Saint Luke's Lutheran Church

05/25/2026

05/24/2026

Tell us it’s Pentecost without telling us it’s Pentecost!! We’ll go first!

05/12/2026

Annual Church Council retreat was held this past weekend. Thanks to many who donated time, food, and cookies!

“Abide in Me” was the theme of the day. The council took time to consider what we are already doing in, with, and through Christ Jesus. We also heard from the Strategic Planning Committee. What a blessing all around. Presenters were Jessica Schafer, Deaconess Kathy, Pastor Phillips and Pastor Jones.

05/11/2026

Daily Catechism

04/25/2026

In the wake of the ELCA’s continued doctrinal drift and its increasingly public departure from historic Christian teaching, many congregations and pastors concluded that remaining within that church body was no longer tenable. Out of that crisis emerged two of the most significant Lutheran realignment bodies in modern America: the North American Lutheran Church (NALC) and Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ (LCMC).

The LCMC was actually formed first, in 2001, as an association of autonomous Lutheran congregations seeking an alternative to the ELCA. It describes itself not as a traditional denomination but as an association of self-governing congregations joined for mission and mutual support. Its polity is intentionally congregational and decentralized. 

The NALC was constituted in 2010, emerging more directly from the major exodus that followed the ELCA’s 2009 churchwide decisions on sexuality and ministry. Unlike the LCMC, the NALC adopted a more structured ecclesial form, including episcopal oversight (bishops) and a stronger emphasis on churchwide doctrinal accountability. 

Both bodies arose from a desire to preserve a more historic Lutheran confession and to remain anchored in the authority of Scripture and the classical Christian teaching of the Church. In that sense, they represent one of the most significant responses to the ELCA’s institutional apostasy.

That said, they are not identical. The LCMC tends to prioritize congregational autonomy and mission flexibility. The NALC, by contrast, tends to present itself as more traditionally structured, more visibly churchly, and more accountable at the wider church-body level.

Among confessional Lutherans, there is often respect for both bodies as products of a necessary separation from the ELCA, though there can be differing opinions regarding the degree of confessional rigor found within them. What is undeniable is that both represent an important chapter in the story of modern American Lutheranism: not merely division for its own sake, but a realignment born out of the conviction that fidelity to Christ and His Word required departure.

04/23/2026

Sunday, April 19,2026, The Confirmation of Arianna Maria Hilton, Adelaide Grace Miller, and Claire Annabel Schafer

04/22/2026

Big shout out to my newest top fans! 💎

Bonnie Reinmuth Clark, Sue Currey, Jolene Hamann

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04/22/2026

04/22/2026

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