I have a friend who has been asking me every week to go to his non-denominational church. I tell him no thank you because I already have a church. He always comes back at me with how great it is and how many people there that are my age to...

I know that as confessional Lutherans we seek perfect unity and therefore choose not to worship in churches not of our fellowship - based on scriptural principles set forth in John 4:24, John 17:23, Romans 16:17, and elsewhere. But what about praying with family members who are not of...

I know that there are scriptures that reference predestination, but how should one address a fellow believer who states that predestination negates the free will that we have been given?

I met a wonderful man who is divorced with children. I've never been married. My parents said that God doesn't recognize divorce, so dating him means I'm dating a married man and committing adultery. Can someone who has been divorced get remarried in the church?

My elderly mother is in the hospital and says she does not want any measures to keep her alive other than water because her religion requires it. She believes that if a Christian denies water she is committing suicide, but that denying food is not. I have never heard of...

Are there Old Testament references that connect the word "prison" with "hell" as seen in 1 Peter 3:18-20? This question is in reference to the Apostles' Creed. I am trying to find out how one knows that "prison" specifically refers to "hell."

My four-year-old son loves learning about dinosaurs. Most books guess that there was a large comet that killed the dinosaurs millions of years ago. What is a biblical approach to dinosaurs and this time period?

How do I answer an 85-year-old veteran of WWII who asks, "If there's really a God, and he's so good, why did he let me and others in the war kill all those people? Some of them weren't soldiers."

In Genesis we are taught creation was done in six days and on the seventh day God rested. We are taught that a day is from sundown to sundown (24 hours). However, in 2 Peter 3:8 Peter tells us that to God a day can be one thousand years...

I don't often hear Lutherans talk about having a 'personal relationship' with Jesus. Why is that?