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WordAlone Network

http://www.wordalone.org/

A nationwide network of confessional, evangelical Lutherans begun in the ELCA, organized for renewal in the Word alongside or outside the ELCA and the LCMS.

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Teachers, Not Pharasites

http://www2.txcyber.com/~wd5iqr/tcl/rusert.htm

The Rev. Matthew Rusert coins a term for many in the bureaucratic offices of the church from pharisee and parasite. He complains that self-sacrifice has been replaced by self-service.

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Reclaiming Walther in the LCMS

http://www.reclaimingwalther.org/

A site for the promotion of the principles of Lutheran theology as expressed by C.F.W. Walther, a founder of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.

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Lutherans: Catholic, Protestant, or Other?

http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/lutheranism/55734

Discussion on Lutheranism's relationship with other parts of western Christendom.

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Lutheran

http://home.ctctel.com/berg/Luther.html

Outlines differences between Lutherans and modern Evangelicals or traditional Reformed theology. Includes discussions of Law and Gospel and the fallen nature of mankind.

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Jesus-First Leadership

http://www.jesusfirst.net/

Theological and political activism in the Missouri Synod designed to move the LCMS away from what are viewed as narrow interpretations of inter-church and intra-church doctrine and practice.

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Explicating the Common Understanding of Justification

http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/lutheranism/30329

Contra to the second sub-section of section four of the Joint Declaration by certain Lutherans and the Roman Catholics, examining also sanctification.

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Distinction Between Orthodox and Heterodox Churches

http://www.reclaimingwalther.org/articles/pieperohcintro.htm

Translation of a Franz Pieper essay from 1889 addressing membership in bodies considered right-teaching and of a mixed confession.

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Concerning the Name Lutheran

http://www.ctsfw.edu/etext/walther/name_luth.asc

C. F. W. Walther supports the use of the title for the church, defending it as a one-word statement of confession and definition of doctrinal position.

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Church Fellowship

http://www.angelfire.com/ny4/djw/lutherantheology.krauthfellowship.html

Charles Porterfield Krauth theses on the Galesburg Declaration on Pulpit and Altar Fellowship.

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A Comparison of Lutheranism with Other Churches

http://www.xrysostom.com/compare.html

The theology and practices of the Lutheran Church are laid out beside those of Catholic and Protestant churches.

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