The Joy of a Generous and Faithful Lutheranism
Wherever the Gospel and Sacraments are—enough to bring people to true faith in the true Jesus—there is the Church.
Matthew Harrison
The Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison is president of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod.
The Joy of Marriage
So it is with marriage. You won’t get very far trying to travel alone in a relationship, talking to yourself, or at someone else.
Doctrine and Mission: The Purpose of Synod Meetings
Read one Synod president’s words, which comprise a beautiful, urgent admonition for synod conventions to be, above all, doctrinal and to be doctrinal in order to be about mission.
Christ Is Our Rock. Be Bold!
Our house of faith is built on the Rock!
On Pastors and Spiritual Priests
“Whether proclaimed by a layperson, preacher—indeed by the devil himself,” the Word does its work.
Keep Us Sober and on the Horse
Christ has given us both spiritual priests and pastors. That’s His mission paradigm. When both are functioning as God has given, there is mutual love and complementary support.
Justification, Our ‘Chief Article’
Luther realized it was not about an active righteousness (our actions), but about a passive righteousness (God’s actions in Christ credited to us freely)!
How Shall We Regard the Bible?
The best place for us to get hold of what the Bible is and how to understand it is found in Jesus Himself. How does Jesus regard the Bible?
Why Read the Bible?
What’s the benefit of reading and knowing the Bible? So that the Word of God achieves its purpose in your life too.
Prisoners of Advent Hope
Are you hopeless? Bury yourself in the Scriptures!
2015 State of the Synod
God help us. He does, and He will. End times? Yes, indeed. “God is faithful,” as the apostle says (1 Cor. 1:9). And this faith in Christ is “a living, busy, active, mighty thing.”
Does the Lutheran Reformation Have a Future?
The real story of the Reformation is about the march of the Church of Jesus Christ in the face of impossible odds — thirsting for Christ and His means of grace, trusting in the Bible as God’s inerrant Word, struggling in the North but growing tremendously in the South.