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How should families prepare to go back to school? That’s quite a question this year, isn’t it? After all, education is likely to look different depending on what school you…
The same Jesus proclaimed in Lutheran Campus Ministries one hundred years ago still receives the focus today. A picture on the TODAY Show or the local news. A letter from…
This article’s title comes from a Michael W. Smith song from the late 1980s. The lyrics say, “Friends are friends forever if the Lord’s the lord of them.” Smith’s point…
At church we find believers because the Holy Spirit works through the gospel, but we also find hypocrites. It’s Sunday morning at Midtown Evangelical Lutheran Church. The late service begins…
“Show me, Lord, my life’s end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is” (Psalm 39:4). “This just doesn’t seem real.” Have you heard people…
An Army captain matures in his faith as he works to help other cadets grow in their understanding of God’s Word. Captain Kent Gavin opens his laptop to Zoom, the…
Earlier this year, I was asked to make a presentation on the topic, “What will the Wisconsin Synod look like one hundred years from now?” It was a daunting assignment…
Christians often live quiet, humble lives, but their lives matter. How do we measure the value and importance of a Christian life? We gravitate to those who have done great…
If God did not create the world, then humans become superior animals struggling to survive instead of the crown of God’s creation. Survival or serving oneself instead of glorifying God…
I believe that the world came about by the process of evolution. However, I still consider myself a Christian. Does it really matter how God made the world? Creation matters…
Jesus described the kingdom of God like a field in which weeds grow together with the wheat. The suggestion to pull up the weeds would also mean to uproot the wheat. So…
This is my third or fourth try at this thought. The past months have brought all kinds of things to mind: first, COVID-19, then the protests, the violence, and the…
We come back to worship, but it’s just not the same. I was giddy with anticipation. After two months of exile, we were finally going to gather again to worship…
A husband and wife’s passion for serving leads them to the front lines of a pandemic. It was a quiet Saturday afternoon in May. Jon and Paige Fricke were sitting…
Chaplains in Schools, a WELS-affiliated organization, is set to reach nearly 3,000 students in seven different Christian voucher schools in the Milwaukee area with the gospel this school year. Because…
“Every time I hang out with one of my brothers, I gain nuggets of wisdom that stick with me,” says Paul Bourman, who graduated from Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, Mequon, Wis.,…
It might not originally have been on his list to do that day, but when Mark Luetzow, a member at Christ, Saginaw, Mich., heard that people needed help cleaning up…
Folsom is in northern California, between Sacramento and the Sierra Nevada mountains. It’s an exciting place to start a church. I arrived in Folsom in the fall of 2019, with an…
DID YOU EVER hear anything so strange? “Consider it pure joy,” James said, “whenever you face trials of many kinds” (1:2). To some that sounds about as sensible as stepping…
Ever ask yourself, “Who are these people who write for Forward in Christ?” Through this series, you can find out. This summer, Forward in Christ welcomes Richard Lauersdorf to the…