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  • Five Favorite Christmas Activities for Families

    Five Favorite Christmas Activities for Families

    Concerts, shopping trips, gatherings, and other tasks often take up a lot of our time during the season of Advent. None of these activities are inherently bad, but they can take our...

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  • Family Discipleship Ideas for Advent

    Family Discipleship Ideas for Advent

    One of my favorite ways to equip families for at-home discipleship is to lean into both the Church Year and calendar year. One great opportunity for take-home learning occurs in Advent.

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  • Why Do We Have One- and Three-Year Lectionaries?

    Why Do We Have One- and Three-Year Lectionaries?

    Yes, what we look forward to this coming Sunday morning really does come down to us through millennia. This blog post, adapted from Carl C. Fickenscher II’s book Looking Forward to Sunday...

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  • Why Do We Need the Lutheran Confessions in a Secular World?

    Why Do We Need the Lutheran Confessions in a Secular World?

    At the end of October every year, Lutherans all over the world celebrate Reformation Day. In protestant reverie, they think gratefully of the first time they heard of salvation by grace...

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  • Delighting in the Lord: November 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Delighting in the Lord: November 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    “Dad, do we have to go to church?” “We don’t have to—we get to!” Anyone who has ever had to convince their kids or grandkids to go to church has probably said something like this, and...

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  • What Does Mission Work Have to Do with Me?

    What Does Mission Work Have to Do with Me?

    Concordia Publishing House is excited to be releasing a new series of compact books! The first title in our new series of polemic and apologetic books has been released, but perhaps you...

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  • Brain Strategies for Preaching

    Brain Strategies for Preaching

    It seems generally assumed that preachers want hearers to remember at least the main idea and purpose of the biblical truth considered in the sermon, as well as to reflect it in their...

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  • Music of the Month: Three Reformation Motets

    Music of the Month: Three Reformation Motets

    In commemoration of the five hundredth anniversary of Johann Walter’s collection Geystliche gesangk Buchleyn (1524), these three motets were edited and selected for their usefulness for...

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  • What Are the Propers in Worship?

    What Are the Propers in Worship?

    The content of the service we look forward to this coming Sunday morning really does come down to us through millennia. This blog post, adapted from Carl C. Fickenscher II’s book Looking...

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  • Titus: An Overview

    Titus: An Overview

    Nicopolis was a Roman colony on the west coast of Greece, on the isthmus separating the Ambracian Gulf from the Ionian Sea. The city would serve as winter quarters for Paul and his...

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  • How Jesus Welcomed the Lost

    How Jesus Welcomed the Lost

    Time and again in his Gospel account, the evangelist Luke draws our attention to Jesus’ practice of welcoming people to dine with Him. As might be expected, His disciples regularly ate...

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  • 5 Ways to Encourage Meaningful Discussions in Confirmation Class

    5 Ways to Encourage Meaningful Discussions in Confirmation Class

    “How do I teach confirmation class?” “How do I deal with confirmation students who don’t seem to be paying attention?” “Is it just me, or is it harder to engage students in learning today...

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  • Edward Rechlin: Paving the Way for Lutheran Organists

    Edward Rechlin: Paving the Way for Lutheran Organists

    This blog post is adapted from Portraits in American Lutheran Sacred Music, 1847–1947, by Benjamin Kolodziej.

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  • An Overview of Christian Creeds

    An Overview of Christian Creeds

    Why do we need creeds? That might be a question you have asked or that a family member or friend has asked you after finding out you speak a creed in the Divine Service. However, in...

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  • Preparing for Bullies: October 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Preparing for Bullies: October 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    I was reminded recently that I’ll soon be entering a stage of life where my children will deal with bullies. Time has removed me from the days when I was on the receiving end of bad...

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  • Explore Tropical Trek VBS 2026

    Explore Tropical Trek VBS 2026

    From testing snacks to fine-tuning crafts, thoughtful attention is given to every detail of Vacation Bible School (VBS)—all in preparation for churches across the country to share the...

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  • 2 Timothy: An Overview

    2 Timothy: An Overview

    While searching for Paul, Onesiphorus would tread the broad streets of Rome, passing beneath the archways of its aqueducts and walking beside its grand colonnaded porticos. But the prison...

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  • Knowing Jesus Is More Than Knowing Facts

    Knowing Jesus Is More Than Knowing Facts

    One of the delights of parenting older kids is watching them discover and enjoy their individual interests. My daughters often start conversations or change the subject by brightly...

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  • 10 Ways Portals of Prayer Helps You Share God’s Word

    10 Ways Portals of Prayer Helps You Share God’s Word

    It's always a blessing to have extra copies of Portals of Prayer on hand. Check out these ideas for how you can put extra copies of Portals of Prayer to good use in your community! 

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  • Music of the Month: Sojourn: Four Chorale Preludes from Childhood to Resurrection

    Music of the Month: Sojourn: Four Chorale Preludes from Childhood to Resurrection

    Take a journey through the seasons of life with this set of four chorale preludes by German composer Bernard Wayne Sanders. The preludes can be played individually or as a set of hymns...

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