Lutheran Witness: December 2016
This month, we’re shattering Christmas myths!
This month, we’re shattering Christmas myths!
As we await the advent of Christ, we need the same consolations for our times
The O Antiphons can continue to teach, enlighten and comfort the Church today.
This month, as with each November, you’ll see a smattering of numbers and statistics regarding the people and work of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod.
If the future of the Church depends upon us, then we are sunk.
In the October issue, we’re focusing on all things Reformation!
Wherever the Gospel and Sacraments are—enough to bring people to true faith in the true Jesus—there is the Church.
Transhumanism promotes uploading human personalities into robotic bodies so that people can live beyond death. But in view of the Gospel promise, the dream of humans without bodies, of our minds being uploaded into robots so as to live forever, seems less like a dream, and more like a nightmare.
The early Lutherans were also diligent to keep the traditional practices and ceremonies of the church, as long as these did not conflict with the Gospel of grace.
In the September issue, we learn from women who have gone before us in the faith.
So it is with marriage. You won’t get very far trying to travel alone in a relationship, talking to yourself, or at someone else.
In this issue, we rejoice in the joy, comfort and consolation that we share as the body of Christ.