The Illinois Lutheran Conference JOURNAL

The ILC JOURNAL is the official publication
of the ILLINOIS LUTHERAN CONFERENCE
Current Issue
ILC e-JOURNAL (Spring 2019)
News and Notes
2019 Church Calendar events
​September 1st is the 11th Sunday After Trinity
October 6th is the 16th Sunday After Trinity
October 27th is the ILC Mission Festival at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Morris, IL
October 31st is Reformation Day
November 3rd is the 20th Sunday after Trinity
November 24th is the 23rd (Last) Sunday After Trinity
November 28th is Thanksgiving Day
December 1st is the 1st Sunday in Advent
December 22nd is the 4th Sunday in Advent
December 25th is Christmas Day
December 29th is the Sunday After Christmas
​December 31st is New Year's Eve
​Topical Bulletins and Back Issues
September 2019 Topical Bulletin: Thou shalt not kill. (Exodus 20:13)
August 2019 Topical Bulletin: Honor thy father and thy mother... (Exodus 20:12)
July 2019 Topical Bulletin: Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. (Exodus 20:8)
June 2019 Topical Bulletin: Thou shalt have no other gods before me. (Exodus 20:3)
May 2019 Topical Bulletin: What is subordinationism and why is it heresy?
April 2019 Topical Bulletin: Exodus 20:7, "Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain..."
March 2019 Topical Bulletin: What is meant by the term "sacrament"? What Biblically qualifies as a sacrament and why?
February 2019 Topical Bulletin: What is meant by the term "means of grace" and is the term Biblically valid?
January 2019 Topical Bulletin: Does God use civil rulers - even wicked civil rulers - to punish and/or chasten people?
December 2018 Topical Bulletin: What is Christmas?
November 2018 Topical Bulletin: What does the Holy Bible teach concerning the antichrist?
October 2018 Topical Bulletin: What is the doctrine known as perfectionism? Is perfectionism a doctrine supported by... Scripture?
September 2018 Topical Bulletin: How are Christians to conduct themselves in this world in which sexual harassment is practiced?
August 2018 Topical Bulletin: What is the sin against the Holy Ghost? Why is the sin... also known as the unforgivable sin?
July 2018 Topical Bulletin: Can faith in Jesus Christ be lost? Can faith... ever be regained? Does every sin... result in a loss of faith?
June 2018 Topical Bulletin: What does the Holy Bible teach concerning Christ's second coming? Are we to expect... ?
May 2018 Topical Bulletin: What does the Holy Bible teach concerning fund-gathering by Christian congregations?
April 2018 Topical Bulletin:​ What does the Holy Bible teach concerning how Christians are to conduct themselves... in this world?
March 2018 Topical Bulletin:​ What does God's Word - the Holy Bible - teach regarding abortion and capital punishment?
February 2018 Topical Bulletin:​ What is true repentance?
January 2018 Topical Bulletin:​ What does God's Word, the Holy Bible, teach in regards to gambling?
December 2017 Topical Bulletin:​ What has happened in America regarding Christian holidays? How are we... to rightly observe...?
November 2017 Topical Bulletin:​ Reformation 500th anniversary remarks & How am I supposed to deal... with a neighbor...?
October 2017 Topical Bulletin:​ What does God say about marriage, divorce, adultery, and fornication?
​September 2017 Topical Bulletin:​ If God is love, why is there so much suffering in the world? ...why am I afflicted in this world?
August 2017 Topical Bulletin: Can a person be gay or lesbian and be a true Christian? ...bisexual? ...transgender?
July 2017 Topical Bulletin: ​Does it really matter what church a Christian attends?
ILC e-JOURNAL Article: (The Superiority of the Received Texts)
ILC e-JOURNAL Article: (Two Relatively Recent Bible Translations Tested)
ILC e-JOURNAL Article: (A Tribute to the Traditional Lutheran Liturgy)
ILC e-JOURNAL Article: (The Insanity of Islam)
ILC e-JOURNAL Article: (The New Age Movement)
ILC e-JOURNAL (Fall 2018)
ILC e-JOURNAL ​(Spring 2018)
ILC e-JOURNAL​ (Fall 2017)
ILC e-JOURNAL (Spring 2017)
ILC e-JOURNAL ​(Spring 2016)
ILC e-JOURNAL ​(Fall 2015)
ILC e-JOURNAL (Spring 2015)
ILC e-JOURNAL (Fall 2014)
ILC e-JOURNAL (Spring 2014)