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
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.
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. 8We 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
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