Many Lutherans are familiar with the Reformation slogan “The Word Alone” – which comes from the Latin Sola Verba or more commonly, Sola Scriptura. This slogan recognizes that the Church is founded in God’s Word and draws its authority from the Holy Scriptures and the proclamation of the living gospel of Jesus Christ ...
MoreGod's Word has a way of breaking into our lives in new and suprising ways! Not only was the ...
read moreAs a pastor, I have had the opportunity on many occasions to teach about forgiveness from a ...
read moreThe Apostle Paul began his religious career as a persecutor of the Christian faith. But God had ...
read moreThe word “Amen” appears hundreds of times in throughout the Scripture, in both the Old and ...
read moreEvil is a tricky thing. As Scripture tells us, with the exception of Jesus himself, we all sin ...
read moreEvil is a tricky thing. As Scripture tells us, with the exception of Jesus himself, we all sin ...
read moreEvery once in a while, when people talk about Jesus’ words here about forgiving or withholding ...
read moreThe verse above is the conclusion to Jesus’ parable of the man who built bigger and bigger ...
read moreIn old English, people expressed an action in the future tense by using the word “shall” — ...
read moreFor some time now, in my articles for Connections, I have been writing under the title of ...
read moreChapter 4 of the Book of Acts shows us the conclusion to an event that happened in the previous ...
read moreAs people begin to study and become more familiar with the Holy Scriptures, inevitably, they are ...
read moreI have often wondered about the verses above. I wonder exactly what it was that Paul was ...
read moreWhen I think of God’s Commandment that we should not bear false witness against our neighbor, ...
read moreIn the second chapter of the Book of Acts, directly after the day of Pentecost, we are given a ...
read moreIn the Book of Ephesians, as Paul is talking about what faith means for our human relationships, ...
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Today's congregations need more than superficial, generic religious materials. They need resources of historical and theological authenticity that truly connect learners to the Word of God.
Sola Publishing Store
Church Resources
The mission of Sola Publishing is to provide individuals and congregations with educational resources that are trustworthy and useful, at a reasonable price. By providing solid Biblical resources with a confessional Lutheran focus, we seek to give people a deeper appreciation for the distinctive Lutheran focus on God's use of the Scriptures to bring about repentance and faith in Jesus Christ.
WebsiteSteven King
ReClaim Hymnal
Music
The ReClaim Lutheran Hymnal for Church and Home was the fruit of a decade-long effort to provide a worship resource faithful to the Lutheran tradition. The hymnal contains three Communion Settings, along with liturgies for Baptism, Confirmation, Marriage, Funerals, and other occasional services. It can now be purchased through Sola Publishing.
WebsiteTom Jacobson
Sola Online Worship E-Resource
Worship
The Sola Online Worship eResource is subscription-based website featuring a host of resources for planning and leading worship with theological integrity, including worship templates, Scripture inserts, text studies, children's bulletins, hymn suggestions, liturgies and more! Our Materials are: Biblically Sound • Theologically Orthodox • Explicitly Trinitarian • Historically Grounded • Liturgically Sacramental • Simple, Flexible, and Useful
WebsiteTheresa Jacobson
Sola Electronic Education Database
Sunday School
Sola Publishing has added an online resource component to its education materials called SEED: the Sola Electronic Education Database. This new subscription-based resource provides teachers with tools to build a Sunday School program and lead classes, with original resources printed in full color! The year's curriculm provides a full Bible overview — from Genesis to Revelation — with a collection of online media for each lesson, including new artwork, video presentations, updated teaching ideas, crafts, and more!
WebsiteSteve King and Kelly Hanson
Connections Magazine
Community
A magazine for evangelical Lutheran Christians filled with meaty articles as well as lighter spiritual fare — Connections provides great food for the soul. Articles and features are contributed by individuals and ministries of LCMC, NALC, CALC, Lutheran Core and other evangelical Lutherans from congregations across North America. Connections is published six times a year.
WebsiteKaren Nelson
Crossways
Bible Survey
The Crossways Series of Bible Studies have been transforming lives for over forty years, reaching thousands world-wide with Christ-centered resources that truly make a difference. Authored by the Rev. Dr. Harry Wendt, these studies use visual graphics to communicate the over-arching story of Holy Scripture.
WebsiteSteven King
Holy Families
Family Devotions
Holy Families is a free online resource produced by Sola Publishing which is intended to help parents and children develop the habit of spending time together praying, reading Scripture, and talking together. The resource is designed to be quickly and easily accessed on computers, tablets, and phones. The online devotions, "Holy Family Time," are new each day!
WebsiteSteven King, Becky King, Kelly Hanson
Call Inc.
Vocation
Call Inc. is a Christian non-profit teaching and discipleship mission dedicated to mobilizing ordinary people called by Jesus to incorporate discipleship into all of life … family, work, community, world and the gathering of believers. Call Inc. not only provides printed resources (below), they also present congregational workshops and events.
WebsiteWendy Berthelsen
Life Together Churches
Church Planting
Life Together Churches is a network that supports people hosting worship and congregational life in small group environments. The network provides everything needed to enable a group to quickly and effectively start a worshiping community and sustain its life and growth.
WebsiteTom Hilpert
Word Alone Archives
Articles
In the first decade of the 2000's, the WordAlone Network contributed mightily to the efforts of to reform and renew the Lutheran Church in North America, guided by the Scriptures and Lutheran Confessions. As the official WordAlone Archive, this site has become a repository of knowledge pertaining to Christianity, Lutheranism, church history, reformation, renewal, and numerous other areas of study.
WebsiteSteven King
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Connecting believers to God's Word
We live in an increasingly secularized world. The important matters of faith, ethics, and worship are considered private concerns in a society where Truth is relative. The Bible and Christian doctrine often excluded from public discourse, and for many, the life and message Jesus Christ (and the larger story of the Bible) is unfamiliar and foreign.
As Christians, we are called to remain steadfast in the Word of God and "in our hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks us for a reason for the hope that is in us, doing it with gentleness and respect" (1 Peter 3:15). More than ever, the world needs to hear the promise of Jesus!
Our Christian witness and discipleship puts into practice on a daily basis the faith in which we believe. As his disciples, we seek to follow Jesus in thought, word, and deed. To do this, we rely on each other for strength, support, and guidance in our life together as we journey forward with Christ in faith and hope!
In reference to yesterday's lesson on Christ Jesus preaching to those spirits in prison, many people want to know who these spirits are and what this prison is exactly. It is ...
It is a mystery to me why people want to get rid of the word "hell" in the Apostles' Creed. Are they afraid Christ Jesus cannot handle the place of the damned?
From the Confessions: “And Buried." The way you know a person is really dead, is if he ends up getting buried. Jesus died. That is why they buried him.
In order to emphasize the fact of Jesus’ death, the creed states that he was buried. Burial is necessary for those who are truly human and have died. In other words, Jesus ...
Did Jesus really die? If he is God, can God die? Some say that he did not actually die. It is called the “swoon theory,” meaning Jesus only fainted on the cross, was ...
Why did God come to earth in human flesh? Why lower himself to such a level (if it really is such a low level)? God did so because love made him do it.