Live in Spokane. I’m a lawyer, Roman Catholic with an appreciation of Lutheran theology and practice.

Todd Guggenmos – second yr BA student at Concordia U., Edmonton AB – hopefully working my way to Concordia Lutheran Sem, Edmonton. Second career student, Lutheran convert.

I’m a Pastor of the Lutheran Church of Australia, and I tend to lurk – not just on blogs, but on mailing lists as well. I very rarely crawl out of my shell, so this is my quick peek. Bye For Now!

Pastor McCain,
I am a lawyer in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. I’ve been visiting your site for quite some time and enjoy it very much. I am blessed to attend a confessional church in Sheboygan with two wondeful confessional pastors. Keep up the excellent work on your blog.

I am pastor at Zion Ev. Lutheran Church in Storm Lake, IA. I enjoy your posts very much. Keep them coming!

Hello, my name is Todd, and I’m a WELS member in Portland, Oregon. I make Web sites for work and quite often for fun.

This hiding in the dark lurker is Kyle Wright in Stafford, VA a member of St. Athanasius, Vienna, VA shepherded by Rev. James Douthwaite.

Alex Ring, pastor at Lakewood Lutheran Church in Tacoma WA, and I think the first ELS poster.

Hi Pastor McCain
Tony Pittenger here, ELS pastor in Port Orchard, WA. Thanks for the work you put into your blog. It is a gift to the Church.

I’m Liz K. from the Minneapolis area. I grew up in the EFCA and converted to Confessional Lutheranism. Reading theology is a hobby of mine. As an occupation, I conduct labor market research in regards to the costs of wages, salaries, and benefits. As a vocation, I am a wife of a soldier in the National Guard and an expectant mother.

Hi Pastor McCain,
I’m an ABD PhD candidate and teaching fellow in history at Boston College. I like reading Lutheran theology and so I order a lot of books from CPH and heard about your blog. Thanks for taking the time to post! Oh, and I’m a member of First Lutheran Church of Boston (LCMS).
Bethany

My
wife and I were life-long Lutherans in the ELCA until recently when we
moved. When we looked for a new Lutheran church, we found a very
confessional church in the Missouri Synod in our new area. The Pastor
of this church renewed our interest in Lutheran Theology.

Hi, Paul. Checking on you for about two years as our congregation got the LSB and attendant books. Also, I have a number of former Calvinists and use your sight as reference for TULIP and such.
Pastor Adrian Piazza

I’m a Roman Catholic from Texas, I’ve been reading your blog for a few weeks. I appreciate the seriousness with which you take history and doctrine. I feel that confessional Lutheranism offers points that must be considered, in contrast to “non-denominational” groups whose “doctrine” amounts to emotion.

LCMS lifer from The Woodlands, TX. Sing in the choir and co-lead the Young Married Couples class. Been lurking for a few months. Greatly appreciate the confessional doctrine discussed here.

Matthew and Amy Surburg from Greenfield, IN. Matthew is a family practice physician who does obstetrics and I’m a stay at home mom who is also working on starting a berry farm.

Thanks Pr. McCain for all you do. I’m mainly a lurker, not nearly articulate enough to chime in very often… read you when on yahoo. Retired Navy, currently a truck driver living in Milton, FL. Adult convert to LCMS.

I’m a life-long LCMS / Lutheran Church Canada member, sometime commenter here, living in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

I’m Michael Paul, ’96 CSL MDiv grad, currently trying to make progress on my dissertation for a Doctrinal Theology PhD from CSL, residing in Chiayi City, Taiwan, living next door to my wife’s parents (who are not yet Christian). My first call was from the mission board to serve as an evangelistic missionary to Macau, and then Taiwan, which service began in 1996 and ended in 2003 when I was cut with 20-some other missionaries.

Cwirla here. I try to check in once a month or so.

I am a husband of one, father of three (including a set of twins born 8 days ago). Raised in charismatic evangelicalism, I was “turned on” to Reformational thinking through the ministry of (Calvinist) Dr. R.C. Sproul. I joined an LCMS congregation thinking that it was theologically “close enough” to the Reformed Theology I was professing at the time (and also because my cousin was a member there). Unfortunately my catechesis did little or nothing to persuade me that Calvinism and Lutheranism are significantly different, and I joined the church as a Calvinist in Lutheran garb. A friend at church introduced me to Issues Etc. and I began reading the Lutheran Confessions more earnestly. I am genuinely Lutheran now, loving this church’s Christ-centered, cross-focused confession more and more every day. I have been blogging for a couple of years, and you have visited my site a time or two. You even left a (welcome) contrary perspective in the comments once. Thanks for the great work you do on Cyberbrethren. -Eric Matthaei, Irving, Texas

Rev. Karl Hess, St. Peter Lutheran Church, Joliet, IL

Hi Pastor.
I’m an adult convert to Lutheranism(married ELCA). We were invited to attend a service at an LCMS congregation in Minot, ND and we both were surprised by the warmth and friendliness of the members of this congregation. The Christ centered doctrines of the LCMS have been a blessing to our family. I greatly appreciate the quality of Pastoral leadership that comes out of the LCMS seminary and how great a role lay leadership plays within the LCMS congregations.
Thank you for your efforts on this blog.
The Drake’s, Grand Forks, ND.

John and Jenn Wolf currently in Vegas soon to be in VA (in 55 days). John’s active duty Air Force and lifelong Lutheran – VERY well catechized in the Minneapolis/St Paul area of Wisconsin.
Jenn homeschools the 3 munchkins technically a convert but I didn’t know I wasn’t Lutheran when I was a kid – we went every Christmas Eve. Now I’m solidifying my theology with blogs like yours and Issues Etc and reading fun books like Faith Founded on Fact by Dr Montgomery.
Thanks for your work here!