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| Invitation | |
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| Lutheran History and Heritage | |
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| Where Do Lutheran Churches Come From? | |
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| What Are the Origins of Lutheran Churches in the United States? | |
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| What Do We Mean by a "Lutheran" Church or "Lutheran" Theology? | |
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| What Is Lutheranism? | |
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| Why Do Lutherans Have So Many Confessions of Faith? | |
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| What Makes Lutherans Different from Presbyterians or Methodists or Baptists? | |
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| Do Lutherans Believe in "Predestination"? | |
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| The Bible | |
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| What Is the Basic Message of the Bible? | |
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| What Is the Purpose of the Bible? | |
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| What Do We Mean When We Say the Bible Is "God's Word"? | |
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| Why Is the Bible Considered an Authority for the Church? | |
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| Since We Have the New Testament, Why Do We Need the Old Testament? | |
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| Are There Errors in the Bible? | |
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| How Do Lutherans Interpret the Bible? | |
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| Do Lutherans Believe in a Literal Adam and Eve? | |
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| God | |
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| Can We Prove That God Exists? | |
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| How Can We Know God? | |
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| What Is the Trinity? | |
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| What Are Some Practical Results of Believing in the Trinity? | |
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| What Is the Providence of God? | |
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| Does God Will Evil and Suffering in the World and in Our Lives? | |
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| Is God Male? | |
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| Jesus Christ | |
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| What Is the Incarnation? | |
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| Where Was Jesus Before He Came to Earth? | |
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| Do Lutherans Believe in the Virgin Birth of Jesus? | |
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| Why Did Jesus Come into the World? | |
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| Why Did Jesus Have to Die? | |
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| What Is the Meaning of the Cross? | |
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| Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead, and What Does His Resurrection Mean? | |
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| Humanity | |
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| What Is the Purpose of Human Life? | |
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| What Does It Mean to Say Humans Are Created in the Image of God? | |
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| What Is Sin? | |
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| Why Do We Sin? | |
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| Do Lutherans Believe That Humans Are Totally Evil? | |
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| What Do We Mean by "Original Sin"? | |
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| Do We Have "Free Will"? | |
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| The Holy Spirit | |
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| What Does the Holy Spirit Do? | |
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| In What Ways Does the Holy Spirit Work in the Church? | |
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| What Do Lutherans Believe about the "Baptism of the Holy Spirit"? | |
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| What Do Lutherans Believe about the "Gifts of the Holy Spirit"? | |
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| Is "Speaking in Tongues" a Necessary Sign of the Holy Spirit in One's Life? | |
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| What Is the Holy Spirit's Role in Evangelism? | |
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| Does the Holy Spirit Work outside the Church? | |
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| Salvation | |
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| What Is the Grace of God? | |
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| What Does It Mean to Be "Saved"? | |
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| Must We Be Baptized in Order to Be Saved? | |
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| Will Non-Christians Be Saved? | |
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| The Church | |
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| What Does It Mean to Be a Church "Member"? | |
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| Why Is the Church So Full of "Sinners"? | |
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| What Do We Mean by the "Visible" and the "Invisible" Church? | |
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| What Is the Priesthood of All Believers? | |
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| Why Do Lutheran Churches Put Such a Stress on Christian Education? | |
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| What Is the "Mission" of the Church? | |
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| What Should Be the Church's Relation to Culture? | |
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| Worship | |
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| Why Should We Worship? | |
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| Why Does the Prayer of Confession List Sins I Never Commit? | |
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| What Is the Function of the Furniture I Might Expect to See in a Lutheran Church? | |
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| Why Don't Lutheran Churches Have Altar Calls? | |
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| What Is Preaching, and Why Is It Important? | |
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| Why Do Lutherans Insist That Sacraments Be Celebrated Only in Worship Services? | |
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| What Is the Relation between Worship and the Rest of Life? | |
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| The Sacraments | |
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| Why Do Lutherans Have Two Sacraments? | |
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| Why Are Sacraments Important? | |
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| Why Do Lutherans Baptize Babies? | |
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| I Do Not Remember My Baptism as an Infant. Can I Be Rebaptized? | |
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| What Happens in the Lord's Supper? | |
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| Do We Really Eat and Drink the "Body and Blood" of Jesus in the Lord's Supper? | |
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| Can Unconfirmed Children and Non-Church Members Take Communion? | |
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| Christian Life | |
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| What Do Lutherans Believe about Saints? | |
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| Do Lutherans Believe That Christians Can Attain Perfection in This Life? | |
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| If We Are Christians, Do We Have to Obey God's Law? | |
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| Does God Answer Prayer? | |
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| Does God Heal Today? | |
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| How Do We Know the Will of God? | |
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| What Is My Christian "Vocation"? | |
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| The Reign of God | |
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| Why Is Our View of the Future Important? | |
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| What Do We Believe about the End of the World? | |
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| When Will Jesus Come Again? | |
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| Do Lutherans Have to Worry about Being "Left Behind"? | |
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| What Do Lutherans Believe about the Millennium? | |
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| What Is the "Resurrection of the Body"? | |
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| What Is the Kingdom of God? | |
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| Polity | |
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| What Are the Main Features of the Lutheran Form of Church Government? | |
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| What Is Ordination? | |
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| What Are Elders, and What Do They Do? | |
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| What Are Deacons, and What Do They Do? | |
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| What Is a Synod, and What Does It Do? | |
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| What Is Church Discipline, and Why Is It Important? | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Index of Topics | |