Author: Rev. Bernie Seter

” The gospel issues no orders. Rather it changes people. It plants love into their hearts and makes them capable of all good works. It demands nothing,  but gives all. Should not this fact make us leap for joy?” CFW...

We try to keep up with the interconnectedness we have up here in the north country.  Many of you will remember the Rev. Ed Behling who Pastored at First Lutheran in East Grand Forks an his son Robert served Underwood and rural...

Pastor Paul Nelson is retiring and his last Sunday is October 3, 2021. Service is at St. Martin in Anamoose, ND at 10:30am with a lunch to follow. On October 10, 2021, Pastor Leo Deitemeyer is celebrating 50 years in the...

Luthers writing of the Smalcald Articles to explain what he believed taught and confessed is also believed taught and confessed by every Pastor who swears in his ordination vows a subscription to the Confessions.  Luther said...

” We have not been given the power to make a woman out of a man or a man out of a woman or to nullify either sex”. So said Martin Luther in the Smalcald Articles. The Lutheran Elector John Frederick of Saxony gave...