Lutheran Confession Series XXVIII
June 1 – 2, 2024
Trinity Lutheran Church
611 S. Erie Street, Wichita, KS
Body Burial
It is Meet, Right and Salutary
Saturday – June 1
12:30 pm Divine Service
2:00 pm Session 1 – Embalming and Genesis 50
3:00 pm Break
3:30 pm Session 2 – Cremation and 1 Samuel 31 & 1 Chronicles 10
5:00 pm Vespers
5:45 pm Beer/Brat Supper
Sunday – June 2
9:00 am Divine Service (Fr. Michael Brockman – Preaching)
10:30 am The Burial of Jesus (Fr. Michael Brockman)
It has become commonplace upon death to have a funeral home director recommend both embalming and cremation. Almost all the dead are embalmed and over fifty percent of bodies are now cremated. What does scripture teach? Come to this 28th installment of LCS and learn about these timely topics.
The Rev. Michael Brockman has lived in Kansas since 1995, having lived in Hutchinson, Wichita, Oakley and now Wichita again. Pastor and Theresa were married in Bismarck, North Dakota in 1983. This union has been blessed with four children – Christian, Hannah, Manuel and Maria – all thirty-somethings!
Pastor Brockman has been the guest of ISSUES, ETC. a number of times and has had sermons published in the journals Gottesdienst-The Journal of Lutheran Liturgy and Concordia Pulpit Resources. He contributed religious articles for five years on a quarterly basis to the Hutchinson News. He has been a presenter at the Higher Things youth conferences, at district pastors’ conferences, and at the ecumenical Hall of Men gathering in Wichita. He worked as a catechist for 15 years within the Kansas Department of Corrections. He has served on the Evangelism Board of the Wyoming District, as LWML Zone Counselor in the Kansas District and as vacancy pastor in Wyoming, Iowa and Kansas. He is a member of the St. Polycarp Society and in 2014 was awarded the Sabre of Boldness from Gottesdienst Journal. From 2014-2016 he did weekly curb-side counseling at the former Tiller Abortion Clinic in Wichita urging young mothers not to have abortions and was elected in June 2023 to serve as President of Lutherans For Life-Kansas. His email address is: fathermichaelc@gmail.com