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Based Young Men - Mark Your Calendars!

The Church needs her based young men to consider vocations in the office of the holy ministry.

There is an extraordinary event to help young men in this discernment process: the Maier Conference, the weekend of Friday, May 2, 2025 in the Orlando, Florida area. Registration is open.

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Larry Beane Comment
Three Conversions

There have been three relatively recent conversions to our Lutheran confession of the faith from other communions of Christianity: people whom we would consider to be “influencers.”

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Larry Beane Comments
From the Archives: An Address on the Holy Theophanies by Hippolytus of Rome

All things are good. But especially good are the created things of our God and Savior: whatever the age sees, whatever the soul considers, whatever reason explains, whatever the hand touches, whatever the understanding comprehends. Indeed, whatever humanity possesses. For what is more multiform than the beauty of the heavenly expanse? What is more bedecked with flowers than the form of the earth? What is more dazzling in its course than the chariot of the sun? What carriage is more beautiful than the heavenly orb of the moon? What work is more marvelous than the music richly emitted by the stars? What is more serviceable for travel than the friendly winds? What mirror is clearer than the light of day? What living thing is worthy of more honor than man? Therefore all things are good, especially the things created by our God and Savior.

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Stefan GramenzComment
Book Review: The Small Town Lutheran Church & Pastor, by Heath Curtis

Typical of Curtis’ style, his arguments are concise, his application clear, and his prose eminently readable. He doesn’t wax poetic, but gives us the facts, elaborates on what those facts indicate, and offers clear, practical, and actionable advice on bringing the task of pastoral ministry to bear in this context — which is the highest probability within The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod.

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Interfaith Prayer as a Cause for Hope

In the aftermath of the New Year’s Day terrorist attack in New Orleans, the Roman Catholic archbishop hosted an interfaith prayer service in the St. Louis Cathedral in the heart of the French Quarter. And this should be a cause for Christians to be hopeful for the future.

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Larry BeaneComment