God’s Work, Our Witness
There’s no better way of expressing God’s mission and the church’s part in that mission than through demonstrating “what God does for us and gives to us.”
Lutheran Witness: November 2025
The November issue discusses the church’s mission in our own land and around the world.
All Saints Day & The Last Sunday of the Church Year: Stir-Up Sunday Pudding
This theme of Christ’s coming ties All Saints’ Day to the Last Sunday of the Church Year.
The Gospel Leads to Churches
The mission of the church is this: to proclaim the Gospel of free forgiveness of sin by the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.
As He Leads Us
When Major Van Rooy stepped off a plane in Japan in early March 2020, he did not yet know the spiritual exile that lay ahead.
An Urgent Call for Missionaries to Africa
The harvest is ripe in Africa. We are praying for laborers.
On ‘Wuthering Heights’: The destruction of love turned inward
Catherine and Heathcliff’s pseudo-love is an obsession absolutely turned inward, a snake eating itself which, in its appetite, finds destruction.
On IVF: A Lutheran Theological Perspective
Creating human embryos knowing that many will be discarded and killed is a violation of the inherent sanctity of human life.
The Godly Activity of Work
Created as joyful, then tainted by our sin, the mercies of God have restored work to its original purpose of worship.
On IVF: A Lutheran Medical Perspective
Is the human embryo a human being? If so, how should we treat our youngest and most vulnerable neighbor?
Pastoral Ministry: What Does This Mean?
Good works are actions in accordance with God’s will, taken by the Christian not from fear of punishment or for worldly gain, but as an intrinsic part of the Holy Spirit’s work of sanctification.
Good Works: What Does This Mean?
Good works are actions in accordance with God’s will, taken by the Christian not from fear of punishment or for worldly gain, but as an intrinsic part of the Holy Spirit’s work of sanctification.