We Have the Time

The second most common objection to recovering weekly communion in the 1999 survey was that it takes too much time.

When Prayer Goes Wrong

Politicians find it expedient to give an occasional nod to God, whoever or whatever they conceive the deity to be.

Come, Lord Jesus

When I became a Lutheran, one of the few things about my new church that I did not love was the Common Table Prayer.

How Does Faith Give Freedom?

In this next section of The Freedom of a Christian, Luther unpacks his assertion that faith alone justifies the sinner before God.

Do Not Be Deceived

As the Small Catechism teaches, we are to lead a chaste and decent life in what we say and do. We are to be discriminating, not promiscuous; we are to be faithful to whom God has called us to love and honor.

A Chaste and Decent Life

Chastity takes place throughout the entire life of the believer. It encompasses not simply the acts occurring in the bedroom, but the life we live together and before the world, in the clothes we wear, the jokes we tell, even the movies we watch.

Lutheran Witness: January 2021

The January issue of The Lutheran Witness discusses the “Chaste and Decent Life” to which Christians are called, in spite of a culture which has rejected it.

Certainty in Christ

Christian certainty can be summarized in terms of the Six Chief Parts of Martin Luther’s Small Catechism.