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The Lord is working through His people to build up the Church in the Dominican Republic.

The Lord is working through His people to build up the Church in the Dominican Republic.

Knowing how and what to pray can be difficult, but God has taken great pains to help us learn to pray.

Discover why so many Americans still pray, even though they admit they don’t believe in God.

It’s easy to know when God has answered our prayers, but what about the times when prayers seem to make no difference?

What makes the Lord’s Prayer different? See why God loves to hear you pray this prayer. by Rev. Paul Beisel If Lutherans followed the advice of Martin Luther, they would find themselves praying the Lord’s Prayer five times per day. Luther took prayer seriously. In the Small Catechism, he instructs Christians to pray the Lord’s

In the May issue of The Lutheran Witness, we find out why Christ loves to hear our prayers and why He delights in them.

God has instituted both church and state. How have they affected the history of the LCMS?

A lone gunman took the lives of 32 people at Virginia Tech five years ago this month. Read how the Rev. Keith Beasley and an LCMS campus ministry are offering the comfort of the Gospel to those still affected by that shooting.

Today’s culture offers countless religious options, but none of them offer persuasive, factual evidence. See why our Christian faith offers the answers. by Craig A. Parton America is a product of three centuries of secular culture. The roots of that culture are found in the earliest at-tempts to engage in what was thought to be

by Rev. Mark Lovett We confess that there are two realms, the church and the state. They shouldn’t be mixedthe church is governed by the Word of God, the state by natural law and reason, the Constitution,” said LCMS President Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison recently before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. “We

Thank you for the strong affirmation of the importance of residential education in the cause of ministerial formation, which remains at the heart of both our seminaries and which we will abandon to our peril (February). But it should also be noted that such high value does come with a significant cost, and that this

This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. by Rev. Joshua Hayes The Scriptures model for us a certain kind of prayer called a Prayer of Thanksgiving. Myriad examples can be found throughout God’s Word (Luke 10:21; John 11:4142; Eph. 1:314; Phil. 4:46). A Prayer of