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LCMS Worship – 2018-19 One-Year Series hymn suggestions

LCMS Worship provides hymn suggestions for the One-Year Series to use during the 2018-19 church year. Unless otherwise indicated, hymns are from Lutheran Service Book.

LCMS Worship – Suggestions for 2018 midweek Advent services

LCMS Worship provides suggestions for liturgy, psalms, readings, hymns and collects to use during 2018 midweek Advent services.

Life Together with President Harrison – September 2018

Rev. Dr. Matthew Harrison, president of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, discusses how it’s possible that we can be joyfully Lutheran in the way in which we manage the gifts we’ve been given.

LCMS Stewardship Ministry: September 2018 newsletter

LCMS Stewardship shares insight into why some congregations and individuals are “surprised by stewardship” every year. Stewardship planning is one of those things that often gets lost in the weeds after summer.

Preach the Word – Module 6 – Sacramental Preaching – Rev. David Petersen

How can preachers emphasize the central reality that God is present and forgives sins through His Word in specific places according to His promises?

Life Together with President Harrison – August 2018

Rev. Dr. Matthew Harrison, president of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, talks about the great joy that is ours to share when pastors, circuit visitors and district presidents make visitation a high priority in ministry.

LCMS Specialized Pastoral Ministry – August 2018 newsletter

The LCMS Specialized Pastoral Ministry newsletter includes a preview of “SPM in the Midst of Crisis,” an educational event scheduled for Oct. 2-4 in Belleville, Ill.

LCMS Stewardship Ministry – August 2018 newsletter

LCMS Stewardship explains how mission trips can be a great teaching and forming tool for stewards. The lessons can be much greater than a participant’s feelings and experience — they can be formational and lasting.

Parish Nurse Video Lecture: ‘Exercise in the Congregation’

Helpful information on how to start an exercise program in the congregation.

LCMS Black Ministry – Summer 2018 newsletter

The LCMS Black Ministry summer 2018 newsletter features stories of individuals (and their congregations) that illustrate the power of faith when sharing the Gospel in this difficult world.

CTCR report – ‘Confession and Absolution’

Requested by The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod in convention, the Commission on Theology and Church Relations adopted a report on “Confession and Absolution” to address these matters.

Mercy Essays Feature Lutheran Theologians From Reformation to Today

In a variety of timely yet timeless essays, Lutheran theologians look at Christ’s mercy and the way in which He showers healing, compassion and forgiveness on His people.

LCMS Stewardship Ministry – July 2018 newsletter

LCMS Stewardship shares insight into the stewardship lesson that time teaches. Attempts to hoard time and thereby be poor stewards reveal the folly in how some individuals view stewardship.

Faces of the Reformation Series

Explore the past through the people who lived it! Meet 25 men and women passionate about the Reformation re-discovery of the Gospel—either for or against it. Download reproducible bulletin inserts, biographical handouts, and Bible studies for each unforgettable face of the Reformation era.

LCMS Ministry to the Armed Forces – Third Quarter 2018 newsletter

In this issue of So Help Me God from the LCMS Ministry to the Armed Forces, combating sleeplessness through reading God’s Word, the Holy Bible, is discussed.