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We only have a few days left on our “early bird” discounts for our conference coming to Tomball, Texas on February 17-18. Not only will there be great food, drinks, and speakers – but if you register before the new … Continue reading
Pastor Joshua Scheer
Editors Note – I received this small snippet from a friend – The volume (Walther’s Pastoral Theology) it belongs to is coming out in early 2017 and will be quite a gift to the whole English speaking Evangelical Lutheran Church. … Continue reading
REGISTER NOW FOR EARLY BIRD DISCOUNTS Steadfast Lutherans is glad to announce and invite you to our national conference to be held February 17-18, 2017 at Zion Lutheran Church in Tomball, Texas. This year’s theme “The Article” is centered around … Continue reading
Celebrate Advent this year by using a devotion that is also in tune with the coming 500th Anniversary of the Reformation. Solus Christus is a devotion written by Lutheran pastors and provided via Steadfast in the Parish for congregations and … Continue reading
The past few months have been rather busy on the organizational side of the Brothers of John the Steadfast (or Steadfast Lutherans). We have restarted much of the organization, including having a new Board of Directors. At our first meeting, … Continue reading
Coming up in a little over a month, the new Church Year gets started with Advent. It is a very common thing to have a midweek service in the congregation with a special theme. This year, for Steadfast in the … Continue reading
General comments The “Central Thought” could be helpful but the questions involved in this section turns the focus on the student’s experience of the Law rather than what God says in the Law. Perhaps the questions could be combined towards … Continue reading
Tune in: https://www.cuchicago.edu/lca-live Watch the debate. Enjoy theological discussion. … Continue reading
First of all, thanks to the Lutheran Concerns Association for heading up the organization of this debate. Thanks to Dr. Montgomery and Dr. Kloha for agreeing to do it. The other co-sponsoring groups also for their support of the event … Continue reading
Dr. John Warwick Montgomery, Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at Concordia University Wisconsin and Dr. Jeffrey John Kloha, Provost and Professor of Exegetical Theology at Concordia Semniary, Saint Louis, will conduct a debate about the philosophies of Biblical textual criticism … Continue reading
Everyone is seemingly getting ready for the Reformation. Augustana Lutheran Church in Hickory, North Carolina has created these shirts and are making them available to Brothers of John the Steadfast readers. The image is set on the front of the … Continue reading
The Fourth Day of the Convention has finished up. The big thing today was the elections. The United List fared very well. Delegates weighing in the strengths of the candidates and also the trustworthiness of the list’s recommendations voted astoundingly … Continue reading
Day Three of the Convention has concluded. The convention today considered some really good stuff and passed it. First and foremost – Licensed Lay Deacons has been dealt with in a compassionate and faithful manner. The delegation voted by 74% … Continue reading
The Second Day of the LCMS Convention is over. Today saw some good things happen, including fellowship agreements and elections. By the second half of the day, a rather vocal minority began using even more parliamentary tactics to delay debate … Continue reading
Day two of the National Convention of the LCMS has concluded. Today had some really good results in elections. The new Secretary of the Synod is going to be Rev. Dr. John Sias. He will be able to serve our … Continue reading
Today was a day of elections. The Convention considered some resolutions (including some good national and international witness matters), but the main thing that happened today was the elections. The Convention decided to reelect the incumbent Vice Presidents (with a … Continue reading
The 66th Regular National Convention of the LCMS is underway. Yesterday were the floor committee meetings, and I spent some time in the room for Ecclesiastical Supervision (Dispute Resolution/Checks and Balances [12-01] and also Candidate resolutions [12-02]). The Floor Committee … Continue reading
There are a few elections that I would like to spotlight here at Steadfast in the coming week leading up to the Convention (if I have time). The first one I want to focus on is for the office of … Continue reading
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Bylaws of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) instruct the Secretary of the Synod to notify the candidates in the Synod’s presidential election of the results of the balloting at least two weeks prior to the convention. … Continue reading
I am a Senior Pastor. I not only am responsible by Divine Call for preaching, teaching, baptizing, absolving, and communing, but according to human arrangement I am also to lead, develop, supervise, and other things of an administrative nature. With … Continue reading
Pastor Lawrence White once called the Missouri Synod convention a “Tri-Annual Armageddon.” All the synodical hopes and fears of all the years will meet, this summer, in Milwaukee, and as with every convention, the devil try to lead us into … Continue reading
This weekend, pastors and lay delegates throughout the synod will be casting votes for president of the synod. The Brothers of John the Steadfast are recommending that electors vote for Matthew Harrison. This is not a slight against any of … Continue reading
This is a post from the past that shows the kind of Synod President we have. Since BJS is dedicated to helping restore fatherhood, I thought I would share a moment from the BJS Conference this past weekend. While … Continue reading
Monasticism was one of the very things that the Reformation fought against by teaching the truth of God’s Word about vocation over and against the self-chosen good works of the papist monks. Well, almost 500 years later we are still … Continue reading
This year’s convention of the LCMS has a few key issues. One of them is the issue of Lay Ministry, allowed in the LCMS officially since 1989 in opposition to the plain teaching of the Augsburg Confession (Article XIV). To … Continue reading