Free in Christ: Personal witnessing
Two WELS members share how they “let [their] light shine” (Matthew 5:16) in the world. Lori and Brent Ryan, members at Holy Trinity, New Hope, Minn., use in-home hospitality to…
In the Bible, lying sometimes seems to be commended, as in the case of Rahab and the spies or the case of the Hebrew midwives. Are there times when it…
There is a natural tension between leading and following. Yet I believe the Christian needs to walk the tightrope of both. Figuring out how to translate that for our children…
After discovering true hope in the gospel, a man goes from lukewarm church-hopper to bona fide lay evangelist. After Jesus was born, a radiant star pointed to a house where…
Why did God give the Ten Commandments? Anchorage, Alaska, is one of those places where you can experience weather extremes. It can snow in July. There can be a heat…
History winnows the hymns we sing, with half of the hymns from the first Lutheran hymnal still being sung today. Of all the hymns that are printed in hymnals, some…
This Palm Sunday, we can cheer with the crowds as we see Jesus riding into Jerusalem to bear our burden of sin. He shows up at many community events on…
When finished means more than done. “FINISHED!” the young boy yells to his mom as he slams his math notebook closed and heads outside. “Finished!” says the couple as they…
I had never thought about it this way until I heard him say it. “Imagine how smoothly our school year would go if our classrooms were filled with 25 Pharisees.”…