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For your convenience, we have links listed various documents that describe our church body's positions on various issues.

Statements from the LCMS
The President's Office of the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod often issues statements on topics of timely interest. We have posted some here and plan to add more in the future.

• New! Christian Families
• New! Christian Worship
• The Continuing Revelance of the Lutheran Confessions
• Courageous Lutherans in a Postmodern Age
• Homosexuality: A Christian Response
• Human Cloning: A Temptation to Avoid
• Infant Baptism: God's Wonderful Gift
• Legalized Gambling
• Lutheran Identity
• LUTHERAN WORSHIP: 2000 and Beyond.
• New! Martin Luther
• Postmodernism
• New! Prayer
• Racism
• Stem Cell Research: A Letter to the National Institutes of Health
• Toward the Precipice of Same-Sex Marriage

Articles from the LCMS Commission on Worship

• New! "The Athanasian Creed: The Church's Confession of the Holy Trinity"
• "About the Augsburg Confession"

Articles on Various Topics

• Lutheran Church Bodies
  "The What and Why of Lutheranism" Rev. Prof. Lawrence W. Rast of Concordia Theological Seminiary in For the Life of the World magazine.
  
  
• The Book, THE PRAYER OF JABEZ
  "The Prayer of Jabez: A Review by Concordia Theological Seminary Professor Dr. Daniel Gard
  "A Critique of The Prayer of Jabez" by Issues Etc. host Rev. Todd Wilken.
  
  
• The LEFT BEHIND Books and Movie
  "The Left Behind View Is Out of Left Field" by the Rev. Dr. A. L. Barry.
  "Will you be 'Left Behind'? by G. Brent McGuire in the Lutheran Witness.

WHAT ABOUT...
Unchanging Truth in Changing Times
With the many issues facing the Church and the world today, it is easy for people to be confused by all the rhetoric they hear in the media. The late LCMS President Dr. Alvin L. Barry wrote a number of essays to address these concerns from a Biblical perspective. Read these essays from Dr. Barry's What About series...

• Abortion
  
• Angels
  
• Being A Lutheran
  
• Christian Families
  
• Christian Stewardship
  
• Confession and Absolution
  
• Creation and Evolution
  
• Death and Dying
  
• Fellowship in the Lord's Supper
  
• Holy Baptism
  
• Homosexuality
  
• Islam
  
• Living Together Without Marriage
  
• Lutheran Worship
  
• Mormonism
  
• Pastors
  
• The Apostles' Creed
  
• The Bible
  
• The Differences Between the E.L.C.A. and the L.C.M.S.
  
• The Gospel
  
• The Jehovah's Witnesses
  
• The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
  
• The Lord's Prayer
  
• The New Millennium
  
• The Ordination of Women to the Pastoral Office
  
• The Sacrament of the Altar
  
• The Small Catechism
  
• The Ten Commandments
  
• Telling the Good News about Jesus