The Purdue Christmas Program, O’Reilly, The War on Christmas and President Harrison, by Pr. Rossow
When it comes to the two kingdoms, I tend to be an old fashioned, quietest Lutheran. It’s getting tougher in this country to…
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ACELC Posts Convention Overtures, by Pr. Rossow
The Association of Confessing Evangelical Lutheran Churches has produced some very thoughtful overtures for the upcoming LCMS Convention next summer. We encourage you…
Art Just Video on Baptism at Lutheran Visuals, by Pr. Rossow
Lutheran Visuals puts out some great stuff. We have used Dr. Just’s video on the liturgy here at our parish. (I…
Confessions and Conversion of a Former Jesus-Firster, by P. Rossow
Over on the “Tale of Two Synods” post from Pastor Daniel Hinton is the following story of how this blog and others have…
The End Times Cry of the DP’s: “Stay Off the Blogs!” by Pr. Rossow
When is the last time you heard a District President warn the pastors of his district to stay away from the latest heterodox…
Sound Off on the Election Results, by Pr. Rossow
For sure BJS is not a political blog. I am actually surprised and pleased at how seldom the BJS nation inserts political commentary into the…
Capitalism & Heresy – 500 Bucks gets you a Seat at the Women’s Ordination Conference, by Pr. Rossow
How would you like to join others in the LCMS for a conference geared toward developing an overture for the 2013 LCMS convention to ordain…
Lehenbauer and Harrison Team Up and Put Thrivent $$$ to Good Use for Confessional Theology, by Pr. Rossow
The 2010 LCMS convention asked the Commission on Theology and Church Relations (CTCR) to work with the synod president to promote confessional Lutheran theology…
Something Everyone can do to Help Synod and President Harrison – Recruit SOB Staff, by Pr. Rossow
Under the new blue ribbon structure the president and other staff have a lot more responsibility for hiring new executives and other employees…
President Newton Meet Abby, Outside the Labyrinth, by Pr. Rossow
In a post earlier this week Todd Wilken, host of the Issues, Etc. radio program, alerted BJS readers to a troubling conference promoted by…
Founder and Editor of BJS on KFUO this Morning, by Pr. Rossow
Hey, that’s me. I will be interviewed on the Morning Show on KFUO radio this morning at 8:30 CST. The host is Pastor…
BJS Reaches 5 Million Page Load Milestone, by Pr. Rossow
Here at The Brothers of John the Steadfast we fashion ourselves as the go-to-place for Lutheran News and Commentary and by at least…
Wisdom from Marilee, by Pr. Rossow
Over on the post about the Divine Service at Christ Lutheran, Stevensville, Michigan, a BJS commenter named Marilee offered the following which deserves…
Songs I Can’t Turn Off – Coldplay’s “When I Ruled the World,” Thank you Issues Etc! by Pr. Rossow
Things have been pretty serious in BJS land for the last couple of weeks so let’s take a break and make a couple…
Maytag Repairman Pastor – Waiting for Confessers, by Pr. Rossow
Many of you will remember the Maytag commercials about the lonely repairman. He was lonely because the product was so dependable and never…
Micro Koinonia Project Part II – Defining the Problem, by Pr. Rossow
Pastor Mark Schulz and I are embarking on an interesting path. We are on near opposite ends of the LCMS spectrum on how to…
Scary Words: I’m from the District and I’m here to help
I’m stealing this idea from someone else but remember President Reagan’s joke about the nine most terrifying words in the English language: ‘I’m…
Reading through the Book of Concord, week of Dec 22nd
For those of you who have said that you want to start the Online Reading Group when we start at the beginning of…
Reading through the Book of Concord, week of Dec 15th
For those of you who have said that you want to start the Online Reading Group when we start at the beginning of…
Notes on the Liturgy #12 – The Sermon
(One of the goals of Brothers of John the Steadfast is to train the Brothers in good practice and theology. This article is…
BJS National Conference: If They Can Make it from Florida and Washington, then so Can You
Registrations for the Brothers of John the Steadfast National Conference are already coming in. We have people registered from as close as Naperville…