WELS President Schroeder Reaches Out with Offer of Banjo/Guitar Summit, by Pr. Rossow

The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) President, Mark Schroeder, dropped a fun little comment on our site this week. He said: I suggested to President-elect Harrison that, if I brush up on my guitar, the two presidents could tape a YouTube video entitled, “Dueling Confessional Banjos.” (see comment #5 on this post by Norm) We are very honored to have President Schroeder visit our site. His work and leadership in the WELS is consistent with what we are doing here at BJS to ...

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Reclaim News Report on Oakland 4 Church Trial

Editor's Note: Reclaim News has been reporting regularly over the last several months on the LCMS lawsuit against the "Four Church Ladies from Oakland, California." Here is their most recent report. Judge Throws LCMS-CNHD Out of Court: Justice for Oakland 4 Forget about the trial.  The Judge told the LCMS-CNHD they had not right to sue four Oakland, CA women. The LCMS-CNHD suit against Sharon Bowles, Mary-Ann Hill, Portia Ridgeway, and ...

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President-Elect Matt Harrison's first Theological Challenge

Here is Matt Harrison's first theological challenge and it even comes from a seminary! I found this on Facebook, a posting from Prof Gard at Ft Wayne Seminary to President Matt Harrison, obviously written at 6:55am this morning central time. Daniel Lee Gard -> Matt Harrison: In 16 hours 5 minutes, you will be President of the LCMS, at least in the eastern time zone. But you have an extra ...

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Rev. Fisk on the Book of Concord

Rev. Fisk again hits a homerun with a video talking about his experience finding the Book of Concord, starting with seeing his future wife's copy of it that she purchased because she took one class ...

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An Hour (or three) with Pastor Tim Rossow, by Rev. Jack Gilbert

On July 30, 2010, I had the privilege of meeting with Pastor Tim Rossow at Bethany Lutheran Church and School in Naperville, Illinois. In communicating with him through the Brothers of John the ...

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Here’s to the Liturgy – A Rally Day with the Lopped Off Head of John the Baptist, by Pr. Rossow

Today at Bethany Lutheran – Naperville, Illinois (pardon the construction work as we transition to a new website) we are rallying the children and adults back to Sunday School and Bible Class and ...

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The Distaste of Feeding Felt Needs in the LCMS Captured on Ohio District Blog, by Pr. Rossow

Over on the Ohio District website there is a blog (PDF) (since this was posted the blog has been taken down - see the note at the end of this post) that leaves a bad taste in the Confessional ...

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What is Worship? by Rev Joshua Scheer

Rev. Joshua Scheer of Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church, Bagley, MN has this article available as a PDF file on his church website; we've posted several similar to this in the past, but wanted to ...

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This Just in from Darrell - The NALC is Born

Over on an old post on the NALC (North American Lutheran Church) we just recieved this comment from Darrell. The North American Lutheran Church has been born. The constitution was just adopted by a ...

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President Kieschnick Closes the Book as do We - the Importance of Divine Monergism, by Pr. Rossow

In what appears to be the final edition of his Perspectives, a weekly internet letter that Gerald Kieschnick has been writing for nearly a year now, the LCMS president shares some final thoughts on ...

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Streaming Internet Video - October 10th, The Book of Genesis by Rev. Dr. Joel Heck

On October 10, 2010 (2:00 PM Eastern/ GMT-5), Rev. Dr. Joel Heck of Concordia University, Austin will give a one hour presentation on the Book of Genesis, followed by a question and answer session. ...

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It’s Not about Love; It’s about the Truth – Profession of a Homosexual Sinner on the BJS Site, by Pr. Rossow

Our BJS website is very blessed to have a truthful, revealing and Scriptural profession of a man who struggles with the sin of homosexuality. His words are instructive for all of us as to what ...

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Facebook Integration

A BJS reader and commentator sent me a suggestion last night -- to add a facebook "like" button on each comment so people can agree with something that others say. I've added the button to posts ...

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