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Making The Case For Preachers Who Read, Ethan Stoppenhagen
Making The Case For Preachers Who Read, Ethan Stoppenhagen
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I once heard a story about a new pastor in the early 1990s who was settling into his first call in Pembroke, Ontario. A man walked into his study and silently began perusing the shelves. The pastor noticed him, but carried on with his business. The stranger spent several minutes pulling books off the shelves, flipping pages, nodding and murmuring, and setting some books apart by laying them on their spines. Occasionally he’d hold up a book with a quizzical look on his face. “Required for class,” the pastor shrugged, and the man would scoff and shove it back on …
The Gospel For The Whole Person: Attending To Sin And Grace Throughout The Human Experience, Charles Ridley
The Gospel For The Whole Person: Attending To Sin And Grace Throughout The Human Experience, Charles Ridley
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Preaching is the means by which the Holy Spirit speaks to God’s people through the preacher who stands in the stead of Jesus, the Lord of the Church. Through a sermon that is faithful to God’s revealed will and written Word, the Spirit convicts the world concerning sin and proclaims the gospel of forgiveness, life, and salvation which is found in Christ alone. The basic task placed before us in preaching is not only to be faithful to scripture, but also to make a coherent and compelling presentation of the gospel. Most of those reading this will be familiar with …
Arius As A Figure In Church History, Kendall Davis
Arius As A Figure In Church History, Kendall Davis
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Church history, much like any other kind of history, is an exercise in meaning-making and identity creation. As Anglican theologian, Rowan Williams, writes regarding Church history, “We begin with a sense of identity that is in some way fragile or questionable, and we embark on the enterprise of history to make it clearer and more secure. In the process, of course, definitions may change a good deal, but the aim is to emerge with some fuller sense of who we are.”1 This is quite obviously true when we tell stories about the heroes of the faith: Irenaeus, Martin Luther, C. …
Christian Sexuality: Five Session Small-Group Study, Christian Dollar
Christian Sexuality: Five Session Small-Group Study, Christian Dollar
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Christian sexual ethics have always set the Church apart from the world. The division between Church and world goes deeper than its incongruence with its early Greco-Roman context of sexual slavery and pervasive homosexuality. Jesus’ teaching on sexuality was shocking to his Jewish context as well. Jesus’ radical commitment to the integrity of marriage left his disciples questioning the feasibility of the institution, all the more since the teaching contradicted the pattern of divorce instituted by scripture (Matt 19:1-10). Behind Jesus’ vision of human sexuality stood God’s original design for marriage rooted in the creation of sexed bodies designed for …
Greek And Hebrew Catechetical Devotions, Jaron Melin
Greek And Hebrew Catechetical Devotions, Jaron Melin
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The Greek and Hebrew catechetical devotions are intended for all students of the Greek and Hebrew Bibles who wish to embed their practice of reading the Bible from the original languages within a devotional format. Not only will they practice reading the Bible in the original languages, but they will also recite the Ten Commandments, the Apostles’ Creed, and the Lord’s Prayer in the biblical languages. It is fitting and proper to review the ABCs of the Christian faith as one engages with the Scriptures. The grammar of faith as expressed in the Catechism is an indispensable guide for navigating …
Kyrie Eleison, Aidan Moon
Kyrie Eleison, Aidan Moon
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Poetry composed by Adian Moon.
Collaborative Essays, Kendall Davis, Aaron Coggins
Collaborative Essays, Kendall Davis, Aaron Coggins
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In the spirit of fellowship, the student journals of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis and Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne have decided to use their publications as an opportunity for conversation and edification between our two student bodies. As students may have seen, we have begun to distribute each other’s journals on our campuses and now in this issue we share a collaborative project we have been working on.
Grapho 2022, Kendall Davis
Grapho 2022, Kendall Davis
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The Light from Generation to Generation
A Christ Poem, Hayden Brown
A Christ Poem, Hayden Brown
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Poetry composed by Hayden Brown.
Sanctification And Ecclesiology, Gregory Moffitt
Sanctification And Ecclesiology, Gregory Moffitt
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The question of the nature of the Christian community is complex, with farreaching implications. For instance, the way in which we conceive the Christian community impacts how we think about questions such as the sanctification of the individual as he or she lives out their vocation as a part of the community. In this paper I will examine how Dietrich Bonhoeffer discussed the Christian community, focusing particularly upon how he discusses questions concerning ecclesiology and sanctification in his Discipleship and Life Together.
