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Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.  Jude 3

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Welcome to our home on the internet. We pray that you will join us for Divine Service and our various opportunities to study Scripture and Christian doctrine.

This page will be a section where I'll post various Lutheran items of interest or theological resources from time to time. Enjoy!
Pr. John A. Frahm



Rev. John A. Frahm III was born and baptized in the northern suburbs of Chicago (Arlington Heights, IL/Palatine,IL) and was raised in southern Minnesota in the small town of Waseca where he was confirmed in an LCMS congregation (1985) and graduated from the public high school (1989). In high school he especially enjoyed being in the marching band.
 
A life-long member of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, he graduated from Mankato State University (now Minnesota State University Mankato) with a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy, minoring in Religious Studies, also doing some course work in education (1993). At age 20 he enjoyed the privilege of being a lay delegate to the MN South District convention.  During his college years was very active in LCMS campus ministry at Mankato State (now Minnesota State - Mankato) as well as serving as Region 4 president of Lutheran Student Fellowship, the LCMS campus ministry organization. Between college and seminary he was an active member and elder/liturgical deacon at University Lutheran Chapel in Minneapolis.
 
He is also a 1998 graduate of Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, (affiliated with Brock University) where he graduated with the Master of Divinity Degree with a concentration in historical theology. His vicarage included campus ministry work at Central Michigan University.  His adviser in seminary was Dr. John R. Stephenson.  Pastor Frahm has published articles in Logia: A Journal of Lutheran Theology, Reformation Today, The Bride of Christ journal of Lutheran liturgy, the Brothers of John the Steadfast website, and The Lutheran Witness, and has been a guest on Issues Etc.  Pastor Frahm was ordained in 1998 by Rev. Dr. Raymond Hartwig in White Lake, South Dakota.

He is married to Jennifer, whom he met on on his vicarage year in Michigan (Jennifer's home state). Jennifer is a graduate of Kellogg Community College, Central Michigan University, and Capella University.  Jennifer, a native of the Battle Creek, Michigan area, is employed as an instructional designer for a Greeley area community college. Pastor Frahm's family continues to reside in suburban St. Paul, Minnesota area and Jennifer's family resides in the Battle Creek, Michigan area. 
 
Beyond parish ministry, Pastor Frahm enjoys being involved with the Lutheran Church at large, writing an occasional theological article for publication, reading, as well as his hobbies in model railroading and railroads in general. He is also a member of the Chicago and North Western Railroad Historical Society and the Soo Line Historical and Technical Society. He also enjoys movies, music, watching NHL hockey and hockey in general, the History Channel, and the British sci-fi series Doctor Who. Pastor and Jennifer also enjoy visiting one of their favorite vacation spots on the Great Lakes, and especially the north shore of Lake Superior and the northland in general.  They also have two dogs.

Pastor Frahm and Mrs. Frahm are also the proud parents of Wyatt Bartholomew Frahm who was called from this life while yet in the womb just as he reached 37 weeks of the pregnancy, on March 24, 2008. He is dearly missed by his parents who rejoice in Wyatt's comfort and peace in heaven as they look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.  They are also the proud uncle of aunt of 3 in Minnesota.
 
At Gloria Christi, in addition to regular pastoral duties like preaching, officiating the liturgy, studying theology, teaching various Bible studies, youth catechism, visiting hospitalized and shut-ins, Pastor Frahm also give a brief weekly chapel devotion with the preschoolers, a Sunday School opening with the children, and conducts a weekly Bible study with college students at University of Northern Colorado, affiliated with Christ on Campus/Higher Things.  He was among the founders and charter members of The Augustana Ministerium, a professional organization of confessional Lutheran pastors who desire to promote traditional Lutheran theology and practice and to help pastors in need.
 
Pastor Frahm is a traditional Lutheran and desires the Lutheran Church to remain faithful to the Holy Scriptures and the Lutheran Confessions, and to maintain and use the historic Lutheran liturgy and hymns, for the sake of the Gospel.
 
Pastor and Mrs. Frahm consider the midwest (especially Minnesota and Michigan) as "home" and enjoy visiting family and vacationing around Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.

Pastor's e-mail address: chemnitzian[at]gmail.com


At one of my favorite vacation spots...

A FEW INTERNET LINKS OF PERSONAL INTEREST
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 PRAY FOR ALL CHRISTIANS, INCLUDING PASTORS...
Quote:  The sins of our fellow Christians, their failures and their mistakes, the conflicts and tensions in a Christian community, are all opportunities and occasions for intercession.  Let me put it quite directly:  When I fail as a pastor, I don't need your condemnation or indulgence.  What I need is your support, and you can give it best through your prayers. -- Rev. Dr. John Kleinig, *Grace upon Grace* p. 202
 
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. 8 We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed— 10 always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. 11 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. 12 So then death is working in us, but life in you. 13 And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,”we also believe and therefore speak, 14 knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus, and will present us with you. 15 For all things are for your sakes, that grace, having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.  2 Corinthians 4:7-15
 
 1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God. 2 For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 3 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. 4 And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.  1 Corinthians 2:1-5
 
 
 
 


Pastor and Jen in a favorite vacation spot

Pastor Charles Lehmann's sermon for Baby Wyatt Frahm's Christian funeral liturgy.


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A FEW WRITINGS BY PASTOR FRAHM

(PDF) John A. Frahm - Give Attention to the Public Reading of Scripture: I Timothy 4:13 - Lectors, Pastoral Stewardship and Gender Considerations

(PDF) "Liturgical Chant: Vestment for the Voice"

(PDF) "Basing Faith on Experience: A Key Problem With Contemporary Worship and Modern Missional Thinking"

(PDF) John A. Frahm - Through the Church the Song Goes On: Preparing a Lutheran Hymnal for the 21st Century - Review Essay for Logia: A Journal of Lutheran Theology (2000)

(PDF) John A. Frahm - "Gospel Reductionism Redux"

(PDF) A tract of references on the weekly celebration of the Lord's Supper

(PDF) John A. Frahm - Who Communes the Pastor?

(PDF) John A. Frahm - Is It Still the Blood of Christ if Grape Juice is Used in the Lord's Supper?

(PDF) John A. Frahm - May Absolution Be Referred to as a Sacrament by Lutherans?

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confirmation 2007, old sanctuary - Pentecost Sunday

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installation 2006


At the ground breaking for the new sanctuary

Gloria Christi Lutheran Church (LCMS)

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