Posts with the category “faith-and-fellowship-magazine”

Our goal is to provide a practical resource for you, your small group, or your family, that can be easily implemented and applied. These studies are centered on the theme of each issue.For this editio...  Read More

I don’t know if the church gets much more divided than during an election year. 2024 is shaping up to be no different. How might we, the body of Christ, think and behave in such a divisive climate?In ...  Read More

Most of us think of a “kingdom” as a place. But when Scripture speaks of the “kingdom of God,” it is not speaking of a place, a locality in the sky to which we shall fly away some glad morning when th...  Read More

As we look at the culture of the United States today, certain words come up often: anger, distrust, political and cultural division, confusion, hopelessness, and isolation. This was magnified during t...  Read More

The words of John 17 sparkle as I read them. Jesus is praying for us, for all believers, for all time: “Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name.” (17:11)But even as Jesus prays for our pro...  Read More

After a particularly effective sermon, a parishioner might say to the preacher, “Thank you for your message today. I found it so moving.” It’s a remarkable turn of phrase, when you think about it. Isa...  Read More

The Church of the Lutheran Brethren sent its first missionaries to the continent of Africa in 1918. Berge and Herborg Revne set sail out of New York harbor on November 23rd of that year. About a month...  Read More

Ruth Edlund, 88, of Ashby, MN, passed away peacefully on March 10, 2024. Ruth was commissioned to go to Sudan (present day Cameroon) on August 23, 1959, following in the footsteps of her sister, Orpha...  Read More

Discipleship, discipleship, discipleship. Over and over the speakers at the Exponential Conference in Orlando, Florida, pounded that word and its meaning into the heads and hearts of the conference at...  Read More

Grace Community Church, (Wesley Chapel, Florida) welcomed two new elders on March 3, 2024. Front row: (L to R) New elders, Don Fry and Danny Morris. Back row: (L to R) CLB President Paul Larson, Elder...  Read More

Lincoln Church, a CLB Church Plant in Lincoln, North Dakota, held their first official worship service on Easter Sunday! Over 75 people attended the Easter Egg Hunt and Worship Service, most being fro...  Read More

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

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

As of September 1, 2023, Danny Bronson, former missionary to Chad, started servingpart-time as Ministry Coordinator for Lutheran Brethren International Mission(LBIM), assisting with its expanding mini...  Read More

Rev. Jon Ronnevik was installed as Associate Pastor at Victory Lutheran Brethren Church, Jamestown, ND. Rev. Brandon Pangman, Director of North American Mission, officiated theinstallation service.......  Read More

President Paul Larson officiated the ordination of three new elders at Bethel LB Church, Ottawa, IL. Pictured kneeling in front are the new elders (L to R): Jack Knudtson, Ted Sanders, and Chris Holtz...  Read More

Lincoln Church, a CLB Church Plant in Lincoln, North Dakota, held a preview worship service on February 4, 2024. Pastor Carl Juhl reported that, out of the nearly 100 attendees, around 50 were from th...  Read More

For this issue, we’ve created a four-week Bible study on Revelation 21:1-8, along with discussion questions and companion videos. It is our hope and prayer that these will serve you and your congregat...  Read More

Recently, my family took care of three foster kids for an afternoon so the foster parents could attend an event out of town. The kids spent most of the time playing with Legos at our dining room table...  Read More

Jerusalem has served as a powerful reminder and symbol since about 1000 BC, when King David made it his capital city. It is a reminder of God’s fearsome judgment and his unfailing grace to both the fa...  Read More

As the air ambulance landed on the tarmac in Paris, France, I was placed on a gurney and rushed to a major hospital in downtown Paris. The icy February air bit at my cheeks, so different from the balm...  Read More

Gospel partnership is a vital part of the ministry at Triumph Lutheran Brethren Church (Moorhead, MN and West Fargo, ND). God has equipped Triumph to do many things in his kingdom, but we can’t do it ...  Read More

Theology defines what we believe and explains how that belief is supported by the Bible. I would say I was a believer, but I was also one of the biggest offenders of not knowing what I believed. Why d...  Read More

There are numerous areas of service in our public life for which we demand a person who has official “accreditation.” Consider, for example, the choice of a surgeon. On the whole, I believe all of us ...  Read More

You do not realize the length of time I have waited to use this next portion of scripture: After we were brought safely through, we then learned that the island was called Malta. The native people sho...  Read More

Our Lutheran Brethren International Mission (LBIM) missionary families live and serve in cultural contexts that are very different from their home cultures. They navigate life in different languages a...  Read More

LBIM missionary, Donald Raun, passed into the presence of his Lord and Savior on Monday, November 20, 2023. Don and his wife Orpha faithfully served as LBIM missionaries in Chad between the years of 1...  Read More

Jeanive Solheim celebrated her 100th birthday on December 9, 2023, at the Platte Care Center in Platte, South Dakota....  Read More

On Sunday, December 17, 2023, David and Janice Kuan-Chang were commissioned by the Lutheran Brethren Church of Taiwan as missionaries to Chad....  Read More

Registration is open for Rooted, a young adult gap-year program that starts in September. ...  Read More

The Christian’s eternal realm is pictured in chapter 21 of John’s Revelation. Most precious to me is the assurance that “…those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and th...  Read More

Some of my fondest childhood memories are of Christmas at my grandparents’ house. We lived about two hours north of them, so visiting them was always a treat, but Christmas was the highlight of the ye...  Read More