No, that’s not some new super-group topping the pop charts, but the number of visitors to the LCA Worship Planning Page! The LCA Worship Planning Page was launched in late 2010 as a web-based resource for lay people. Updated weekly, the website pr...

Theologian Karl Barth once mused whether the angels in heaven, when praising God, played Bach. He wasn’t sure, though. Melbourne's inner-city residents and visitors, however, can be certain of hearing the great composer’s choral music regularly, a...

On Christmas Eve I was asked to attend a German service to give a children’s address. I was asked to do it in English. Why? Because there were many children present who didn’t speak German as their primary language. They were there with their fami...

As we watched the devastation unfold in January this year, particularly in Toowoomba and around Grantham, many of us were left asking, where was God? This the first question LCAQD President Rev Noel Noack put to the congregation during his sermon ...

Lutheran Media Ministry and the Commission on Worship have launched a resource that is likely to be quickly pounced upon by congregations without pastors. Every week a worship service will be filmed, edited and burnt onto DVDs. Director of Luthera...

The LCA Commission on Worship’s weekly worship planning page for lay leaders has had over 25,000 hits since its launch in November. The blog is being used extensively by members across the LCA/LCNZ and the world. Rev Greg Pietsch, chair of the Com...

A new hymnbook published by Finke River Mission just in time for its 135th anniversary celebrations is enabling Lutherans in central Australia to sing songs in their own language. Entitled Nyiri Inmatjara Lutheran Uwankaraku, the 360-page hymn-boo...