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11 mins read|01/14/26Bringing your family to church to receive “the one thing needful” (Luke 10:42) in Word and Sacrament honors and pleases God.
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5 mins read|01/11/26Has Lutheranism Failed? In this episode, the Thinking Fellows discuss the purpose and aim of the church to examine if Lutheranism in America has failed.
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16 mins read|01/08/26The crisis is not merely that people are leaving. The crisis is that we have relinquished what is uniquely Lutheran and deeply needed.
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24 mins read|01/07/26The 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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12 mins read|01/05/26Wake Up Dead Man is not ultimately a story about mystery, exposure, or even justice. It is a story about what happens when mercy speaks to death—and death listens.
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17 mins read|12/14/25What would the world be like without Christmas? That is, what would it be like without the declaration of Christmas: “For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord”?
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24 mins read|12/06/25The Spirit who inspired the prophets and apostles to put God’s Word into human language has guided and guarded their transmission in the course of human history preserving them for the sake of the Gospel.
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13 mins read|12/03/25The unity of God’s people is grounded not in lineage nor land but in the promise of the coming Christ.
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21 mins read|11/29/25Lutheran theology begins not with God in His terrifying majesty but with God in the flesh, God crucified for sinners. Advent is about this trajectory.
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7 mins read|11/17/25Every age has its emergencies, and the church must never ignore them. Yet, our response cannot be one of panic or propaganda.
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20 mins read|11/15/25Preaching the end times purposes to solicit and strengthen faith in the Savior of the world who is at the same time the Creator and Re-creator of the world.
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13 mins read|10/11/25It is precisely from the cross that the glory of God shines most brightly into our lives, as dark and sinister as Golgotha appears from a sinful distance. Cross trumps crisis.
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