Rev. Mike Natale speaking at morning chapel at Lutheran Brethren Seminary. My name is Mike Natale. I’m 38 years old and have been married to my wife, Lindsay, for 14 years. I grew up in New Jersey and...  Read More

We're so excited to have Rev. Greg Finke back with us for our Day of Equipping on Saturday, June 8 during our 2024 Biennial Convention in Fergus Falls.Rev. Finke is the founder of Dwelling 1:14, a min...  Read More

Dear Church,On this Maundy Thursday, and entering the deeper darkness and light of the holy weekend beyond, I invite you to contemplate with me for a moment a word.  It is a word that we use less in o...  Read More

Our goal is to provide a practical resource for you, your small group, or your family, that can be easily implemented and applied. It is centered on the theme of each issue.For this edition we’ve crea...  Read More

As we approach the upcoming CLB Biennial Convention (June 8-11), one item of business is presenting for approval the “Statement on Human Persons and Sexuality,” a draft of which was presented and disc...  Read More

What Does it Mean to Be a Human Person?What does it mean to be human? Looking at that question, you might suggest that perhaps I’m biting off more than I can chew in a short article. A question like t...  Read More

“In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors i...  Read More

The following (paragraphs in italics) is taken from the journal of a parent. This is shared as a tool to help our understanding of what a child or a parent may be going through when a family member co...  Read More

The River Church in Red Deer, Alberta has been blessed to be a place where newcomers to Canada come to hear the gospel in their mother tongue and to worship the Lord in joy and freedom.Over the last f...  Read More

The vision of the Church of the Lutheran Brethren is to be a Disciple-making Church. I could make a pretty good case for that statement to be considered part definition and part aspirational. It is bo...  Read More

In the summer of 2001, having just graduated high school, I served for a few weeks with a team of other youth assisting Berea Lutheran Brethren Church in Alexandria, Minnesota with their Vacation Bibl...  Read More

The anything-but-physically-smooth road to Doh has been paved with an unimaginable smoothness as experienced through the Lord’s kindness and faithfulness throughout our journey. Like all our contempor...  Read More