LCMS Convention Day Four
The Fourth Day of the Convention has finished up. The big thing today was the elections. The United List fared very well. Delegates…
Author: Pastor Joshua Scheer
Pastor Joshua Scheer is the Senior Pastor of Our Savior Lutheran Church in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He is also the Editor-in-chief of Brothers of John the Steadfast. He oversees all of the work done by Steadfast Lutherans. He is a regular host of Concord Matters on KFUO.
Pastor Scheer and his lovely wife Holly (who writes and manages the Katie Luther Sisters) have four children and enjoy living in Wyoming.
LCMS Convention Day Three – A Good day with no ugly.
Day Three of the Convention has concluded. The convention today considered some really good stuff and passed it. First and foremost – Licensed…
Convention Day Two – The Ugly
The Second Day of the LCMS Convention is over. Today saw some good things happen, including fellowship agreements and elections. By the second…
Convention Day Two – The Good.
Day two of the National Convention of the LCMS has concluded. Today had some really good results in elections. The new Secretary of…
Convention Day One Recap
Today was a day of elections. The Convention considered some resolutions (including some good national and international witness matters), but the main thing…
Convention Day One Under Way
The 66th Regular National Convention of the LCMS is underway. Yesterday were the floor committee meetings, and I spent some time in the…
LCMS Election 2016 – Secretary of the Synod – Rev. Dr. John Sias
There are a few elections that I would like to spotlight here at Steadfast in the coming week leading up to the Convention…
Harrison wins re-election
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Bylaws of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) instruct the Secretary of the Synod to notify the candidates in the…
Checks and Balances are a good thing for governance
I am a Senior Pastor. I not only am responsible by Divine Call for preaching, teaching, baptizing, absolving, and communing, but according to…
Pastor Wolfmueller weighs in on President Harrison
Pastor Lawrence White once called the Missouri Synod convention a “Tri-Annual Armageddon.” All the synodical hopes and fears of all the years will…
Three (or Four?) More Years! Steadfast with Harrison.
This weekend, pastors and lay delegates throughout the synod will be casting votes for president of the synod. The Brothers of John the…
What the picture doesn’t show (fatherhood and a Synodical President)
This is a post from the past that shows the kind of Synod President we have. Since BJS is dedicated to helping…
Neo-Monasticism, Lay Ministry, and Korah
Monasticism was one of the very things that the Reformation fought against by teaching the truth of God’s Word about vocation over and…
Licensed Lay Whatchamacallit? Let Gottesdienst help you understand the issue.
This year’s convention of the LCMS has a few key issues. One of them is the issue of Lay Ministry, allowed in the…
Pr. Wolfmueller on Bumper Sticker Theology and the Anti-Catechism
The congregation I serve has a speaker come every year for an afternoon and teach on an evangelism related topic. This year, Pastor…
Steadfast Readers like good theology, good beer, good scotch, and they should have good coffee as well.
You can have theology any time of the day. However other gifts of God have their appropriate time. In the morning, when you…
Driving on Sunday is a First Article Gift
Editor’s Note: Go and check out this new Lutheran site Driving on Sunday. I hear it all the time. “The world is…
A Conference on Faithfulness to AC XIV — Go if you can!
Gottesdienst, one of the best online and print Lutheran organizations out there is hosting a conference on Tuesday, May 17th in St. Louis…
Candidates get a turn.
We have seen what the 3-10A Task Force came up with – nothing decisive or substantial. You can read the original resolution, report,…
29 stanzas of greatness for our readers.
Thank you to Mark DeGarmeaux for the translation. We know this one from LSB’s “On my heart imprint Your Image” which is only…
2016 Conference Video Study — Reformation Preaching
The following are some reflection/study questions for watching the presentation by Pr. Hull on “Reformation Preaching”: Whose beard surpasses Pr. Hull’s beard? What…
From His Fullness We Have Received — 2016 Lenten Devotional
Here it is, just in time (late actually). For use wherever it is needed. This devotional is the culmination of the work of…
Last minute Lenten Devotional from Steadfast in the Parish coming by tomorrow
As we did in Advent, so there will be a free Lenten Devotion put out by Steadfast Lutherans, but it has been delayed…
2016 Steadfast Conference Recap – Texans show some great hospitality and Lutherans confess great theology
Today marked the last day of the 2016 Steadfast Lutherans Conference. This year was a marked difference than previous years. Instead of…
Steadfast Lutherans Conference – Start the celebration of the Reformation with us
This coming year will be filled with much fanfare about the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. The Synod has already begun to prepare…