Frederick Adrian’s essay examines the contentious formation and early struggles of the Allgemeine Synode, a federation of the Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota Synods. Focusing on the years 1892–1895, Adrian challenges ...

What does a real man look like? What does a real man do? These are questions that many modern men are struggling to answer. The world is ready to provide an endless array of proposed answers, but how the Bible talks ...

Outward unions in the Church are theoretically a matter neither commanded nor prohibited by God in Scriptures. Where proper conditions are present, such unions should be encouraged to reflect the unity of the true invisible ...

Frederick Casmer’s essay analyzes the Lutheran Churches of the Reformation (LCR), tracing its historical and doctrinal roots from the Orthodox Lutheran Conference (OLC) and the State of the Church movement within the ...

Philip Bigelow’s essay documents a decade of doctrinal conflict, healing, and growth at Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church in Antioch, Illinois (1995–2005). The paper centers on a controversy over church fellowship that led ...

There is crisis in the traditional American church. A multitude of churches that were once stable or thriving are now struggling and hoping to survive. Local ministry and denominational leaders, as well as church consultants, ...

The professed goal of twentieth century theology is to persuade modern man to accept the Christian faith. Twentieth century theology speaks to man’s reason. Not only does modern theology reject the inspiration, inerrancy, ...