The outcome is not a secret. The churches that live as though Jesus is optional have been, despite their best verbal efforts, saying effectively and forcefully to their members and to the world that what the church uniquely has to offer is not needed, and that the church is here to serve...
From 1530-1648, Germany’s patch-work quilt of principalities, duchies, and a few Kingdoms lived in constant turmoil and fear of neighbour-state aggression based on religious adherence to the Pope or to a Lutheran or Reformed form of Church polity. This culminated in the Thirty Years War (...
My family ended up embracing Luther’s ideas, becoming some of the first Lutherans. They lost the Wartburg and ended up moving to “White Russia,” an ethnically German part of Poland that experienced constant conflict. While they were there, though, they continued bucking trends. They made s...
(Daniel 12:4) It is truer than ever that "the scene of this world is changing," or, as another translation puts it, "the present scheme of things is rapidly passing away."-1 Corinthians 7:31, Phillips. Now, as never before, "the time left is reduced." Yes, only a limited time ...
2011 Sundance Film Festival. The documentary, which aired on Showtime and is distributed by BBC Worldwide, currently tours communities and colleges across the country. In collaboration with grassroots and national communities of gun violence victims and survivors, faith leaders, political leaders and ...
I responded: “I grew up Lutheran. Even Lutherans believe more than you.” Soon after, the rector had a heart attack. This heretic became rector. He threw me out the next day. It was after that, on the advice of a priest friend, that I pray to the Little Flower St. Thérèse for...
Barry has now committed to the ideal program for his current level of development and academic preferences (California Lutheran), but that’s only after more than a year of managing interest from more than 40 colleges, all of which was made extremely challenging due to COVID and NCAA ...
As each diocese commemorates the encaenia of its own cathedral, so the whole Catholic world celebrates annually the dedication of the fourfold Papal cathedral, and this festival is symbolical of the fact that in spite of the limits established to each diocese the Church of Christ is one, and ...
» The functioning cathedral is located in the city center and belongs to the church that combines Lutheran and Reformist religious movements. » The chronicles say that St. Peter Cathedral started to be built in the 9th century. Finally, it was completed in 400 years. Such a long proce...
Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook AcronymDefinition LIRSLagos Internal Revenue Service(Lagos, Nigeria) LIRSLutheran Immigration and Refugee Service LIRSLow Inter-Reference Recency Set LIRSLizard Island Research Station(Australia) ...