The Lutheran Hour

What happens when you find out that acquiring everything you've ever wanted... still isn't enough?

It's often said, "Misery loves company." Christ comes to us in our misery with God's love and mercy.

Our small efforts to become the people Jesus saved us to be might seem insignificant, but small efforts compound.

If Easter tells us that Jesus the King has won, then Ascension tells us the King is reigning, and His reign is good.

Offer up your plans to God in prayer and see what God does with them. Let your plans become prayers that lead you to praise.

God is the God of second chances, not for Himself but for others.

Because Jesus lives, your future is certain. You can also be confident that your present life has meaning and worth. In the Lord, your labor is not in vain.

The risen Jesus is the "display model" of what we will be, through faith in Him.

Death is the enemy of life, but in Jesus, God made death become life's servant.

God doesn’t look for valuable, desirable, beautiful people so that He can love them. God loves first, and by loving them He makes people valuable, desirable, and beautiful.

Jesus meets you where you are, not where you should have been.

Jesus is the only way to God, but there are many adventures with Jesus. Which ones will you pick?

When we couldn’t pay the price of our redemption, God did so completely by the life of Jesus.

Through the Bible, God invites us to help Him complete the unfinished drama He's been writing for the world.

To be baptized into Christ, to trust in Him, is to die with Him, to be raised by Him, to pass through the fire under His shelter.

Many voices compete for our attention, but above all, listen to the voice of Jesus and hear what He's done for you.

In the Bible, the Holy Spirit meets us, gives us the mind of Christ, and leads us back into the world as children of God.

Boasting gone wrong--it's the rotten fruit of rightful praise. It happens when we forget that everything we have is a gift, even the things we think we've earned and deserved.

A crossword puzzle uses an answer only once, but Christ is the answer for all people in every place and time.

The Christian faith has the power to make us act better. But that's not the goal.

Solidarity is how Christians understand their relationship to Jesus Christ. We believe that Jesus, the Son of God, went where we had gone so that we might go where He goes.

God invites us to speak with Him in prayer and hear from Him in the Bible, to know Him and to love as we are loved.

Christ will return--maybe this year, maybe even today! Pastor German Novelli helps us to prepare for the blessings and challenges of a new year.

God sends His people--the Church--to be His letters to the world, delivering His Word of promise.

Patience can be practiced, tested, strained, and lost. Christians are called to return the patience God in His mercy has shown us, in Christ.

God calls believers to trust and follow Jesus--chosen, but chosen for what?

God calls believers to trust and follow Jesus--chosen, but chosen for what?

Belief in the resurrection of Jesus is no siesta. It's a 5am wake-up call, a jolt out of bed that will turn your world upside down.

Christ is the King of an unlikely kingdom. Dr. Chad Lakies describes that kingdom's seemingly upside-down, illogical logic.

Mercy is an others-focused attitude because God is an others-first God.

The lead (or 'lede') of a news story conveys the most essential information. What is the lead of the Good News, the Gospel?

Jesus alone is the Way out, rescuing us from sin, despair, and death. He calls us to live as people "on the way."

Are you feeling worn down or worn out? Through faith, God conforms us to the pattern of Christ.

The Holy Spirit is the Helper who comes to dwell in and with us, to encourage and empower us.

Forgiveness isn't a formality with God. Forgiveness is formative. It changes us.

Every age has a stage, not just a stage of life, but also a stage on which to perform and to serve.

God made us to move--toward Him in faith and toward our neighbor in love.

We lost God's name along the way, but God found us and gave us the Name by which we can know Him: Jesus--"God saves."

A paradox doesn't make sense, mathematically. But it can be an accurate description of real-life experience.

God's love finds His people in the wilderness, the place where God gives bread from heaven, water from a rock, and streams in the desert.

"Life narrows down and crisis comes. There, in the narrow place stands Jesus."

Archives August--Dr. Oswald Hoffmann recounts the story of Gideon, an unlikely military leader.

Archives August--Dr. Oswald Hoffmann recounts the story of Moses.

After Jesus claimed the Old Testament was written about Him, the people of His hometown wrote Him off.

Of course, we should search the Scriptures, but we search them for Jesus, the One to Whom the Scriptures point.

God's Law-talk prepares us for God's Gospel-talk. Author Tim Carter (The Executioner's Redemption) is featured.

God's plans for us are not me-centered; they are Christ-centered. Dr. Zeigler talks with "Soul Surfer" author, Bethany Hamilton.

God's Word grows like a perfect garden, bearing fruit in every season.

The Book of Job is not light reading, but Christians read it in the Light of Christ.

The Book of Job can teach us something about prayer and about how we can talk honestly to God, covered by Jesus.