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| | Evangelical Lutheran Church in America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The ELCA is a member of the National Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches and is a "partner in mission and dialog" with the Churches Uniting in Christ. | | | As a Lutheran church body, the ELCA professes belief in the "priesthood of all believers", or that all baptized persons are true ministers of the Church. | | | In language first proposed by the church's Conference of Bishops in 1993 and formally adopted by the Churchwide Assembly in 2005, the ELCA holds "there is basis neither in Scripture nor tradition for the establishment of an official ceremony by this church for the blessing of a homosexual relationship. |
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| | Pastor Paul T. McCain
Cyberbrethren: Maybe OK to be Unrepentantly Gay in the ELCA |
| | The Church Council is the ELCA's board of directors and serves as the legislative authority of the church between churchwide assemblies. | | | In August the ELCA Churchwide Assembly is to decide whether or not the church should bless same-gender relationships and whether or not it should allow people in such relationships to serve the church as professional lay and ordained ministers. | | | Current ELCA policy expects ministers to refrain from all sexual relations outside marriage, which it defines as "a lifelong covenant of faithfulness between a man and a woman." The church has no official policy on blessing same-gender relationships. |
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| | Death of the ELCA: Is Missouri Next? |
| | The average member in the ELCA hasn’t the slightest idea that their church has collapsed on the doctrine of justification by faith alone, the Lord’s Supper, and other significant doctrines. | | | The ELCA leadership knows they made this concession to the Catholic Church and that they swindled their ignorant membership out of the Gospel. | | | The correct preaching of the Gospel in the LCMS is seriously challenged in the Missouri Synod by the doctrinal collapse of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). |
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http://www.reclaimingwalther.org/articles/jmc00042.htm
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| | ELCA Sexuality Studies resources - Greater Milwaukee Synod - ELCA |
| | ELCA church leaders said that the actions affirmed the ELCA's current standards for ministry and reaffirmed the pastoral guidance of a 1993 pastoral letter issued by the ELCA Conference of Bishops. | | | He said the "ambiguity of [recommendation] number two is what many in the ELCA find troubling." On the other hand, the Rev. Stephen P. Bouman, bishop of the ELCA Metropolitan New York Synod, told voting members that many of their children come to live within the parishes of his synod. | | | ORLANDO, Fla. (ELCA) -- The 2005 Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) affirmed pastoral care for all people including people who are gay or lesbian, and continued to encourage the church to welcome gay and lesbian people into its life. |
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http://www.milwaukeesynod.org/faithfuljourney.htm
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| | WELS Questions and Answers-- Religion - ELCA |
| | The doctrinal statements of the ELCA in its constituting documents state that the ELCA's belief and practice is in agreement with Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions. | | | The reason that the ELCA can be in full communion with other churches and can be tolerant of other churches is because we understand that the key to heaven lies in the belief that Jesus Christ died for our sins. | | | When the ELCA merger was underway, hundreds of churches objected to the planned removal of scriptural inerrancy from the ELCA constitution, but when it was done, they stayed in the new church anyway. |
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http://www.wels.net/sab/qa/rel-elca-02.html
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| | ELCM Comparison |
| | The ELCA has adopted a practice which known as the "Historic Episcopacy" as something that is regarded as being a matter basic to the church being the Church. | | | One example of the De-Lutheranizing of the ELCA via the FOA is as follows: One of Reformed Churches with whom the ELCA now has aEcumenicalal agreement does not insist on the Doctrine of the Trinity and has long allowed pastors who are involved in active homo-sexual relationships to be on their Clergy roster. | | | Jesus transcends Scripture and thus the Gospel is not bound to Scripture. |
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http://www.elcm.org/comparison.html
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| | The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod - ELCA |
| | The ELCA, while affirming its commitment to the Gospel of Jesus Christ as witnessed to in the Lutheran confessional writings, also tends to emphasize the historical character of these writings and to maintain the possibility of dissent to confessional positions that do not deal directly with the Gospel itself understood in a narrow sense. | | | While the LCMS believes that the Bible requires agreement in all that the Bible teaches, the ELCA holds that disagreement in some matters of doctrine, such as the mode of Christ's presence in Holy Communion, do not prohibit church fellowship. | | | The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod - ELCA |
