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.


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.

1931 Carl Manthey-Zorn Northwestern Publishing House

Whereby Should a Christian Be Governed in Choosing a Spouse?

Not merely by love and attachment. Let men be guided by Proverbs 31:10-31, and women by Psalm 128.

1921 Carl Manthey-Zorn Concordia Publishing House

A Beautiful Story of Family Worship

Never in all his life did he attend a more beautiful family worship. That man and his wife loved their children with a true and a genuine love. They meant to bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.