Advice on reading the Book of Concord

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From Cyberbrethren:

Here are some resources to help you read the Book of Concord, and to bring it to the attention of your congregation in a more intentional way.

Daily Readings from the Book of Concord is available on the Book of Concord website; it uses the table at the beginning of the Concordia edition to break the confessions up into daily reading segments. It will send you a link to the start of the reading for each day (M-F). You can pull out your Concordia Edition and read it there, or click on the link to read it online. To help promote reading the Book of Concord to your Facebook friends, go to http://bookofconcord.org/daily periodically and click on the “recommend” button.

Weekly Readings for the 3-year series is a bulletin insert tied to the readings of the day for your church to insert into their bulletins. This will provide a method to acquaint more church members with our confessions. These are prepared by Pastor Doug May each week.

Weekly Readings for the 1-year series is a similar bulletin insert for those churches that use the 1-year historic readings, prepared by Pastor Kurt Hering.

Excellent suggestions.  The key though is taking the time to read the Lutheran Confessions regularly along with the Bible.  Personally I try to follow the schedule in the front of the Book of Concord.

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Shocking poll results in the 8th?

In this nail-biter of a race, Rep. Steve Kagen (D-Wis.) trails his Republican opponent, Reid Ribble, by one point, 44 percent to 45, with 10 percent of likely voters undecided, according to The Hill 2010 Midterm Election Poll.

Each candidate has locked up his party’s support, and independents are breaking slightly for Kagen, 43 percent to 40, with 15 percent of independents undecided.
Kagen leads by 14 points among females, while Ribble leads by 17 points among males. Ribble is winning younger and middle-aged voters while Kagen does well among older voters.

The Hill poll was conducted by Penn Schoen Berland Oct. 12-14. The survey consisted of 415 phone interviews among likely voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.8 percent. (Source: The Hill)

The poll shows a tightening race, perhaps closer than expected.  Especially when previously released internal polls showed a wider lead for Ribble.  It also shows why to follow this cautiously.

Perhaps the Ribble campaign would be wise to do TV and radio ads highlighting his real position on Social Security.  As Jerry points out, those Kagen attack ads may be having an impact among older voters.

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Remember Steve Kagen wrote it

Devastating ad on the disaster known as ObamaCare by the NRCC.  Great reminder for the voters of the 8th Congressional District.

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