HE WENT UP TO SEND GIFTS DOWN
It is a time-tested maxim: “What goes up, must come down.” This is true for the stock market, it is true for emotions, and it is true for everything upon which gravity exerts its influence.…
HE WENT UP TO SEND GIFTS DOWN
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Retirement Gift: Professor Mark Kranz has announced his retirement effective at the end of the current academic year. His faithful service to our church and our school will be acknowledged during the ILC Class Day/Graduation…
SEEN IN PASSING
Items of interest from various sources of religious news and opinion, in print and on the web. The Pope Thinks Hell Is Empty. It’s become fashionable in recent years—even among some nominal Christians—to question the…
IT’S OKAY! HE IS RISEN!
A mother checks her phone for the tenth time. Previously she had received news that her soldier son had been wounded in battle, but she knows nothing more than that. After many long, agonizing hours, she…
FELLOWSHIP DECLARED WITH LAMP
Every other month our CLC Board of Missions updates us with recent news from various mission fields. In late January/early February, Missionary Todd Ohlmann and Board of Doctrine member Pastor Andrew Schaller, traveled to the…
BREAD OF LIFE READINGS, APRIL 2024
TLH = The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941; WS = Worship Supplement 2000; LSB = Lutheran Service Book, 2006 Date Hymns Reading Comments April 1 TLH 384 / LSB 559 1 Corinthians 9 Rather than claim the…
PASTORAL GROWTH IN TANZANIA, KENYA, AND UGANDA
In this series, those involved with CLC foreign missions profile one aspect of our overseas endeavors. “They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.” (Acts 2:42)…
FAITH EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH-COLOMA, MICHIGAN
Updates from congregations around the Church of the Lutheran Confession The last few years have seen many changes at Faith in Coloma. God’s grace has been abundantly evident! We’ve experienced growth in the congregation, both…
MOMENT OF TERROR IN THE BELLS
In this series we are reprinting Spokesman articles by early leaders in the CLC. Pastor James Albrecht is the curator of the series. Rev. Ralph E. Schaller (1919-1989) was a leader in the formation of…
THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE
“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, who when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it.” (Matthew 13:45-46) It…