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Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness
My beauty are, my glorious dress;
Midst flaming worlds, in these arrayed,
With joy shall I lift up my head.
— LSB 563:1
Jesus satisfied the justice of God when we could not. He took our place.
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They condemn us both for denying that people obtain forgiveness of sins because of their own merits and for affirming that — through faith — people obtain forgiveness of sins and are justified through faith in Christ.
— Apology to the Augsburg Confession IV 1
Join the Rev. Carl Roth, Andy and Sarah over on @KFUOradio to explore Article X: On Church Practices for this month's installment of Searching Scripture.
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By grace God’s Son, our only Savior,
Came down to earth to bear our sin.
Was it because of your own merit
That Jesus died your soul to win?
No, it was grace, and grace alone,
That brought Him from His heav’nly throne.
— LSB 566:3
Anecdotal evidence suggests that the more traditional your congregation, the more likely these discontented evangelicals will one day show up in your church’s narthex. I know, because many of them have lately been showing up in my church’s narthex.
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Salvation unto us has come
By God’s free grace and favor;
Good works cannot avert our doom,
They help and save us never.
Faith looks to Jesus Christ alone,
Who did for all the world atone;
He is our one Redeemer.
— LSB 555:1
In a time when cultural pressures easily pull families in many directions, giving Reformation Day a more prominent place on Oct. 31 could become a powerful way for Lutheran congregations to celebrate and publicly share their faith and heritage.
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Hymns are not meant merely to be sung on Sunday morning. They belong to the everyday lives of Christians, as they experience thanksgiving, celebration, suffering, grief and all the ordinary moments in between.
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Our churches teach that people cannot be justified before God by their own strength, merits, or works.
— Augsburg Confession IV
The medical profession now needs, if possible, to reverse the damage it has caused by providing sex-change procedures to children. A settlement in a Texas court case is forcing the issue. Learn more in this month's installment of "The Contemporary World."
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For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
— Ephesians 2:8–9
Will you pray for your pastor? Will you pray for him daily? Will you put him on the list of all those names you rattle off when you pray every night? He needs your prayers, always. And now — in these “gray and latter days” — he needs them more than ever.
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In this episode of The Lutheran Witness podcast, Bishop Mindaugas Sabutis, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lithuania, shares about the past, present and future of Lutheranism in Lithuania. You won't want to miss it!
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Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness.
— Romans 4:4–5
This month, the Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison, president of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, shares an excerpt from Martin Luther on Galatians 2:20. Read now: witness.lcms.org/2026/who-is…
The October issue of The Lutheran Witness examines the theme of justification by faith alone. Explore the issue today: witness.lcms.org/2026/luther…
"What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor."
— Psalm 8:4–6