Peace Lutheran Church - NALC in Connersville, IN

06/10/2026

Should one be "rebaptized"?

06/01/2026

05/30/2026

Imagine losing an entire book of the Bible. That’s essentially what happened in 2 Kings 22, which we read today in Bible in One Year.

The high priest found a scroll of the Torah in the temple, likely Deuteronomy. When it was read to Josiah, the young king realized how far the nation had strayed from the path of Yahweh. The result was reformation, a revitalization of faithful worship in Judah, all sparked by the rediscovery of God’s Word.

That raises a question for us. What will revitalize the church today? Clever marketing? Entertainment-driven worship? A more culturally comfortable version of church? No.

Reformations may seem to arise because people grow sick of the church’s theological trash stinking to high heaven and decide to wheel it to the curb. They abhor the cancers of corruption worming their way through the soul of the ecclesial hierarchy. They are dismayed over closeted creeds mildewing, muscular singing atrophying into the blubber of emotionalism, and want to vomit every time they catch a whiff from a pulpit exhaling the bad breath of moralism, legalism, or self-helpism.

But in the end, reformation does not happen because people react. It happens because God acts.

He sees his starving people and ends the famine of the Word. He sends the rain of the Gospel so that we feast on Christ and his gifts.

Moral reform fades as quickly as a sandcastle before the tide. Political reform is like tidying the house while the roof burns. But Gospel reform endures, because it is nothing less than the life of God in Christ given to the dead.

Only the Gospel gives life because it alone gives us Jesus. Not Jesus plus our agendas, not Jesus plus self-improvement, but Jesus alone.

When that Word is preached, taught, read, and studied, the Spirit is at work. The church is drawn again into the life of Christ. Worship is enlivened. Preachers proclaim Christ crucified and risen. Hungry people are fed with something real.

That is how reformation comes. The church is nailed again to the crucified and risen Lord, sharing in his death and life. And so, once more, she becomes a living witness in the world, a place where mercy flows, and life is given through the Word.

05/18/2026

"The intentions with which God created the human person in the context of marriage and s*xuality are universal truths, established once and for all, that human beings can know spontaneously through natural moral law, and can be found in Sacred Scripture. Saint Paul teaches that when Gentiles “do instinctively what the law requires, these, though not having the law, are a law to themselves. They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts” (Romans 2:14-15).

God created marriage as a mutual total self-giving between a man and a woman, through which they can transmit human life. Sexual differentiation and openness to life are essential elements of this total gift. Sexual acts between persons of the same s*x cannot constitute such a total gift because they are closed to the transmission of life by their very nature. Any act that violates God’s creative intentions for marriage and s*xuality is always impermissible, without exception. These are absolute norms of natural law, established to protect non-negotiable values

True pastoral care does not seek compromises with moral truth. The shepherd leads people to the truth, which is ultimately found in the Person of Jesus Christ. He must encourage those in his care to align their actions with the truth as set forth in moral norms. There is no genuine pastoral charity in obscuring moral truth or suggesting that universal norms admit of exceptions based on individual circumstances."

Cardinal Eijak - Response to Synodical Study Group 9 Report

05/13/2026

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