Editor's note: The Social Statement as amended was approved by the 2025 ELCA Churchwide Assembly 762 to 16. Rather than repeat Pastor Nelson’s comprehensive review of the 2025 ELCA Churchwide…
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It is 2025—an auspicious year. We are a quarter way into the 21st century. The Lutheran Reformation is just beginning to essay its second half millennium, and just as the…
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Note from Lutheran CORE's Executive Director: We thank God for His faithfulness and blessings as we observe the Twentieth Anniversary of Lutheran CORE. Many thanks to Mark Chavez, first Executive…
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Many thanks to NALC pastor Cathy Ammlung for this second in a series of videos intended to provide congregations - especially those with temporary and/or longer-term pastoral vacancies - with…
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No man is an island,Entire of itself.Each is a piece of the continent,A part of the main.If a clod be washed away by the sea,Europe is the less.As well as…
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By now most of you are probably aware of the current clergy supply crisis, and the fact that this shortage is unprecedented in our lifetimes. Just one factor—among…
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Why is it that a group of unlikely people can spread the Gospel to others, while we, with all our Bible knowledge, struggle to do the same? The disciples had…
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Prayers, October 26: Reformation Sunday Revelation 14:6-7 (Eternal Gospel announced to every person) Psalm 46 (A mighty fortress!) Romans 3:19-28 (We’re justified by faith apart from works of the…
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Prayers, October 19: 19th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 24) OR St. Luke, Evangelist, transferred Pentecost 19 lessons and hymns Genesis 32:22-30 (Jacob wrestles with mysterious stranger, is wounded…
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Prayers, October 12: 18th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 23) Ruth 1:1-19a (Ruth’s love for Naomi) ELW/RCL: 2 Kings 5:1-3, 7-15 (Naaman the leper healed by Elisha) Psalm 111…
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