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Cover story

Cover story

10 ways to improve your pastor's sermons

A sermon is enhanced or diminished by the way you listen to it

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Listen up!

Great preaching begins with careful listening

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Plain speaking

Good preaching doesn't try to be relevant; it simply tells me the truth.

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Your turn

What you want to tell preachers about preaching

Features

Features

'The last word' in Liberia

Disarmament and election's promise bring cautious hope to Liberians

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'We will be with you'

Church promises to stand with flood victims

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50 years of LWF

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Above the Oval Office

Bruce Reed is 'an original thinker,' says President Clinton.

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All together now

Lutheran congregations make their own ecumenical agreements

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Ashes to ashes

4 steps to starting a memorial garden at your church

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Assembly highlights

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Bluebonnets spring eternal

Former pastor glorifies God through his paintings

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Changing with the times

Today's students often reach campus with little prior church experience.

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Children are welcome

Congregations gear worship toward youth

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College hosts debate on homosexuality in church

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Ecumenical proposals strain ELCA-LCMS relations

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Ecumenism tops debate at synod assembles again

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Ecunemical resolutions

Are they changing our confessions ecumenically?

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Lutherans to meet in Hong Kong

The gathering will be the first Christian conference after the handover to China

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More grass than flowers

Habitat trail serves as a reminder of God's creation

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Our salad bar society

Toss with understanding for a healthy future

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Publishing house suit settled

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Trinity Seminary affirms ecumenical proposals

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Two 18th century churches tell of Old World persecution, New World perseverence

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When learning hurts

A special education ministry brings hope to kids otherwise doomed to failure

Youngchurch

Youngchurch

Drawing on experience

Fifth-grader designs synod assembly logo

Columnists

News

Departments

Churchscan: ParishScan

Letters: Concordat/Discordat
Ecumenical proposals draw spirited reader response

Reflection: The cross I wear
I have found a new and unexpected freedom

Worldscan: ELCAScan

Worldscan: WorldScan

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