Martin Luther and our Lutheran Confessions recognize that there are two very significant aspects of the office of the pastor. One is from above, and the other is from below.
If you’ve been around as long as me, you’ll note we have enjoyed great, even dramatic improvement in the Synod’s life of doctrine and practice.
Tradition is a good thing, provided it does not contradict the Gospel and the Word of God, which is, after all, itself divine tradition.
The mission of the church is this: to proclaim the Gospel of free forgiveness of sin by the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.
By grace, through faith, only by Christ, we are reckoned somebody.
People often ask what heaven will be like. We know what it will be like. We’ll be like Jesus, body and soul. And we’ll enjoy a flesh-and-blood eternity.
According to Luther and our Lutheran confession, the Lord’s Supper is the Gospel: “Given and shed for you.”
We believe that God works profound blessings through suffering, even when those blessings may not be at all evident to us.
The creedal statements about Christ in our Nicene Creed express the clear truth about Jesus. He is God in the flesh.
God takes your sin very seriously, that it would be forgiven in Christ. The more seriously we take our sin, the more we cling to Christ, our Savior.
We know where the kingdom of God is on this earth: where the Word of God is preached and Baptism and the Lord’s Supper are administered.
The Christian home should be a kingdom of the Law and the Gospel.