Concordia Seminary St. Louis (CSL) and Concordia Theological Seminary Fort Wayne (CTSFW) are working together again to offer new continuing education workshops for pastors, other church workers, and laity. This time, however,…
A Conversation Years ago, I asked a seminary professor for guidance for raising our infant daughter in the Christian faith. I had personally known a pastor’s kid who wandered from the faith.…
Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that your Son may glorify you. – John 17:1 This seventeenth chapter of John, often called “Jesus’s High Priestly Prayer”, is not so much…
I recently learned an interesting fact. I was reading an article about the history of hymnody in our church. According to the article, there were no actual melodies in our very first…
I had heard stories like this before, but I had never experienced it for myself until a few months ago. Our family—some twenty people in all—was gathered at the home of my…
Many years ago, I was sitting in a Bible class that Michael Zeigler was teaching. Michael is now the Lutheran Hour Speaker, as many of you know, but back then he was…
Though the entire life of a Christian is one of repentance (the first of Luther’s Ninety-five Theses), Lent brings heightened focus upon repentance. That focus is given clarity by the twelfth article…
A Meditation on Suffering and Joy in Paul and Luther Part 2 – The Strange Partnership of Sorrow and Joy in Our Lives and Ministries In part 1 of this article we…
A Meditation on Suffering and Joy in Paul and Luther Part 1 – The Strange Partnership of Sorrow and Joy in the Life of Paul 3 We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so…