By Rev. Dr. James A. Baneck This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God (1 Cor. 4:1 ESV). It seems wherever you go, you run into the phrase live, laugh, love. Sometimes the words are in a different order, but these three words seem popular.

by Melanie Ave The Rev. Matthew Heise serves as a career missionary to Russia and other former Soviet republics for The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS). This October, as we celebrate World Mission Month, Heise (www.lcms.org/heise) offers a glimpse into his life overseas. The following is an edited Lutheran Witness (LW) interview with Heise (MH): LW:

Steve Jobs, the head of Apple Computers who died Oct. 5, was by all accounts a brilliant man, a visionary. No one can deny that Steve Jobs was gifted. And gifts imply a Giver. No one can deny that Steve Jobs was good at his jobs. He had a vocation, a calling. And a calling implies a Caller.

by Melanie Ave In this interview, Doris Knuth, director of the Concordia University Chicago Early Childhood Education Center, explains the many benefits of a Lutheran education, particularly in the lives of the very young. Congregations and Christian day schools within The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) operate more than 2,200 early childhood centers and preschools nationwide,

by Rev. Dr. David Benke Why art thou cast down, o my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise Him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God! (Ps. 42:11). In the months angling toward the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001, I

This October, we commemorate great heroes of the faith: the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther and the Rev. Dr. C. F. W. Walther, the Synods first president.

My main objection to “Paper or Plastic?” (August 2011) is the quote from Luther about the apple tree used to support the author’s opinion. I believe Luther was saying that he was living the life that God would have him lead to the best of his ability, and if the “world would end tomorrow,” he

With regard to “Strengthening Single-Parent Families” in the August 2011 issue, thank you, Monique, for writing this article. I could relate because being a single-parent is not an easy job. One thought I had while reading it was that even though I was married at the time, I was still a single parent when it