ASHES TO ASHES? – NO! – ASHES TO BEAUTY!
” The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, because the Lord has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to…
SEEN IN PASSING / ANNOUNCEMENTS
Items of interest from various sources of religious news and opinion, in print and on the web. New AI Apps Attempt to Summon Up the Dead. In an article for MIT Technology Review , Charlotte…
A NEW FULL-TIME MISSIONARY
Every other month our CLC Board of Missions updates us with recent news from various mission fields. We give thanks to the Lord that He has led Pastor Bruce Naumann to accept the call to…
BREAD OF LIFE READINGS, FEBRUARY 2023
TLH = The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941; WS = Worship Supplement 2000; LSB = Lutheran Service Book, 2006 Date Hymns Reading Comments 2023-02-01 TLH 427 Proverbs 1:1-19 The fear of the Lord is the starting point…
DANIELLE GAMBLE
Want to meet the person who may be your next pastor or Christian day school teacher? This series profiles the men and women who are in their final year of preparation for the public teaching…
THE OPEN DOOR
In this series, those involved with CLC foreign missions profile one aspect of our overseas endeavors. “And when they arrived, they gathered the church together and declared all that God had done with them, and…
ST. STEPHEN LUTHERAN CHURCH AND SCHOOL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO PENINSULA, AND ST. STEPHEN LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE EAST BAY
Updates from congregations around the Church of the Lutheran Confession It’s been a little more than five years since the “Slice of Life” articles about our California congregations appeared in the Lutheran Spokesman. Since then,…
THE HOLY SPIRIT
This series offers an overview of the chief teachings of the Christian church. Jesus, just hours away from His suffering and death, promised to send to His disciples what He described as “the Comforter,” namely,…
INTRODUCTION TO THE PARABLES
Charles Dickens called it “the finest short story ever told.” Whether he was referring to its literary quality or its theological message, it is true of both. The Prodigal Son is a masterpiece that is…
THE LORD IS A SENDING GOD
“Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah . . . saying, ‘Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city.’” (Jonah 1:1-2) Jesus calls all who follow Him to do this. Every believer is to share the Gospel of…