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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

“Heresy” does not only describe ancient beliefs.

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

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

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

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

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