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Celebrating Unity Among the Pastors of our Fellowship
(1995-05-08)As the WELS and ELS celebrate their 75th anniversary of fellowship, it is an opportunity to thank God for the past and present fellowship. The New Testament explicates the importance of fellowship, iterating the bond of ... -
A Century of WELS World Missions
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The Challenge Before Us
(2001)At a 2001 retreat for the WELS Board of World Missions, E. H. Wendland encourages eager mission zeal as he recounts the blessings of the past (when he was part of the beginning board and as a missionary), as he remarks on ... -
The Challenge of Anabaptist Baptism and the Lutheran Confession
(1981)This essay examines the historical background for Article XII, 6-8 of the Formula of Concord, discussing the attacks of the Zwickau prophets, Thomas Muentzer, and Andrew von Carlstadt on the doctrine of baptism, as well ... -
Change Under God: James Schaefer and the WELS’ Weltanschauung
(Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, 2008-12-15)The social and political philosopher Edmund Burke once said, “A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.” Apparently Burke had never heard of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. ...