Francis Schaeffer's first book presents a wide-ranging analysis of the intellectual and cultural climate of the second half of the twentieth century, from philosophy to art to liberal theology. Arguing that Christians must constantly engage the questions being asked by their own—and the next—generation, he envisions an apologetics and spirituality both grounded in absolute truth and engaging the whole of reality.

Have you ever wondered why our AFLC is so focused on the congregation? Or why our congregations are so mission-minded? Or even why we are a fellowship of Lutheran congregations with no bishops, synods, or human authorities over us? These and many other questions will be answered in this biblically based study, The Gospel in the Congregation: A Study of the AFLC Fundamental Principles.

Looking for a way to further enhance your study of the AFLC Fundamental Principles? New study videos provide an exciting new way to take in each chapter's introductory reading material. Perfect for group or individual study, these videos can be found here.

Spring '26
Required FLBC textbook for Principles of Congregational Life course taught by Dr. Nathan Olson, Professor of New Testament and Systematic Theology.

Spring '25
Required FLBC textbook for Principles of Congregational Life course taught by Dr. Nathan Olson, Professor of New Testament and Systematic Theology.
Required FLS textbook for Spirit & the Church course taught by Dr. Nathan Olson, Professor of New Testament and Systematic Theology.

Spring '24
Required FLBC textbook for Principles of Congregational Life course taught by Dr. Nathan Olson, Professor of New Testament and Systematic Theology.

“To understand the AFLC, one must understand the guiding principles that have been at the heart of who we are as a collection of churches that joined together in 1962. The Fundamental Principles have been a worthy guide to the AFLC and to its predecessor, the Lutheran Free Church. This study will help church councils and congregations understand who we have been, who we are, and ultimately who we should be as Free Lutheran congregations.”
— Dr. James Molstre
Dean, Free Lutheran Seminary

“The congregation is the means that God uses to reach a lost and dying world. Georg Sverdrup recaptured the biblical understanding of the New Testament congregation. This study serves as a practical guide for applying the Gospel to the congregation, the Bride of Christ—to free her and give her life.”
— Rev. John Lee
AFLC Missionary, Campo Maurão, Brazil

“When our Pastor suggested studying the twelve Fundamental Principles, I wasn’t too enthusiastic. I must admit, I was wrong. For me, studying these Fundamental Principles, being deeply and firmly rooted in the Word of God, has been an enriching and edifying experience. Basically, it has taught me what it means to be part of the body of believers in Jesus Christ—very enlightening.”
— Mrs. Kathy Vieselmeyer
AFLC Member, Deshler, Nebraska

"Let anyone who has ears to hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches."

The book of Revelation speaks powerfully to every aspect of the Christian life, and the modern church desperately needs the vision of hope that it provides. In this thematic approach to the Bible's final book, author J. Scott Duvall identifies ten major themes, including: God and his people, worship, enemies, the mission, and the new creation. In The Heart of Revelation, readers will understand how to read Revelation in context, asking, "What are the main truths and realities of Revelation that we can know for certain?" and learning how these truths are relevant to our lives as modern-day believers.

Fall '25
Required FLBC textbook for Revelation course taught by Dr. Jarrod Hylden, Professor of New Testament.

Fall '24
Required FLBC textbook for Revelation course taught by Dr. Jarrod Hylden, Professor of New Testament.

Spring '24
Required FLBC textbook for Revelation course taught by Dr. Jerry Moan, Professor of New Testament.

Spring '22
Required FLBC textbook for Revelation course taught by Dr. Jerry Moan, Professor of New Testament.

A Bible just for early readers.

The Growing in Faith Bible is designed for children ages 8–10 as they grow in their relationship with their Savior.

Colorful artwork is interspersed throughout the full ESV biblical text in 10.5-point font, along with a host of features specially written for this age group:

• 125 Bible Narratives describe 125 important events in the Bible, many surrounding the life of Jesus, in simple words. Each is matched with a beautiful, engaging picture.
• Big Words highlight essential Bible words, explain what they mean, and teach why they are important for our salvation.
• Big Questions and Answers explore difficult questions that come up as we read God’s Word.
• Verses for Life are verses to remember that teach us about God’s love and our Savior, Jesus Christ.
• Character Sketches teach us about 78 significant people in the Bible—their families, jobs, and other important facts.
• Christ Connections explain God’s promises to send His Son throughout the Old Testament. In the Gospels of the New Testament, these features highlight the times Jesus clearly revealed He is God’s Son.

Shy member of the Trinity? Doesn't the Holy Spirit fill us with bold faith? Yes, say the authors, but the Spirit makes us bold in order to proclaim Jesus Christ. Bruner and Horden show how the Spirit points us to Christ - not simply to greater spiritual experiences. The work of the Holy Spirit is to thrill us with Christ, to infect us with enthusiasm for all that Christ can do for men and women and for the world, to change things, to renew institutions, to salvage lives. This helpful study of biblical teaching speaks to all who are faced with divisions and debates about the Holy Spirit today..

Spring '24
Required FLS textbook for Christology and Pneumatology course taught by Pr. Steven Mundfrom, Professor of Systematic Theology and Church History.

