Easter 5 • Acts 6:1–9; 7:2a, 51–60,
2015
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
Easter 5 • Acts 6:1–9; 7:2a, 51–60, Todd Jones
Concordia Journal
This text challenges us to let grace define our witness; grace that speaks the truth in love, and grace that sows the seeds of forgiveness.
Telling God’S Story,
2015
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
Telling God’S Story, David Schmitt
Concordia Journal
Telling God’s Story In Telling God’s Story: Narrative Preaching for Christian Formation, John Wright examines the tensions that arise as Christians retell the biblical story in the American culture.
“A Gospel-Based Budgeting Of Theology’S Resources”,
2015
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
“A Gospel-Based Budgeting Of Theology’S Resources”, Dale Meyer
Concordia Journal
“Lead with the gospel” does, and that is our focus as we offer you our faculty’s time, learning, and energies for your ministry.
Implications Of Brain Research For The Church:What It Means For Theology And Ministry By Allen Nauss,
2015
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
Implications Of Brain Research For The Church:What It Means For Theology And Ministry By Allen Nauss, Bruce Hartung
Concordia Journal
It is certainly true that “seminaries and the church’s clergy in the field can certainly become more effective in their ministry as they combine emotion with cognition, work to balance the activity of both hemispheres, become aware of their biases and the virtues of Christ’s model, develop their empathy, translate their theology into meaning, and apply it in their worship and their lives”
Easter 2 • Acts 5:29–42 • April 27, 2014,
2015
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
Easter 2 • Acts 5:29–42 • April 27, 2014, David Wollenburg
Concordia Journal
That is good and proper, but on the second Sunday of Easter that really is not the emphasis. Rather this is a call, on this and every day, to be witnesses to Christ’s resurrection, his enthronement at the right hand of God, and the gift of repentance and forgiveness of sins which he gives.
Palm Sunday • Isaiah 50:4–9a • April 13, 2014,
2015
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
Palm Sunday • Isaiah 50:4–9a • April 13, 2014, Glenn Nielsen
Concordia Journal
After describing what Jesus will go through, the sermon retells how Peter answers correctly Jesus’s question about whom the disciples say he is only to be quickly told to get behind Jesus when he tries to stop Jesus from going to Jerusalem.
Lent 3 • Exodus 17:1–7 • March 23, 2014,
2015
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
Lent 3 • Exodus 17:1–7 • March 23, 2014, Benjamin Haupt
Concordia Journal
Like the people of Israel, Satan will seek to draw them too into complaining, murmuring, and unbelief. Urge your hearers not to be like the people of Israel or like any of those who have gone before us
Lent 2 • Genesis 12:1–9 • March 16, 2014,
2015
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
Lent 2 • Genesis 12:1–9 • March 16, 2014, Arthur Graudin
Concordia Journal
As believers in the Lord Jesus Christ who have received the blessings of the forgiveness of sins and the gift of eternal life, we have the call to “be a blessing.”
Lent 1 • Genesis 3:1–21 • March 9, 2014,
2015
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
Lent 1 • Genesis 3:1–21 • March 9, 2014, Henry Rowold
Concordia Journal
By divine design, Genesis 3 is an inseparable part of a unit (Gn 1–3), and neither Genesis 1–2 nor Genesis 3 should be discussed without the other.
Epiphany 6 • Deuteronomy 30:15–20 • February 16, 2014,
2015
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
Epiphany 6 • Deuteronomy 30:15–20 • February 16, 2014, Robert Weise
Concordia Journal
Choice within the context of Deuteronomy 30 is not a matter of picking and choosing. Choice is a covenant term wherein God is the subject.
Marriage The Divine And Blessed Walk Of Life,
2015
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
Marriage The Divine And Blessed Walk Of Life, Robert Weise
Concordia Journal
Marriage is God’s divine and blessed walk of life for man and woman being true to each other, to be fruitful, to beget children, and to nurture and bring them up to the glory of God.
Dean J. H. C. Fritz And The (Lifelong) Formation Of Pastors,
2015
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
Dean J. H. C. Fritz And The (Lifelong) Formation Of Pastors, Bruce Hartung
Concordia Journal
We owe J. H. C. Fritz a great debt, not only for his influence on pastors in the LCMS and elsewhere, but also for his courage to write about his work and share his vision of ministry, preaching, and pastoral theology.
Christian Counseling The Past Generation And The State Of The Field,
2015
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
Christian Counseling The Past Generation And The State Of The Field, Richard Marrs
Concordia Journal
Gary Moon, vice president of Richmont Graduate University, says that Christian counseling, pastoral counseling, biblical counseling, and spiritual direction are all “sibling soul care disciplines.”
Things We Do Not Fully Preach About Preparing To Die,
2015
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
Things We Do Not Fully Preach About Preparing To Die, Glenn Nielsen
Concordia Journal
So what is the final and ultimate victory over death? The last day finds God not abandoning His creation but remaking it. He redeems His creation in its physicality, where space and matter matter.
A Timely Word From Luther On Recruiting Young Men For Pastoral Ministry,
2015
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
A Timely Word From Luther On Recruiting Young Men For Pastoral Ministry, David Peter
Concordia Journal
Luther’s admonition is one that is appropriate for parents and parishes today: “…your children are not so wholly yours that you need give nothing of them to God. He too will have what is rightfully his—and they are more his than yours!”
Pedagogy For A Politicized Church,
2015
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
Pedagogy For A Politicized Church, Dale Meyer
Concordia Journal
Students will come, study, and leave Concordia Seminary either to join in the politicization of the church and thereby acquiesce to American culture or they will leave the seminary with body, soul, and spirit formed into the meaning and mission of the gospel of Jesus Christ with the wholesome result that evangelical persuasion will predominate in their ministries and in respect for all in the body of Christ.
Before Nature: A Christian Spiritual Paul Santmire,
2015
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
Before Nature: A Christian Spiritual Paul Santmire, Beth Hoeltke
Concordia Journal
Throughout the book Santmire ties his and the reader’s spiritual journey together with what he calls the “the Trinity Prayer.”
Blood And Life: Sermons On The Old Testament By Michael Kasting,
2015
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
Blood And Life: Sermons On The Old Testament By Michael Kasting, Francis Rossow
Concordia Journal
Kasting’s sermons do more than delight—they are “the power of God for our salvation.” I sometimes quip to my homiletics students, “Anyone can write an occasional good sermon; the trick is to write a good sermon time after time.”
Epiphany 3 • 1 Corinthians 7:29–31 (32–35) • January 25, 2015,
2015
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
Epiphany 3 • 1 Corinthians 7:29–31 (32–35) • January 25, 2015, David Schmitt
Concordia Journal
Instead, what Paul wants to foster among us today is a conversation about life in Christ and how our joys and our sorrows, our buying and our selling, yes even our marriages and our singleness lead us closer to him.
Christmas 1 • Galatians 4:4–7 • December 28, 2014,
2015
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
Christmas 1 • Galatians 4:4–7 • December 28, 2014, Glenn Nielsen
Concordia Journal
This is what the family of God looks like when adopted by our Abba Father because of the Christmas gift named Jesus, and the Holy Spirit forming his fruit in us brothers and sisters.
