New Life, New Hope, New Challenges
April marks the beginning of spring. The combination of springtime sights, sounds, and smells in God’s creation reminds us of new life and new hope.
The Magazine
In My Savior’s Healing Hands
In sickness or in health, we can witness daily to our faith and to the blessing of eternal life we have all received.
Revitalizing Rural Churches
Your hometown may be just as much a mission field as a community half a world away.
Finding Insight In a Movie Blunder
A momentary distraction at a cinema box office leads to an important reminder about atonement and reconciliation.
What’s So Great about Saint Paul?
We asked current students to tell us what they like about Saint Paul Lutheran High School. Read their responses.
Lutheran Witness: April 2008
Many of us retain a Norman Rockwell-like image of smalltown America as a bulwark of wholesome values and the Christian faith, in our case, the Lutheran Christian faith.
Lutheran Witness: March 2008
This month our focus is twofold: (1) our Concordia University System and (2) the work of LCMS World Relief and Human Care here at home and abroad.
‘For the Sake of the Church’
Endowments enable funding to meet the goal of educating Lutheran leaders. by Roland Lovstad Colleges and universities are complex, sometimes delicate, organizations, observes Dr. Kurt Krueger, president of the Concordia University System and executive director of the LCMS Board for University Education. Krueger explains that circumstances can affect the delicate balance: retirement or departure of
Discovering the Strengths of a Lutheran Education
The concept of vocation underlies the “Lutheran difference,” according to Dr. Kurt Krueger, executive director of the Board for University Education.
Mercy in Christ
‘I thank God and Jesus Christ that someone has regarded us as human beings.’
Concordia University: Recruiting Faculty
Concordias seek talented experts who love teaching. by Roland Lovstad About teaching at Concordia College, Bronxville, N.Y., Christopher “Kit” Nagel, assistant professor of business and chair of the business program, says this: ‘You really need to understand the academic discipline and your area of knowledge and have confidence that you have the people skills and
Kudos
My compliments to the new managing editor, Mr. James H. Heine. Frankly, I have never read any of the articles in the Witness in the past.Usually I let it lay around for awhile and the toss it [in the trash]. I could never get past the cover picture, which turned me off. Flipping through the magazine didn’t