Dr. Jeffrey Kloha, former professor at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, is resurfacing again in Lutheran church circles after leaving the seminary, following much controversy, in 2017 to take the role of chief curator at the Museum of the Bible, in Washington, D.C. Kloha speaks of new opportunities in a Linkedin post dated June of 2024. […]
That is the line fed to us by those who love abortion, which is murder of an unborn person. But who is forcing the mother? Is the baby holding a gun or threatening violence? No. Is the state and its laws actively requiring travel for an abortion? Only if one considers the alternative to be […]
Christians should not be rejoicing and ecstatic with the results. Pres. Trump is not a Christian by almost any doctrinal standard, since he does not believe in repentance personally. Yet, we can learn something about the American people, especially on the massive issue of abortion. VP Harris ran on abortion rights, but Trump did not […]
Pastor Elder McCantsHoly Cross Lutheran ChurchSan Antonio, TX Proverbs 17:22, “A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crush Spirit dries up the bones.”You may have read and heard this story: “There once was a woman who woke up one morning, looked in the mirror, and saw that she had only three hairs on her […]
John Kuhn Bleimaier War has been a fact of life ever since The Fall. Organized conflict between human beings is just another manifestation of our sinful nature. Recollect that in the Garden, before our ancestors decided to sample the forbidden fruit, everything was completely peaceful. Allow me to posit that if we all could completely […]
Roger Kovaciny 30 years ago Ukraine was a peacefully developing post-Soviet country. I was walking eastward [that’s important] toward our evening service across the bridge. I could have made it exactly on time … but as I passed it, right across the street there was a truck unloading into a shop. I wasn’t conducting the […]
Worldly safe places prioritize the individual and relegate the Word of God, not allowing it to bravely convict, condemn, and instruct. The values of outcomes-based equity do not square with the judgment of God upon the individual who deserves only wrath due to sin. Mercy is a gift, not a right or matter of human […]
How many Lutheran church workers made a formal vow to the Book of Concord, and then promptly start treating the Lutheran Confessions as moldy leftovers? If it lays out the divine teaching, then it can never be irrelevant—because the Scriptures are Christ’s eternal Word to be used. The issues we wrestle are not new and […]
The inability to live without the constant distraction of a TV is prevalent. On many of my visits to members or potential members I have to specifically ask for the TV to be turn off. It is taken for granted as an essential white noise for some—destroying attention span and silent reflection upon the Word […]
One of the main dividing lines in Christianity is over David’s state before God prior to his repentance. Lutherans have historically said he was living in sin without repentance, and therefore unbelieving. Those who have different theological convictions tend to lionize the man, underplaying the great sin of adultery and murder. But despite David being […]
