1. Update from the 66th LCMS Convention
Kip Allen and Gary Duncan report live from Milwaukee, WI, on what’s been happening at the 2016 LCMS Convention, Upon This Rock.
Check out our convention page for more web-only special interviews and updates.
2. Prison Ministry at the Convention
Rev. E. James Rivett, LCMS Southern Illinois District Prison Coordinator, and the Rev. Dr. Jeffery Nehrt, LCMS Southern Illinois District Assistant Prison Coordinator, join Kip Allen and Andy Bates to discuss their ministry. Find more information on the Southern Illinois District Prison Ministry here.
3. Matins Sermonette
Rev. Anthony Alter from Faith Lutheran Church in Jefferson City, Missouri, studies Acts 15:6-21.
4. Matins Sermonette
Today’s sermonette is by Rev. Anthony Alter from Faith Lutheran Church in Jefferson City, Missouri.
Acts 15:6-21
6 The apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider this matter. 7 And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe. 8 And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us, 9 and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith. 10 Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? 11 But we believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will.”
12 And all the assembly fell silent, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul as they related what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles. 13 After they finished speaking, James replied, “Brothers, listen to me. 14 Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name. 15 And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written,
16 “‘After this I will return,
and I will rebuild the tent of David that has fallen;
I will rebuild its ruins,
and I will restore it,
17 that the remnant[a] of mankind may seek the Lord,
and all the Gentiles who are called by my name,
says the Lord, who makes these things 18 known from of old.’
19 Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God, 20 but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood. 21 For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, for he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues.”
Footnotes:
- Acts 15:17 Or rest
English Standard Version (ESV)The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
