Great Stuff — Response to Court Opinion on Clergy Housing Allowance
Found over on WMLTblog.org: On November 22, 2013, a Federal District Court in Wisconsin held that the clergy housing allowance is unconstitutional….
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Great Stuff — Gutachten: The Word of Forgiveness Spoken by a Lay Person
Great stuff found over on WMLTblog.org: Two pastors in the Nebraska District requested the opinion of the Department of Pastoral Ministry and…
Great Stuff — Boy Scouts of America: Why the Proposed Policy Change Matters
Found on the WMLTblog. President Harrison speaks of a possible change that will affect hundreds of LCMS churches across the country, including my…
WMLTblog — LCMS Campus Ministry Conference Largest in 30 Years
Found on WMLTblog: God the Father gives His Son as a gift to the world, and His Word unwraps that gift and…
“Koinonia Project” – Brief Report – October 2012
Found on WMLTblog: Purpose: The “Koinonia Project” is a long term initiative of the Office of the President of the Synod developing…
Sasse: “But the church has a special understanding of time. She can wait.”
Found on MercyJourney by President Harrison: It is certainly not an accident that in the modern world the church year and the…
WMLTblog — Latest from CPH: The What?
Found on WMLTblog: As a child attending Lutheran school, I remember our annual parading outside the school building on October 31, all children, pastors, and staff…
St. Paul on Visitation
Found on Mercy Journeys with Pastor Harrison: St. Paul If we try to discover something like visiting activity with Paul, it is…
WMLTblog — What’s Your Definition of Marriage?
Found on Witness, Mercy, Life Together blog: Which is better? To enter into marriage or to take a vow of celibacy to…
Witness, Mercy, Life Together — District Convention Representation
Found on Witness, Mercy, Life Together blog: With three district conventions down and 32 to go, delegate representation is a subject of considerable…
Witness, Mercy, Life Together blog — Chaplain Greg Williamson Installation — CMO
Found on Witness, Mercy, Life Together blog: The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) President Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison introduces Rev. Gregory K. Williamson,…
WMLTblog — Who Is A Missionary?
Found on Witness, Mercy, Life Together blog: NOTE: Because different church bodies have different definitions of what a missionary is, the LCMS…
WMLTblog — Think Tank on Campus Ministry Announced
Found on Witness, Mercy, Life Together blog: Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, Last month, President Harrison wrote a “Pastoral Letter about…
Theological Dialogue with Other Christian Church Bodies
Found on Witness, Mercy, Life Together blog: In light of the third installment of dialogue between the Anglican Church in North America…
WMLT — National Mission Conference
Found on the Witness, Mercy, Life Together blog: The National Mission Conference (September 20-22, 2011) began today with worship and a sermon…
WMLT — Featured Missionary — Rev. Alan Ludwig
Found on the Witness, Mercy, Life Together blog: The Lutheran church has a tremendous missionary heritage. President Emeritus Pfotenhauer said in…
WMLT — They’ll Be In the Mail
Found on the Witness, Mercy, Life Together blog: As conventions season approaches, we are faced with a bit of a Synod-wide…
WMLT — Lunch With The Saint Louis Archbishop
Found on Witness, Mercy, Life Together blog: Today, ecumenical relations between The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod and the Roman Catholic…
WMLT — Life Together and the Koinonia Project
Found on the Witness, Mercy, Life Together blog: You already know that Witness, Mercy, and Life Together describe what we, as…
WMLT — What about Bob?
Found on the Witness, Mercy, Life Together blog: Since July 1 we have been using the name Restructuring Phase 2 to describe…
WMLT — “Don’t Sweat the Weeds!”
Found on the Witness, Mercy, Life Together blog: The following homily was preached today in chapel at the International Center. A…
The Lord Gives. Christians Manage.
The May 2011 Lutheran Witness is hot off the press. You can get it from the Lutheran Witness site. (Download here). Jerald C. Wulf Why…
Great Stuff Found on the Web — LCMS Responds to Southern Storms
Found on Witness, Mercy, Life Together blog: LCMS President Rev. Matthew C. Harrison explains what we know about the safety of LCMS members…
Great Stuff Found on the Web — 1st V.P. Mueller Talks Plainly about the Koinonia Project
There has been a lot of talk about the Missouri Synod’s Koinonia Project, not all of it helpful or well-informed. The head of…