Have you ever preached the Gospel to people who don’t care about anything but the present moment? Or to put it differently, can you imagine sharing the good news with…
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For it is sufficient for the true unity of the Christian church that the Gospel be preached in conformity with a pure understanding of it and that the sacraments be…
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Last May I had the privilege of attending the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of my graduation from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. It was a splendid event. I was…
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Congregations in Transition (CiT) coaching has always, from its beginning, been available as an expenses-only, volunteer coaching ministry. But CiT can now provide assistance even when a church finds the…
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Once again the ELCA refuses to be honest, to have integrity, and to allow the way it is doing things to be challenged. Instead, once again it just ignores those…
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I was thoroughly blessed through reading the recently published memoirs of Dr. Robert Benne. Many thanks to Dr. Benne for writing them and to the American Lutheran Publicity Bureau for…
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Pr. David Charlton When John heard in prison what the Messiah was doing, he sent word by his disciples and said to him, “Are you the one who is to…
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There are at least two significant and alarming trends confronting American church bodies in general, and mainline Protestants in particular. One is the developing clergy supply crisis, and the second…
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Whoever said it, said it well: without the absolution—“I forgive you all your sins for Jesus’ sake”—Lutheranism has no particular reason to exist. Every issue of the Reformation, from preaching…
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There were several things in the October 10 News Story about the September 26-30 meeting of the ELCA’s Conference of Bishops that I found to be most interesting, significant, and…
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