I commend to your visitors the book "Authority Vested : A Story of Identity and Change in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod." It offers some excellant insights as to how the LCMS has become what it is today. If we can understand how we got to the present struggle, maybe we can begin to refocus on the Gospel so the Holy Spirit can draw us together and so fulfill our Savior's High Priestly prayer that we may all be one as Christ and the Father are one. If this is to happen we need to start talking about what unites us (Christ) instead of what divides us (sinful pride).

I will use your site often for research. Thank You!

Well done! To God Alone be the Glory!

Thank you for being here to confirm what our own Pastor publishes on the web.

Great site. It's a breath of fresh air.

A Superb Site! Wish I could download ALL your Sermons/Papers in one sitting! Please put me on your mailing list for future announcements and other varia! Many thanks for doing such a fine job in maintaining the Lord's Witness!

I read about this site on the CAT41 TableTalk list. Well done! Keep up the good work.

New to this site. Am a laymen always looking for help to preserve the historic, confessional foundation I was taught when I became a Lutheran some 35 years ago. It is a constant battle, but one worth fighting!

Glad to see what you are doing. Is it possible with such a network to begin an American Confessional Lutheran Church? Its time to leave these other bodies en masse. How I long for a confessional denomination, not just these "cyber churches". I want ot meet regularly with pastors of like mind, whose churches are committed to sound doctrine and practice. Thank you. Rev. D.C. Kavouras

I grow tired of the Jesus First movement and the "diversity" they are trying to bring in our synod. Thank you for this forum.y

Thank you for this site. It is a wonderful learning tool. The Walther paper by Pastor Robin Fish is exceptional.

The Pastor Saints at Zion Ev. Lutheran Church, U.A.C. wish you their warmest regards and thanks for taking time to put forth such sound information in an easy to find and readily available public forum. Thanks.

As a conservative, charismatic member of the ELCA, I have founf this sight to be quite encouraging. Thank You. I wish you all of God's peace this advent season.

I have been blessed by this tremendously by discovering this site!!! I am a confessional Lutheran clergy.... I ook forward to learning much about our Christian heritage through the eye opening and uplifting confessional and Biblical discussions found on this website . May the Lord Jesus grant us grace not only to be hears of HIS WORD but also to be doers as well....AMEN

It was absolutely great to have come across this Lutheran website. I am always excited at meeting Lutherans all over the world. I can already see that this websiet is going to be of invaluable service to me, both spiritually and academically.

God Bless all of you. Many greetings from Italy. If you can read italian please visit my homepage (http://www.poboxes.com/evanweb). Bye!

I really enjoy your site! Thanks.

Always a joy to find Lutherans who truly in "concord" regarding the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic faith. Are the pastors out there aware of the Society of the Holy Trinity?

Thank you to Rev. Bartz for his tool for studying the Augsburg Confession. It's been a great refresher and a devotional experience!

Great site--keep up the good work!

I cannot express how great it is to find your web page.Thank you ever so much, and thank God for faithful, confessing people like you.Will visit often. Yours in Christ.

I enjoyed your studies on the Lord's Supper. God's blessings to you.

As Confessional Lutherans, let us continue to remain faithful, as our Lord continues to separate the sheep from the goats.

I'm interested in learning about the doctrine of "sola Scriptura," in Latin, the doctrine of the Bible as the sole source of religious truth. What is involved in this idea? Please mention sources and any subordinate doctrines. For example, just to be specific, would spiritual experience be allowed as a source of divine teaching?

This website is one most sorely and desperately needed in this day and age!

As a Lutheran church organist, I'm always amazed at what I hear from some of the pastors in the Eastern District. I saw no Eastern District people in the guest book. Doesn't suprise me at all. Keep up the good work.

keep up the good work.God bless

Grace and works--the former gives you both, the latter gives you neither.

I heard about this page from a friend...glad I visited...will be back.

I am most grateful for a webpage like this; it is desparately needed!

A great website & I will keep it in my favorites!

Enjoy the site. Who has a better reading of the Districts Conventions. LW Left much to be asked?

I just read the articles on what it takes to be a Christian. THANK YOU FOR POSTING IT! I spent about three years with Campus Crusade for Christ as a student at University of Houston. Frankly, sometimes I MISS the approach of cornering someone and badgering them into praying the "sinners' prayer," then taking credit for "leading someone to Christ." This article was SUCH an encouragement.

Glad to see many of our well grounded LCMS pastors contributing.

Really like your web sight, very informative and refreshing.

Thank you for remaining faithful to the Word of God. May God Bless this effort!!!

It looks like I've finally found a website with something worthwhile to read. Thanks

I am an Elder at Our Redeemer in Peekskill, NY. Talk about "Outreach"! I found a Baptist, a Reformed Calvinist [UK], an Evangelical [UK] and even an Anglican priest on his way to (I hope Gnesio-) Lutheranism. rgmun@bestweb.net

Excellent web-site. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time reading the fine articles.

Hey, I'm back again and was just wondering how you worship? How does your church help the community and bring it together? God bless you. Love Pippo and em. Please reply at Miss_Pippa@yahoo.com or mrang@friendsforever.co.uk

Am anxious to go through all part of this web site. Sounds and looks exciting.

I'm doing a project on your church and i'm finding it most interesting. Your wonderful web-site has helped me very much. Bless you all. Thank be to God.

Thank you for this wonderful webpage !

