Category: Columns

December 8, 2025

God’s Goodness and the End of the Year

by Robert Mohns God is good always! As the church year draws to a close, we are given the opportunity to reflect deeply on the grace, mercy, and love that God has made known to us throughout the past year. The Psalmist, alongside other writers…

Read More

December 4, 2025

All the Company of Heaven

by Mathew Block The king of Syria wanted Elisha dead. The prophet had foiled his plans against the king of Israel several times, so the Syrian king instead set his sights on Elisha. Learning the prophet was in Dothan, the Syrians sent “horses and chariots…

Read More

November 4, 2025

Living as One Body

by Marvin Bublitz Times are changing in the life of many congregations. It seems like only yesterday that our pews were full and we had more than enough people to serve in offices. A vacancy was only for a short time, as the number of…

Read More

October 29, 2025

What Is Your Dearest Treasure?

by Timothy Teuscher Our synod’s ‘Together One’ campaign, which is in its initial stages, is intended to provide earthly treasures to support the preaching of God’s Word and administration of the Sacraments in all our congregations and missions, so that people now and in the…

Read More

October 8, 2025

Preaching Christ and Him Crucified

by Mathew Block “For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.”…

Read More

September 23, 2025

Redundant

by Robert Mohns This summer I have spent time in a hospital among overflowing corridors filled with the sick, addicted, injured, and dying. As I have observed the human condition in that place, it has given me pause to thank God for the many redundant…

Read More