ELCA NEWS SERVICE July 5, 2007 ELCA Committee on Appeals Rules in Atlanta Discipline Case 07-123-JB CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Committee on...

An anonymous person has asked if everything is Church Growth. The same person seems to favor CCM, sometimes called Charismatic Church Musi...

From time to time I order a mocha at Starbuck's (Barnes and Noble) while checking on some new book titles. They used to ask, "Do yo...

Norm Teigen's Ad Hominem Argumentation Norm Teigen, ELS, has decided to leave no thought unpublished. I really thought the ELS confined...

This (I say) it is profitable and necessary always to teach to the young people, to admonish them and to remind them of it, that they may be...

A layman mailed me the Michigan Lutheran Seminary brochure. I found it sad, touching, and disturbing as well. Doubtless the Luther Prep situ...

Thou shalt not covet... Therefore we allow these commandments to remain in their ordinary meaning, that it is commanded, first, that we do n...

One person wisely commented that Reformed doctrine, from Zwingli and Calvin and the Pietists, is more dangerous than Romanism among Lutheran...

All this has been said regarding secret sins. But where the sin is quite public so that the judge and everybody know it, you can without any...

Thou shalt not bear false witness. Next, it extends very much further, if we are to apply it to spiritual jurisdiction or administration; he...

On pages 20 and 21 is the Synod Convention discussion - Pre-Convention Coverage. One can easily infer that MLS closure is a foregone conclu...

The WELS AnswerMan has done it again. I suspect AnswerMan also wrote the letter being answered. The basic content is - We visited an LCMS co...

ELCA NEWS SERVICE July 2, 2007 ELCA to Offer Worship Jubilee 2007 in Chicago, August 3-6 07-119-LL* CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Evangelical ...

Thou shalt not steal. Therefore they are also called swivel-chair robbers, land- and highway-robbers, not pick-locks and sneak-thieves who s...

Now, I speak of this in order that the young may be so guided that they conceive a liking for the married estate, and know that it is a bles...

Thou shalt not commit adultery. Therefore God has also most richly blessed this estate above all others, and, in addition, has bestowed on i...

If you want to know what is going on in the bowels of The Love Shack, 2929 N. Mayfield Road, read Wayne Mueller's blog. Ichabod costs no...

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , Dec 25, 2006 by TOM HEINEN Martin Luther wrote the lyrics centuries ago, but the eighth- note rock rhythms t...

WELS President-in-Waiting Wayne Mueller: God Bless Our Decisions Last weekend the Synodical Council found itself in nearly the identical fin...

God must not bless commercialism in His Church, because the money-changers in the Temple always drive out good stewardship. The biggest prob...

Thou shalt not murder. Secondly, under this commandment not only he is guilty who does evil to his neighbor, but he also who can do him goo...

"You Are My All in All" copyright, Dennis Jernigan, 1991 Shepherd's Heart Music You are my strength when I am weak, You are th...

Americans are anti-language training. A pastor needs to know various languages: Hebrew, Latin, Greek, German. A number of WELS pastors said,...

"With regard to textual criticism, KJV advocates take the illogical position that the relatively recent manuscripts which were availabl...

The Good Prep schools are synod supported high schools designed to give a classical, European style education to future teachers and pastors...

I found this at Issues in WELS . They copied it from a previous report. An Interesting Thought from 1961 by Benjamin Tomczak (6-25-07) I was...

The Augsburg Confession was largely the work of Philip Melanchthon. Luther had to stay away because his life was in danger. Imagine that. Th...