James Lavender was installed as Community Connections Coordinator (C3) at Hope Lutheran in Austin on June 5. The C3 position is designed to build relationships with people in the local area in advance of Sunday morning contact. “Hope is becoming a mission center in East Austin,” Rev. Mike Newman, Mission
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The mission of the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League (LWML) is “to assist each woman of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod in affirming her relationship with the Triune God so she is enabled to use her gifts in ministry to the people of the world.” While meeting in biennial session in Lubbock,
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Lutheran theology is very much about serving our neighbors. Martin Luther emphasized the Biblical teaching to love the people God placed around us. Jesus told the parable of the Good Samaritan to emphasize our calling to BE a caring neighbor to the people in our context. Do you know who
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“Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth,” Ps 46: 10. As our city was shook by the cruel act of murder, when our police officers were ambushed in Dallas last week, our hearts just sank.
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It was an inauspicious beginning. The Saxon immigrants exiled their bishop, Martin Stephan, across the Mississippi River, due to sexual misconduct and misappropriation of funds. The colony of immigrants was in chaos. Without a bishop, were they still a church? Added to the ecclesiastical disorder was economic privation and utter
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The first prayer conference that I attended was in 1987. It was a cross-denominational event. Many people spoke at this conference, and each had much to say about the role of prayer. Some of it was helpful. Much of it was clichéd. Most of it was hard, at least for
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By: Rev. David Murillo, guest columnist, St. Paul Lutheran Church, San Antonio, TX Swedish Dude: “You want to go to a subway party? Me: Huh? Like…Subway…. sandwiches? Swedish Dude: No. It’s a full on party. On the Subway train. Me: Uh…. sure, why not” This was the brief conversation I
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In his book, Generational IQ, Haydn Shaw writes that the future is bright and that Christianity is not dying, as so many in our culture contend. Still, the future is not without challenge. One of the greatest challenges before us is communication and understanding between the generations. Shaw presents the
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This summer’s national convention, gathering delegates from electoral circuits throughout the LCMS, is the principle legislative assembly of the church. As such, three issues loom large as the Synod seeks to work together. Ecclesiastical Supervision LCMS President Matthew Harrison appointed a task force on ecclesiastical supervision. Its report proposes changes
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This week at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis and at Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, new vicars, deaconess and pastors were called to serve in congregations across the country. We celebrate these men and women as they, and their families, serve the Lord in their new congregations! The 2016
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