Posts with the category “faith-and-fellowship-magazine”

Rev. Mike Natale speaking at morning chapel at Lutheran Brethren Seminary. My name is Mike Natale. I’m 38 years old and have been married to my wife, Lindsay, for 14 years. I grew up in New Jersey and...  Read More

Our goal is to provide a practical resource for you, your small group, or your family, that can be easily implemented and applied. It is centered on the theme of each issue.For this edition we’ve crea...  Read More

As we approach the upcoming CLB Biennial Convention (June 8-11), one item of business is presenting for approval the “Statement on Human Persons and Sexuality,” a draft of which was presented and disc...  Read More

What Does it Mean to Be a Human Person?What does it mean to be human? Looking at that question, you might suggest that perhaps I’m biting off more than I can chew in a short article. A question like t...  Read More

“In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors i...  Read More

The following (paragraphs in italics) is taken from the journal of a parent. This is shared as a tool to help our understanding of what a child or a parent may be going through when a family member co...  Read More

The River Church in Red Deer, Alberta has been blessed to be a place where newcomers to Canada come to hear the gospel in their mother tongue and to worship the Lord in joy and freedom.Over the last f...  Read More

The vision of the Church of the Lutheran Brethren is to be a Disciple-making Church. I could make a pretty good case for that statement to be considered part definition and part aspirational. It is bo...  Read More

In the summer of 2001, having just graduated high school, I served for a few weeks with a team of other youth assisting Berea Lutheran Brethren Church in Alexandria, Minnesota with their Vacation Bibl...  Read More

The anything-but-physically-smooth road to Doh has been paved with an unimaginable smoothness as experienced through the Lord’s kindness and faithfulness throughout our journey. Like all our contempor...  Read More

As of September 1, 2023, Danny Bronson, former missionary to Chad, started servingpart-time as Ministry Coordinator for Lutheran Brethren International Mission(LBIM), assisting with its expanding mini...  Read More

Rev. Jon Ronnevik was installed as Associate Pastor at Victory Lutheran Brethren Church, Jamestown, ND. Rev. Brandon Pangman, Director of North American Mission, officiated theinstallation service.......  Read More

President Paul Larson officiated the ordination of three new elders at Bethel LB Church, Ottawa, IL. Pictured kneeling in front are the new elders (L to R): Jack Knudtson, Ted Sanders, and Chris Holtz...  Read More

Lincoln Church, a CLB Church Plant in Lincoln, North Dakota, held a preview worship service on February 4, 2024. Pastor Carl Juhl reported that, out of the nearly 100 attendees, around 50 were from th...  Read More

For this issue, we’ve created a four-week Bible study on Revelation 21:1-8, along with discussion questions and companion videos. It is our hope and prayer that these will serve you and your congregat...  Read More

Recently, my family took care of three foster kids for an afternoon so the foster parents could attend an event out of town. The kids spent most of the time playing with Legos at our dining room table...  Read More

Jerusalem has served as a powerful reminder and symbol since about 1000 BC, when King David made it his capital city. It is a reminder of God’s fearsome judgment and his unfailing grace to both the fa...  Read More

As the air ambulance landed on the tarmac in Paris, France, I was placed on a gurney and rushed to a major hospital in downtown Paris. The icy February air bit at my cheeks, so different from the balm...  Read More

Gospel partnership is a vital part of the ministry at Triumph Lutheran Brethren Church (Moorhead, MN and West Fargo, ND). God has equipped Triumph to do many things in his kingdom, but we can’t do it ...  Read More

Theology defines what we believe and explains how that belief is supported by the Bible. I would say I was a believer, but I was also one of the biggest offenders of not knowing what I believed. Why d...  Read More

There are numerous areas of service in our public life for which we demand a person who has official “accreditation.” Consider, for example, the choice of a surgeon. On the whole, I believe all of us ...  Read More

You do not realize the length of time I have waited to use this next portion of scripture: After we were brought safely through, we then learned that the island was called Malta. The native people sho...  Read More

Our Lutheran Brethren International Mission (LBIM) missionary families live and serve in cultural contexts that are very different from their home cultures. They navigate life in different languages a...  Read More

LBIM missionary, Donald Raun, passed into the presence of his Lord and Savior on Monday, November 20, 2023. Don and his wife Orpha faithfully served as LBIM missionaries in Chad between the years of 1...  Read More

Jeanive Solheim celebrated her 100th birthday on December 9, 2023, at the Platte Care Center in Platte, South Dakota....  Read More

On Sunday, December 17, 2023, David and Janice Kuan-Chang were commissioned by the Lutheran Brethren Church of Taiwan as missionaries to Chad....  Read More

Registration is open for Rooted, a young adult gap-year program that starts in September. ...  Read More

The Christian’s eternal realm is pictured in chapter 21 of John’s Revelation. Most precious to me is the assurance that “…those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and th...  Read More

Some of my fondest childhood memories are of Christmas at my grandparents’ house. We lived about two hours north of them, so visiting them was always a treat, but Christmas was the highlight of the ye...  Read More

This past summer, I did something I had never done before: on two separate occasions, I set off on a 3-day, 2-night solo backpacking trip into the wilderness of a regional state park. More than once, ...  Read More

During the four hundred years of prophetic silence between the Old and New Testaments, generations of people like us were waiting and wondering and hoping for something. They believed there was more t...  Read More

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.—Proverbs 3:5-6Do you trust God?Your initial response...  Read More

I have been an Elder at Hope Community Church in Nanuet, New York since 1999. Currently, I serve as the Church Chairman. I reside in Stony Point, NY with my wife Linda, and we have three children: Col...  Read More

All five of my kids are coming home for Christmas this year; I can hardly contain my excitement! With one missionary family and two pastors in the mix, merging our Christmas schedules is challenging. ...  Read More

I grew up in a culturally Christian home, but it was a home that ultimately lacked any real devotion to Jesus Christ and his Word. Nevertheless, from a young age I believed there was a God and thought...  Read More

Richard Walker with Chelsey Killean, Executive Director of Fieldstone, where Richard volunteers. Willie Nelson released the song “My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys” in 1975. It remains to this day a ...  Read More

The Fraser Family out for a walk in their new neighborhood. When God sent his Son to dwell among us, Jesus not only stepped into our world as God incarnate, but humbled himself to a position where oth...  Read More

Pastor Fredric “Rick” Freese, Sr., 81, of Palatka, FL, went home to be with the Lord on Friday, September 29, 2023 at Haven Hospice Roberts Care Center in Palatka. Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, R...  Read More

On August 27, 2023, Pastor Dale Hexum was installed as lead pastor of Good Shepherd Lutheran Brethren Church. CLB President Paul Larson officiated the service.Pictured L to R: Elder Kurt Frustol, Past...  Read More

On October 8, 2023, Mr. Myron Hovet was ordained as an elder at Living Faith Church in Watford City, ND.Elders pictured L to R: Pastor Roger Olson, Myron Hovet, Seth Vander Ley, Justin Smith.......  Read More