For Altar and For Hearth

Lutheran Wisdom for Church and Home

Echoing the bold witness of faithful Lutherans of generations past as they proclaimed the Word of God in its truth and purity on matters of daily and spiritual life.


1923 The Northwestern Lutheran

The Treasure of Marriage

Marriage is a sacred rite, in that two people solemnly covenant before God and in His name to live in holy bonds of matrimonial relationship until death parts them. But back of marriage are the privileges and the functionings, the duties and the division of labor that involve a family, that normally requires children.

1918 The Northwestern Lutheran

Lutheran Tunes for Lutheran Congregation Singing

We hold it to be one of the missionary duties of the Lutheran Church in America to acquaint the American public not only with the saving doctrine of our Church, but also with its sacred hymnology.

1965 Arthur Carl Piepkorn Concordia Seminary Print Shop

Head Coverings: A Laudable Custom

It is a laudable custom, based upon a Scriptural injunction, for women to wear an appropriate head covering in Church, especially at the time of divine service.

1922 Walter A. Maier Walther League Messenger

Are You Getting The Best Out Of Life?

Get the best out of life! Let Christ live in you and you in Him, so that the glory of salvation revealed in you, may be shed abundantly upon those who have missed life's real goal and are battering the eternal for the temporal.

1922 Walter A. Maier Walther League Messenger

Home or Career?

Such homes will be founded, with the Savior's help, whenever there is that love and feeling of mutual esteem which is happy to begin wedded life humbly and with self-denial, and to count no interests on earth stronger than those which center about the family hearth.