Spring '22

Required FLS textbook for Christology and Pneumatology course taught by Pr. Steven Mundfrom, Professor of Systematic Theology and Church History.

80 minutes. Organized into 12 segments, this video combines dramatic footage from various motion pictures with commentary and narration to present a dramatic overview of 36 biblical events, from Creation to the Ascension of Christ, making it a useful evangelistic tool suitable for both personal and group study.

Dear Pastor,

Desire burns within you. You’ve trained and dreamt of doing large things in famous ways as fast as you can for God's glory. But pastoral work keeps requiring your surrender to small, mostly overlooked things over long periods of time.

You stand at a crossroads. Jesus stands with you. You were never meant to know everything, fix everything, and be everywhere at once. That's his job, not yours.

So what now? Let the apprenticeship begin.

Required reading option in Category D for FLS interns.

Fifteen scholars and pastors examine the life, teaching, and enduring influence of Martin Luther, the mercurial reformer who, out of love for the truth and the desire to bring it to light, set the world ablaze. A goal of this book is to urge a new generation to have the courage, as Luther did, to stand for the truth of God’s Word.

This inspirational book expounds and applies a familiar portion of Scripture, the Aaronic benediction: “The Lord bless you and keep you. . .” Book concludes with section of personal prayers for various times and situations. Gift book (4"x6") with presentation page, appropriate for confirmation, graduation, wedding, or those experiencing transitions in life.

Devotional meditations on each petition of the Lord’s Prayer by well-known, Swedish author Carl Rosenius. Also includes a few bonus chapters of other writings by Rosenius.

What began as a popular 18-booklet Bible study series, this work gathers together all the rich content of the series, orders it around the Nicene Creed, and presents it in one accessible volume written for lay people. This book identifies how Lutherans differ from other Christians and shows from the Bible why they differ. Such information will prepare Lutherans to share their faith clearly and will help non-Lutherans understand the Lutheran difference.

Spring '24
Required FLS textbook for Comparative Symbolics course taught by Pr. Steven Mundfrom, Professor of Systematic Theology and Church History.

Spring '21

Required FLS textbook for Comparative Symbolics course taught by Dr. Nathan Olson.

In this house we believe that
Black Lives Matter
Love Is Love
Gay Rights Are Civil Rights
Womens Rights Are Human Rights
Transgender Women Are Women

You may have seen signs with some of these messages in your neighborhood. They offer us an all-or-nothing package deal in short, a secular creed.

In this provocative book, Rebecca McLaughlin helps us disentangle the beliefs Christians gladly affirm from those they cannot embrace, and invites us to talk with our neighbors about the things that matter most. Far from opposing love across difference, McLaughlin argues, Christianity is the original source and firmest foundation for true diversity, equality, and life-transforming love.

Fall '21
Required FLS textbook for Evangelism and Apologetics course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley and Dr. James Molstre.

In The Self-Donation of God, Jack Kilcrease builds a systematic text on the premise that the speech-act of promise is always an act of self-donation. Anyone who unilaterally promises to another is bound to take a particular series of actions to fulfill that promise. Thus as creation is grounded in God’s promising speech, Kilcrease argues that the divine-human relationship is fundamentally one of divine self-donation and human receptivity. Beginning in Genesis he works through the rest of Scripture, examining the ways God gave himself to us and how this culminated in the work of Jesus. Kilcrease discusses how sin disrupts this self-donating relationship, and how redemption was constituted by a divine promise of salvation. The promise of a savior begins the process of redemption within which God speaks forth a new narrative of creation and as Kilcrease argues, gives himself in an even deeper manner to humanity, binding himself to us through a promise. At the end of this history of self-binding, God in Christ enters into the condemnation of the law, neutralizes it in the Cross, and brings a new creation through his omnipotent word of promise, actualized in the resurrection. Throughout this text, though ultimately espousing a Lutheran view, Kilcrease draws upon the work of scholars from a wide variety of perspectives: liberal, conservative, modern, ancient, Calvinist, Roman Catholic, and more, offering a broad look at the subject.

This new collection of 130 Old and New Testament Bible stories with high quality realistic illustrations focuses on God's gift of the Savior. Also includes discussion questions, learning activities, and prayers, along with access to web resources. Recommended for children ages 3-8.

Strong-willed, courageous, and faithful—Katharina Von Bora, later known as Katie Luther, was a nun striving for perfection and favor from God. But after hearing the ideas of the Reformation circulating around Europe, she boldly stepped into true freedom given through Jesus Christ.

This short and lively biography takes middle-grade readers on a journey through Katie Luther’s life, highlighting her difficult escape from the convent, her unique and rewarding marriage to Martin Luther, and her experiences with family, love, and loss. The Story of Katie Luther emphasizes the difference between legalism and good works done in freedom which demonstrates gospel power and produces love for one another. Featuring illustrations, maps, timelines, bonus sidebars, and study questions, this addition to the Lives of Faith and Grace series engages kids ages 8–13 in the drama of history, showing how God worked in the past through ordinary people like them.

