Like so very many of our human family, Lutherans can get lost in the woods. We saw evidence of the frailty a few weeks ago here in Minneapolis. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America gathered in our city in August … (read more)
Paul’s Letter to the Romans is a mighty missionary tract. Over the course of the summer, we have outlined its powerful themes. For the Apostle Paul, as we said in June, Spain matters. The Letter to the Romans makes clear … (read more)
Over the past few months we have presented Paul’s Letter to the Romans as a first-rate missionary tract. The Apostle designs the document with a particular purpose in view: he aims to enlist the church in Rome for planting … (read more)
The month of May ended with the general fund $38,897 short of the amount needed to pay all of our missionaries 100 percent of the target allowance. We used $20,860 from the estate fund to supplement allowances. Sixteen of our … (read more)
I have been spending some time over the summer in Paul’s Letter to the Romans. The letter is a missionary tract in many ways. Paul asks the sisters and brothers in Rome to join him in mission to Spain. … (read more)
Over the past few weeks, I have been spending some time in Paul’s Letter to the Romans. What a document! Luther considered it “the most important piece in the New Testament.” Melanchthon judged it the “summary of all Christian doctrine.” … (read more)
David McCullough – a Pulitzer Prize winning author who has written several best selling historical and biographical books such as Truman, John Adams, 1776, and The Johnstown Flood – did not set out from an early age to become an … (read more)
Recently I stumbled upon an interesting experiment undertaken in eight teaching hospitals here and there around the world. The experiment was simple and straightforward. It cost virtually nothing. And it saved thousands of lives. Surgeons were asked to perform a … (read more)
Recently a friend of mine asked if I thought we were nearing the end of the world. (“We are nearer than previously, I suppose,” I answered sagely.) My friend had been reading his newspaper, I think, and might have felt … (read more)
And they woke him and said to him, Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing? And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, Peace! Be still! And the wind ceased, and there was a … (read more)