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http://www.lcms.org/pages/internal.asp?NavID=2146
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| | Thursday Theology #121 - Greater Accuracy on the ELCA's agreement with US Episcopalians |
| | The ECUSA version of the HE is mandated in the 1662 preface to the Ordinal in the Book of Common Prayer: clergy who are not episcopally ordained (i.e., ordained with a bishop presiding) shall not serve in parishes of the Episcopal Church (and other churches of the Anglican Communion). | | | Nothing is changed for remaining in unity with this church, i.e., the ELCA. | | | What we are doing here is trying to reconcile the ministries of a "protestant type church" (the ELCA) with a "catholic type church" (the ECUSA). |
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http://www.crossings.org/thursday/Thur1005.htm
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| | wfn.org ELCA Assembly Votes to Join Christian Churches Together |
| | ELCA NEWS SERVICE August 16, 2003 ELCA Assembly Votes to Join Christian Churches Together 03-CWA-48-JAC* MILWAUKEE (ELCA) -- During the 11th plenary session of the 2003 Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), voting members adopted an action to join Christian Churches Together (CCT), a new ecumenical organization. | | | The theme for the biennial assembly is "Making Christ Known: For the Healing of the World." "The purpose of Christian Churches Together is to enable churches and national Christian organizations to grow closer together in Christ in order to strengthen our Christian witness in the world," the recommendation said. | | | CCT is not seeking full communion, but rather looking to represent unity in Christ, he said. |
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http://www.wfn.org/2003/08/msg00237.html
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| | ELCA's response to our national tragedy |
| | The ELCA is a member church of the NCC. | | | The Rev. Theodore F. Schneider, bishop of the ELCA Metropolitan Washington, D.C., Synod, began his day in Altoona, Pa., where he was attending a meeting of regional ELCA bishops. | | | Anderson said many ELCA congregations are open for prayer and many were planning to hold special services. |
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http://www.nwos-elca.org/disaster/news.htm
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| | Thursday Theology #323 - Is Robert Gagnon, the New Glue for Linking "Conservatives" in ELCA and LCMS? |
| | Pastors both in the LCMS and ELCA who consider themselves conservative are rallying around Robert Gagnon as their theological guru to fight the liberals in both churches on the hot potato of homosexuality. | | | LCMS voices criticize the ELCA for cozying up to the Reformed in church fellowship, but take instruction from a sturdy Calvinist, instead of Luther, on how to read the Bible. | | | Durado covenanters are pastors of "beeeg" congregations voicing their own "no" in advance of the anticipated "yes" coming on this issue at next summer's ELCA assembly. |
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http://www.crossings.org/thursday/Thur081904.htm
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| | Renewing Worship in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
| | Renewing Worship November 2004 report to the ELCA Church Council, including a first draft list of hymns proposed for the new book of worship. | | | Note that the ELCA preferred Sunday readings are listed on the right; the semi-continuous readings, used by the ELCIC, are listed on the left. | | | At the end of September one copy of With the Whole Church: A Study Guide for Renewing Worship was sent to each ELCA congregation and rostered leader. |
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| | Saint Paul Area Synod, ELCA-Resources and Partnerships |
| | Its initiatives reflect the collective deliberations of congregations and other church bodies on public policy issues and are guided by scripture, Lutheran theology, and the expressions of the church's social statements and resolutions. | | | A nonpartisan citizens' movement of 50,000 people of faith, including 2,500 churches, BFW members help hungry people by lobbying our nation's decision makers on legislation that addresses hunger in our communities and around the world. | | | erves those who serve in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). |
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http://www.spas-elca.org/resourcespartners.htm
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| | Saint Paul Area Synod, ELCA-About the Synod |
| | Approved a motion to memorialize the ELCA CWA to ordain, commission, and consecrate same-gender persons in publicly covenanted relationships that are “mutual, chaste and faithful” and to make appropriate revisions in Vision and Expectations and other documents and create a timeline for the implementation of this policy. | | | Voting members considered, discussed during hearings, and voted on 18 resolutions from sexuality to poverty to genocide in Darfur. | | | For two days, voting members also lived in the story of the woman at the well during worship. |
