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Church Worker Wellness – Week 44 devotion: Vocational wellness

Sometimes all it takes is one notecard to change our perspective.

LCMS Urban & Inner-City Mission – Webinar: ‘re:Vitality – New Life for Long-Established Ministries’

Hosted by LCMS Urban & Inner-City Mission, Rev. Dr. Mark Woods presents a free webinar on “re:Vitality — New Life for Long-Established Ministries.”

Church Worker Wellness – Week 43 devotion: Relational wellness

God puts two halves into the whole of a relationship in many mysterious ways.

Church Worker Wellness – Week 42 devotion: Physical wellness

When it comes to wellness, what’s a chore and what’s a gift?

LCMS Stewardship Ministry – January 2020 newsletter

LCMS Stewardship Ministry discusses how God has a wonderful way of using various things and people to lead His people to engage the task for which they have been made and redeemed – stewardship.

Church Worker Wellness – Week 41 devotion: Physical wellness

Just like our homes, our bodies require maintenance and the restoration of Jesus.

LCMS Ministry to the Armed Forces – First Quarter 2020 newsletter

The LCMS Ministry to the Armed Forces newsletter encourages readers to consider their identity that is found in the cross of Jesus Christ. The Christian identity is one of contrast — the “sinner/saint dichotomy.”

Church Worker Wellness – Week 40 devotion: Emotional wellness

A little boy in a special needs classroom teaches us a lesson about God’s love and mercy.

Church Worker Wellness – Week 39 devotion: Emotional wellness

There are times in each of our lives when we simply need a friend.

Life Together with President Harrison – December 2019

In the Life Together News Digest for December 2019, LCMS President Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison shares a message from the Gospel of John and encourages us all to take care of our pastors, teachers and other church workers during this busy season.

LCMS Stewardship Ministry – December 2019 newsletter

Breakthroughs in stewardship only come when God’s Word is brought to bear on the lives of individual stewards and their congregations by the Holy Spirit.

LCMS Black Ministry – Winter 2020 newsletter

Read about ways the Gospel has been shared through St. Paul Christian Academy in Dallas, a tutoring program in Indianapolis and St. Philip Lutheran Church in Chicago.

Church Worker Wellness – Week 38 devotion: Spiritual wellness

Caring for others calls for us to recognize our own need for the care that comes from others.

Church Worker Wellness – Week 37 devotion: Spiritual wellness

God is good, even in the waiting. Jesus connects with us and gives us this body of believers to hold fast in the waiting.

CTCR paper – ‘The Child as a Gift of God’

This paper examines the many subtle ways that American culture rejects life as a fundamental gift of God and instead sees “having a baby” as a human accomplishment.