Advent and Christmas: Mincemeat Pies
A long-standing custom of Christmastide is the baking of mincemeat pies, a tradition reaching back to the 11th century.
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‘I Delivered to You What I Also Received’: Tradition and the Gospel
Tradition is a good thing, provided it does not contradict the Gospel and the Word of God, which is, after all, itself divine tradition.
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Tradition: Blessing, Burden or Both?
We should examine all traditions in light of Scripture.
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On the ‘Odyssey’: The Joy of Redemption
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
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Staying Out of the Ditches
Falling into the ditches of anxiety and apathy are dangerous, but Jesus is the factor that keeps stewards on the narrow way.
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God’s Work, Our Witness
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.”
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Lutheran Witness: November 2025
The November issue discusses the church’s mission in our own land and around the world.
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All Saints Day & The Last Sunday of the Church Year: Stir-Up Sunday Pudding
This theme of Christ’s coming ties All Saints’ Day to the Last Sunday of the Church Year.
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The Gospel Leads to Churches
The mission of the church is this: to proclaim the Gospel of free forgiveness of sin by the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.
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As He Leads Us
When Major Van Rooy stepped off a plane in Japan in early March 2020, he did not yet know the spiritual exile that lay ahead.
An Urgent Call for Missionaries to Africa
The harvest is ripe in Africa. We are praying for laborers.
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On ‘Wuthering Heights’: The destruction of love turned inward
Catherine and Heathcliff’s pseudo-love is an obsession absolutely turned inward, a snake eating itself which, in its appetite, finds destruction.
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