The Lutheran Hour

The Lutheran Hour

The Lutheran Hour was first broadcast Oct. 2, 1930 and continues on the air today, making it the world’s oldest continually broadcast Christ-centered radio program.

Episodes

December 27, 2025 28 mins
Christ will return--maybe this year, maybe even today! Pastor German Novelli helps us to prepare for the blessings and challenges of a new year.
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God sends His people--the Church--to be His letters to the world, delivering His Word of promise.
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December 13, 2025 28 mins
Patience can be practiced, tested, strained, and lost. Christians are called to return the patience God in His mercy has shown us, in Christ.
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December 6, 2025 28 mins
God calls believers to trust and follow Jesus--chosen, but chosen for what?
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November 29, 2025 28 mins
Belief in the resurrection of Jesus is no siesta. It's a 5am wake-up call, a jolt out of bed that will turn your world upside down.
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November 22, 2025 28 mins
Christ is the King of an unlikely kingdom. Dr. Chad Lakies describes that kingdom's seemingly upside-down, illogical logic.
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November 15, 2025 28 mins
Mercy is an others-focused attitude because God is an others-first God.
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November 8, 2025 28 mins
The lead (or 'lede') of a news story conveys the most essential information. What is the lead of the Good News, the Gospel?
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November 1, 2025 28 mins
Jesus alone is the Way out, rescuing us from sin, despair, and death. He calls us to live as people "on the way."
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October 25, 2025 28 mins
Are you feeling worn down or worn out? Through faith, God conforms us to the pattern of Christ.
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October 18, 2025 28 mins
The Holy Spirit is the Helper who comes to dwell in and with us, to encourage and empower us.
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October 11, 2025 28 mins
Forgiveness isn't a formality with God. Forgiveness is formative. It changes us.
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October 4, 2025 28 mins
Every age has a stage, not just a stage of life, but also a stage on which to perform and to serve.
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September 27, 2025 28 mins
God made us to move--toward Him in faith and toward our neighbor in love.
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September 20, 2025 28 mins
We lost God's name along the way, but God found us and gave us the Name by which we can know Him: Jesus--"God saves."
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September 13, 2025 28 mins
A paradox doesn't make sense, mathematically. But it can be an accurate description of real-life experience.
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September 6, 2025 28 mins
God's love finds His people in the wilderness, the place where God gives bread from heaven, water from a rock, and streams in the desert.
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August 30, 2025 28 mins
"Life narrows down and crisis comes. There, in the narrow place stands Jesus."
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August 23, 2025 28 mins
Archives August--Dr. Oswald Hoffmann recounts the story of Gideon, an unlikely military leader.
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August 16, 2025 28 mins
Archives August--Dr. Oswald Hoffmann recounts the story of Moses.
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