Ash Wednesday is the beginning of the season of Lent, a time that the historic church set aside to prepare for Easter specifically through the spiritual disciplines of fasting and prayer. Lent is a 40 day season (excluding Sundays) in which Christians are called to consider themselves and their place before God. One of the Read more about Do Lutherans do Ash Wednesday?[…]
Hello! My name is Darrell. I became a Lutheran during my senior year in college. Before then I had attended a number of different churches—Pentecostal, Baptist, Methodist, and many others. I drifted from one church to another because I never really felt at home in church and was always looking for the right fit. After spending Read more about Meet a Lutheran: Darrell[…]
My name is Mark, and I’ve been a Christian a lot longer than I’ve been a Lutheran. I was born to Presbyterian parents, I was baptized as an infant, and grew up taking for granted the basic framework of beliefs that confessional Christians believe. My family moved us to a Baptist church for my high Read more about Meet a Lutheran: Mark[…]
Lutherans believe that your job matters – no matter what that job is (as long as it is not flagrantly and inherently in conflict with the Word of God). People in the Lutheran movement recognize that God has called all Christians to be a part of His Body. That means that the people in our Read more about Our jobs and why they matter – Vocation[…]
My name is Jay, but a lot of people call me “PJ” or “Pastor Jay” or just “Pastor”. Because that is what I am vocationally called to be. My story starts off that I was born in the Philippines. My parents were there as Lutheran missionaries and I happened to come along 2 years after Read more about Meet a Lutheran: Jay[…]
Lutherans believe and teach that human beings are saved by “faith only”. This seems like a simple enough idea, but some people seem to have a mistaken notion about what it means to be saved by “faith only”. This is perhaps because often when people think about the word “faith” they are thinking about holding Read more about Faith Only[…]