A REPORT ON THE MICHIGAN DISTRICT CONVENTION, by Pr. Thomas Messer
The 99th Convention of the largest District in the LCMS was held Sunday, June 28 – Wednesday, July 1. Below is a…
The 99th Convention of the largest District in the LCMS was held Sunday, June 28 – Wednesday, July 1. Below is a…
Phillip and Cheryl Magness drove from Naperville, Illinois down to Colinsville, Illinois on Tuesday (about four and a half hours) to represent BJS…
Okay, so we’ve been getting some reports coming out of last week’s Ohio District Convention that are interesting, to say the least. President…
From the Hurriyet Daily News: A new show set to grace Turkish television screens will see a Muslim imam, a Christian priest, a…
The outgoing board of directors of the Minnesota South District (many of them have been unseated) did BJS the favor of helping us…
(Editor’s Note – We thank regular BJS website reader Glen Piper for this summary of the Indiana District Convention. You can also read…
Someone said: The MNS BOD resolution to require that mission congregations use LSB to receive funding was an overreach. It galvanized the left…
Speaking of anniversaries, along with our article on our One Year Anniversary, many members are asking about the automatic renewal of their membership….
Issues, Etc. is celebrating their one year anniversary of being back on the radio. The Brothers of John the Steadfast congratulate Todd and…
One of our readers sent us a link to Rev. Randy Golter’s presidential address to the Rocky Mountain District. I come from a…
(Editor’s Note: Lincoln Winter is pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church Wheatland in southeastern Wyoming. I last knew of Lincoln when he was a…
(Scott’s other posts are archived on the Regular Columns page of the website under the title “Apologetics – Apply Liberally to the Affected…
(Editor’s Note: This is a delegate report from the recent meeting of the conservative Episcopalians and Anglicans who have formed a new “communion.”…
Apparently some have taken umbrage at my claim that people at the MNS convention “took rather complex issues and turned them into simplistic,…
(Editor’s Note: Donna’s posts are archived on the Regular Columns page under the title “Confessions of a Confessional Church Administrator.” Donna is the…
Last year, President Kieschnick claimed that the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod wasn’t divided. Not at all. We were more unified than we’d…
In his June letter to pastors, President Kieschnick says that the Ablaze!(TM) fundraising campaign has brought in $48.1 million in pledges and gifts….
So the new Anglican Church in North America launched this week and heard addresses from Southern Baptist megachurch guru Rick Warren and Orthodox…
I was writing a column about vocation the other day and came across this amazing quote from Luther in his Estate of Marriage:…
(The Confessional Lutherans for Christ’s Commission are one of the many confessional groups that post regularly on the BJS site. Their posts are…
(Editor’s Note: We know Pastor Blazek for his cartoons but he is also a fine theologian. He wrote the following article to go…
Today is the anniversary of the Presentation of the Augsburg Confession to the Holy Roman Emporer Charles V in 1530. It was fitting…
(Scott’s other posts are archived on the Regular Columns page of the website under the title “Apologetics – Aply Liberally to the Affected…
In Part One, “MoDist Gains,” I reviewed the elections and resolutions that took place at the Missouri District Convention last week. Now in…
Considering how large our church body is, we rarely get any media coverage. Usually this is a blessing since many of the members…