“Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.” Jude 3 The Nicene Creed has a definite beginning point beginning at the Council of...

Rev. Alfred W. Rodewald March 1, 1925-September 24, 2020   Rev. Alfred William Rodewald of Concordia, MO died at the Good Shepherd Care Community on September 24, 2020. He was 95. Funeral services will be held Saturday, Oct. 3 at 11:00 a.m. at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Concordia, with Rev....

“Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”  And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you,  for this is my blood of the covenant, which...

It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?...For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained...