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 …
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The sure hope of the believer in Jesus at death as expressed so clearly in Psalm 16:11
“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 …
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From Our Brethren in Russia
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 …
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.
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 …
In Memoriam… Pastor Paul R. Bloedel
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 …
A Fifty Year Milestone at Lebanon, Oregon
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 …
The Unwitting Role of Civil Government in the Fulfillment of Divine Prophecy
“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 …
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What Is Subjective Justification?
“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 Objective Justification?
“By the righteousness of One the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.” — Romans 5:18 “To wit that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them, and hath committed …
Historical Essay – “The Official Establishment of Heterodoxy in the Missouri Synod, 1950” – Part I
From the July / August 2000 issue of The Concordia Lutheran. HISTORICAL ESSAY delivered to the Forty-Ninth Annual Convention of the Concordia Lutheran Conference by The Rev. David T. Mensing, Pastor Peace Ev. Lutheran Church, Oak Forest, Illinois “The …