SOLUTIONS FOR BROKEN RESOLUTIONS
I don’t recall ever making a New Year’s resolution. Perhaps I had to come up with one as a school assignment once but, if so, I certainly never tried to accomplish it. The whole practice…
SOLUTIONS FOR BROKEN RESOLUTIONS
THE ESSENTIAL EPIPHANY
It is January and the hours of darkness still outnumber those of daylight. If you are not fond of shorter days, the good news is that we are gaining about two minutes of daylight each…
ANNOUNCEMENTS
2024 CLC Mission Helper Trip. Applications are now being accepted for the 2024 CLC Mission Helper Trip to Africa. Apply now so you can be part of this opportunity to spread the Gospel to children…
THE CHRISTMAS ROAD
“Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?” (Matthew 11:3 ESV) Life is a road. We can be confident that we are on the right road when our faith…
UPDATE ON THE IGLESIA LUTERANA CONFESIONAL (MEXICO)
Every other month our CLC Board of Missions updates us with recent news from various mission fields. In October, Missionary Todd Ohlmann and Board of Missions member Jeff Radichel visited Pastor Juan Olvera of the…
BREAD OF LIFE READINGS, DECEMBER 2023
TLH = The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941; WS = Worship Supplement 2000; LSB = Lutheran Service Book, 2006 Date Hymns Reading Comments December 1 TLH 81/LSB 372 1 Corinthians 1 Paul and Sosthenes greet the believers…
FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH–MANCHESTER, MISSOURI
Updates from congregations around the Church of the Lutheran Confession We are blessed to have some tremendous activity going on at Faith Lutheran Church in Manchester, Missouri (Saint Louis area). Within this past calendar year,…
MUCH BLESSING FOLLOWED IN THE CHILDREN’S LIVES
In this series, those involved with CLC foreign missions profile one aspect of our overseas endeavors. [Editor: The following is a report from Pastor Jyothi Benjamin, in his own words, about current activities in the…
A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS–AND A WONDERFUL NEW YEAR
This is the first installment of a new series in which we are reprinting Spokesman articles by early leaders in the CLC. Pastor James Albrecht is the curator of the series. Pastor Winfred B. Schaller,…
THE RICH FOOL – Luke 12:13-21
“Whoever has the most toys, wins.” Perhaps you too have heard this expression. Unfortunately, its sentiment is too often the prevailing worldview of our society. The acquisition of temporal wealth is the most prominent false…