Further discussion explores Luther’s notion of us being bonded or ‘bound’ to our neighbour, as another member in the Christian family. This derives from trust in God with absolute assurance of all that is provided through Christ: liberating us from fear and anxiety for our own well-being, such that responsively we extend ourselves to others, offering a service which is genuinely satisfying.

This treatise by Luther concerning our Christian life and responsibility derives from religious argument in medieval Germany at that time. Being controversial for its criticism of the corrupt Church authority, Luther’s motive was to clarify public understanding through rhetoric and engaging Biblical truth. This is just as relevant to support our notion of Christian duty and service to others.

The preaching and teaching of the Gospel is the topic of this interview with Mark Nixon, teacher of New Testament theology in India

By exploring Christ’s teachings we come to understand the Kingdom of God: not merely a dream for our future, but as a feasible reality here on earth due to be shared in the fellowship of the Church. It is, in fact, by effect of God’s gift of Reconciliation that all of us sinners are embraced in His full Love and forgiveness. Likewise, we are called to proclaim this and share it equally and actively to others. Interview with Dr. Sigurd Grindheim, professor of New Testament at theological institutions in Ethiopia, Norway, and the United States. Dr Grindheim is the author of The Crux of Election, God’s Equal, Christology in the Synoptic Gospels, Introducing Biblical Theology, and a number of articles in leading scholarly journals.

To review our understanding of what it means to be human is very revealing. To note the cultural changes that are so diverse and relative to many societies - with different spiritual beliefs - also helps us to consider the current state of Christianity in the modern world. Here you will find a personal account of how academic study proved to validate faith in the Lutheran theology and give testimony to others.

Christian Anthropologist Drs Priscilla Garcia, describes a Pentecostal church which emphasis community service: motivated by a notion of 'building The Kingdom.' An interesting overview, resulting from Drs Garcia’s academic research, which also delivers a discerning perspective contrasting some issues of policy and practice with the Lutheran understanding of the Christian mission.

Here is a vital discussion on living the Christian Life, to consider it as a pilgrimage - walking ‘the Way’ - so as to understand the Divine Laws of beauty, goodness and truth. Through this aesthetic experience, it essentially compels us to improve our standards, and hunger for more. Also a summary review of messages in the liturgy, reminds us of our life-long process returning devotion and direction to God. Interview with Rev. Dr. David Weber, Lecturer in Theology and Director of church vocations programming at Valparaiso University in Indiana, USA.

To consider the historic context of the Jewish kingdom helps us to perceive the meaning of Isaiah’s ethereal vision of the King of Glory – and how it applies to us. It aptly illustrates our destructive sinful state to see His holiness elevated above. When we recognise and confess our sins God sanctifies and forgives us and like the prophet Isaiah, we may serve as witness to proclaim this truth. Interview on Isaiah 6 with Rev. Dr. Andrew Bartelt, Professor of Exegetical Theology at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis.

To ascertain the principles our Lutheran confessions, it was concurred by the committee that God reveals Himself through the Word: as that which was spoken (through prophecy), written (in Scripture), and embodied in His Son, Jesus Christ. Also we know that our faith is sustained by the study of God’s Word, and it is the authority of the Holy Spirit which brings us to believe this.

Here is review of a book representing the core values of our confessional Lutheran faith, as it was systematically prepared by a council of the LCMS in the 1980s. It addressed a fundamental need to present the truth of these dogmas in a coherent way, relative to the context of the church in this modern age. It is now embraced as a foundational doctrine by the International Lutheran Council.