Bringing Gentiles into the Church Recap and Introduction Last week, we followed the Church as she spread to Samaria during Jewish persecution. Christians fled proclaiming Jesus as the world’s Savior from sin and the Deliverer of eternal life. The Church’s first pastors, the Apostles, however, did not flee with the others (Acts 8:1). So, […]
2 Corinthians, Lesson 3: An Excursus on Confirmation
September 12, 2015 by
This is an excursus that we took on the origins of Confirmation while studying 2 Corinthians. In the last lesson, Paul and Timothy referred to themselves by saying, “God has establishes us with you into Christ and has anointed us” (1 Corinthians 1:21). Their use of “you” shows that the Corinthian congregation was included in […]
Acts, Lesson 20: In Ephesus: Confirmation and Speaking in Tongues
November 5, 2014 by
Paul in Ephesus In the last Lesson, we saw Luke hurriedly describe many events in passing (Acts 18:22-23), wanting to bring us to Ephesus. Luke now does that, telling us what took place there with the Apostle Paul. Ephesus was located in what today is the western coast of Turkey. It was the fourth largest […]
First Communion during the Lutheran Reformation
October 16, 2012 by
This is our pastor’s article for SOTHLC ‘s November newsletter. Today, almost all of us have grown up seeing infant baptism as the norm. Later, a baptized child would finish confirmation around the 8th grade, and then he would receive his first communion. That is what is normal for us. Yet, throughout history, we […]
