Over the past few months, we have reflected together on the challenges implicit in transition. Life is full of transitions, we have said. How do we find our way through? We began our reflections with an emphasis on remembering. Successful … (read more)
Life is full of transitions: we have commented on the phenomenon over the past few months. We go to school. We graduate. We may marry and have children. Perhaps we will feel the call of God upon our lives. We … (read more)
Let us return this month to the image of “horizoning.” (I made the word up; I hope that you get what I mean.) I mean lifting our eyes above the particularities of our daily challenges and circumstances, toward the sunrise. … (read more)
How do we find our way through the many and challenging passages of life? How do we successfully transition – from one phase of life to another, one place of service to some new setting, from things comfortable and familiar … (read more)
In times of transition, as we have observed, one can sometimes go wistful in an unhelpful sort of way. We may hear ourselves say, “But in the good old days….” Or, “Well, back in the day….” Or maybe, “We just … (read more)
Life is full of transitions – some large-scale, some small. We are birthed. (What a transition!) We learn to crawl, and often then to walk. We may meet the Savior of the world – and come to have a role … (read more)
The World Mission Prayer League is a “Lutheran community in mission,” as you will have discovered by now (Handbook, 13). Over the past few months we have reviewed the basic tenets of this faith identity: we are saved only by … (read more)
Over the last few months we have revisited the faith convictions that stand at the heart of our believing community. They are “confessional” convictions. They are based in the inherited faith of the church of Jesus Christ throughout the centuries … (read more)
We are saved by grace through faith: this wonderful confidence stands at the core of our Lutheran Confessions. Only grace. Only faith. Yet the faith that is “only”… is never alone. “Oh, it is a living, busy, active, mighty thing, … (read more)
Last month we considered the irreducible core of our Lutheran Confessions: we are saved only, only by grace. But the Confessions say more than this. We are saved by grace – through faith. And only, only through faith. Here again … (read more)