Why duplicate efforts? (from Mollie)

I think the Ablaze! folks should check this out. Why duplicate ...

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Why do We have Worship Wars? by Pr. Klemet Preus

(Editor’s Note: This is part two of a five part series on worship in the LCMS.)   Have you every wondered why we have worship wars in the Missouri Synod? I’m going to explain to you why this ...

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Missions or Pure Doctrine? by Pr. Andrew Simcak, (regular columnists for the Texas Confessional Lutherans)

(Editor’s Note: Pastor Simcak touches on a theme that will get much attention on this site in the weeks to come. Defining “missions” and understanding its place in the church is a fundamental ...

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Chosen and Precious Stones, by Pr. Toby Byrd (regular columnist for the Lutheran Mission Alliance)

The pretense is over, the jig is up, and the powers to be within the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod have played their hand and have shown us their hole cards. As we suspected, it is now becoming questionable to speak of the The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod as the church founded by C.F.W. Walther. On September 23-24 of this year, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, will convene a Theological ...

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Why do the Evangelicals Worship that Way? By Pr. Klemet Preus

(Editor’s Note: With this post Pastor Preus begins a five part series on worship in the LCMS.)   Have you ever wondered why American Evangelicals tend to have an expectation that their worship services will have an emotional impact upon them or lead to some type of faith experience? I’m going to explain to you why this is so in less than 500 words when, justly, it should require about 500 ...

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Folks Like Us

(by Todd Wilken) BJS has only been up for two months and it’s already a commonplace comment: Don’t you folks have better things to do, instead of sowing discord and division in our beloved Synod? Maybe the commentator has a point. After all, if it weren’t for folks like us, we’d have peace in “our beloved synod.” If it weren’t for folks like us, insisting on pure doctrine and ...

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Thick Skin, by Jonathan Townsend

(Editor’s Note: Jonathan is on our BJS steering committee. He is the author, producer and voice of our fine promotional spots on Issues, Etc. We also introduce him here as one of our regular columnists. His column is titled  “I Desire Mercy, Not Sarcasm – But a Little Satire is Good for the Soul.” You can read a description of the column on our Regular Columns page.)   Online Lutheran ...

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