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  • Streamline Your Workflow with These Simple Email Hacks

    Streamline Your Workflow with These Simple Email Hacks

    In a world brimming with technological innovations, some tools prove their enduring value time and again, and few are more valuable than email. Despite the rise of platforms like...

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  • Worry: March 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Worry: March 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    “Everything will be okay.” “Don’t worry. Be happy.” “Hakuna matata.” These feel-good yet frothy phrases center around an issue that is near and dear to my sinful heart: worry.

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  • Luxury Meets Hymnody | Lutheran Service Book: Genuine Leather Gift Edition0:58

    Luxury Meets Hymnody | Lutheran Service Book: Genuine Leather Gift Edition

    Share the beauty of your favorite hymns, Psalms, and prayers with this stunning edition of Lutheran Service Book. This edition contains the same contents as the Pew Edition but is bound in genuine, bl

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  • 75 Years of Musical Excellence

    75 Years of Musical Excellence

    February 1, 2025, marked the 75th anniversary of Concordia Publishing House’s Music department. That’s three-quarters of a century dedicated to publishing organ, choral, and handbell...

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  • Digging Deeper into Scripture: Luke 3:15–22

    Digging Deeper into Scripture: Luke 3:15–22

    I was a kid in the late seventies and the early eighties. At the time, Sears was a popular department store. This long-standing company sold a brand of children’s pants called...

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  • Maintaining Healthy Church Staff Communication with Technology

    Maintaining Healthy Church Staff Communication with Technology

    When it comes to church communication strategy, we often think of communicating with our members or visitors. But what about your church staff? How can you maintain healthy church staff...

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  • Saint and Apostles—Understanding Christian Symbols

    Saint and Apostles—Understanding Christian Symbols

    As you go about your daily life, you likely see many Christian symbols in architecture, on books, in hymnals, and especially decorating sanctuaries. We've covered why they're a pivotal...

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  • Evangelical Lutheran Homiletics | Rev. Isaac Johnson33:49

    Evangelical Lutheran Homiletics | Rev. Isaac Johnson

    On this episode of The Concordia Publishing House Podcast, we take a look at the history and legacy of Lutheran homiletics with guest Pastor Isaac Johnson. Isaac is the translator of Reinhold Pieper's

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  • The Gospel Assumed Is the Gospel Denied

    The Gospel Assumed Is the Gospel Denied

    This blog is excerpted from an article by Herbet C. Mueller Jr., published in a previous edition of Concordia Pulpit Resources.

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  • Top Children’s Hymns for Every Season of the Church Year

    Top Children’s Hymns for Every Season of the Church Year

    We sing what we love. We love what we know. And much of what we know and love we learned in childhood. This is especially true of hymns and songs that are impressed on our minds and...

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  • 2 Corinthians: An Overview

    2 Corinthians: An Overview

    The surpassing value of 2 Corinthians is the opportunity it gives us to view the great care—through both Law and Gospel—that Paul and his colleagues provided to a wayward congregation. We...

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  • Rethinking Email Management: Why Unsubscribing and Deleting Aren’t the Best

    Rethinking Email Management: Why Unsubscribing and Deleting Aren’t the Best

    You may find this scenario familiar: you’re driving into work, mentally listing everything you need to accomplish for the day. After arriving and grabbing a warm beverage, you sit down...

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  • What Do You Value? February 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    What Do You Value? February 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    “I don’t want to pray right now,” my two-and-a-half-year-old says. I know that these words don’t actually mean she doesn’t want the comfort of prayer, but she doesn’t want to go to bed....

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  • Music of the Month: “Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted: A Lenten Plainsong”

    Music of the Month: “Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted: A Lenten Plainsong”

    You would never guess that the source of this tune was not chant after hearing this piece. The pushing and pulling tension of chant complements this text in a way never before heard,...

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  • Uncovering Jesus' Teachings through Biblical Meals1:21

    Uncovering Jesus' Teachings through Biblical Meals

    Although meals today may be little more than fuel for our next activity, meals in Jesus' day were opportunities to share much more than food. In his new book, Pastor Kristopher Whitby explores how tur

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  • Understanding Christian Marriage2:51

    Understanding Christian Marriage

    How is the relationship between Jesus Christ and the Church the model we are to follow in marriage? Pastor David Shadday explores Scripture to answer this in his new, eight-session Bible study Reclai

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  • What the Old Testament Teaches About Vocation

    What the Old Testament Teaches About Vocation

    There are plenty of places in the Bible to turn to when you need guidance. While the New Testament is filled with Christ’s parables that offer strong advice, the Old Testament is also...

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  • How to Write Church Announcements That People Actually Read

    How to Write Church Announcements That People Actually Read

    If you’re looking to improve your church announcements, you’re not alone. You need to share pertinent information with your members in a way that gives them all the necessary information...

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  • How Healthy Youth Ministry Addresses Vocation

    How Healthy Youth Ministry Addresses Vocation

    In a recent Barna webinar, David Kinnaman said that the two words that best describe Generation Z (those born from around 1996 to 2010) are anxiety and ambition. The church is uniquely...

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  • An Introduction to Symbolism in the Christian Church

    An Introduction to Symbolism in the Christian Church

    Christian symbols are seen throughout history in sanctuaries, books, hymnals, and even architecture. They’re a pivotal part of the faith. Yet, throughout the years, many of their...

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