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Advent 4 • Romans 16:25–27 • December 21, 2014, Benjamin Haupt

Concordia Journal

On the final Sunday of Advent, just a few days before the glorious celebration of Christmas, these three verses at the end of the Epistle to the Romans are full of homiletical possibility.

Advent 2 • 2 Peter 3:8–14 • December 7, 2014, Jeff Thormodson

Concordia Journal

The goal of the sermon is not for the hearer to make time for witnessing and outreach as if it is another thing the baptized must do; rather, witnessing and outreach should happen naturally by how Christians live all the time.

Advent 1 • 1 Corinthians 1:3–9 • November 30, 2014, David Johnson

Concordia Journal

The church becomes that vessel of incarnate grace where we are saturated in baptismal living waters that have claimed, redeemed, and forgiven us.

Proper 27 • Amos 5:18–24 • November 9, 2014, Richard Marrs

Concordia Journal

Through Amos, Yahweh roars judgment to the neighboring kingdoms around Judah and Israel.

Engaging Our Culture Faithfully, Harold Senkbeil

Concordia Journal

If the problem we face is not the secularization of society but the secularization of the church brought about by importing expressive individualism into the church, then we simply cannot face contemporary challenges individually.

Christ Coming To Us Luther’S Rhetoric Of Location, Trevor Sutton

Concordia Journal

Christ comes to a people and a place through the proclamation of God’s word.

Rev. A. Trevor Sutton is currently working on his PhD at Concordia Seminary.

Helpers Of Joy, Dale Meyer

Concordia Journal

I’m inviting you to come with us, come experience a gospel-dominated culture, come contribute to a culture based on Jesus, the “yes” to all God’s promises, come onboard the USS Concordia.

Dust And Breath: Faith, Health, And Why The Church Should Care About Both By Kend Hotz And Matthew Mathews, Nicholas Fuller

Concordia Journal

Through individual case studies from inner city Memphis, the book illustrates instances of illness that can be connected pastorally with sin and redemption through faith in Christ.

How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation Of A Jewish Preacher From Galiee By Bart Ehrman, John Genter

Concordia Journal

The key is to avoid letting the analogies steamroll the critical differences. This is what goes wrong in the opening chapters of How Jesus Became God. More attention is due to the actual religious life of the relevant practitioners in everyday life.

Reformation Day • Revelation 14:6–7 • October 26, 2014, Bruce Hartung

Concordia Journal

Our God, our “ever present help in distress” is present with us in Christ who holds us tightly and sustains us with his Spirit in the bread and wine of the Eucharist, the waters of our baptism, the ingestion of his word and the company of the saints who surround us in the community of his followers.

Proper 22 • Isaiah 5:1–7 • October 5, 2014, Dale Meyer

Concordia Journal

God loved his Israel, his “pleasant planting.” He planted them to do good works, specifically to bring justice and righteousness to all people, but they gave him “wild grapes.”

Proper 19 • Genesis 50:15–21 • September 14, 2014, Paul Philp

Concordia Journal

Filled with fear before the power of Joseph to kill them, and in the absence of Jacob to protect them, they come face-to-face with the temporal consequences of their sins.

Proper 18 • Ezekiel 33:7–9 • September 7, 2014, David Wollenburg

Concordia Journal

In the chapter that follows our text for today Ezekiel points us to the Messiah as the true Shepherd who will deliver and feed his flock, in Jesus we know that that has happened and continues to happen yet today.

Proper 17 • Jeremiah 15:15–21 • August 31, 2014, Ernest Bernet

Concordia Journal

Though the Lord “understands,” Jeremiah grieves over the persecution he is suffering and questions whether the Lord will be “like a deceptive brook.”

Proper 16 • Isaiah 51:1–6 • August 24, 2014, Francis Rossow

Concordia Journal

This passage is about the end times in which the gospel is not only present (as it is in all such readings) but in which it predominates.

Proper 15 • Isaiah 56:1, 6–8 • August 17, 2014, Robert W. Weise

Concordia Journal

hose whom the Lord has bound to himself through the waters of baptism, establishing the Christian’s identity, serve him and love the name that is above every name—Jesus Christ.

Empowering Confident Confessor-Servant Evangelists Twenty-First-Century Multicultural Mission Work, Gregory Seltz

Concordia Journal

Amid such real tensions the church of Jesus Christ is challenged to be the body of Christ for others, to build bridges, to more boldly speak Christ’s message beyond the safety of its confessional walls.

Young Christians And Sharing The Faith: Room For Improvement, Sarah Guldalian

Concordia Journal

This research has demonstrated that there is much room for improvement in terms of the confidence and capacity for faith-conversations between young adults. Yet, I was encouraged to find that gaps could be filled through simple evangelism training.

A Special Kinship, Kurt Buchholz

Concordia Journal

Lutheran Hour Ministries enjoys a kinship with Concordia Seminary historically as well as today.

How Can We Help You?, Dale Meyer

Concordia Journal

Concordia Seminary is committed to providing to all the baptized of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod theological resources that are helpful for faith and life.