September 29th is the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels. On that day back in 1887, about twenty families in Winchester, Texas founded a new Lutheran church in town. Efforts to establish a congregation there had begun some eleven years earlier. Folks in town were briefly served by the Rev. Simon Suess, and then …
Let all mortal flesh keep silenceAnd with fear and trembling stand;Ponder nothing earthly minded,For with blessing in His handChrist our God to earth descendingComes our homage to demand. Whew… for some reason things are a little busy here at LSBR HQ! We enjoyed our time at Wendish Fest on Sunday. It was good to see …
We’re looking forward to taking our little road tripper out into Texas to see scenes like this (from last Sunday). Up there on the hill is a building that was constructed in 1912 for St. John’s Lutheran Church of Berlin, Texas (north of US 79 between Thrall and Taylor) and now serves Prince of Peace …
Here’s the newest little Lone Star Back Roads roadtripper. His name is James Mighell Crowell Clifton (after Margie’s maternal grandfather, her father, and my maternal grandfather respectively) and he’s a whopping 10 pounds 13 ounces (no doubt due to the fantastic Texas BBQ his mother has been eating). We’re all doing well, and he’s ready …
Built on the Rock the Church doth stand,Even when steeples are falling;Crumbled have spires in every land,Bells still are chiming and calling,Calling the young and old to rest,But above all the soul distrest,Longing for rest everlasting. Constructed in 1890. Abandoned in the 1990s after the congregation disbanded. Lovingly and beautifully restored in 2019. Destroyed by …
On May 7, 2019, I received fantastic news by way of a comment on a photograph of this lovely building that I’d posted on Instagram back on February 15, 2017. The long-abandoned Central Church of Bartlett had been lovingly restored, and that Saturday (May 11) an open house would be held as part of a …
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I love that this old building in Thrall is still with us. I found a photo of it from about 1935, and it doesn’t look like it’s changed much over the years. https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth159996 I also found a postcard showing the Krieg Brothers dealership in the fifties – a newer, much larger building on US 79. …
For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
Learned something new last night. Thrall, Texas was originally named Stiles Switch, after the Stiles family that owned a large ranch in the area. It was later re-named to honor the Rev. Homer Spellman Thrall, a Methodist pastor that the Stiles family admired. https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fth35
The town of Lincoln takes its name from a circuit-riding preacher by the name John Lincoln, who lived nearby. Lincoln was part of what is called the “Restoration Movement,” which more or less originated in the Second Great Awakening and sought to return the church to first-century Christian practices. Churches in the Christian Church, Church …