Every Sunday Pro-Choice Sunday?
Rev. Paul McCain has a very good posting on the topic of “worship wars”: The High Church Danger to the Lutheran Church-A Fraternal…
Great Stuff Found on the Web — Introduction to Theology
A new blog from Pastor Brian Kachelmeier, a frequent guest on Table Talk Radio, is found at RedeemerTheologicalAcademy.org. He is Pastor of Redeemer…
Great Stuff Found on the Web — Resurrecting A Crucifix
Found on Rev. Anthony R. Voltattorni‘s blog, We are All Beggers. Sometime after the inception of Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Standish MI, in…
“Lutheran” finds new adjective use — what are your thoughts?
Alright, we are all used to hearing and seeing “Lutheran” used as a noun. We are even used to seeing it as an…
Bowing, Genuflecting, A Little Green Hill Far Away and Other Liturgical Miscellany, by Pr. Rossow
I categorize the following as the semi-rational musings of a once pietist (childhood), once contemporary worship practitioner (first call) current devotee of traditional,…
Steadfast Dads — The First Duty of a Dad
I would like to thank Pastor Scheer for this opportunity to contribute to Steadfast Lutherans. The topic of Christian fatherhood is always a…
Steadfast Moms — God’s Word among the tasks of the household.
God’s Word is our great heritage, And shall be ours forever; To spread its light from age to age Shall be our chief…
Great Stuff Found on the Web — First synodwide campus conference in 10 years planned
Found on the Reporter: The Synod’s first national conference in 10 years for college students and others in LCMS campus ministries is…
Good News on the Western Chapel Front, by Pr. Rossow
From Pastor Mark Jasa’s (Lutheran Chapel UCLA) facebook: “I heard it from the district president himself The Chapel at UCLA is off the list of…
Attention St. Louis-area Issues, Etc. listeners!
You may have heard that “Issues, Etc.” is “returning” to KFUO radio. This is true, in the sense that KFUO listeners will get…
Sermon — Pr. Tony Sikora — Peter’s Glory and Satan’s Delight in the Heart and Mind of Men
Grace, mercy and peace be unto you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. AMEN! Our text for this…
Micro Koinonia Project Part I – Ground Rules and Introductions, by Pr. Rossow
As I posted the other day, Pastor Mark Schulz and I are embarking on an interesting and hopefully edifying journey. We are not sure…
Does your worship prepare you for death?
I had the opportunity to hear an excellent presentation this afternoon from a neighboring pastor (Rev. Shawn Kumm of Zion, Laramie) on Lutheran…
Great Stuff Found on the Web — The Book of Concord on the Internet
Not that this is a bit of self-promotion, but .. I couldn’t resist this post from Cyberbrethren. Note some resources not mentioned below…
Steadfast on Campus
The college campus is a windy place. Life-long Lutheran students are suddenly carried away from the foundation of the apostles and prophets by…
Steadfast in Worship — Considering all of the Confessions.
When I became a pastor in the Lutheran Church, I said that I would perform the duties of my office in accordance with…
So this Church-Growther and this Liturgomaniac Walk into a Bar…; Micro Koinonia Project Coming to BJS, by Pr. Rossow
So this Church –Growther and this Liturgomaniac walk into a bar… Well, it isn’t quite like that but it is close. It’s not…
Justification is always the issue… Preaching
I know we have kind of beaten the horse a bit with this issue, but I don’t ever get bored with this. Justification…
The Conflict over the HHS Regulations — It Is Theological
Readers of this blog are, by now, familiar with the ongoing conflict between various churches and political factions over the U.S. Department of…
Sermon — Rev. Tony Sikora — Lent 1
Grace, mercy and peace be unto you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. AMEN! Our text for this morning’s…
News from the ACELC updated
From the ACELC Board of Directors: Dear Friends, We just wanted to drop you a short note advising you that all of…
Great Stuff Found on the Web — Good things in small packages…
Found over on Pastoral Meanderings .. Pastor Peter’s blog: Smallness is often under appreciated. I like it when the folks at my…
Weedon goes to Saint Louis: Hamel’s loss is YOUR gain by Rev. Charles Lehmann
Every time the Verba are spoken by one of the Lord’s pastors over the bread and wine, heaven comes down to earth. Angels,…
Google Stats Point to the Sunset of Contemporary Worship? by Pr. Rossow
We can only hope so! We have argued long and hard here on BJS that Contemporary Worship is an aberrant expression of the highly Romantic…
Why didn’t this business model come with Church Growth?
On my recent trip out east for the Brothers of John the Steadfast National Conference my family and I had the fine opportunity…