Lutheran Witness: August 2021

In the August issue of The Lutheran Witness, “Pastor, I have a question,” LCMS church workers answer the questions they most commonly receive in their service to Christ’s church.

From the President: Should You Go to the Seminary, Young Man?

From the Editor: Pastor, I have a question …

Features:

Understanding the Church Worker Recruitment Initiative — James Baneck

Devotional Life — William Cwirla

God’s Provision — Peter Gregory

Advice on Schooling — Stephen W. Kieser

Selecting Good Books — Christine Rivers

Problems with Focus — Michael Schuermann

Saved in Baptism — Steven Cholak

Deaconesses — Pamela Boehle-Silva

Anger — Christopher Gillespie

Choosing Hymns — Mark Bender

Going to Church — Scott R. Murray

Some and Not Others — Clint Stark

Lost Children — Jacob Sutton

Knowing or Feeling — Todd A. Peperkorn

Departments:

from the web: Six-Winged Killing Machines — Edward Riojas

snippets: News from around the LCMS and the world

searching scriptures: From Thence He Will Come To Judge the Living and the Dead

lutherans engage: Christ’s Gifts Freely Given — Erik M. Lunsford