Editor’s note: Monthly articles from LCMS Stewardship Ministry are hosted here on The Lutheran Witness site. Visit the “Ministry Features” page each month for additional stewardship content. The calendar page has turned to the month of August. The seasoned steward leader starts to feel the season closing in quickly. For most, if the plans are not already well under way, it is most certainly time to get them ramped up for the fall stewardship emphasis. For generations, the fall season...| The Lutheran Witness
Editor’s Note: This new series from LCMS Church Worker Wellness is hosted here on The Lutheran Witness site. Visit the “Ministry Features” page for regular Worker Wellness content. As Lutherans, we understand that the various aspects of our wellness — intellectual, emotional, relational, physical, financial and vocational — relate to and depend upon one another, and are all rooted in our Baptism, our true identity as new creations in Christ. We understand spiritual well-being n...| The Lutheran Witness
Catechesis anchors stewards rightly within the created order, and calls them to a faithful, thankful response to all that God entrusts to them. (Lutheran Witness / Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod)| The Lutheran Witness
Editor’s note: Monthly articles from LCMS Stewardship Ministry are hosted here on The Lutheran Witness site. Visit the “Ministry Features” page each month for additional stewardship content. Stewardship leaders in local congregations have a multifaceted task before them. Few doubt the importance and impact of stewarding the Gospel in the present. Cultivating stewards who are faithful in worship, willing in service and consistent in financial support is central for Word and Sacrament ...| The Lutheran Witness
Editor’s Note: This new series from LCMS Church Worker Wellness is hosted here on The Lutheran Witness site. Visit the “Ministry Features” page for regular Worker Wellness content. As Lutherans, we understand that the various aspects of our wellness — intellectual, emotional, relational, physical, financial and vocational — relate to and depend upon one another, and are all rooted in our Baptism, our true identity as new creations in Christ. We understand spiritual well-being n...| The Lutheran Witness
Editor’s note: Monthly articles from LCMS Stewardship Ministry are hosted here on The Lutheran Witness site. Visit the “Ministry Features” page each month for additional stewardship content. No matter how hard we try, whenever the word “stewardship” is brought up, there seem to be any number of responses. Few of those responses are marked with eagerness or excitement. In over a decade of presenting Philippians Conferences across the LCMS, I’ve noticed that hesitancy and curiosi...| The Lutheran Witness
Editor’s note: Monthly articles from LCMS Stewardship Ministry are hosted here on The Lutheran Witness site. Visit the “Ministry Features” page each month for additional stewardship content. Dear Pastors and Steward Leaders, Every month for over a decade, this feature has been shared with you to help change how the teaching and practice of stewardship is viewed and carried out in The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. We have endeavored to strike a balance between the theology of stew...| The Lutheran Witness
Editor’s Note: Articles from Set Apart to Serve, the LCMS’ church work recruitment initiative, are hosted here on The Lutheran Witness site. Visit the “Ministry Features” page for regular content on church work recruitment and formation. By James Baneck What do we mean when we say “against all odds”? We mean something has been accomplished, when it seemed virtually impossible that it would ever happen. We also hear it said this way: “no matter the stacked deck” or “despite t...| The Lutheran Witness
Editor’s note: Monthly articles from LCMS Stewardship Ministry are hosted here on The Lutheran Witness site. Visit the “Ministry Features” page each month for additional stewardship content. A seminary professor once quipped to a group of soon-to-be pastors just before Call Day: “Congratulations, brothers. You are about to graduate and become pastors. You will likely get two weeks of vacation your first year. This means that for 50 weeks in that year you will get to say the same th...| The Lutheran Witness
Editor’s Note: This new series from LCMS Church Worker Wellness is hosted here on The Lutheran Witness site. Visit the “Ministry Features” page for regular Worker Wellness content. As Lutherans, we understand that the various aspects of our wellness — intellectual, emotional, relational, physical, financial and vocational — relate to and depend upon one another, and are all rooted in our Baptism, our true identity as new creations in Christ. We understand spiritual well-being n...| The Lutheran Witness
Editor’s note: Monthly articles from LCMS Stewardship Ministry are hosted here on The Lutheran Witness site. Visit the “Ministry Features” page each month for additional stewardship content. In his recent book, The Gift of Small, Allen Stanton gave the following encouragement to small-membership congregations: Small-membership churches are places of deep potential, but it is not necessarily the potential to be bigger … It is the potential to grow the kingdom of God in delightfully ...| The Lutheran Witness
Editor’s note: Monthly articles from LCMS Stewardship Ministry are hosted here on The Lutheran Witness site. Visit the “Ministry Features” page each month for additional stewardship content. What is the difference between an athlete and a champion? What is the distinction between one who competes in business or academics and the one who achieves at the highest levels? Certainly, no athlete becomes a champion or the greatest of all time without talent. No student or business leader ac...| The Lutheran Witness
Editor’s Note: Articles from Set Apart to Serve, the LCMS’ church work recruitment initiative, are hosted here on The Lutheran Witness site. Visit the “Ministry Features” page for regular content on church work recruitment and formation. By James Baneck Let me tell you a Christmas Eve story about a Lutheran mom and dad and their six children. Their oldest was an 8-year-old boy. The next child was a daughter. She had died six years ago as a 1-year-old. The next was a five-year-old daug...| The Lutheran Witness
Editor’s note: Monthly articles from LCMS Stewardship Ministry are hosted here on The Lutheran Witness site. Visit the “Ministry Features” page each month for additional stewardship content. Recently I assisted with a Philippians Conference, a stewardship workshop based on St. Paul’s words in Philippians 1. As usual, the participants, upon hearing that the topic of the retreat would be stewardship, approached the retreat with the typical hesitance that often accompanies one of our ...| The Lutheran Witness