All Christian ministry is a mixture of trellis and vine. There is vine work: the prayerful preaching and teaching of the word of God to see people converted and grow to maturity as disciples of Christ. Vine work is the Great Commission. And there is trellis work: creating and maintaining the physical and organizational structures and programs that support vine work and its growth. What s the state of the trellis and the vine in your part of the world? Has trellis work taken over, as it has a habit of doing? Is the vine work being done by very few (perhaps only the pastor and only on Sundays)? And is the vine starting to wilt as a result? The image of the trellis and the vine raises all the fundamental questions of Christian ministry: * What is the vine for? * How does the vine grow? * How does the vine relate to my church? * What is vine work and what is trellis work, and how can we tell the difference? * What part do different people play in growing the vine? * How can we get more people involved in vine work? In The Trellis and the Vine, Colin Marshall and Tony Payne answer these urgent questions afresh. They dig back into the Bible s view of Christian ministry, and argue that a major mind-shift is required if we are to fulfill the Great Commission of Christ, and see the vine flourish again.

Spring '26

Required FLS textbook for Discipleship and Servant Leadership course taught by Dr. James Molstre, Dean of FLS.

Spring '24

Required FLS textbook for Discipleship and Servant Leadership course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley and Dr. James Molstre.

Spring '22

Required FLS textbook for Discipleship and Servant Leadership course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley and Dr. James Molstre.

Spring '20

Required FLS textbook for Discipleship/Leadership course taught by Pr. Wade Mobley and Dr. James Molstre.

This is a translation of Chemnitz's De Duabus Naturis in Christo, written in 1578. This book concerns the two natures of Christ (the divine and the human), their hypostatic union and the communication of their attributes and related questions. It shows that the Christology of the Lutheran reformers is that of Scripture, the ancient church fathers, and the creeds.

Spring '26
Required FLS textbook for Christ & Man course taught by Dr. Steven Mundfrom, Professor of Systematic Theology and Church History.

Spring '24
Required FLS textbook for Christology and Pneumatology course taught by Pr. Steven Mundfrom, Professor of Systematic Theology and Church History.

Spring '22

Required FLS textbook for Christology and Pneumatology course taught by Pr. Steven Mundfrom, Professor of Systematic Theology and Church History.

Spring '20

Required FLS textbook for Christology/Pneumatology course taught by Pr. Steven Mundfrom, Professor of Systematic Theology and Church History.

Full-color Bible maps with clear plastic overlays of modern cities and countries in an 8½" x 11" spiral bound book. Helpful for classroom and personal study.

Correlating foldout pamphlet, PowerPoint, and inserts also available.

Easy-to-use presentation with more than 50 slides contrasts Bible maps and modern-day maps. Close-up views are also included. Great for teaching large groups with a digital projector.

Correlating book, foldout pamphlet, and inserts also available.

Many people tend to overlook the cross and its demands and instead focus on the glory they think they should now enjoy because they call themselves Christians. The author helps us to see Christ's cross as our cross, warns us of Satan's efforts to turn us from Christ to ourselves, and comforts us with the assurance that the cross of Christ leads to heavenly glory.

Bruner has been both thorough and fair, and has written a book that combines scholarly research with constructive commentary on the life and mission of the contemporary Church.

Spring '20

Required FLS textbook for Christology/Pneumatology course taught by Pr. Steve Mundfrom, Professor of Systematic Theology.

A translation of Theologie Der Lutherischen Bekenntnisschriften, this book points to Scripture as the basis of the Lutheran Confessions, which are the church's summary exposition of Scripture.

This book assumes that Luther's doctrine, however "abstract" some might consider parts of it to be, is practical in its entirety. From creation, to the fall, to life under the cross, Preus shows that the story of salvation is knit together as one garment, so that we rejoice in the fullness of that which we have received.

Should the law be taught to children of God? What is the purpose of the law in the life of the believer?

What proof do we have that the resurrection of Jesus Christ really happened? This intriguing documentary digs deep into the biblical and historical accounts as scholars take a hard look and offer honest, thought-provoking answers. An excellent resource for both skeptics and believers. Includes both a 30-minutes and a 55-minute version.

The top-selling ESV Thinline Bible is ideal for use at home and on-the-go. At less than 1″ thick and available in multiple designs, there is a perfect ESV Thinline Bible for everyone. Size: 5.375″ x 8.375″, 8-point type.

Explores Luther's conviction of the real presence of Christ in the Sacrament of Communion. Sasse documents Luther's interpretation of Scripture as the source of his teachings on the Lord's Supper and contrasts it with opposing views.

Through the Bible in a Year is a small, yet useful list of dates throughout the year with corresponding chapters of the Bible. This list gives you a schedule to successfully read the Bible within a year at an easy pace.

5 1/2" x 3 1/2" Tract.

Featuring the teachings of Martin Luther in bright, engaging illustrations in a graphic novel style, this book gives students an engaging way to learn faith basics such as the Lord's Prayer and the Apostles' Creed. Recommended for middle school students and older. Available in Spanish by special order.

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