God’s love is with us — amid great challenges
Faith in Action

God’s love is with us — amid great challenges

Editor’s note: Welcome to a special edition of our new web column “Faith & family: Growing together,” which complements our “Faith & family” department. Focal verse Be still before the…

Healing love
Mission & Ministry

Healing love

Raised in San Antonio as a Roman Catholic, Enedina Casarez Vasquez was 9 years old when an incident during mass changed her life. She was waiting for her friend Tony…

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Faith in Action

Lost and found

Editor’s note: Welcome to our new web column, “Faith & family: Growing together,” which complements our “Faith & family” department. Join Kimberly Knowle-Zeller each month as she explores different stages…

Let’s do laundry
Faith in Action

Let’s do laundry

Abby Vesga understands what it’s like to not know where you will lay your head at night, when your next meal will be or how you will clean your clothes.  …

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Mission & Ministry

The great and holy leveling field

“There but for the grace of God go I.” I’ve heard this uttered and may have even said it myself a time or two. It’s usually said in response to…

“Compassion in action”
Mission & Ministry

“Compassion in action”

Currently as many as 750,000 people in U.S. nursing homes have been fundamentally abandoned, said Mark Fisher, pastor of Transfiguration Lutheran Church in Fenton, Mich. “The church has a responsibility…

Tech-savvy learning
Mission & Ministry

Tech-savvy learning

Using the latest technology to share knowledge and impact society is part of the Lutheran heritage. Martin Luther used the new technology of his day—the printing press—to share ideas faster…

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Faith in Action

Who is God?

“Mommy, who is God?”  My son’s words stopped me mid-step in his darkened bedroom, halfway between the freedom of me time and parental obligation. I crouched alongside his bed, rubbed…

A 21st-century church
Mission & Ministry

A 21st-century church

When you think about technology in the church, does projecting song lyrics onto a screen for worship come to mind? Or is it something bigger in scope—like a live Twitter…

New ways to proclaim the gospel
Faith in Action

New ways to proclaim the gospel

Live from Omaha, Neb., it’s Sunday worship from Kountze Memorial Lutheran Church! Since 1962, this congregation has broadcast its Sunday service on cable TV. “Just go to any nursing home…