“The financial crisis that Synod is facing”
If you go to this page on the Synodical website, you’ll see an appeal for funds for something called the 2010 National Offering….
If you go to this page on the Synodical website, you’ll see an appeal for funds for something called the 2010 National Offering….
I originally read this article in the hardcopy (gasp! Not online!) edition of For the Life of the World, a magazine of Concordia…
I had the pleasure of being involved for several years with Confessional Lutheran youth gatherings. The group I was involved with is Higher…
The voices in support of women’s ordination in the LCMS have grown stronger and not weaker in the last few years as evidenced…
“CONFESSING THE FAITH: IN LIGHT OF THE LUTHERAN CONFESSIONS” is the theme for “A Congress on the Lutheran Confessions,” sponsored by the Association…
The Santa Cruz Sentinel has a story from last September headlined “Local Evangelical Lutherans applaud church’s decision allowing gay clergy.” It’s about the…
The nominations have been calculated and Rev. Matt Harrison has received 75% more nominations than his closest rival. Never, in synodical history has…
Did you notice on the Cross-Focused Leadership for Missouri Fan Page on Facebook the announcement that Pr Matt Harrison is speaking at St….
When radio station KFUO AM was founded in 1924, the call letters stood for “Keep Forward, Upward, Onward.” But that was back in…
I happened on this today over on Pastor Peters’ Pastoral Meanderings blog .. a home run to me. It talks about the first…
A week ago I brought to your attention part one of Frank Gillespie’s series on his experience at one of the South East…
The nomination numbers for the LCMS presidential election this summer portray the deep and wide appeal of Matt Harrison. His appeal is…
We received the announcement of the April meeting of the Nebraska Lutherans for Confessional Study and posted it on the Lutheran Calendar here….
Pastor Weedon has collected a great list of quotes from Luther and the Lutheran Confessions that support liturgical worship. One of them prompted…
Earlier this week I shared some reports about how President Gerald Kieschnick reacted to the nomination totals. I also have news on how…
When I was a young mission pastor I helped start a church which organized on Good Shepherd Sunday (this year April 18 or…
Discussions are almost always fun to follow over at the American Lutheran Publicity Bureau. That’s a site where folks of various Lutheran stripes…
Dr. James Tino is a former LCMS missionary. He is a clear, accurate and unbiased expert on how world missions under the current…
When the rather lopsided presidential nomination results came out (Rev. Matthew Harrison: 1,332; Rev. Gerald Kieschnick: 755), I wondered whether we’d see a…
I was researching a quick post on how the recent news about nominations is being taken by supporters of President Kieschnick, and I’ll…
The number of nominations for synodical president and vice-presidents were released last week. The most significant datum was the difference in nominations…
One of BJS’s faithful readers submitted this as something that would be useful to post. I know when I first read though It’s…
I hadn’t seen Matt Harrison’s picture lately in either the Witness or the Reporter. I figured that he was too busy traveling to…
Rev. Matthew Harrison recorded IT’S TIME: LCMS UNITY AND MISSION. It is available here for listening. It may be freely distributed .. pass…
Thanks to Jim Pierce’s blog, Confessional Bytes, I came across this posting by Frank Gillespie, author of the blog “Putting Out The Fire”…