History Repeated For Our Comfort
Historians have little or no problem with the fact that a man named Jesus of Nazareth was crucified by the Romans in Jerusalem sometime around 30 A.D. History books will tell you that Jesus was…
“With All Your Heart”
“Now therefore, says the Lord, turn to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning. So rend your heart, and not your garments; return to the Lord your God, for He…
A SEASON FOR PASSION
As we enter the season of Lent, we remember it also as the Passion season. The original meaning for the word passion, and the first still given in my dictionary, is suffering or agony, with…
Announcements
Installations In accord with our usage and order, Delwyn Maas, who was called by Holy Cross congregation of Phoenix, Ariz. to be its pastor, was installed on December 6, 1998. –Pastor W. H. Fanning In…
In Our CLC Classrooms —
Meet: Karla Olmanson Karla Olmanson teaches a half day of 5th and 6th grade classes, plus music, for grades 1-6 at Immanuel Lutheran School in Mankato, Minnesota. She has been teaching there since 1985. A…
SMORGASBORD
* POSTMODERNISM (NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN) This, our first issue of a new year, is addressing the subject of postmodernism. What is that, you ask? It is the new and latest cultural worldview. I…
Looking Back in the Lutheran Spokesman
From January 1969– WHAT IS TRUTH? One of the purposes of the Church of the Lutheran Confession, according to its constitution, is “to protect this fellowship against the encroachment of error and unionism through united…
“Holy Father . . . Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.” (Jesus in John 17:17)
YOUR WORD IS TRUTH The ancient scribes who hand-copied the Old Testament Scriptures showed great reverence for the Word by the strict rules that they followed in their work. For example, they focused on one…
Christian Marriage: A Heaven-sent Blessing
Second In A Series In our November Spokesman we spoke of God’s Wonderful Marriage Math Equation: 1 + 1 = 1. Even though our amoral society and our own sin-nature would emphasize other “new math”…
Studies in Galatians
Standing Fast In The Liberty By Which Christ Has Made Us Free (See 5:1) Chapter 6:1-10 So this is how you fulfill the law of Christ! In the constitutions of our churches there is a…