Worldwide KFUO Sharathon 2016, April 21-23
[A number of BJS bloggers appear on Worldwide KFUO quite often. For instance, Joshua Scheer and Charles Henrickson are hosts of the “Concord…
[A number of BJS bloggers appear on Worldwide KFUO quite often. For instance, Joshua Scheer and Charles Henrickson are hosts of the “Concord…
Join me Tuesday, April 5, 2:00-3:00 p.m. (Central), as I host “Concord Matters” on KFUO, AM 850 in St. Louis, and streaming online…
Image via Wikipedia Falat Julian Ash Wednesday, watercolor, 78 x 113 cm (detail) So, what are the supposed pagan origins of Ash Wednesday…
Part I Part II In September 1915, Sanger returned to America and began working again on publishing a new journal titled,…
For Part I click here. Margaret and her husband Bill arrived in New York City in 1910. Upon arrival, the Sangers became involved…
This is the first part in a series on Margaret Sanger. This is not a complete study on Sanger, but rather an introduction…
UPDATE, MONDAY, DEC. 16 . . . I just received this word from on high: The show that was snowed out on Saturday–with…
“Concord Matters,” a new radio/internet program taking listeners through the Book of Concord, premieres tomorrow, Saturday, November 30, 10:00-11:00 a.m. (Central), live on…
This past couple days I had the opportunity to sit and listen to presentations and also present at the Wyoming District Men’s Retreat. …
Visitors? Do pastors and congregations do all they can to make the visitor’s time of worship a Christ-centered time on Sunday mornings? As…
New ideas require new ways of speaking. Old terminology doesn’t cut it when it comes to modern conceptions of church, especially when those…
This is a part of Steadfast in the Parish A printable copy can be found here. We have a problem…
Quoting C.F.W. Walther from the 16th Central District Convention in 1871: We would emphasize particularly that confession by deed and action is here…
“One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter,” goes the well-known cliche, first written by Gerald Seymour in 1975 in his book Harry’s…
Not all questions are good questions. Godly curiosity has limitations. The serpent’s question, “Did God really say…?” (Genesis 3:1) resulted in the fall…
We claim in our Lutheran Confessions that “The Baptism of infants is pleasing to Christ” (LC IV, 49). But is our claim the…
It was sometime in 2006, I was looking for a Lutheran Church to visit and possibly join. I grew up in an ELCA…
Great news to our readers (and watchers!). Some of our authors here at BJS are working diligently on what we are calling “The…
There is no shortage of folks out there who are angry at the Church and at “Christianity” in general. Where did these people…
In “Dying to Live: The Power of Forgiveness”,[1] Harold Senkbeil makes the observation that when a Christian is baptized, Satan puts a target…
“These are Your Words, Heavenly Father. Sanctify us by the Truth. Your Word is Truth. Amen.” I cannot count how many times I…
So we can see there is an anti-God bias affected the way academics and popular writers from that time to today portray Christmas,…
Many Lutherans are involved in the pro-life movement in America. We attend rallies and have a Life Sunday at our church. This is…
The Vigil for Africa will be a live, worldwide event involving as many congregations as possible in a single worship service. Join us…
Good prayer books are hard to find. While good prayer books are available, [endnote 1] most people are after convenience. Just as many…