This is the first in a series meant to let the Christian tradition speak for itself, the way it has carried Christians through long winters, confusion, and joy for centuries.
The crisis is not merely that people are leaving. The crisis is that we have relinquished what is uniquely Lutheran and deeply needed.
The ethos of the church’s worship is found in poor, needy, and desperate sinners finding solace and relief in the God of their salvation.

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The story of your life stretches beyond the dash on the tombstone.
It is death that deserves derision, not the disciple who reaches through sorrow for his Lord.
The Christian answer to death is not a disembodied app, but a bodily resurrection.
The ascension is not about Jesus going away. It's about Jesus taking his rightful place so that he might fill the world with his presence and power.
This is the final installment in our series, From Eden to Easter: Life and Death in the Garden. Each day throughout Holy Week, we will take a special look at the gardens and wildernesses of Scripture, and in particular, these scenes' connections to Christ's redemption won for us on the cross.
I realized that no matter where I call "home," I won't be able to shake the feeling of homesickness.
The point of Revelation is to reveal consolation in Jesus, not to revel in chaos and confusion.
In Christ, this world’s never-children are his always-children, because he isn’t a God of death, after all.
Five promises were seemingly all those apostles, staring into the sky, had to go on. Five promises that were more than enough.
Heaven is yours now.
God has a hall ready for us, for us and for so many more
We know that death does not have the last word in Christ.