Finding Insight In a Movie Blunder
A momentary distraction at a cinema box office leads to an important reminder about atonement and reconciliation.
Revitalizing Rural Churches
Your hometown may be just as much a mission field as a community half a world away.
In My Savior’s Healing Hands
In sickness or in health, we can witness daily to our faith and to the blessing of eternal life we have all received.
New Life, New Hope, New Challenges
April marks the beginning of spring. The combination of springtime sights, sounds, and smells in God’s creation reminds us of new life and new hope.
Saint Paul Institute for Education
by Roland Lovstad “We envisioned a training center that would partner with the Missouri District, a center that would touch areas of rural and small-town ministry but also assist professional church workers and lay leaders wherever they need assistance in ministry.” That’s how Dr. Ralph Geisler describes the Saint Paul Institute for Education (SPIFE). Geisler, …
Seeing What God Wants Us to See
A chance encounter leads to a ‘Spirit-bred, Lord-led friendship.’
Making ‘Saints’
Bordered by farmland in rural Concordia, Mo., Saint Paul Lutheran High School is both intimate and surprisingly international.
Lutheran Witness: April 2008
Many of us retain a Norman Rockwell-like image of smalltown America as a bulwark of wholesome values and the Christian faith, in our case, the Lutheran Christian faith.
Lutheran Witness: March 2008
This month our focus is twofold: (1) our Concordia University System and (2) the work of LCMS World Relief and Human Care here at home and abroad.
Looking for ‘Lutheran’
Not only am I in complete agreement with Rev. Krugler as he decries the failure to use ‘Mosaic LUTHERAN Church’ for a new mission church in the West, but his point is further enhanced by stories of two churches in the Texas District named “Water’s Edge” and “Living Water Community Church” in the same February …
“The Little Church That Could”
I applaud the community service efforts of “The Little Church That Could,” Living Water Community Church of Richardson Texas, highlighted in the Feb. 2008 Lutheran Witness. The article, however, raised a number of concerns. First, the ministry of LWCC is described almost entirely without reference to the centrality of corporate worship. The Church “is the …
Member vs. nonmember privileges
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” John 4:24 ESV The reply in the February 2008 Q&A concerning who should receive the privilege of Church rites promotes a “Gospel only – no Law,” attitude toward the local congregation’s relationship to the world and, in so doing, promotes a …