Be at Leisure: A Lutheran Approach to Outreach, 5. Procreation
So, we’ve talked about why the Church need not fear for her survival. We’ve started the discussion of outreach with the importance of…
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Open Communion: Strange to Lutherans
Open Communion: Strange to Lutherans Having seen Closed Communion taught from Scripture and practiced throughout church history, the question is whether the Lutherans…
Time to order your 2019 Pastoral Desk Diary from CPH
This resource is excellent. It includes a lot of features that are useful for the Lutheran Pastor (including the texts for the…
Reviewing Forde – Forde’s “On Being a Theologian of the Cross” part 2
Editor’s Note: The following comes from Pastor Joseph Abrahamson of the ELS. He is the well known author our Redeeming Holy Days from…
Some Notes on AC XIV
These are some notes I prepared when I taught at a circuit pastors meeting a couple months ago in the High Plains Circuit…
Trinity 8 – Wolves in sheep’s clothing
Trinity 8 2018 Matt. 7:15–23 University Lutheran Chapel, Boulder, CO In the Name of the Father, and of the X Son, and of…
Be at Leisure: A Lutheran Approach to Outreach, 4. Hospitality
A congregation that believes, teaches, and confesses sound doctrine is a place of divine outreach. When people are brought to that place, God…
A Laymen’s Commentary on the Augsburg Confession: God
Article I: Of God. 1] Our Churches, with common consent, do teach that the decree of the Council of Nicaea concerning the Unity…
Reviewing Forde – Forde’s “On Being a Theologian of the Cross” part one
Editor’s Note: The following comes from Pastor Joseph Abrahamson of the ELS. He is the well-known author our Redeeming Holy Days from Pagan…
Lambs at Pasture for the Ninth Sunday after Trinity
Lambs at Pasture for the Ninth Sunday after Trinity and its Answer Key are now available for download. English Version English Answer Key The…
Open Communion: Strange to the Church
Now that we’ve seen what Scripture says about fellowship in the Lord’s Supper, we learn that Open Communion is strange to church history…
Hymn on the first half of 1st Corinthians 11
A friend from high school recently remarked that you hear a lot of hymns about the second half of 1 Corinthians 11 (Lord’s Supper),…
Be at Leisure: A Lutheran Approach to Outreach, 3. Beauty
No congregation can claim to be Christian without faithfulness to the Word of God, because it is the pure Word of God that…
Reviewing Forde – Notes on various writings of Forde
Editor’s Note: The following comes from Pastor Joseph Abrahamson of the ELS. He is the well-known author our Redeeming Holy Days from Pagan…
The Lord’s care and provision – Trinity 7 – by Rev. Joshua Hayes
Seventh Sunday after Trinity Mark 8 University Lutheran Chapel, Boulder, CO In the Name of the Father, and of the X Son, and…
Lambs at Pasture for the Eighth Sunday after Trinity
Lambs at Pasture for the Eighth Sunday after Trinity and its Answer Key are now available for download. English Version English Answer Key The…
Open Communion: Strange to God
Open Communion—the practice of communing those confessing something contrary to the Bible—is strange to God and His Word. God’s Word is clear: It…
Works for righteousness vs. works from righteousness – Trinity 6 sermon from Rev. Joshua Hayes
Sixth Sunday after Trinity Matthew 5 University Lutheran Chapel, Boulder, CO In the Name of the Father, and of the X Son, and…
Modern Medicine and Science: Today’s Sorcery
Let me make this clear right off the bat. Obviously all things are pure to the pure, just as Paul says to Titus…
A Laymen’s Commentary on the Augsburg Confession: Preface
Note: This is the second series of posts providing commentary on the Book of Concord adapted from my Lutheran Essentials Class Notes. I…
Reviewing Forde – Forde’s 1975 “Loser Takes All: The Victory of Christ”
Editor’s Note: The following comes from Pastor Joseph Abrahamson of the ELS. He is the well-known author our Redeeming Holy Days from Pagan…
The Strangeness of Open Communion: Introduction
The following is the first section of the paper I presented at the 2018 Steadfast Lutherans Conference at Zion Lutheran Church & School…
Be at Leisure: A Lutheran Approach to Outreach, 2. Faithfulness
Steadfast Lutherans will soon be publishing a book titled “Be at Leisure: A Lutheran Approach to Outreach.” The book will be available as…
Lambs at Pasture for the Sixth Sunday after Trinity
Lambs at Pasture for the Sixth Sunday after Trinity and its Answer Key are now available for download. English Version English Answer Key…
The Rush to be Confirmed
Recently, I began another new member class for those desiring to learn what we believe, teach, and confess. In a small amount of…