Pastor Sell on the Radio: The Language of Christ's Church

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Today (July 25th), Pastor Sell was on Issues Etc., a popular radio program broadcast in St. Louis and on the internet around the world (KSIV 1350 am radio).

On the 3:30 segment, Pr. Sell was interviewed by Todd Wilken about the language of Christ's church. God purposley chooses to communicate with the world through words. His words are revealed to us in the Spirit empowered Scriptures. His words are holy. They have the power to do what they say they do.

God's Holy Word cuts across all of history and penetrates every culture in which they are spoken, regardless of what language is used. The holy Christian Church takes words very seriously because they are salvation, they are God's holy law and life-giving gospel. They are the only thing the church has and in them, they bring the very presence of God in baptism and the Lord's Supper. God's language creates a rhythm of life that brings us to repentance and forgives our sins. The rhythm of God's words are best experienced in the life of the church as she is gathered around God's Word and the Sacramental Life.

You can listen to Pr. Sell's interview here.

Issues, Etc. is a radio talk show hosted by LCMS Pastor Todd Wilken and produced by Lutheran Public Radio.  You can listen to in-depth teachings on subjects like: New Atheism, Jesus’ Journey to Jerusalem, Lutheran Martyr Robert Barnes, Joseph of Arimathea and more.  You can listen LIVE weekdays from 4-5 p.m. on KSIV, 1320 AM in St. Louis.   You can also listen on-demand at http://www.issuesetc.org/.

Welcome to Faith, Bill and Nedra

Bill and Nedra are excited about being new members of Faith. They are retired teachers and enjoy their time traveling about the country. They were publicly welcomed into membership June 28, 2011.

Faith Welcomes New Members

Clint and April (top)
Azura and Cameron (bottom)

Father's Day, June 19 2011, Faith welcomed three new members. April was confirmed after learning more about God's Word. God marked Azura and Cameron as His children in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19) with living waters (John 7:37) by Holy Baptism. 


Forgiveness of sins in the sacramental life brings the fulfillment of the Great Commission of Matthew 28. Clint, April's fiance', is already a member of Faith. Baptizing, teaching, and feeding until the end of the age is what Christ's church does best.

Faith Installs Pastor Sell - Sunday May 15 - 10:30 a.m.

You are invited to the installation of Faith's new pastor, Mark Sell.

May 15, Faith will install Pastor Mark E. Sell as her called and ordained pastor. Pastor Sell has served as Faith's vacancy pastor since November of 2010. We are excited about the Lord's work through Faith's members and Pastor Sell.

The installation will take place during our regular service at 10:30 a.m.

Pastor Scot Kinnaman (Sr. Editor, CPH) will serve as the liturgist. Pastor Kinnaman served with Pastor Sell at CPH and St. Luke in Clinton Twp. MI.

Pastor Matthew Harrison (Assoc. Pastor of Village Lutheran Church and president of the LCMS) will preach. Pastors Harrison and Sell attended the seminary together in the 1980's.

We celebrate this event of Faith with a congregational meal immediately after the service.

He Is Risen! Blessed Easter

(From Luther's Easter Sermon) This is the meaning of the words by St. Paul: "Christ was raised for our justification." Here Paul turns my eyes away from my sins and directs them to Christ, for if I look at my sins, they will destroy me.

Therefore I must look unto Christ who has taken my sins upon himself, crushed the head of the serpent and become the blessing. Now they no longer burden my conscience, but rest upon Christ, whom they desire to destroy.

Let us see how they treat him. They hurl him to the ground and kill him. 0 God; where is now my Christ and my Saviour? But then God appears, delivers Christ and makes him alive; and not only does he make him alive, but he translates him into heaven and lets him rule over all. What has now become of sin? There it lies under his feet. If I then cling to this, I have a cheerful conscience like Christ, because I am without sin.

Now I can defy death, the devil, sin and hell to do me any harm. As I am a child of Adam, they can indeed accomplish it that I must die. But since Christ has taken my sins upon himself, has died for them, has suffered himself to be slain on account of my sins, they can no longer harm me; for Christ is too strong for them, they cannot keep him, he breaks forth and overpowers them, ascends into heaven  and rules there over all throughout eternity.

Now I have a clear conscience, am joyful and happy and am no longer afraid of this tyrant, for Christ has taken my sins away from me and made them his own. But they cannot remain upon him; what then becomes of them? They must disappear and be destroyed. This then is the effect of faith. He who believes that Christ has taken away our sin, is without sin, like Christ himself, and death, the devil and hell are vanquished as far as he is concerned and they can no longer harm him.