Responding to National Tragedy
Perhaps the best way to respond to a national tragedy – or any kind of tragedy, is with mourning, repentance, and faith. One…
Perhaps the best way to respond to a national tragedy – or any kind of tragedy, is with mourning, repentance, and faith. One…
“The Joy of Repentance” (Luke 15:1-10) Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of the season of Lent. And today we begin a…
Here are a couple of additional resolved’s that could be added to the below overture, and/or worded a bit better. RESOLVED, that the…
This catchy title piqued my attention on Facebook recently. I wasn’t sure what to expect from this blog post. I found – to…
St. Valentine’s Day has become one of the major secular holidays in the United States. The day itself is one of the few…
Former Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) President Gerald Kieschnick recently commented on the responses to the Newtown, Connecticut interfaith prayer service held on December…
[On Sunday the following overture was adopted, unanimously, both by my congregation and our circuit forum, to be submitted to the LCMS Convention…
So I awoke yesterday to find the news of Pope Benedict XVI resigning, the first pope to do so in almost 600 years. …
Part 2 of our previous posting found on Ad Crucem: The greatest commandment is this: “Love the Lord your God with all…
In search and rescue operations tracking an individual lost in the wilderness becomes difficult if not impossible when multiple foreign footprints dot the…
Several months ago I posted an article titled, “Attention All Former Evangelicals” on Steadfast Lutherans. In this article I announced the need for former Evangelicals…
One of the things that our readers are finding helpful is our facebook page. Each time an article is published here on our…
For the second year in a row, long-term conference attendee Rick has offered a drawing of a premium edition of the Book of…
Pastor Karl Weber wrote this for his March 2012 newsletter and gives his permission to share it wherever. Feel free to copy it…
Found on ConcordiaTheology.org: The long-anticipated – or long-feared, depending on one’s perspective – official decision to rescind limitations on the use of…
President Harrison’s Video on the Newtown, Conn., Statement of Unity and Pastoral Letters “LCMS President Matthew C. Harrison summarizes the events following the…
I like ice cream. Rocky Road happens to be one of my favorite flavors, but really, anything with walnuts, almonds or peanuts will…
We all know the First Commandment, “You shall have no other gods” (or more literally, You shall have no other gods before My…
“The Vision and the Voice of the Transfiguration” (Luke 9:28-36) Today is the Last Sunday after the Epiphany, the day we observe the…
[“A Statement of Unity” and “Pastoral Letters on the Newtown Tragedy” today have been issued by Pastor Rob Morris, District President Timothy Yeadon,…
There are several posts about the current topic running across the web that we would like to call your attention to. Rather than…
If we see ourselves as sinners (damned by our thoughts, words and deeds) we will go to church to hear the Gospel Word…
The problem with which we have to deal is how to save the Christian community at this moment from the danger of being…
BJS just received an interesting comment over here. As the saying goes, “they will know we are Christians by our love”. I have…
Authored by BJS author Mollie Hemingway on Patheos.com (GetReligion): There is nothing more fun about being a confessional Lutheran than explaining our position…