Today we welcome over 200 folks to our annual conference here in Naperville, Illinois. Welcome travelers and those who may be tracking us…
President Harrison has just sent out a link to the latest edition of the LCMS Missions magazine. You can download the pdf here. There…
We have had some incredible banquet speeches at the BJS Annual Conference but this year may take the cake, that is if you…
I just got back from three weeks of preaching and teaching in East Africa. I met and talked with several Bishops, pastors, other…
I found the note in the picture on my chair when I got to church the other day. It is from my Principal…
In honor of Rev. James May, the Director of Lutherans in Africa (LIA) coming to the BJS conference this year, at one of…
There are three things that I see need to be done to move forward with the Matthew Becker case and in the following…
2.15 Expulsion of a District President or Officer from Membership in the Synod 2.15.1 The action to commence expulsion of a district president or…
Progress is not the sole property of free-thinkers unteathered to Scripture like Matthew Becker or out of the traitional/liturgical box church planners like…
I am not talking about voters’ assemblies. I am not talking about the true visible church of God on earth. I am not…
The attached video is part of a presentation by Ian Morgan Cron at the Five Two Wiki conference this fall. It has the feel of a youth convention. Here is a tweet on the video clip on the Five Two web page:
There is something incredibly beautiful in chanting “shalom”
The following is from an email I just received. This looks like a really great service to pastors and those laity who want…
The 2015 BJS Conference cuisine has just been announced. The two day conference will include all the usuals (manly man breakfast, Chicago pizza…
Why do people put Face Book blogs up on the internet and then delete comments that they don’t like? I guess it is…
I completed the D Min program at Concordia Theological Seminary a few years back and it was one of the highlights of my…
In the Gospel reading for this week in the one year series Jesus says “Unless you see signs and wonders you will not…
So you don’t think I am just a bomb-lobbing curmudgeon, I thought I would offer a few thoughts by way of solution to…
The sprawling headline across the top of the most recent Reporter (November 2014), the official newspaper of the LCMS, brags “CUS Enrollment Hits…
Comment #50 over on the Five Plus Two Makes Three post caught my eye. I think it is worth posting for all to…
Rev. Chris Rosebrough is the founder and moderator of Pirate Christian Radio. He is a sharp witted and sharp thinking Lutheran. He has…
The 5/2 editors are deleting comments on their blogs that they apparently don’t like. (You can find these blogs at the Five Two…
Don’t write off entrepreneurs in the church. I know some great churchy entrepreneurs such as Todd Wilken (Issues, Etc.), my partner in ministry…
In a post yesterday Martin Noland quoted John Hannah asserting that an aversion to Roman Catholicism is what makes LCMS’ers want to look…
St. Paul Lutheran Church, Hamel, Illinois dedicated its restored sanctuary on Sunday. It was devastated months ago by a fire in the church…
A few months ago I complained that most of the email coming out of synod and district was weighted toward the mercy end…