The Northern Illinois District Convention Part III: President Kieschnick Pays Me a Visit on the Convention Floor, by Pr. Rossow
(The other posts in this series can be viewed by clicking on the Editor’s Blog in the Brother’s Cafe.) Our last exciting…
Month: May 2009
The Transforming Churches Network: Part 6, Turning the Church Upside Down, by Scott Diekmann
(Scott’s posts are archived on the Regular Columns page under the title “Apologetics: Apply Liberally.” This is the sixth post in a series…
Interested Laymen’s Blue Ribbon Survey Hits 1,000 Registered Users; It is Fair and Objective Unlike the Task Force’s Push Poll
I have just been alerted to the fact that the Blue Ribbon Survey has hit 1,000 registered users. That’s the good news. The…
Invited Guests from Around the Synod Take the BRTFSSG Survey and Share their Responses with Commentary ““ Today’s Guest: Pr. Charles Henrickson
We have invited over thirty people from around the synod to take the BRTFSSG survey and share with us their responses and comments….
Birth Announcement from Mollie
We received the following birth and baptism announcement and thought we would pass it along to our readers. Congratulations Mark and Mollie. …
The Northern Illinois District Convention Part II – The Opening Devotion Includes Foul Language References, Another Example of How this is not Your Grandfather’s Church, by Pr. Rossow
(The other posts in this series can be viewed by clicking the Editor’s Blog in the Brother’s Cafe.) The opening devotion of the…
Memorial Moments – Devotion of the Week by BJS
There are many devotional sources around the web that will deliver to your inbox a new short piece to help you in your…
Visiting Churches Like this Makes Me Forget the Synod’s Problems (for a while anyway) – A Trip to the Very First BJS Chapter, by Pastor Rossow
Can you imagine having 20% of your regular worshipers in a Confessions reading group? That’s what Pastor Ted Cook gets at Zion Lutheran…
Notes on the Liturgy #18 — Pre-Communion Prayer & Lord’s Prayer
(One of the goals of Brothers of John the Steadfast is to train the Brothers in good practice and theology. This article is…
Issues expected to come before the Convention of the Minnesota South District
(This anonymously written article is circulating around the internet. If you know of anyone in the Minnesota South Distirct you may want to…
The Transforming Churches Network: Part 5, Whose Vision Is It? by Scott Diekmann
(Scott’s posts are archived on the Regular Columns page under the title “Apologetics: Apply Liberally.” This is the fifth post in a series…
Invited Guests from Around the Synod Take the BRTFSSG Survey and Share their Responses with Commentary ““ Today’s Guest: Dr. Bethany Tanis
We have invited over thirty people from around the synod to take the BRTFSSG survey and share with us their responses and comments….
“Pure Doctrine and Love for People” (1 John 4:1-11)
I don’t always post my sermons here, but I do occasionally, especially when they intersect with the particular interests of the Brothers of…
What is the Post Synodical Age? A Live Report from The Augustana Ministerium Annual Conference, by Pr. Rossow
I am sitting in an LCMS church just north of Kansas City (Trinity – Kearney, MO) listening to a fine lecture delivered by…
Report #1 from the Northern Illinois District Convention: One of the Few Bright Spots, by Pr. Rossow
The Northern Illinois District Convention was as usual an overall disappointment for confessional Lutheranism but there were some bright spots. Over the next…
The Transforming Churches Network: Part 4, Taking the Plunge, by Scott Diekmann
(Scott’s posts are archived on the Regular Columns page under the title “Apologetics: Apply Liberally.” This is the fourth post in a series…
New Feature: Invited Guests from Around the Synod Take the BRTFSSG Survey and Share their Responses with Commentary ““ Today’s Guest: The Infamous and Pseudonymous “Carl Vehse”
We have invited over thirty people from around the synod to take the BRTFSSG survey and share with us their responses and comments….
Save 50% on Treasury of Daily Prayer – Special from Concordia Publishing House
We have featured the Treasury of Daily Prayer from CPH several times here on the website. We highly recommend it to our readers…
We are Different, by Kari Anderson (CLCC)
(The CLCC is one of the many confessional groups that regularly post here on BJS. CLCC does fine work around the country sponsoring…
Memorial Moments – Devotion of the Week by BJS
There are many devotional sources around the web that will deliver to your inbox a new short piece to help you in your…
Touching Testimony in Response to a Steadfast Lutherans of the Past Story
(Editor’s Note: I woke this morning to find this wonderful gift of a comment on the website – posted at 1:38 AM –…
The Transforming Churches Network: Part 3, Eliminating Regressive Attitudes, by Scott Diekmann
(Scott’s posts are archived on the Regular Columns page under the title “Apologetics: Apply Liberally.” This is the third post in a series…
Lutherans Avoid Rome’s Faulty Practice but Embrace Evangelicalism’s Faulty Practice, Doctrine and Practice: Resisting the Influence of Evangelicalism, Part V, by Pr. Klemet Preus
(These posts are adapted from a presentation Pastor Preus made in Sweden for the North European Luther Academy in 2006 and which was…
CD’s from the ACL Conference in Minnesota Now Available
(Editor’s Note: Many of you were asking about recordings from the ACL conference two weeks ago in Minneapolis. The following announcement just appeared…
New Feature: Invited Guests from Around the Synod Take the BRTFSSG Survey and Share their Responses with Commentary ““ Today’s Guest: The Rev. Dr. Steven Hein
We have invited over thirty people from around the synod to take the BRTFSSG survey and share with us their responses and comments….