Category: Feature Stories
Twenty years for unique program
by Jennifer Shack and Paul Schoepp The role of teaching in the church is as old as the church itself where important teachers of the faith have taught people about Jesus’ love for them and showed them how to live their God-given faith, responding…
The hidden treasure of private confession
His grace awaits you. The door is open. by Peggy Pedersen The church’s treasures are the gifts Christ our Lord, Himself has given us: Baptism, Holy Communion and the Office of the Keys. In these ways He comes to us, cleansing us from our sins…
In the beginnings
The prefaces to Luther’s Small and Large Catechisms have their own teachings by Thomas A. Von Hagel One of the most significant concerns of the sixteenth century Lutheran Reformation was religious instruction in the parish. In his preface to the Small Catechism, Martin Luther bemoaned…
Doctor’s appointment: up close and personal with Martin Luther
Compiled by Ian Adnams The fifty-five volumes of Luther’s Works contain Dr. Luther’s Bible commentaries, sermons and essays. Volume 54 is called “Table Talk” and contains notes taken by guests and visitors to his home as they bantered opinions during meals. Rather than discourses from…
Lutherans give thanks
by Norman Threinen In September 1620, a year before the Pilgrims in Massachusetts celebrated what most people regard as the first Thanksgiving in North America, a Lutheran ship’s captain, Jens Munck, wrote in his journal. “I pray that Thou will give me the grace of…
Online communication vital to mission work
The expectation of having Internet and telephone service extends to the mission field and when it’s not available, it’s easy to forget how people communicated without it. Martin Weber, a Bible translator with Lutheran Bible Translators-Canada (LBTC) serving in Cameroon, resorted to using his satellite…
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