The Lutheran Witness Podcast

Oct 31 2024 146 ep. 17 mins 81
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The Lutheran Witness provides readings of all the articles posted on LW website, witness.lcms.org. The Lutheran Witness is an official periodical of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (Visit lcms.org to learn more). Subscribe to the print edition of LW at cph.org/witness. For additional stories and articles that help you interpret the world from a Lutheran perspective, visit the LW website.

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From Wittenberg: ELCK Archbishop Joseph Ochoa Omolo

Oct 31 2024 12 mins  
Hear about our Lutheran brothers and sisters in Christ in Kenya! In our special crossover series "From Wittenberg" with The Lutheran Witness Podcast, the Rev. Roy Askins (Executive Editor of The Lutheran Witness) speaks with Archbishop Joseph Ochoa Omolo of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kenya (ELCK). In this conversation, Archbishop Omolo discusses the history, growth, and mis

From Wittenberg: FELSISA Bishop Helmut Paul

Oct 31 2024 13 mins  
Hear about our Lutheran brothers and sisters in Christ in South Africa! In our special crossover series "From Wittenberg" with The Lutheran Witness Podcast, the Rev. Roy Askins (Executive Editor of The Lutheran Witness) speaks with Bishop Helmut Paul of the Free Evangelical Lutheran Synod in South Africa (FELSISA). In this conversation, Bishop Paul discusses the FELSISA and its his

From Wittenberg: The Challenges Facing Global Lutheranism

Oct 24 2024 12 mins  
What are the challenges facing Global Lutheranism? Beginning our special crossover series "From Wittenberg" with The Lutheran Witness Podcast, the Rev. Roy Askins (Executive Editor of The Lutheran Witness) speaks with the Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison (President of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod) and the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Shaw (LCMS Director of Church Relations) from the 2024

From the Field: Lutherans in Brazil Help with Flooding

Oct 10 2024 51 mins  
This episode of The Lutheran Witness podcast was recorded in Brazil. The Rev. Airton Schroeder, the Rev. Ross Johnson, the Rev. James Sharp, and Erik Lunsford discuss the flooding that occurred in Brazil this summer and the historic response of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil (IELB). To learn more, visit https://engage.lcms.org/disasters-fall-2024/. Photo: LCMS Communicat

The Coffee Hour— "A Suffering Community" LW Searching Scripture, October 2024: 1 Peter 4:7-19

Oct 02 2024 27 mins  
This issue of the Lutheran Witness focuses on the Christian church as a confessing community. 1 Peter 4:7–19 teaches how we confess our faith through words, works and, perhaps surprisingly, through suffering as Christians (1 Peter 4:16). Jesus had promised this would happen to His followers: “If the world hates you, know that it has hated Me before it hated you. If you were of

The Coffee Hour — "A Baptized Community" LW Searching Scripture, September 2024: 1 Peter 3:18–4:6

Sep 04 2024 26 mins  
Most of Peter’s First Epistle is straightforward in meaning, but this month’s reading contains two difficult passages: 1 Peter 3:18–20 and 4:6. Consulting a faithful and reliable resource such as The Lutheran Study Bible is advisable when you are faced with challenging texts. For the first difficult passage, one should ask, “What else could this refer to other than Christ�

The Coffee Hour — “Community of Hope” LW Searching Scripture, August 2024: 1 Peter 3:8–17

Aug 05 2024 27 mins  
This issue of LW focuses on the church as a teaching and learning community. Peter encourages Christian education oriented toward apologetics, the defense of the Christian faith: “Always [be] prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you” (1 Peter 3:15). Lutherans have a wonderful resource for apologetics in the Small Catechism, whic

Christian Hope Amidst Numerical Decline

Apr 09 2024 6 mins  
Numerical growth is not promised to the church. But even when numbers decline, the Christian church clings to the promise that Jesus promised to build His church, and so He does.For more information on The Lutheran Witness or to subscribe to the magazine, please visit witness.lcms.org. Sound effect obtained from zapsplat.com.

On ‘Hannah Coulter’: Conforming our memories to Christ

Apr 02 2024 8 mins  
Hannah is the eponymous narrator of Wendell Berry’s novel Hannah Coulter, which is set in the small fictional town of Port William in rural Kentucky. The storyline is simple: Hannah, now an old woman, gives an account of her life. Though her narrative focuses on her day-to-day life, eternity is her most constant theme. For Hannah, the daily and the eternal are in no tension wit

‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and Christian Love in the Three Estates

Mar 26 2024 8 mins  
Almost every freshman in America reads Harper Lee’s classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, in English class. And it is good that so many people read it — the novel is an excellent expression of what it means to love your neighbor, the vocation to which every Christian is called. Read the full article. For more information on The Lutheran Witness or to subscribe to the magazine