Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church

On Saturday I received word that my friend and former pastor The Rev’d William W. Spiegelhalder died in the sure and certain hope of the...

Last evening, I had a chance to hear and meet The Rev. Juhana Pohjola, Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Diocese of Finland. I...

A number of years ago the German broadcaster DW (Deutsche Welle) did a story on the Lutherans in Moscow. A companion story was also done...

Over the last few years I have increasingly become interested studying the lives of pastors who served the church in Germany during the...

I was was super excited on Sunday when after the Divine Service a parishioner mentioned that they had been to the The Metropolitan Museum...

Not guilty! This is a follow up to the last post from January. Today was a major win for religious liberty and freedom of speech today in...

Today is the commemoration of the Confession of St. Peter the Apostle. In St. Matthew 16 Peter confessed boldly to Jesus “You are the...

I don’t remember where I first saw the term or where I heard it, but it resonated with me the first time I came across it: Decision...

The Following is Chapter V of a book entitled The Valley of the Shadow by Lutheran pastor Hanns Lilje. During the Second World War, Lilje...

“The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look...

I have been keenly interested in studying the lives of pastors in Germany from the Weimar period (1920s to 1932) and during the National...

I came across this photo yesterday. It is a photo of Pastor Bruno Doehring preaching in the crypt of the bombed out and demolished Berlin...

Justification by faith is the doctrine upon which the church stands or falls. Your salvation is not the result of your efforts or good...

Today on 11 November the church commemorates St. Martin of Tours a former soldier turned missionary bishop to western France in the 4th...

Today is the birthday of Martin Chemnitz (1522-1586). Known as the “Second Martin” Chemnitz helped to bring order to the Lutheran Church...

Back again to share another new-found insight into the Reformation from Steven Ozment’s book entitled, The Serpent and the Lamb: Cranach,...

Reformation Day 2021 has come and gone. Leading up to the commemoration I wanted to share a new insight into the Reformation I recently...

Preachers are subject to the same fits of ambition and glory as anyone else. Some struggle with envy over other parishes or ministries...

I have a love/hate relationship with technology. There probably is not a week that goes by that I do not resolve to get rid of my IPhone...

At the cross roads of the Via Imperii (Bergen to Rome) and the Via Regia (Paris to Novogrod) lies the city of Leipzig Germany. The city...