I’m finally writing a letter of thanks for the wonderful Lutheran Witness. We have been getting it for years. We read other people’s responses, so it’s good we are finally responding. I saved a 20-year-old Witness—not quite so fancy paper in those days. I gave it to our former young pastor, and he was so …
In the June/July Lutheran Witness article, “How Good Is Good Enough,” the sign posted by Shepherd of the Hills in San Antonio, Texas, got my attention. It speaks to the doubts so many have and addresses with clarity why faith in Christ is what is necessary for our eternal salvation. There is so much misinformation …
I was excited to receive the June/July Lutheran Witness. I flipped open the cover only to see four elderly women in bathing suits prancing in ocean water. There is a time and a place for that sort of advertising and a magazine of this caliber is not it. Thankfully, when I turned the next page …
In “Does Everything Mean Everything?” Rev. Jack Karch shares a dramatic real-life story of God’s goodness to him and his family. I thank God for the great outcome. The ending, however, puzzles me. I am choosing to put the “best construction” on that last paragraph—that Rev. Karch did not intentionally suggest that his boy was …
During her mission trip to Kenya, author Susan Senechal experiences first-hand the joy in the hearts of local worshipers and learns the true meaning of the word “safari”.
When you take away the hype, the poor scholarship, and the overblown misinterpretations, all that remains of many biblical “discoveries” is “more junk on Jesus.”
The “Jazz Song” Christians sing–The Gospel–preaches a more powerful sermon than any silver-tongued orator ever could.
by Paula Schlueter Ross Brenda Johnson (at right in above photo), the head cook at Camp Restore, New Orleans, invites just about every volunteer group at the camp to stop by her house, which had five-and-a-half feet of floodwater post-Katrina and now “is gorgeous,” she says. Thanks to Lutheran volunteers, Johnson got back into her …
by Rev. Terence Groth Early every fall a milestone event takes place all across America: Mothers send their children off to the first day of school. For some pupils this is a partial day in preschool or kindergarten. For others, it is a full day as a first-grader. For still others, it is the first …
In the middle of a cornfield in western Iowa, God is using ordinary people and an old set of farm buildings to accomplish His work.
Because life issues are spiritual issues, the responsibility to address them belongs to the Church.
Three years after hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit, Lutheran volunteers are still making a difference; and after devastating Midwest floods, Christian faith and love sustain families.