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http://www.spas-elca.org/aboutsynod/synodassembly/synodassembly.htm
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| | Nebraska Synod, ELCA Website: Welcome! |
| | Nebraska Synod& small and large congregations offer God’s word and sacraments, Lutheran Christian fellowship and community in the open country, in the busy cities, in the towns and villages, as people are Living in God's Amazing Grace. | | | More than 124,000 ELCA Lutherans belong to the 260+ congregations in the Nebraska Synod. | | | This small group Bible Study discusses the story of the Prodigal Son. |
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http://www.nebraskasynod.org
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| | ELCA World Hunger - Lent prayers and litanies |
| | ELCA World Hunger resources are designed to help individuals, congregations, and synods learn more about and participate in ending world hunger. | | | ELCA World Hunger - Lent prayers and litanies | | | Table prayers have been selected and reprinted from "Blessing and Beseeching: Prayers on Food and Hunger" (LCA, 1985-1987) by Gail Ramshaw. |
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| | SD Synod ELCA: Ministry of the Month Nov 2003 |
| | This church's response to "chronic hunger and poverty around the world and in the United States" is the ELCA World Hunger Program and Appeal. | | | We hope that congregations will seize the opportunity to recognize these partnerships in the prayers of the church during these months, and to hold up these ministries through various activities (for instance, the proceeds from a soup-and-sandwich luncheon or other event) or special offerings. | | | That program is designed to enable this church to respond to short-term events-disasters both natural and human-made, domestic and international. |
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| | Welcome to the home page of the Northeastern Ohio Synod, ELCA |
| | Over 200 ELCA congregations across Northeast Ohio are waiting to welcome you. | | | These pages contain information about and links to ELCA congregations and ministries in Northeast Ohio. | | | Our web site offers a friendly roadmap of our synod for those seeking a church home, for congregations looking for assistance, for clergy and lay people involved in NEOS ministries, or for those just visiting. |
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| | U.S. Newswire : Releases : "News Conference on Release of Report and..." |
| | The 2001 ELCA Churchwide Assembly asked for this report with recommendations. | | | What: This is a national news conference concerning the release of a report and recommendations on matters related to homosexuality in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). | | | Find the Web cast, along with other resources, at http://www.elca.org/mediakit on the ELCA Web site. |
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| | Words to Live By |
| | Locate an ELCA affiliate church and pastor near you, or find more contact information. | | | Daily prayers that focus on ELCA missionaries and other ministry concerns. | | | The Word can be found here daily as a convenient way to read and reflect on today's faith message. |
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http://www.sharingfaith.org/words.html
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| | Congregation Locator |
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| | Arkansas-Oklahoma Synod of ELCA |
| | Empowered by the Holy Spirit, the Arkansas-Oklahoma Synod, in partnership with the whole ELCA, will SHARE the Gospel of God's Grace in our frontier environment, IDENTIFY and RESPOND to new opportunities for ministry, and STIMULATE our ministries to be vibrant and exciting. | | | I pray God's richest blessings on you and on our participation in God's mission. |
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http://www.aokelca.org
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| | Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Synod |
| | The Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Synod is a region of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), comprised of 4.9 million baptized members in 10,585 congregations nationally. | | | Identify an ELCA congregation in the Metro D.C. area near you by clicking here. | | | In churches across Metro D.C., people strengthen one another in struggle, celebrate life's joys and find vision and guidance. |
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http://www.metrodcelca.org
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| | News Media Information For ELCA Sexuality Study Report & Recommendations |
| | Each congregation of the ELCA will be able to review the Task Force report and make recommendations to their respective synod assemblies. | | | The following is a link to the written recommendation from the ELCA Task Force for ELCA Studies on Sexuality. | | | The council will be making recommendations to the Churchwide Assembly concerning the report. |
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http://www.nwos-elca.org/jan13/media.htm
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| | ELCA News - ELCA Mission Investment Fund Reaches $300 Million Mark |
