Follow the Scriptures through Passion Week — Courtesy of Around The Word Journal
One of the included resources in the latest Around The Word journal was this excellent chart of the Biblical accounts surrounding Holy Week. …
One of the included resources in the latest Around The Word journal was this excellent chart of the Biblical accounts surrounding Holy Week. …
The Rev. Tapani Simojoki has heart-warming news to report from Finland. A conservative Lutheran diocese has been born in Finland. It grew out of…
Martin Luther and his colleagues in Wittenberg were not the only theologians to set forth a theological program of reform in the early…
It’s no exaggeration when I say I’ve been mulling over in my head for a great deal of time exactly how I was…
Recently, here on BJS, and others have stated that our churches get out of the state marriage business. I concur. This is in…
At this past Lenten Wednesday service we (Divine Savior Lutheran Church, Shepherdsville, KY) had an opportunity to introduce a couple of young men…
In four years, we will be celebrating the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation. For these five centuries, the Reformers have been accused of…
LUTHER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ISSUES STATEMENT REGARDING HIS WITHDRAWAL Posted: Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:15 PM Dr. Mark Hagerott, the finalist for the job of…
Last night featured the next installment of Executive Producers Mark Burnett and Roma Downeys’ docu-drama The Bible on The History Channel. Theirs is…
From the novel, Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy (1971), the narrator, Dr. Tom More reflects: Saint Francis was Doris‘s favorite saint,…
Originally posted at Pr. Lovett’s blog, Oratio + Meditatio + Tentatio I have always found it a bit odd that after feeding the…
So last night the History Channel docudrama “The Bible” premiered. It was overall a hard episode (actually two episodes) since it covered the…
Heard on Issues, Etc. during the February 20 segment on catechesis, confession, and absolution, featuring Rev. Peter Bender, Pastor of Peace Lutheran Church…
Another great post found over on Pr. Mark Surburg’s Blog: A. Theology of the Divine Service Every Sunday we gather for worship…
A great post found on Rev Schmidt’s blog: It has not happened yet, not by a long shot; but mark my words,…
Like us on facebook and receive these every day during Lent. Here is today’s devotional on the namesake of this site. We need…
We all know that Lent is a time for repentance, reconciliation amongst the brethren, and even suffering. It’s even an occasion for a…
There were tons of reasons to be joy-filled at the Brothers of John the Steadfast conference this past weekend. Here are a few…
On April 12th 1861 one of the most famous battles in American History began and opened up the flood gates to the bloodiest…
The last pope to resign was in 1415, little over a century before the start of the Reformation. For us Americans who now…
In search and rescue operations tracking an individual lost in the wilderness becomes difficult if not impossible when multiple foreign footprints dot the…
We all know the First Commandment, “You shall have no other gods” (or more literally, You shall have no other gods before My…
The problem with which we have to deal is how to save the Christian community at this moment from the danger of being…
BJS just received an interesting comment over here. As the saying goes, “they will know we are Christians by our love”. I have…
We Americans vote on everything. We vote on who will be our next President, all the way down to who will be the…