Mission Helper Trip to Zambia
Every other month our CLC Board of Missions updates us with recent news from various mission fields. After a two-year COVID hiatus, the CLC Mission Helper Program was finally able to make a trip this…
Mission Helper Trip to Zambia
“BREAD OF LIFE” READINGS october 2022
TLH = The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941; WS = Worship Supplement 2000; LSB = Lutheran Service Book, 2006 Date Hymn Scripture Comments 2022-10-01 TLH 629 2 Timothy 1:1-12 Suffering scorn from unbelievers and imprisonment in Rome,…
“Awakening” and “Conversion”—A False Dichotomy
One of the hallmarks of the Lutheran Church is its proper understanding and application of the Bible’s two main teachings—Law and Gospel. Dr. C.F.W. Walther’s seminal work, The Proper Distinction Between Law and Gospel is…
Give Me Back My Child
Professor C. M. Gullerud was the first President of Immanuel Lutheran College. We here reprint the first chapel talk ever delivered at that institution following its move to the Eau Claire campus. It was reprinted…
Revising the “I AM”?
Professor Edmund Reim was a leader in the formation of the CLC, and the first President of Immanuel Lutheran Seminary. We here reprint an article from the Lutheran Spokesman of August 1969. It has become…
A Bangladesh Baptism
[Ed.: The names of certain people and places in this article are withheld because of the risk of persecution.] On our visit to Bangladesh in May, the Lord provided an incredible example of His grace,…
The Two Natures of Christ
This series offers an overview of the chief teachings of the Christian church. DNA testing has become popular as curiosity about ancestry leads people to investigate family roots. Is my family lineage limited to one…
How Should We Then Live?
“Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as obedient children, not…
The Gloria Patri
“Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.” Some Lutheran churches have begun…
Trust Your Equipment
An Army paratrooper recalls the story of having a bad jump from an airplane that left her with a bloodied mouth and tangled parachute cords. As she hurtled toward the earth, she remembered the words…