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LCMS Stewardship Ministry – April 2017 newsletter

LCMS Stewardship Ministry addresses some of the questions that stewardship leaders might ask when they are contacted to consult with a congregation on stewardship matters.

Political Allies of the Reformation

Martin Luther, along with John Calvin, Ulrich Zwingli, Martin Bucer, and Thomas Cranmer are often referred to as the “Magisterial Reformers.” By “magisterial” early modern historians typically mean that they reformed their respective regional churches with the help of local magistrates

‘Free To Be Faithful’ – Spring 2017 newsletter

Read the latest about Judge Ruth Neely, a member of Our Savior Lutheran Church — an LCMS congregation in Pinedale, Wyo. — whom state officials censured even though they chose not to remove her from her judiciary duties for her faith-based beliefs about marriage.

LCMS Recognized Service Organizations – Second Quarter 2017 newsletter

The Second Quarter 2017 issue of the LCMS Recognized Service Organizations newsletter features Ongoing Ambassadors For Christ, a youth evangelism organization.

KFUO Audio: Deaconesses, students discuss mercy trip to Peru

Deaconesses and deaconess students with The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod discussed their recent mercy expedition to Peru with KFUO Radio host Andy Bates.

KFUO Audio: Adoptee shares story after birth mother chose life

Kim Glassman's birth mother put her up for adoption with a caring family. She shares her life story with KFUO Radio host Kip Allen.

Life Together with President Harrison – April 2017

This edition of Life Together highlights many areas of prayer and trial for the LCMS.

A Good Friday Sermon from Luther

In the midst of a world whose consideration of Christ’s death is perhaps not so different than our own, Luther published a Good Friday sermon: “A Sermon on how to Contemplate Christ’s Holy Sufferings.” This sermon appeared in pamphlet form in 1519...

Luther’s Good Friday Sermon

In this sermon, Luther determined to set the record straight concerning man’s contemplation of Christ’s sufferings.

The Resurrection in the Lutheran Confessions

The resurrection is the foundation of the Christian faith. This teaching is one of the fundamental articles of the faith.

Smalcald Articles Study: The Mass

Luther understood the danger behind the Mass was not simply a smattering of errors in otherwise Christian worship, rather it was an entire system of a false theology of worship.

Indulgences Then and Now

On March 31st 1515 Pope Leo X issued a bull of plenary indulgence to remove sins’ temporal penalties that clung to the souls of the living and the dead.

Indulgences Then and Now

The events of October 31st 1517, the day that Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the church door in Wittenberg, were not set in motion by a man’s ambitious vision to revolutionize the spirituality of the west. Nor were they set in motion by Luther’s iconoclastic vainglory that sought to topple the ancient powers of tradition and the papacy. Rather, Luther swung his hammer as a pastor. He cared for the eternal welfare of his flock.

Audio: Reproaches from Good Friday liturgy in Lutheran Service Book

LCMS Worship provides an opportunity for pastors to learn to chant in the Reproaches from the Good Friday liturgy in Lutheran Service Book: Altar Book.

Bible Study with Luther: Genesis 3:1-6

In the second article of the Augsburg Confession, Lutherans confess, “It is also taught among us that since the fall of Adam all men who are born according to the course of nature are conceived and born in sin...