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We’ve all certainly heard of “eleventh-hour conversions” … Would this have been the opposite? Eleventh-hour wavering? Deathbed doubt?

More than 25 years ago, a funeral was simply a funeral; they were all the same. The visitation happened at the funeral home …

Despite our best efforts to avoid them, pain and suffering appear in our lives. Lessing reminds us: “Exile doesn’t negate God’s promises.”

I don’t know why I thought I’d be able to mediate the heated dispute between two neighbors on the jogging trail that day.

When we welcome the three-legged chickens, we very often find ourselves surprised and delighted by the ways God blesses our lives.

Advice from LCMS Ministry to the Armed Forces on the steps a congregation should take at each stage of their pastor’s deployment.

Population growth in the U.S. is slowing, with the decade of 2010–2020 recording the slowest growth rate in American history.

For 140 years, The Lutheran Witness has taught and educated English-speaking Lutherans all over the world. We teach what the Bible teaches.

They say something always breaks in the first week of a spouse’s deployment. Maybe this is a gift in disguise.

On April 21, The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) commemorates the great Archbishop of Canterbury St. Anselm.

A poem celebrating Martin Luther’s famous stand before the Holy Roman Emperor during the Diet of Worms on April 18, 1521.

If people do not need to engage in good works to secure their salvation, why bother with attempting to live an ethical life?