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May 4, 2017
Concerning Rebaptism for Christians
When we depend on ourselves, our strength, our goodness, even our faith, it will fail. In fact, when we build our house on anything but the rock it will be destroyed. Idols will all fall away.
May 1, 2017
Bible Study with Luther: Genesis 3:7-15
Rather than leaving Adam and Eve in the depravity of their alienation and hostility, God promised One Who would come and crush the serpent’s head. Jesus is the promised Seed of the Woman Who would reconcile a world of sinners back to God.
April 27, 2017
LCMS Witness & Outreach Ministry – Webinar: ‘re:Vitality for Rural and Small Town Congregations’
The Rev. Dr. Terry Chan explores strategies to reach Asian Americans with the Gospel.
April 24, 2017
How To Teach Children a Reformation Hymn
The Reformation was birthed by adults, but it is preserved by children. For centuries, pastors and parents have been preaching a holy heritage into the ears of the young, clearly confessing a salvation by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.
April 21, 2017
Political Allies of the Reformation
Martin Luther, along with John Calvin, Ulrich Zwingli, Martin Bucer, and Thomas Cranmer are often referred to as the “Magisterial Reformers.” By “magisterial” early modern historians typically mean that they reformed their respective regional churches with the help of local magistrates
April 18, 2017
'Free To Be Faithful' - Spring 2017 newsletter
Read the latest about Judge Ruth Neely, a member of Our Savior Lutheran Church — an LCMS congregation in Pinedale, Wyo. — whom state officials censured even though they chose not to remove her from her judiciary duties for her faith-based beliefs about marriage.
April 17, 2017
KFUO Audio: Deaconesses, students discuss mercy trip to Peru
Deaconesses and deaconess students with The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod discussed their recent mercy expedition to Peru with KFUO Radio host Andy Bates.
April 17, 2017
KFUO Audio: Adoptee shares story after birth mother chose life
Kim Glassman's birth mother put her up for adoption with a caring family. She shares her life story with KFUO Radio host Kip Allen.
April 17, 2017
Life Together with President Harrison – April 2017
This edition of Life Together highlights many areas of prayer and trial for the LCMS.
April 14, 2017
A Good Friday Sermon from Luther
In the midst of a world whose consideration of Christ’s death is perhaps not so different than our own, Luther published a Good Friday sermon: “A Sermon on how to Contemplate Christ’s Holy Sufferings.” This sermon appeared in pamphlet form in 1519...
April 13, 2017
Luther’s Good Friday Sermon
In this sermon, Luther determined to set the record straight concerning man’s contemplation of Christ’s sufferings.
April 12, 2017
The Resurrection in the Lutheran Confessions
The resurrection is the foundation of the Christian faith. This teaching is one of the fundamental articles of the faith.
April 12, 2017
Smalcald Articles Study: The Mass
Luther understood the danger behind the Mass was not simply a smattering of errors in otherwise Christian worship, rather it was an entire system of a false theology of worship.
April 10, 2017
Video: If not us, then who?
Who better to deliver the Gospel to our nation’s troops on the front lines of conflict – while also caring for their families – than an LCMS chaplain? Could that chaplain be you?
April 8, 2017
Indulgences Then and Now
On March 31st 1515 Pope Leo X issued a bull of plenary indulgence to remove sins’ temporal penalties that clung to the souls of the living and the dead.
April 8, 2017
Indulgences Then and Now
The events of October 31st 1517, the day that Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the church door in Wittenberg, were not set in motion by a man’s ambitious vision to revolutionize the spirituality of the west. Nor were they set in motion by Luther’s iconoclastic vainglory that sought to topple the ancient powers of tradition and the papacy. Rather, Luther swung his hammer as a pastor. He cared for the eternal welfare of his flock.