• New Business Training Workshops Equip Church-Workers

    New Business Training Workshops Equip Church-Workers

    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,…

  • How Do We Raise Our Children in the Faith Today?

    How Do We Raise Our Children in the Faith Today?

    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.…

  • John 17 – Praying in Jesus

    John 17 – Praying in Jesus

    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…

  • Multiethnic Ministry: I am not “used to” this!

    Multiethnic Ministry: I am not “used to” this!

    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…

  • Singing The Faith

    Singing The Faith

    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…

  • Ezekiel 37

    Ezekiel 37

    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…

  • Lenten Trembling

    Lenten Trembling

    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…

  • As Sorrowful Yet Always Rejoicing

    As Sorrowful Yet Always Rejoicing

    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…

  • As Sorrowful Yet Always Rejoicing

    As Sorrowful Yet Always Rejoicing

    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…