Category: Faith Questions
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What Are Good Works?
When it comes to living as a Christian, what are good works? This blog post explores the encouraging answer to that question…
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What Might Luther Have Read?
The sheer volume of Martin Luther’s writings is astounding. According to Britannica, he wrote a third of the books published in the German language during the first half of the 1500s.[1] The first 55 volumes of his written works in the English translation altogether are over 22,000 pages long—and that’s not even everything he wrote!…
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Where Are You, God?
Where are you, God? We often ask that question when we experience moments of terrible tragedy and heartbreaking loss. When such things happen, we understandably want to know where God is. God is not silent in his Word. Let’s be clear about that. When we cry out to him, we know our God hears and…
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God Our Refuge: Letter From the Editor
Dear brothers in the ministry, After spending over a quarter century serving as an editor at Northwestern Publishing House, I can safely say that there are few NPH and WELS publications—present as well as past—that I’m unfamiliar with. With this letter to you, I’m calling attention to one publication that had completely escaped my attention…
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What is Epiphany?
With Christmas time now largely at an end, you might hear a new seasonal word floating around: Epiphany. Epiphany is an ancient tradition that commemorates Jesus’ physical appearance to the non-Jewish world, focusing our eyes on the marvelous truth that Jesus is the Son of God and the Savior for all people. The word “epiphany”…
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Christians and Mental Illness: A Letter From the Editor
Dear brothers in the ministry, I want to share with you four items that have caught my attention: two quite recently and two others going back a year or so. Altogether, they illustrate the growing awareness of mental illness in the United States today. The first two concepts were reported in articles I read just…
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Pray for the Scattered and Afflicted:
A Letter From the EditorFellow Intercessors, Consider this three-part prayer Philip Melanchthon prayed with his colleagues: “We shall commend our cause, therefore, to Christ, who some time will judge these controversies, and we beseech Him to look upon the afflicted and scattered churches, and to bring them back to godly and perpetual concord.” (Apology of the Augsburg Confession, Preface,…
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Jesus has Secured the Universe
In Romans 13:11, Paul reminds you, “The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.” But how do we open our eyes from our sleep? What will secure us from our own nightmares of ignorance and sin? How do we…