Promises to the Pastoral Office – Chemnitz in Walther’s Kirche und Amt.
Found from the blog Mercy Journeys with Pastor Harrison. Starting with a short statement from Pastor Harrison: I continue working on the…
Found from the blog Mercy Journeys with Pastor Harrison. Starting with a short statement from Pastor Harrison: I continue working on the…
I recently read the Reporter article about continued LCMS-ELCA talks (see it here.) This post is a continued discussion based upon my previous…
Sermon based on the text: Matthew 10:34-42 [2nd Sunday after Pentecost] for June 26, 2011: In our Gospel lesson this morning, Jesus talks…
Today (at least out here in the Mountain Time Zone) it is still June 25th, the 481st anniversary of the Augsburg Confession. Some…
Ok, it’s just a play on words, the good folks at Redeemer are not going off the deep end into the error-laden world…
[poll id=”5″] I heard on my local talk radio tonight that Michelle Bachmann will be running for President this time around. Sarah Palin…
I have being wondering what the LCMS moderates have been thinking since the election of President Matthew Harrison and his fellow conservatives in…
In my recent post about Rev. Curtis’ papers bringing election into the evangelism discussion there were many lively comments. I also noticed in…
This is a newsletter article written by Pastor Karl Weber, author of our posts on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. If you have…
I just finished re-reading one of my favorite papers on liturgy and indifferent matters written by our now Synod President. It can be…
Found posted a few days ago on Logia. It’s interesting reading through the Ordination Service from the last century. Translator’s Note: The…
Many times at conferences and conventions certain congregations and pastors are paraded forward as fine examples for the rest of us to emulate. …
In the last few months I have heard two different stories of folks thinking about moving from a Church Growth parish to a…
Thank you to BJS reader Matt Mills for finding this information and posting it on our last story about the proposed selling of…
Rev. Heath Curtis has rendered a great service to the Church. He has published his papers and audio recordings from his presentation to…
The DayStar Journal, a publication of disgruntled LCMS’ers who reject Scriptural truth, is putting out a series of articles based on the premise…
I stumbled across this story on the ELCA and how the great turbulence after the 2009 Assembly has largely disappeared. Here is the…
Update: A fellow pastor helped raise attention to the original article on some points that I needed to make more clear – thanks…
Recently, there has been a lot of posts about the campus ministry situation in Minneapolis. If you look at all of the various…
They have built all sorts of dorms and apartments around the University Chapel in Minneapolis. This is a Church Growth dream come true!…
Fifty campus pastors, deaconesses and others who do work on various college campuses representing the LCMS have signed a powerful and evangelical letter asking the…
Over the past years of my personal study of the Lutheran Confessions, I have noticed something that I think I have often experienced…
One of the first postings I wrote on BJS had to do with the ongoing pulpit shortage in the LCMS (other Lutherans are…
(LCA just released the May issue of the Lutheran Clarion. We are pleased to post articles on the BJS website from one of…
Thanks to a loyal BJS reader for finding this post on Lutheran Worship from the Intrepid Lutherans blog. They are a group of Wisconsin Synod…