Confessional Lutheranism

International Church Relations Conference: Planting a flower in the gate of hell

The group gathered Oct. 21–25 in Wittenberg, Germany.

‘Walking together’: Historic Pennsylvania church joins LCMS

St. John’s Lutheran Church, Ambridge, Penn., was received into membership in the LCMS on Aug. 18.

Christian hope in a hopeless world

Jesus says to us, when the world seems to be coming apart, don’t lose hope but trust in Me.

October ‘Witness’: A confessing community

What does it mean to be a “confessional” Lutheran?

Video series explains Christianity in multiple languages

The series is currently available in Farsi, Urdu, Arabic, Spanish and English.

Emerging Lutheran church body seeks communications director

Lutheran Mission – Australia, an emerging confessional Lutheran church body in Australia, seeks a full-time director of communications.

LCMS, ELS, WELS hold annual informal meeting

Representatives of the three church bodies met in Florida in December.

Here we stand, here we go

We cannot stand on the Gospel without going with the Gospel. 

What is a Lutheran?

The doctrine of justification, on which the church stands or falls, is what it means to be Lutheran.

Synod pledges support for confessional Lutherans in Australia

Faithful Lutherans in Australia signed a “Letter of Confession” holding to Holy Scripture and rejecting women’s ordination.

The end of ‘comfortable’ Christianity

Probably not in this generation, but maybe in the next, Christians in America will likely have to stand before the courts like our fellow Lutherans in Finland.

One God, one path — February ‘Witness’

The February issue of The Lutheran Witness explores the teachings of various world religions and contrasts them with the one true faith.