Part III of Martin Noland’s Essay on Laymens’ Rights ““ The Development of Laymen’s Rights in the Lutheran Church
(Editor’s Note: for an introduction to this essay and for Part I click here. For Part II click here.) I am surprised that…
(Editor’s Note: for an introduction to this essay and for Part I click here. For Part II click here.) I am surprised that…
Yesterday a comment was posted here that sends chills up your spine making us realize how TCN is preying upon naive parishes. The…
“Following in the Train of the Confessors”(Psalm 119:46) Confessors, princes, duty bound, To Augsburg bold they came. Before the king they stood their…
Is Matt Harrison Ablaze? I do not know. Based on the following personal testimony from a reader who attended his presentation in western…
On Monday and Tuesday of this week, Rev. Matthew Harrison, Executive Director of LCMS World Relief and Human Care, was the main speaker…
(Editor’s Note: for an introduction to this essay and for Part I click here.) Before we look at contemporary challenges to laymen’s rights…
Church historian and regular contributor to BJS Pastor Martin Noland has written a timely review of the significance of laymen’s rights in the…
Recent decisions by various church bodies to allow homosexual clergy are threatening the arrangement of denominational lines of demarcation in the Christian church….
(This is the next post in our regular column “Spiritual Headship in the Church and Home” Pastor Hein’s articles on BJS can be…
A group of conservative/confessional folks have been thinking about the recent KFUO situation and have crafted a motion that makes lemons out of…
I believe that the Theses on Worship (PDF), produced by the council of presidents, while a very helpful contribution to our ongoing discussion…
I previously mentioned my agnosticism on the sale of KFUO (FM) and, in fact, my view that the LCMS got a pretty good…
Last month, I pointed out that the LCMS’s Board for Communications Services had approved the radio show “Time of Grace” as a registered…
Just as DPs are chosen in a manner which seems proper even though all in the church may not concur, so also our…
We have concluded our annual fund drive for Issues, Etc. and will be announcing the totals soon. As always, we encourage folks to…
We ran across this series of articles written for his parish by BJS member Pastor Mark Hein and got his permission to publish…
Here is an actual district office response to a pastor’s request about alternate delegates attending the upcoming caucuses:
In case you are not following the comments on yesterday’s post of the TCN presentation at Concordia, St. Louis, here is something you…
Rev. Jacob Ehrhard (Dwight, Illinois) sent me a note this evening with a link to St.LouisToday.com website where we, the Brothers of John…
Rev. Matt Harrison’s long awaited book of essays by previous LCMS presidents is now available for purchase. (Click here to order.) We featured…
Based on what I know of KFUO-FM’s management and value, I support the sale of the radio station. Still, I think it’s terribly…
TCN (Transforming Churches Network) is a church consulting exercise that the LCMS Ablaze folks created in order to fix 2,000 of the churches…
Here is a comment from our post on the TCN at the St. Louis Seminary. It is by Dave Spotts, a former Calvinist…
In case you missed it, the August 2009 minutes (p.161-162) of the LCMS Board of Directors (just published within the last couple of…
The following was posted in the daily announcements at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis: Monday, October 12 from 3:45 to 5:00 p.m. in Werner….