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Category: Pastor Martin Noland

Sermon — Pr. Martin Noland — The Train of Witnesses

Sermon Text: Mark 16:1-8 Easter Sunday, Series B Most any day I can hear from my office a long train whistle, coming from…

Posted On 7 Apr 2015

Four Overtures for the 2016 Convention

It’s time . . . to start submitting overtures regarding the issues confronting the LCMS. The following are four overtures that address, in…

Posted On 30 Jan 20156 Apr 2015

Sermon — Pr. Martin Noland — The Beginning of the Gospel

Sermon Text — Mark 1:1-8 December 7, 2015 — 2nd Sunday in Advent, Series B There is always something exciting and auspicious about…

Posted On 8 Dec 2014

Sermon — Pr. Martin Noland — Behold Your King

Text: Matthew 21:1-9 [First Sunday in Advent] Today the Christian church changes its colors from green to purple. Although some churches use the…

Posted On 30 Nov 201430 Nov 2014

Problems with 2013 Dispute/Expulsion System

Editorial Comment: Pastor Noland has been working on analyzing the Dispute Resolution Policy of the LCMS and this is a document that he…

Posted On 31 Oct 2014

Five-Two and PLI Too

The recent BJS posts about the “Five-Two” network may all sound vaguely familiar to any of you who have been reading BJS for…

Posted On 25 Oct 201425 Oct 2014

Deconstructing Lutheran Identity

A recent blog comment by Rev. John Hannah, President of the American Lutheran Publicity Bureau, stated a good bit of truth and got…

Posted On 11 Oct 201411 Oct 2014

Why I’m Optimistic About the LC–MS

Some folks have recently challenged my often-stated assertion since 2010 that “These are good days for the LCMS.” I think it is fair…

Posted On 29 Aug 2014

What is a “Confessional Lutheran”?

Simple Answer: Someone whose religion is in congruence with the canonical Scriptures and the Lutheran confessions found in the “Book of Concord.” The…

Posted On 30 Jul 201429 Jul 2014

Further review of “A Lutheran Book on Purgatory”

This is originally written on a post A Lutheran book on purgatory, pastoral purgatory (written by Pastor Scheer) that was originally written as…

Posted On 10 Jul 201414 Jul 2014

Sermon — Pr. Martin Noland — Two Kinds of Righteousness

Text: Luke 15:1-10 [3rd Sunday after Trinity; one year lectionary] Are you righteous? The dictionary states that the term “righteous” is an adjective…

Posted On 9 Jul 20148 Jul 2014

Do Non-Christians Believe In and Worship the True God?

Consider the argument settled. The Latin version settles it—as it often does . . . After the Yankee Stadium “Prayer for America” in…

Posted On 16 Jun 201419 Jun 2014

The Challenges of Church Growth and Decline

When my wife Karla and I were first married, over twenty years ago, I invited her to join me for the banquet at…

Posted On 5 Jun 201414 Feb 2015

Sermon — Pr. Martin Noland — Praying in the Name of Jesus

Text: John 16:23-30 (1-Year Series) May 25, 2014 — Sixth Sunday of Easter Prayer is one of the simplest things in our religion….

Posted On 27 May 2014

Sermon — Pr. Martin Noland — Do You Hear the Word of God?

Text: John 8:46-59 [Fifth Sunday in Lent] In our Gospel lesson this morning, we see Jesus in an intense debate with the Jewish…

Posted On 8 Apr 2014

Why Biblical Inerrancy is Important — and Always Will Be

Forty years ago, The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (hereafter LCMS) was in an uproar. Its Saint Louis seminary president, John Tietjen, was suspended in…

Posted On 18 Mar 201414 Feb 2015

A New Era in American Evangelicalism?

The lead article in the December 2013 issue of Christianity Today (hereafter CT) was about the Colorado Springs megachurch called New Life and…

Posted On 16 Jan 2014

Sasse, Harrison, and Inerrancy

It has been a long time since I have been so thoroughly edified, educated, and stimulated by one book.  I am talking about…

Posted On 2 Dec 2013

The Moment Everything Changed

In Tuesday’s USA Today, Rick Hampson published an interesting article on the change in America after the assassination of John F. Kennedy titled…

Posted On 22 Nov 201321 Nov 2013

Huck Finn and Impostor Preachers

Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn shows up often in lists of the most important, and most influential, American novels. No doubt…

Posted On 3 Sep 20133 Sep 2013

Commentary and Review of 2013 LCMS Resolutions by Martin R. Noland

Editorial comment: Pastor Charles Henrickson has done a great job working through all the resolutions and presenting comments on them. Pastor Martin Noland…

Posted On 16 Jul 2013

Sermon — Pr. Martin Noland — Facing Death Without Fear or Sorrow

Text: Luke 7:11-17 [3rd Sunday afte Pentecost] What will you do when you are personally faced with death?  Death could stare you in…

Posted On 9 Jun 2013

Is the Missouri Synod an Isolationist, Sectarian, or Legalistic Church-Body?

Former Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) President Gerald Kieschnick recently commented on the responses to the Newtown, Connecticut interfaith prayer service held on December…

Posted On 13 Feb 20139 Feb 2013

Regarding the Biblical Causes for the Removal of Ministers from a Call

Whereas our forebears in the faith consistently followed the orthodox Lutheran practice of only removing a pastor, teacher, or other church-worker from his…

Posted On 29 Jan 2013

Thank God for our Concordias!

I recently was trying to find a good exegetical treatment of the Bible’s doctrine of creation, when I found Joel D. Heck’s little…

Posted On 30 Dec 2012

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