Keep Us Sober and on the Horse
Christ has given us both spiritual priests and pastors. That’s His mission paradigm. When both are functioning as God has given, there is mutual love and complementary support.
The Magazine
Media & Culture
The Rev. David Rufner offers a commentary on media fear-mongering and how the timeless Word of God soothes the anxious mind.
Lutheran Witness: March 2016
A 360˚ view of mercy
Justification, Our ‘Chief Article’
Luther realized it was not about an active righteousness (our actions), but about a passive righteousness (God’s actions in Christ credited to us freely)!
Breaking Down the Church Year
Every festival season and each distinctive church celebration has a particular and specific focus on the works of Jesus in the salvation story of our lives.
Lutheran Witness: February 2016
God’s Acts of Love
How Shall We Regard the Bible?
The best place for us to get hold of what the Bible is and how to understand it is found in Jesus Himself. How does Jesus regard the Bible?
Why Read the Bible?
What’s the benefit of reading and knowing the Bible? So that the Word of God achieves its purpose in your life too.
Lutheran Witness: December 2015
Just Like Us
Prisoners of Advent Hope
Are you hopeless? Bury yourself in the Scriptures!
2015 State of the Synod
God help us. He does, and He will. End times? Yes, indeed. “God is faithful,” as the apostle says (1 Cor. 1:9). And this faith in Christ is “a living, busy, active, mighty thing.”
Does the Lutheran Reformation Have a Future?
The real story of the Reformation is about the march of the Church of Jesus Christ in the face of impossible odds — thirsting for Christ and His means of grace, trusting in the Bible as God’s inerrant Word, struggling in the North but growing tremendously in the South.