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February 28, 2025

The Sanctified Life in a Hostile World

In a world increasingly antagonistic toward the Gospel and the Christian church, how do we live?

February 1, 2025

The Small Congregation

In truth, the size of the congregation is no indication of God’s favor or disfavor.

January 1, 2025

God’s Two Kingdoms

No wall of separation between the church and state exists: Christ directs both by His guiding hand.

November 27, 2024

A Family Community

This issue of The Lutheran Witness covers the wide gamut of emotions and realities related to the family.

November 1, 2024

Walking Together as Synod

This issue is an opportunity to hear from those who serve you in the International Center about how we are completing the work you have given us to do.

October 1, 2024

A Confessing Community

Confession is not optional in Jesus’ book. The Christian confesses the faith before the world.

September 1, 2024

100 Years of ‘The Gospel Voice’

Christ crucified has been the heart of KFUO’s proclamation for the last 100 years, and remains so today.

August 1, 2024

A Teaching Community

A Lutheran education does not have at its heart primarily education in secular matters, but the deep and abiding inculcation of the faith.

May 31, 2024

The First Christian Community

The Book of Acts records how our Lord worked through the first Christian community to send forth the Gospel into all the world.

April 30, 2024

In Jesus’ Name

The church is a praying community, and we pray in the name of Jesus.

April 1, 2024

A Chaste Community

This issue discusses how to live in and defend chastity in a culture that rejects it.

March 1, 2024

A Hopeful Community

We do not despair. The church of God is a community buoyed by hope, confident in God.

February 1, 2024

Broken Community: Fifty Years After the Walkout

Our theology has consequences. What is taught in college and seminary classrooms filters down into the preaching and life of the church.

January 1, 2024

The Divine Service: A Guide

In this issue of The Lutheran Witness, we will help you understand and receive the eternal treasures of the Divine Service.

December 1, 2023

The Blessing of Children

Every child is a blessing, even if that blessing is an opportunity for parents to learn self-sacrifice — and even if that blessing is, in the eyes of the world, one too many.

November 1, 2023

Ground of All Truth

“What is truth?” Jesus is Truth, and so Jesus stands at the heart of this (and every) issue of The Lutheran Witness.

October 1, 2023

Difficult Teachings of Scripture

We take these topics up because they are difficult teachings of Scripture, teachings that perhaps Christians feel a bit ashamed about or find difficult to understand.

September 1, 2023

Digging In: Archaeology & Apologetics

The Holy Spirit uses our witness to Christ’s work to clear roadblocks and prepare the path for faith. That is the apologetic task.

August 1, 2023

Heresies: Ancient and Modern

“Heresy” does not only describe ancient beliefs.

May 31, 2023

Under the Banner of Christ Crucified

This issue will give you a preview of some interesting resolutions, nominations and information for the convention.

May 1, 2023

Made & Marked by Christ

How does one find the church? Christ has left His Bride with marks of the church in the world.

March 31, 2023

Death and Resurrection in the Family, Church and State

The three estates frame our lives together. We live out our new lives in Christ in these three estates.

March 1, 2023

Understanding the Nones

How do we speak to the religiously unaffiliated about the love of God in Christ?

February 1, 2023

Mental Health, A Lutheran Perspective

The February issue takes up the topic of mental illness from a Lutheran perspective.