Restored to the Original: Steward the Gospel
Despite the first steward’s failings, all stewards are restored by God’s mercy and grace to their one task of stewardship: stewarding the Gospel!
Despite the first steward’s failings, all stewards are restored by God’s mercy and grace to their one task of stewardship: stewarding the Gospel!
We simply cannot treat anything without Christ’s promise of permanence as the thing around which everything else must move.
The December issue is all about tradition and traditions.
A long-standing custom of Christmastide is the baking of mincemeat pies, a tradition reaching back to the 11th century.
Tradition is a good thing, provided it does not contradict the Gospel and the Word of God, which is, after all, itself divine tradition.
We should examine all traditions in light of Scripture.
A literary reflection by Davis Smith on Homer’s Odyssey. This is one installment of a monthly series providing reflections on works of literature from a Lutheran perspective. No finer, greater gift in the world than that … when man and woman possess their home, two minds, two hearts that work as one. –Odyssey, 6.200–202 The …
Falling into the ditches of anxiety and apathy are dangerous, but Jesus is the factor that keeps stewards on the narrow way.
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.”
The November issue discusses the church’s mission in our own land and around the world.
This theme of Christ’s coming ties All Saints’ Day to the Last Sunday of the Church Year.
The mission of the church is this: to proclaim the Gospel of free forgiveness of sin by the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.