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I try to listen to Issues Etc once or twice per week and follow their Facebook page. Great stuff. I turned a guy on to them at church and he really enjoys. He didn't even know it was available online.

Last week, our pastor had three men from the congregation to sit inside the rail while he goes through the story of the prodigal son. An older man sits highest on the chancel, while two other men sit lower in front of him. One represents the son who stayed home, and another, a younger boy...

:( was hoping to worship tonight. I'll call around the other churches listed on page 1 in the are and see what they do. Thank you. EDIT: no wednesday night services. In fact, none at my home church either. Must be that way because of all the work/planning needed for the week? I know back...

Lol, that's good stuff, thanks for sharing.

Aibrean, thanks for the recommendation, I'll see if I can borrow a rental from someone on my team. I need to update my faith denomination icon. As of about a 1.5 months ago, my family joined an LCMS church in Bella Vista, AR where we live. It is not as liturgical as I would prefer, but the...

I'll be in Longmont/Boulder CO are during Holy Week away from my home church. Any recommendations for a faithful/confessional LCMS church?

Ok, thanks. With my PCA ( presbyterian church in america ) background, I'm still trying to work out the differences between LCMS and PCA in terms of Church gov't.

In the LCMS, is there a standard for who can read the lessons? Men only or doesn't matter?

Those are helpful links, thank you.

Curious if anyone's church had anything or did anything this past Sunday for Septuagesima? Colors change, maybe something on the bulletin? We have been visiting an LCMS church and best I can tell, nothing looked anything different than the previous Sunday. Is this normal? I half expected to...

One quick note I wanted to share that relates to my first service in an LCMS church this past Sunday. I began to read about a dozen or so Confessional Lutheran blogs about a year ago and as I have read them over the past three days since our visit, the stuff they are writing about...it's really...

Forgot to mention, the Pastor had a children's sermon which I very much appreciated. We had thought about the logistics of taking communion for me and my wife, but thought I remembered LCMS and WELS only allow members to partake, so we stayed put. I think if we were to go up, we would have to...

Thanks for the links Tangible. I think I can relate to your experience with your 3yo as well as the family that hauls them all in there.

QuiltAngel, we prefer to have them with us in the congregational service instead of dividing the kids from the parents. They do have SS between the services and my kids where there ( two in one room, two in another ) but there were only 5 or 6 other kids in there. I think we're going to start...

Took the family to a local LCMS church. They have two services, an 8:30 traditional and a 10:30 blended. It might sound contrarian, but being a young-ish family of six ( oldest is almost eight ) I wanted to see their 8:30 service. We really enjoyed the service. So very different than our...

Thanks DaRev and others. The catechism Q&A cleared helped. Just thinking outloud... I'm starting to see Lutherans take Scripture for what is says and not try to cram it into some 'system' to support their 'theology'. Don't know if this is an "approved" lutheran commentary, but I found the...

I'm want to understand how it would basically go down for someone in the LCMS in my #16 post above if they were in the same situation, but in LCMS and not PCA.

The examination before the Session ( group of Elders ). I guess they ask a few basic doctrinal questions...if he/she passed, then you're in.

What I'm hearing from this particular PCA pastor is that believing parents are "in good standing" and have just joined the church and you have children...let's say ages 12 months to 7 years, then the little ones, , 4 and under, the pastor is saying "They'd be baptized as covenant children. And...

It does help, thank you. The children will not participate in communion until after they've been catechized, correct? Or, was there a profession of faith prior to their baptism? Just trying to figure out how it "works" in the LCMS. I'm in the PCA and we have a family with a child that will...