Category: The Concordia Lutheran Issues 2000-2009

Our readers are asked to look back to the previous page which contains our masthead.  For those of you who are regular readers, you will notice several changes.  We have a new Editor of this periodical, and a new Vice-President, …

The President’s Column: Re. New elected Conference officers. Read More »

True Christians, says radio evangelist Harold Camping, should not go to church. They should drop their church memberships, leave their congregations, and just listen to the radio…The idea has its appeal to many Americans.  Sleeping in on Sunday.  No worship …

Around the World: Re. False evangelist. Read More »

                                            MOTTO: Man’s Sin Merits Death — God’s Grace Gives Life Already on the weekend prior to the convention itself, delegates and visitors began to arrive in the beautiful Willamette Valley of Oregon for the Fifty-first Annual Convention of the …

Fifty-first Annual Convention Digest Read More »

“Praise ye the Lord” (Psalm 106:1)!  “O give thanks unto the Lord” (Psalm 107:1)!  “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits” (Psalm 103:2)!  How we need to be reminded (II Peter 1:12-13) of  the on-going …

The sure hope of the believer in Jesus at death as expressed so clearly in Psalm 16:11 Read More »

Pastor Roman G. Schurganoff, our dear brother in the faith, reports that his little congregation, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Yekaterinburg, now numbers about twenty-five members.  However, due to extremely cramped quarters, only about half of the congregation has been …

From Our Brethren in Russia Read More »

Official Announcement This is to announce the interim appointment of Pastors Robert J. Lietz and David T. Mensing to fill the fifth year chair as co-instructors in our Concordia Theological Seminary.  This chair was left vacant by the illness and …

Announce the interim appointment of Pastors Robert J. Lietz and David T. Mensing to fill the fifth year chair as co-instructors in our Concordia Theological Seminary. Read More »

Paul Richard Bloedel was born on October 6, 1925 in Hamlet, Indiana, to Pastor Gustav Bloedel and his wife, Clara née Jungkuntz.  As an infant, he was baptized into the Christian faith by his father, who also carefully instructed him …

In Memoriam… Pastor Paul R. Bloedel Read More »

On Friday, June 28, St. John’s Lutheran Church in Lebanon, Oregon, celebrated its fiftieth year as a congregation and the fiftieth anniversary of the Rev. M. L. Natterer as its shepherd.  In a special vesper service held in its sanctuary …

A Fifty Year Milestone at Lebanon, Oregon Read More »

“And it came to pass in those days that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed ¼.  And all went to be taxed, everyone into his own city.  And Joseph also went …

The Unwitting Role of Civil Government in the Fulfillment of Divine Prophecy Read More »

“Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the …

What Is Subjective Justification? Read More »