“I wish Everything Was Perfect!”
“I wish I could be rid of my sinful flesh once and for all! Then everything would be perfect!” Such thoughts are not foreign to believers. As the child of God looks about this world,…
Announcements
West Central Pastoral Conference Date: September 17-19, 1996 Place: Berea Ev. Lutheran Church, Sioux falls, SD Agenda: 1) Old Testament Exegesis: Psalm 128 — Pastor Jay Hartmann 2) New Testament Exegesis: Romans 6:15-23 — Pastor…
Two New Congregations In Our Synod Family
St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church Golden, Colorado St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church is located just west of Denver in Golden, Colorado–settled in a valley between two table mesas on the east and the foothills of…
LESSONS FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT
“That We Might Have Hope” (Rom. 15:4) Genesis Chapters Forty-five Through Fifty Jacob’s Move To Egypt Jacob had had a hard life. The flight from his brother, the deception of his uncle Laban, the loss…
Evolution A Theory, A Fact, Or A Law?
Or, None Of The Above? I have heard many Christians say that evolution doesn’t concern them because, after all, it’s “only a theory.” Presumably they think that the word “theory” means about the same thing…
EDITOR’S SMORGASBORD
LUTHER ANNIVERSARY Appreciative heirs watch for significant dates in the life of Dr. Martin Luther, thus to seize the opportunity another anniversary affords to highlight God’s working in his life. By now most Lutherans are…
After the Death of Luther —
How the Formula Of Concord Was Forged Part Nine The Crypto-Calvinists Self-destruct After Luther’s death in 1546 Melanchthon’s followers, with his help, conspired to replace Luther’s doctrine with Calvin’s, at Wittenberg, Leipzig, and across Germany.…
A Message From Our CLC President —
Reformation 1996 In 1529, the year that Martin Luther prepared the Small and Large Catechisms, he wrote the classic Reformation hymn A Mighty Fortress Is Our God. Luther wrote: Though devils all the world should…
Luther On The Reformation
Innumerable volumes and articles have been written about Luther and the Reformation. We quote here some comments from the Reformer himself, giving his own impression of the Lord’s work that had brought the true light…
A NEW SONG
“He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. He put a new song in…