Posts with the tag “2023-05”

Last fall, my boys decided to set up a lemonade stand to make some extra money. I liked the initiative but reminded them that we live in the country on a dead-end road. The young entrepreneurs saw the...  Read More

xpertly sandwiched in Mark 10—between a teaching on divorce and a rich, young man’s naïveté—there stands a lesson on the littlest among us. Parents and caregivers bring their children to Jesus, just t...  Read More

We’ve all likely heard about “having child-like faith.” While you won’t find that phrase in the Bible, it’s a popular phrase for a reason. Consider Mark 10:15, and the context:People were bringing lit...  Read More

You know the verse: “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6, KJV). Then in Ephesians 6:4, Paul wrote, “bring them up in the training a...  Read More

Over the many years I have been attending Bethesda Lutheran Brethren Church in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, I have appreciated our ministry in overseas missions. I was delighted that every year, it seemed, ...  Read More

Last October, the WMCLB launched a cohort of women reading through Gretchen Ronnevik’s book Ragged: Spiritual Disciplines for the Spiritually Exhausted, and I am grateful to have joined. Every meeting...  Read More

If Satan’s fiercest warfare on our people over the past half-century had been made directly on one of the Church’s doctrines, we might have been better prepared. When there was dissension over the doc...  Read More

I recall, several years ago, loading my kids into our minivan. The kids were still young, and it was always a production to get out of the door. Diaper bag, shoes, snacks, water bottles… Even a routin...  Read More

The Church Trends and Research Association is an evangelical group in Taiwan that provides statistics on Taiwanese Christians and churches every two years. Since the 1990s, the numbers of Christians i...  Read More

Pastor Skip (Maynard) MacArthur went home to his Lord and Saviour, in the early morning hours of May 29, 2023, after a long hard battle with cancer. He had spent the last three and a half months under...  Read More

On June 4, 2023, Victory Lutheran Church, Jamestown, ND, burned the mortgage on their new building. They are grateful to have been able to pay off this debt in six years.......  Read More

Pictured: Rev. Paul Larson (L) and Dr. Troy Tysdal (R). On Monday, August 27, 2023 Dr. Troy Tysdal was installed as President of Lutheran Brethren Seminary during the Opening Service. CLB President Pa...  Read More

Living Faith Lutheran Brethren Church (Cape Coral, FL) experienced significant damage during Hurricane Ian in September 2022. A repaired and re-engineered steeple was installed in August, 2023. Pastor...  Read More

On Sunday, April 2nd, 2023 Mr. Pete Narvesen (center) was ordained as an elder at Living Faith Church in Cape Coral, FL.......  Read More

Question: How do you teach a child about child-like faith? Let’s try a multiple-choice answer:A) You don’t teach a child about child-like faith. You don’t need to. They understand it intuitively.B) Yo...  Read More