I am very pleased to find websites devoted to reinvigorating confessionalism within the Lutheran church as a whole, and the LCMS in particular. It is amazing how the proverbial "camel in the tent" approach of Evangelical/Charismatic Protestantism is taking such a foothold, especially as sanctioned by district and synodical officials. I agree with a pastor friend of mine that these churches should just take "Lutheran" out of their name to not hide from their misrepresentations that is confusing the laity. All thanks and praise to God.

Enjoying the reading and seeing one of my pastors also found you!

Thank God for such a place on the web.

Thank God for such a place on the web.

It's good to be back again. Thanks for Dr. Lockwood's paper on the debate on women's ordination in the Lutheran Church in Australia. This isn't an issue in my parish, but should it ever come up, Dr. Lockwood provides a faithful LUTHERAN response to those who promote this heresy.

Thanks for posting this study. Where canI get a copy of this?

Thanks be to God!! I am so relieved to find that truly Confessional Lutherans are determined to reach the wandering laity that are falling away from the one true church. All at the behest of these wolves in sheep's clothing, the liberals that plague our synod. Be bold and continue to proclaim the truth, it is much needed in this synod.

Great site. May God continue to bless your work!

It is a blessing for me to have access to this book. Hope I will be updated enough to enhance my studies and also to read more news letters from you. Thank you.

Blessings for a wonderful informational page!

This is an informative and much needed resource for confessional Lutherans.

Am here in Thailand doing the LHF thing showing our newest LHF Branch Director for Southeast Asia the LHF website and related confessional stuff.

This is a great place to get back to the basics of being a Christian!

Great webpage. Keep up your good work. Blessings.

Well-presented site with thoughtful material. Thanks. God be with you all.

I especially enjoy Veith and McKenzie! Thank you!

Just passing through....very interesting. Thanks, Donna

This is an excellent thing. In the future, it is going to be more and more important that we work towards keeping ourselves and our synods rooted in the faith and hopefully, growing together in true doctrine.

I enjoyed your web site very much. I'm very glad to have found it!

I am a former Anglican priest on the way to confessional, orthodox Lutheranism. Most thankful for your site. If you send a newletter, etc, please send to: Rev. Juan O. Cepero, Sec. I, 2 #19, Doraville, Dorado, PR 00646

I need resources on developing a confessional lutheran curriculum for Lutheran Schools

You now have another regular & faithul visitor.

I am a member of a confessional congregation in a sea of liberalism. I am concerned lke many people who have responded in the guestbook, however, I must say i see much strength in Missouri. As long as we stick together and remain faithful to the Gospel and Our Lord all will b e alright. Pray for our synodical president and the voncention in 2001. The liberals are mobilizing to steal the conventions. Be aware! Be alert! If we are not watching they will steal our church, synod and our confessions and the Bible will be left up to them to carve up like the liberrals in ELCA until it is unrecognizable any more.

Where is David Henkel now that we need him?

i'll be sure to check this out more! great site!

enjoyed visiting your site. We are working on a conessional lutherans group in SC.

Keep up the witness for the faith once for all delivered to the saints. The precious Gospel is doctrine. Sound doctrine means pure Gospel and is therefore indispensable for mission. I look forward to updates to the site.

Member of Faith, Plano. Prayers for keeping the ture Faith alive.

Cool Site!

From some of the Video tapes on the "Free Conference" there were some comments made about the Fort Wayne Sem. That some of the teaching going on there is not necessarily confessional or hyper episcopal. Could you go into a little detail from your experience.

Eph 1:2

Refreshing, as a Elder in the church battling the ever increasing influence of the post-modern culture on the church it is comforting to see that the battle is not being fought alone. Keep up the good work. (Jude 3)

Interesting. God bless your efforts.

Very refreshing, keep it up and God bless you

Interesting site. Glad it's on the web.

I love your sites. Keep up the good work.

Enlightening

At a time when confessional Lutheranism is under assault by the demonic forces of our culture, visiting your site always provides me with great encouragement. It's easy to grow discouraged at times in the struggle to remain faithful to the Scriptures and the Confessions. Your site reminds me of the importance of being faithful to the Word, speaking God's truth faithfully and clearly, and then leaving the results to the Lord of the Church. Programs don't build the Church; only the Gospel, purely preached and taught, does that. Thanks for the ever-present reminder of this truth.

I wish all Lutherans who claim to be "confessional" would realize that there are confessional denominations in existence. The LC-MS has a few confessional districts, but overall it is not. Please, everyone, look into church bodies that are entirely confessional!

Thank-you

S.D.G.

This site is a good deal. It and others like it will fule the fire in our youth, in the future. Confessional Lutheranism will always be here as long as the kids know that THIS is a fight worth fighting. Fighting the battle it's self is a blessing. I am 17 and I don't know what I would do if there were no "new thinking" to fight. Thank you for this site. ****Joshua 1:9****

Nice page and good theological resources and links!

Great Web Site! I'm happy to find you.

Great site!

Terrific! Keep up the good work and let more people know that you're out there.

Thank you for your support of Confessional Lutheranism. May we grow together.

Very nice web Page

Appreciate the work to put this site up. Wonder if anyone knows where I might find a cheap set of Luther' s Works, American Ed. and Luther sermons???

I must be one of about only six people in the UK who have read Walther's masterpiece on 'Law and Grace'! I am a Reformed Calvinist, and rejoice in what I have read concerning the confessional Lutherans in the US. I confess with you that justificication is the key doctrine on which everything hinges. I look forward to hearing from you. We are in a fight to uphold the Gospel - not only from liberals butwell-meaning but abysmally ignorant evangelicals and charismatics.

Great site. Keep it up.