Lutheran Witness: August 2018
Meet Lutherans past and present whose faith has profoundly shaped both their lifestyles and their financial decisions in our August issue on wealth and poverty, money, possessions and generosity.
What to expect when you least expect it
Even when “all other ground is sinking sand,” our hope in Christ is an expectant hope. It looks forward and is confident that all the promises of God are “yes” in Jesus.
In defense of “unfriendly” churches
As we visit sister congregations this summer, let us never fail to remember what the Church is: not a five-star resort for visiting saints but a haven for sinners, including us.
God’s help for the home
From the days of Eden the present, God is in favor of and holds out His help for the home. And when the Christian home is under attack, as it increasingly is in our society, we need God’s help more than ever.
The vital importance of fatherhood
Our culture is — at best — terribly confused about the necessity of fatherhood. But God knew what He was doing when He put our earthly fathers in our lives.
The toxic and the true
At the dawn of creation, Adam was the first man to distort real, godly masculinity, and Eve was the first woman to be let down and left hurting by a man’s inability to understand and live out his manly calling. Thanks be to God, the story doesn’t end there.
On being a man
The Bible says quite a lot about maleness gone wrong through sin, about what actions and qualities God loves to see in men — and about Christ, who, above all, demonstrates clearly God’s intentions for men.
Lutheran Witness: June/July 2018
The June/July issue of The Lutheran Witness magazine offers incisive insights on toxic masculinity, godly fatherhood, the religious gender gap and what it means to be “men at church” today.
Beware of spiritual Trojan horses
Whenever we consume media — even Christian media — we should be carefully asking ourselves: What is the source? What is the writer’s theology? What is the Christian message that is being taught?
Diversity in unity at Pentecost
“After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb” (Rev. 7:9).
Love for the least of these
Motivated by the conviction that human life begins at conception and their concern for embryos stuck in frozen limbo, LCMS “snowflake” families have become pioneers in embryo adoption.
Children’s children and the plans of God
From the beginning of the world, God has been creating and gathering for Himself a beloved people. In His wisdom, He designed parents to participate with Him in His creative powers and purposes, bringing forth generation after generation of children — and teaching them to know their God.