| | ELCA's 10,721 congregations and nearly all of the church's 65 synods have invested in the fund. | | | MIF's primary mission is to provide low-interest loans to mission congregations to purchase land and construct church buildings and to established | | | In recent years there has been significant growth in the number of congregations investing in the |
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http://www.stlconline.org/elcanews/200408/2004080601.html
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| | Upper Susquehanna Synod, ELCA - News And Events |
| | Mission Investment Fund (MIF) building consultants are available to work with ELCA Congregations that wish to consider a building program or determine how existing facilities can be used to more effectively serve a church's mission. | | | Services that MIF church building consultants provide to ELCA congregations include: | | | "We are reminded of our blessings – a home, food, clothing, employment, freedom, health, faith, a forgiving God and those we love – in this season of Thanksgiving," said ELCA wellness coordinator Tammy Devine. |
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| | ELCA |
| | The ELCA, along with other Lutheran churches, can trace its roots directly to the Protestant Reformation that took place in Europe in the 16th century. | | | Martin Luther, a German monk, became aware of differences between the Bible and church practices of the day. | | | As early as 1812 the North Carolina Synod had inquired about the possibility of better intersynodical cooperation, and that synod worked with Pennsylvania publishing houses and the new theological seminary at Gettysburg rather than set up its own support systems. |
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http://www.stmatthewsnoho.org/ELCA.asp
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| | Lutheran People Online (ELCA - USA) |
| | Note: If you have names you would like to see added, changes in status or location or deletions please fill out the Lutherans Online Survey Webform or send email to Christian Connections (TCM), Rev. Robert Grothe, editor/manager. | | | Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA - USA) | | | (Note: If you would like your email address listed here please fill out this ELCA Online Survey Webform or email your request to Christian Connections (TCM), Robert Grothe, editor/manager) |
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| | East Side Lutheran Church Welcome |
| | We are a member of the South Dakota Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). | | | We are a congregation of 1900 baptized members. | | | If you would like to purchase a print of East Side Lutheran Church by known artist John Green of Madison SD, you can purchase a number print in the church office during the week. |
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| | WordAlone - Building an evangelical, confessional Lutheran future in America |
| | WordAlone's Theological Advisory Board met November 16-18, 2002 in Mahtomedi, Minn. These international Lutheran theologians issued an Admonition for the sake of the True Peace and Unity of the Church to the ELCA. | | | Christian, Evangelical Worship WordAlone's Theological Advisory Board has provided a teaching document that summarizes the essentials of Lutheran worship, and critiques some of the worship trends and principles within the ELCA. | | | The response is interesting and reveals that there are a few more non-Episcopal ordinations than WordAlone had heard about. |
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| | Grand Canyon Synod - WELCOME |
| | * and linking you to the ELCA in its global mission for the Gospel. | | | You can find any ELCA church in the Grand Canyon Synod or in the U.S. through the ELCA's "Congregation Locator". | | | The 2006 Synod Assembly will be May 24, 25, and 26 at the El Conquistador in Tucson! |
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| | News from Agape Press |
| | The resolution now goes before the ELCA's governing church body, or Churchwide Assembly, which meets this August in Orlando, Florida. | | | (AgapePress) - A conservative minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) is denouncing a proposal that would allow homosexuals to become pastors in the denomination if they prove they are in a so-called "lifelong, committed, and faithful same-sex relationship." | | | Harrisville says this means that "such things will be granted on an unlimited basis, I expect." And that lack of defined limitations, he argues, sets up a double standard, since the Church Council failed to consider whether the exceptions would also be extended to heterosexuals in common law marriages. |
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| | Welcome to Southeastern Minnesota Synod, ELCA |
| | The Southeastern Minnesota Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is seeking a full-time communications director. | | | This site is designed to provide resources and information for the congregational staffs, leadership, and members of the 183 ELCA congregations in this synod. | | | The December issue of River Crossings (which includes a feature on the synod Theological Conference, and lots of photos!) and the January and February issue of The Bridge are now available for download! |
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| | First Lutheran Church, Palo Alto |
