We Have the Time
The second most common objection to recovering weekly communion in the 1999 survey was that it takes too much time.
The second most common objection to recovering weekly communion in the 1999 survey was that it takes too much time.
In this second article in a three-part series, we’ll explore my second-and-almost-as-important rule of writing for Lutherans: Tell the truth.
The drama of the 2020 election overshadowed another phenomenon that has received little press coverage.
Politicians find it expedient to give an occasional nod to God, whoever or whatever they conceive the deity to be.
The celebration of the resurrection, particularly in the face of death and grief, is the hallmark of the Christian faith.
When I became a Lutheran, one of the few things about my new church that I did not love was the Common Table Prayer.
In this next section of The Freedom of a Christian, Luther unpacks his assertion that faith alone justifies the sinner before God.
In Easter season 1999, I surveyed all LCMS pastors regarding weekly communion. Their members largely feared …
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.
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.
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.
Christian certainty can be summarized in terms of the Six Chief Parts of Martin Luther’s Small Catechism.
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