Lutheran Bible Institute in California at Grand View

Lutheran Bible Institute in California at Grand View Lutheran Bible Institute @ Grand View University Paul-Minneapolis, Minnesota. By the end of World War II, many LBI graduates had moved to Southern California.

While the California Lutheran Bible School (CLBS) began in 1951, its origin lay over three decades earlier in the Lutheran Bible Institute (LBI) in St. LBI founders designed the school to provide education for the systematic study of the Bible according to Lutheran Church teaching, belief, and confession, and to provide training to lay members for service in Lutheran congregations and institutions

. Countless students went on to be missionaries, evangelists, teachers, deaconesses, pastors, administrators, and in all, effective lay leaders of their congregations. Most of these students were young adults, the majority of them recent high school graduates. Indeed, LBI leaders intended their movement and its schools to provide two years of instruction and training to students before they would go on to college. But for years before they built campuses or enrolled students, LBI personnel first taught the Bible over days and evenings at a time to Lutheran congregations. As urged by their pastors, hundreds of Lutheran lay members were drawn to these Bible Conferences each year. In reply to their plea for a Lutheran Bible school with their pledges of support, LBI leaders started the branch program first called CLBS. Classes were held in congregational facilities in Los Angeles, the longest at Angelica Lutheran Church in the Pico-Union district. Two decades later, CLBS relocated to its own new campus in Anaheim. Over two decades after then, and with its new name, the Lutheran Bible Institute in California (LBIC) relocated again, to commercial office space near Concordia University in Irvine. Now located on the campus of Grand View University in Des Moines, IA. In partnership with Grand View Univresity, LBIC offers classes with technologies that neither the LBI founders in 1919 nor the CLBS founders in 1949 ever would have imagined. As an independent Lutheran organization, LBIC stands to serve congregations in North America and beyond. As a faith movement, Lutheran Bible Institute in California aims to teach the Word of God to all who will gladly hear and learn it.

01/20/2026

American religion did not become optional because the gospel failed. It became optional because religion slowly redefined itself around usefulness.

One of my great joys of working at Grand View University was developing the The Nexus Institute. Below is a reflection o...
10/02/2024

One of my great joys of working at Grand View University was developing the The Nexus Institute. Below is a reflection of NEXUS that was printed in Word and World Journal.

https://wordandworld.luthersem.edu/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/44-3_Leaders_for_the_Future_Church/02_The_NEXUS_Institute_Intentional_Theological_Education_for_Youth_Leadership_Formation.pdf

A Christmas sermon that focuses on the nativity of our Lord.
12/30/2023

A Christmas sermon that focuses on the nativity of our Lord.

Thank you for watching this sermon from Lutheran Church of the Master! We pray this brought you closer to Christ and encouraged you. For more information abo...

Here is a link to last Sunday’s sermon on Matthew 25. I started off slow but really enjoyed how it ended.
11/17/2023

Here is a link to last Sunday’s sermon on Matthew 25. I started off slow but really enjoyed how it ended.

Today's Passage: Matthew 25:1-13Thank you for watching this sermon from Lutheran Church of the Master! We pray this brought you closer to Christ and encourag...

10/05/2023

Today's Passage: Matthew 21:23-32Thank you for watching this sermon from Lutheran Church of the Master! We pray this brought you closer to Christ and encoura...

09/20/2023

Today's Passage: Matthew 18:21-35Thank you for watching this sermon from Lutheran Church of the Master! We pray this brought you closer to Christ and encoura...

Here is my last sermon on Matthew 14. Don’t stay in the boat!
08/16/2023

Here is my last sermon on Matthew 14. Don’t stay in the boat!

Today's Passage: Matthew 14:22-33Thank you for watching this sermon from Lutheran Church of the Master! We pray this brought you closer to Christ and encoura...

07/25/2023

If I read this book, if I do this thing, if I drink this juice, then I will be...fill in the blank. We're constantly trying to purify and dig the weeds out, ...

The sermon comes from Grand View University's 2023 Baccalaureate service. Pastor Russ preaches on Jesus' promise, in Joh...
05/03/2023

The sermon comes from Grand View University's 2023 Baccalaureate service. Pastor Russ preaches on Jesus' promise, in John 10, to give us life both now and forever.

This is Luther Memorial Church's weekly sermon from April 30th, 2023. Thanks for Watching!All Rights Reserved.

Jesus was forsaken for you. Here is a link to the Good Friday message.
04/18/2023

Jesus was forsaken for you. Here is a link to the Good Friday message.

This is Luther Memorial Church's sermon from Good Friday on Friday, April 17th 2023. Thanks for Watching!All Rights Reserved.

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