| | We celebrate Holy Communion every Sunday and on many festivals throughout the year, in accordance with the ELCA statement The Use of the Means of Grace. | | | First Lutheran offers a musically rich, liturgical worship experience. |
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http://www.flcpa.org
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| | Lutheran Woman Today |
| | Lutheran Woman Today, the magazine of Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, offers an exciting mix of faith-in-life articles, theological reflections, devotions, and stories of comfort and challenge that lift up the mission of Women of the ELCA: to mobilize women to act boldly on their faith in Jesus Christ. | | | Find out how Lutheran, Methodist, and Presbyterian women in Canada and the U.S. honor and celebrate peace in this landmark ecumenical issue. | | | Share your bold ideas with other Women of the ELCA groups. |
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http://www.lutheranwomantoday.org
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| | Sierra Pacific Synod |
| | Marie has served as Spiritual Gifts Minister at Advent and is now the mission developer for a new outreach to those "on the margins" in the local area. | | | We shall see where this adventure with the Holy Spirit will lead. | | | Contact fuller@spselca.org to reserve a date to use the communion ware in the congregation. |
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http://www.spselca.org
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| | Important ELCA web sites |
| | The above prayer sites are located at the spiritual center of the ELCA web site. | | | Vision For Mission provides resourses for Getting Started, Financial Response Methods, Teaching Stewardship, Year-Round Communication, Raising Funds, Interpreting The Mission of The ELCA | | | The ELCA Foundation encourages life long stewardship in support of all the ministries of the ELCA. Through a nationwide network of regional gift planners, as well as staff in Chicago&; we are able to assist individual members, congregations and institutions, in all aspects of charitable estate planning and major gifts. |
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http://www.followersofchristelca.com/important.html
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| | Women of the ELCA |
| | Many stories in the Bible tell of women who acted boldly against their leaders in favor of God's commandments. | | | The director for the ELCA World Hunger Appeal and Disaster Response shares some of their stories in the November issue of Café, Women of the ELCA's electronic magazine. |
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http://www.womenoftheelca.org
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| | The Northeastern Pennsylvania Synod - Who We Are |
| | Sponsored by the Worship and Spirituality Ministry Team, the Leadership Program for Musicians (LPM) will begin this fall. | | | Here's a wonderful idea from the Worship and Spirituality Ministry Team—baptismal boxes for confirmands. | | | One of 65 synods in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) |
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http://www.godslove.org
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| | Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary |
| | To read the text of her Bible study click here. | | | On September 30 PLTS President Phyllis Anderson presented a Bible study on leadership to the Council of Bishops and the ELCA Presidents. |
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| | Cost Analysis of ELCA versus Rotational Atherectomy |
| | When an adjunctive stent procedure followed ELCA or RA, there was a significant increase in cost compared to ELCA or RA alone. | | | In clinical practice ELCA and RA are often followed by coronary artery stent implantation. | | | However, the total cost when ELCA was followed by stent implantation was still 52% less than when RA was followed by stent implantation (Table 3.0). |
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http://www.spectranetics.com/mp/sklar.html
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| | The Southwestern Texas Synod - Home |
| | We are one of 65 synods of the ELCA and home of 181 congregations and approximately 72,000 baptized in our family of faith. | | | As a synod, we are guided by our Mission Statement that accentuates our reason for being. | | | We appreciate the opportunity to tell you about our ministries and resources. |
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http://www.swtsynod.org
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| | Trinity Lutheran Church - ELCA - Lynnwood, WA |
| | Trinity Lutheran Church - ELCA - Lynnwood, WA Trinity Lutheran Church - ELCA | | | Send comments about Trinity's web site to Trinity's WEB volunteer |
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| | Upper Susquehanna Synod, ELCA - Video Resource |
| | A --- 374 Understanding The Bible Bible A 28 375 Unheard Voices Global Mission Y-A 16 455 Upper Midwest Recovery:Progress Report Miscellaneous Y-A 15 376 Urgency of Preach./They're Dying to Hear Christian Ed. | | | Living A 33 370 Tortillas To The Table Global Mission A 25 371 Touch Of Hope, A ELCA A 8 463 Towel and Basin Man Miscellaneous A 27 372 Training For Leaders of Small Groups Christian Ed. |
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