The WELS (Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod) biennial convention convened on Monday, July 27 in Saginaw, Michigan, and ran through Friday, July 31, 2009 A.D. At the end of each day, WELS Communications produced a “video wrap” that is supposed to summarize the day’s events and provide some flavor of the happenings.
• Monday’s video wrap [...]
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WELS Convention Daily Summaries
Posted in WELS, religion, tagged Mark Schroeder, Lutherans, WELS, Lutheranism, Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, theology of glory, theology of the cross on July 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“Maintaining our confessional identity”
Posted in WELS, religion, tagged adiaphora, Book of Concord, Christian freedom, church Growth Movement, Lutheran Confessions, Lutheranism, Lutherans, Mark Schroeder, WELS, Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod on July 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) 60th biennial convention convened on Monday, July 27 in Saginaw, Michigan, and runs through Friday, July 31, 2009 A.D. On the opening day, WELS President Schroeder delivered a report to the Convention. Here is just one section from his report subtitled, “Maintaining our confessional identity.”
Maintaining our confessional identity
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WELS President’s Report to the Convention Video
Posted in WELS, religion, tagged Book of Concord, Lutheran Confessions, Lutheranism, Lutherans, Mark Schroeder, WELS, Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) biennial convention convened on Monday, July 27 in Saginaw, Michigan, and runs through Friday, July 31, 2009 A.D. On the opening day, WELS President Schroeder delivered a bold and Biblical address to the convention. Here is the video:
Additional Convention Links:
Prepared text of the President’s Report to the 2009 Convention [...]
WELS Convention
Posted in WELS, tagged Lutheran, Sacrament, Book of Concord, Mark Schroeder, Lutheran Confessions, Lutherans, WELS, Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, sola Scriptura, sacramental life, Pietism on July 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) biennial convention convenes on Monday, July 27 in Saginaw, Michigan, and runs through Friday, July 31, 2009 A.D. There are many important issues at stake that will affect the future of our synod. Here are links to some important web sites and documents regarding the convention:
• 2009 Book [...]
Vacation
Posted in photography, tagged bicycle, Ecclesiastes, mountain bike, mt bike on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven
— Ecclesiastes 3:1.
Quote from The Conservative Reformation
Posted in quotes, religion, tagged Krauth, Lutheran, Lutheran Confessions, Lutheranism, Martin Luther, Reformation, sola Scriptura on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is vastly more important, then, to know what the Reformation retained than what it overthrew; for the overthrow of error, though often an indispensable prerequisite to the establishment of truth, is not truth itself; it may clear the foundation, simply to substitute one error for another, perhaps a greater for a less.
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The mightiest weapon [...]
“To Live with Christ” by Bo Giertz
Posted in religion, tagged Bo Giertz, Christianity, devotion, devotions, Lutheran, Lutheranism, Lutherans, meditation on July 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Lately, I’ve been reading a new prayer book entitled To Live with Christ, daily devotions by Bo Giertz (1905-1998). According to the forward, Bo Giertz
journeyed from atheism to become the bishop of Gothenburg in the Lutheran Church of Sweden… Well-known for a sturdy confessional Lutheranism wedded to a warm piety born of confidence in the [...]
The CORE’s EnCORE
Posted in WELS, religion, tagged church and Change, Pastor Ski, St. Peter Church, The CORE, WELS, Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod on July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The CORE is the daughter congregation of St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran Church in Freedom, WI; and is located in the former Big Picture movie theater in downtown Appleton. The CORE holds its services on Sunday nights at 5:30 pm.
After their services, The CORE asks attendees what they learned from the service, and then posts a [...]
Reader Appreciation
Posted in humor, tagged blogging, blogs, YouTube on July 12, 2009 | 7 Comments »
When other blogs reach a particular milestone, they sometimes ask readers to introduce themselves. Light from Light is a very modest blog, but it did recently pass a statistical milestone involving a one and some zeros, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank the reader(s).
Instead of asking the reader(s) to simply state [...]
Water Quality at Whitefish Dunes State Park
Posted in conservation, tagged beach, clean water, Door County, the beach, water quality, Whitefish Dunes State Park, Wisconsin on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On Sunday, June 21, 2009 A.D., the first day of Summer, I went to the beach determined to get wet.
As soon as I stepped on the beach at Whitefish Dunes State Park in Door County, Wisconsin, my nose knew something was wrong. Raw sewage. The water was a thick soup of disgusting green algae, and [...]
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