
Lutheran Witness: January 2026
The January issue explores Christian leisure, the Sabbath and the Third Commandment.

The January issue explores Christian leisure, the Sabbath and the Third Commandment.

Only a person who rests fully in Christ’s righteousness can serve his neighbor with delight, in the fullest sense of the word.

Across Christendom, the night before the light of Epiphany is a wonderful occasion set aside for Christian joy.

Leisure, in its historical usage, was about advancing ourselves in ways that foster a life of faith toward God and love toward neighbor.

If you’ve been around as long as me, you’ll note we have enjoyed great, even dramatic improvement in the Synod’s life of doctrine and practice.

We simply cannot treat anything without Christ’s promise of permanence as the thing around which everything else must move.

The December issue is all about tradition and traditions.

A long-standing custom of Christmastide is the baking of mincemeat pies, a tradition reaching back to the 11th century.

Tradition is a good thing, provided it does not contradict the Gospel and the Word of God, which is, after all, itself divine tradition.

We should examine all traditions in light of Scripture.

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.”

The November issue discusses the church’s mission in our own land and around the world.