Sufferings and Glories Revealed
“Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you, searching what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ who was in them…
Sufferings and Glories Revealed
The Introit
In the Old Testament we read of how Esther needed to approach the king to inform him of a genocidal plot against her people. As queen living in the palace, she could go to the…
Imitate Perfection
We’ve all probably seen a movie with this familiar plot: a reluctant hero runs across a bumbling yet likable character and inadvertently saves the individual’s life. The saved fellow then spends the rest of the…
Seen in Passing
Items of interest from various sources of religious news and opinion, in print and on the web. Switching to Contemporary Worship Won’t Stop Church Decline, Study Says. In a comprehensive study of the reasons for…
Visitation to the Bangladesh Lutheran Church Mission
Every other month our CLC Board of Missions updates us with recent news from various mission fields. It goes without saying that travel has been a challenge over the past couple of years due to…
Bread of Life Readings, August 2022
TLH = The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941; WS = Worship Supplement 2000; LSB = Lutheran Service Book, 2006 Date Hymns Reading Comments August 1 TLH 39 Genesis 1 The record of creation is very precise: every…
St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church—White River, South Dakota
What’s new at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church of White River, South Dakota? Probably not much—or so one might be tempted to think! After all, St. Paul’s is an old congregation. Its first services were held…
Proverbial Ponderings
In this series, those involved with CLC foreign missions profile one aspect of our overseas endeavors. (Photos are from the early days of the author’s time in Nigeria) “Proverbs are the palm oil with which…
Original Sin: Fallout from the Fall
This series offers an overview of the chief teachings of the Christian church. When we think of Genesis, we think of beginnings. This is where we learn of creation, the making of man and woman,…
The Happy Inconsistency
“Thesis XX–In the sixteenth place, the Word of God is not rightly divided when a person’s salvation is made to depend on his association with the visible orthodox church and when salvation is denied to…