So often when life-changing incidents take place as, for example, when a family member is diagnosed with cancer, the patient as well as other involved family members many times become frustrated and begin to question God. “Why me?” “Why, God? Why my wife, why my son or daughter?” “What have I done to deserve this?”…
Posts from 2018 (Page 2)
As we gathered on Founders’ Day, we Proclaim the Wonders God Has Done. It is by God’s grace that the Evangelical Lutheran Synod has survived to this centennial year. We tell the history not to laud ourselves but to praise the Triune God who has sustained us. It is the Lord God who has washed…
A blessed Founders’ Day to you all! Today we observed the celebration of the centennial of the reorganization of our Synod. Congregations all over our synod participated using Bugenhagen’s order of service, readings and a sermon likely based on the first president, Pastor Bjug Harstad’s original sermon from 1918, and the showing of this documentary…
A custom within the old Norwegian Synod was to regard October 14 as Founders’ Day. Over the years, many church dedications and special events took place on that day. The ELS which was reorganized in 1918 has carried on this tradition. We will yet observe that tradition next Sunday as a public testimony that the ELS,…