A New Appreciation for Life
FROM THE DESK OF THE PRESIDENT Sometimes life seems routine and lackluster, like watching black and white reruns of an old TV series. Would you like renewed appreciation and enthusiasm for this time of grace?…
Breaking Bad Habits Does Not Make You a Christian
Breaking Bad Habits Does Not Make You a Christian “T hesis XVI—In twelfth place, the Word of God is not rightly divided when the preacher tries to make people believe that they are truly converted…
Saint John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church Okabena, Minnesota
What’s New With YOU? Updates from congregations around the Church of the Lutheran Confession “Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; Unless the Lord guards the city, The watchman…
Lutheran Liturgical Reform, Part 2
Ever wonder why we Lutherans use the form of worship we do? In this series we examine the depth and meaning of the various elements of our worship service, beginning with the history of Christian…
Christian Prayer Works
“Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours,…
The Crimson Worm
“But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men and despised by the people.” (Psalm 22:6) Psalm 22 is a messianic psalm, that is, a psalm which speaks prophetically of the Messiah.…
The Knowledge of God
This series offers an overview of the chief teachings of the Christian church. It takes hard work to become an atheist. Truly denying the existence of any god takes work because it is not what…
Confirmation Crossroads
In the closing scene of the movie Cast Away, Tom Hanks’s character is standing at a crossroads in Texas. After being stranded alone on an island for four years, he has returned to civilization to…
Easter Images
Do you ever get tired of looking at pictures of bygone days? Perhaps. It all depends on whose pictures they are. If they are someone else’s pictures of people you don’t know very well or…
SEEN IN PASSING
Items of interest from various sources of religious news and opinion, in print and on the web. Bureaucrats OK Abortion by Mail. On December 16th the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a regulation allowing…