“Take Courage… I Am With You”
“The works that I do in My Father’s name, they bear witness of Me.” (John 10:25) But the boat was now in the middle of the sea, tossed by the waves, for the wind was…
Wrong Loyalties
ENCOUNTERS OF A SPIRITUAL KIND Last of a series of ten There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to…
JUSTUS JONAS
FAITH OF OUR FATHERS (THIRD of four) JUSTUS JONAS “My eyes stay open through the watches of the night, that I may meditate on your promises.” (Psalm 119:148 NIV) Some people have an exceptional…
Lucas Cranach (The Elder)
FAITH OF OUR FATHERS (FOURTH of four) Lucas Cranach (The Elder) “Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ…
The ELCA and ‘Easy’ Lutheranism*
Not long after retiring and relocating to another city, this writer had a backyard “over the fence” (literally) get-acquainted visit with a next-door neighbor. Upon my mentioning that I was a retired Lutheran minister, the…
Look to Jesus When the Assignment is Tough
Professor Paul Schaller • Eau Claire, Wisconsin “Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?” (John 6:9) When Jesus proposed to…
Announcements
Installations In accord with our usage and order, Joel Fleischer, who was called by Berea Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sioux Falls, S.Dak. to be its pastor, was installed on September 28, 2014. Pastor John Hein…
No Prayer Barrier
Heavenly Father, hear our prayers and accept our praises for Jesus’ sake. Amen.
What we see and hear this day is a wondrous thing. The fact that this school exists is wondrous. The fact that you are here is wondrous. The fact that there are teachers and staff is wondrous. Most wondrous of all is the fact that this school, its students, faculty, and staff have the Word of God with its gospel of salvation.
A Prayer For Our Pastor
In his retirement Pastor Emeritus Arthur Schulz, Black River Falls, Wis.,
has perused archived copies of Lutheran periodicals for hymns and poems and shared them with our pastors. This hymn—which may be sung to the tune of TLH #483—first appeared in the Lutheran Witness of January 29, 1946. It was written by Adela Kretzmann Weber of Canton, Ohio.
The Reformation Blessing Above All Others
Many blessings of the Reformation of the 1500’s still affect us today.
We could mention having a Bible translation in our native tongue, having many hymns to sing praises to God, putting into practice the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers (that Christ has given every believer—not just to the pope and his priests—the keys to forgive or to retain sins), and parents and pastors using Luther’s Small Catechism to instruct children in the basic Bible teachings.