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  Inviting Community

  Robert Kolb and Theodore Hopkins

  What challenges keep congregations from inviting community, and being inviting communities, in North America today? How can churches effectively proclaim and embody the gospel in the midst of such challenges?

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  Teaching God’s Children His Teaching

  Robert Kolb

  Designed for educators, pastors, parents, and all who are involved in Christian faith formation, this book is an indispensable resource for understanding and teaching the lifelong adventure of faith.

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  First Things First: A Primer in Lutheran Theological Prolegomena

  David Lumpp

  Lumpp sharpens this focus by bringing to light the distinctive assumptions and emphases of Christian theology, particularly from a Lutheran perspective.

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  The American Mind Meets the Mind of Christ

  Robert Kolb

  Whether it is an altar to an unknown god or the New Atheists, Christians have always faced the challenge of translating the Gospel message within the surrounding culture. This is no less true for the tangled web that is 21st century America.

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  Counseling and Confession: The Role of Confession and Absolution in Pastoral Counseling

  Richard Marrs and Walter Koehler

  Walter Koehler weaves a multilayered account of the relationships between psychology, pastoral counseling, and the theology of individual confession and absolution, igniting a conversation that has only expanded in the years since.

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  Under the Cross of Christ—Yesterday, Today, Forever: Reflections on Lutheran Hispanic Ministry in the United States

  Leopoldo Sánchez

  Collecting together the essays from the historic first Hispanic National Convention of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (2003), this book encompasses a number of crucial voices to consider the reality of the Latino experience in the United States, and what it means for doing theology and ministry with and among Latinos.

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  The Lutheran Parochial School: Dates, Documents, Events, People

  Wayne Schmidt

  The book tracks the history of the Lutheran Parochial School by identifying significant years as touchstones in the growth and change of church-related education.

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  Make Disciples, Baptizing: God’s Gift of New Life and Christian Witness

  Robert Kolb

  This little volume—a “classic” from the pen of renowned scholar Robert Kolb—sketches the connections between God’s work in baptism and God’s witness to the world.

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  A Cup of Cold Water: A Look at Biblical Charity

  Robert Rosin, Charles Arand, Andrew Bartelt, James Voelz, Quentin Wesselschmidt, John Oberdeck, and Timothy Quill

  This volume of essays, edited by Robert Rosin and Charles Arand, evaluates old and develops new models toward the concept of “biblical charity” and how it can inform our understanding of Christian acts of charity and mercy in our contemporary world.