Sinful Separatism or Proper Rejection of Unionism?
Adorned with freshly laced Brooks Adrenalines, I stepped off the hotel elevator and ran into one of my confessional pastor friends. He obviously…
Adorned with freshly laced Brooks Adrenalines, I stepped off the hotel elevator and ran into one of my confessional pastor friends. He obviously…
Curled up in my inbox a while back was an email from the District requesting that I complete the online Congregation Life Cycle…
My classmates are agreed to a man that dogmatics in the mid-1950s was a completely undistinguished enterprise. That’s a polite way of saying…
Despair and consternation may surround us. We fret over the onslaught of Islam. We see our rights ebbing away in the United States….
BJS is compiling a list of proposed overtures for District Conventions and the 2016 Synodical Convention which can be found here. This overture…
This article was written by Rev. Dr. Martin R. Noland, and was first published in the The Lutheran Clarion, a publication of The…
Martin Chemnitz, in his brilliant work The Two Natures in Christ, emphasizes the importance of using correct terminology to maintain, unadulterated, the doctrine…
Here’s the latest statement from the LCMS Council of Presidents (pasted below), released on the Witness, Mercy, Life Together blog. While I am…
The Southern Illinois District in convention adopted the following resolution 79-17. Note that page and line numbers have been removed; the original with…
Will Underwood, an occasional BJS reader and member of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, emailed me, offering some insightful comments regarding the recent…
This resolution was drafted by Rev. Joseph Fisher for the South Wisconsin District Convention. (originally posted in facebook group We Support LCMS President…
Back in the day, it was impossible to clunk the knob through more than about five channels on your rabbit-ear-adorned monochromatic TV set…
In 2008, the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod canceled Issues, Etc. That single event galvanized an entire generation of do-nothings like me to sit up…
The Lutheran Concerns Association Annual Conference is right around the corner on January 19, the day before Concordia Theological Seminary’s Symposia begin in…
The 2015 Brothers of John the Steadfast Conference is coming up! The one pious bone in my body thinks the best thing about…
Pastor Jeremy Rhode, being a theologian of the cross, calls a thing what it is in this recent Issues, Etc. 24 segment discussing,…
There may be a few pastors in the Missouri—Synod who lord it over their flock. Some of those who have donned the mantel…
From the time Satan first uttered the words “Did God really say?” Christ’s doctrine has been bent and warped to suit mankind’s own…
The Transforming Churches Network paradigm for the Office of the Holy Ministry: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther’s paradigm for the Office of the…
Not that long ago I read through a Concordia University’s glossy biannual magazine. I was struck by how little Jesus there was…
The Jehovah’s Witnesses interlinear Bible, titled The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures (KIT), was first released in 1969. Called “the purple…
“The Lutheran Church is the TRUE VISIBLE CHURCH; not the universal Church, not the only saving Church, not the only Christian Church, but…
Many thanks from Ch. James Buckman and Deaconess Carolyn Brinkley to all of you who have so graciously and generously responded to the…
A flash of color caught my eavesdropping eye as the person next to me was flipping through a magazine. It was an advertisement,…
Reprinted with permission from the Facebook page of the same name. Due to government cutbacks in funding worship supplies for deployed chaplains,…