU? Updates from congregations around the Church of the Lutheran Confession “Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; Unless the Lord guards the city, The watchman stays awake in vain.” (Psalm 127:1) In one sense, there’s nothing new in Okabena. The same Lord Who was faithful… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Ever wonder why we Lutherans use the form of worship we do? In this series we examine the depth and meaning of the various elements of our worship service, beginning with the history of Christian worship itself. Liturgy between Reformation and Now Liturgical changes between the Reformation and today were often due to national differences… Read More »Month Archive Read More
“Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years… Read More »Month Archive Read More
“But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men and despised by the people.” (Psalm 22:6) Psalm 22 is a messianic psalm, that is, a psalm which speaks prophetically of the Messiah. Written nearly a thousand years before the birth of Christ, this psalm vividly describes His death on the cross: the… Read More »Month Archive Read More
This series offers an overview of the chief teachings of the Christian church. It takes hard work to become an atheist. Truly denying the existence of any god takes work because it is not what comes naturally. God has placed many witnesses into the world to testify that He exists. Look to the heavens and… Read More »Month Archive Read More
In the closing scene of the movie Cast Away, Tom Hanks’s character is standing at a crossroads in Texas. After being stranded alone on an island for four years, he has returned to civilization to find that he has been declared dead and his girlfriend has moved on and gotten married to another man. As… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Do you ever get tired of looking at pictures of bygone days? Perhaps. It all depends on whose pictures they are. If they are someone else’s pictures of people you don’t know very well or people who have had no impact on your life, then one look is enough. However, if they are your pictures… Read More »Month Archive Read More