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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…

Posted On 13 Dec 2012

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…

Posted On 13 Dec 2012

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…

Posted On 13 Dec 2012

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…

Posted On 12 Dec 2012

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…

Posted On 21 Nov 2012

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…

Posted On 7 Nov 201212 Nov 2012

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…

Posted On 5 Nov 20125 Nov 2012

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…

Posted On 1 Nov 20125 Nov 2012

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…

Posted On 13 Oct 2012

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…

Posted On 29 Sep 201229 Sep 2012

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…

Posted On 9 Aug 20129 Aug 2012

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…

Posted On 1 Jun 2012

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…

Posted On 26 Apr 2012

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…

Posted On 19 Apr 201219 Apr 2012

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…

Posted On 6 Apr 201216 Sep 2018

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…

Posted On 4 Apr 20124 Apr 2012

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…

Posted On 15 Sep 201116 Sep 2011

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…

Posted On 22 Dec 200822 Dec 2008

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…

Posted On 14 Dec 2008

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…

Posted On 13 Dec 200813 Sep 2018

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…

Posted On 13 Dec 200813 Dec 2008

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