Faithfully Unmasked, Cody Macmillin
Faithfully Unmasked, Cody Macmillin
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The Church has found herself in a difficult situation these past twelve months. Wrestling with the practical concerns of gathering safely and legal restrictions on worship, many Christians have found themselves in some form of spiritual exile. They have been isolated from the people who would otherwise demonstrate God’s love and care. The voices that once sang together in their sanctuaries have since been muted for fear of feedback in their monitors, and the Christians who have found the courage to attend in-person worship are now met with floating eyes over choking cloth. Indeed, the oft-debated and dreaded drapery which …
Grapho 2021, Kendall Davis
Grapho 2021, Kendall Davis
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The complete Grapho for 2021.
Letter From The Chairman, Kendall Davis
Letter From The Chairman, Kendall Davis
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It’s almost certainly a cliché at this point, but it’s been an incredibly long year and a half for all of us. This year’s fourth year class was forced to learn alongside their churches how to do ministry in the midst of a pandemic. This year’s vicars will have done their entire vicarages during a pandemic. Even though we’ve been inperson for classes, things have still been markedly different on campus. Classrooms are socially distanced and have even been conducted online at times. The usual events that characterize the seminary calendar have been mostly gone. Even outside of the pandemic …
Reflections On The Dangers, Christian Dollar
Reflections On The Dangers, Christian Dollar
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The culture is changing. Such a statement is as obvious and non-controversial as they come. No matter what side one fights for in the innumerable culture wars being simultaneously waged in our country and world, all can agree on one thing: the morals, rituals, beliefs, and behaviors of wide swaths of people are changing. New morals are crashing into old ones. Old beliefs are being revitalized, and behaviors once thought unimaginable or relegated to distant lands are being championed at home. Infinitely more controversial than the presence of cultural change is what exactly culture is. For the sake of simplicity …
Messiahship And Discipleship, Kendall Davis
Messiahship And Discipleship, Kendall Davis
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The question of discipleship in the synoptics is really a question of what it means to be a faithful member of God’s people of Israel. In late Second Temple Judaism the answer to this question was by no means obvious. For some, such as the Pharisees, the answer was to follow the traditions of the elders fastidiously in every area of life (cf. Matt 15:2). For others, such as the Qumran community, the answer was to escape the sinful compromise of modern Israel and create a pure community in the desert. For others, such as the zealots and other revolutionaries, …
Behind The Mask Of God, Cody Macmillin
Behind The Mask Of God, Cody Macmillin
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Poetry composed by Cody MacMillan.
Expense For Just Their Kind, Cody Macmillin
Expense For Just Their Kind, Cody Macmillin
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Poetry composed by Cody MacMillan.
Cd Poem, Christian Dollar
Cd Poem, Christian Dollar
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Poetry composed by Christian Dollar.
Luther's Small Haiku, Jaron Melin
Luther's Small Haiku, Jaron Melin
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Poetry composed by Jaron Melin.
Walther On Confessional Agreement And Church Fellowship, Christian J. Einertson
Walther On Confessional Agreement And Church Fellowship, Christian J. Einertson
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In its report, Church Relations in the 21st Century,1 the Commission on Theology and Church Relations (CTCR) addresses many of the challenges faced by the Missouri Synod as she enters a new era of global interconnection and is consequently confronted with a variety of church bodies near and far who seek support from, cooperation with, and even altar-and-pulpit fellowship with her. In this report, the CTCR helpfully points out that the differing histories of other church bodies around the world have caused their assumptions regarding ecumenical relationships to differ from those of the Missouri Synod, which were themselves shaped by …
The Texts Of Faith In Times Of Tragedy, Ryan Anderson
The Texts Of Faith In Times Of Tragedy, Ryan Anderson
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This paper will focus on that phenomenon and its longstanding tension with American Christianity. I will investigate how American civil religion emerges when faced with tragedy. The investigation will be done by way of a case study: a thorough analysis of Celine Dion’s performance of “God Bless America,” the history of the original song and its author, and the variety of responses her performance has fostered both then and now, particularly online. What we will discover is that practitioners of civil religion existentially and therapeutically depend on an “encounter with the divine” during times of national tragedy. This encounter is …
How Embodied Human Creatures Converse Online, David Edwards
How Embodied Human Creatures Converse Online, David Edwards
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Have you ever noticed just how much you can learn about what a person has going on in life without asking them a single question? All you have to do is hop on Facebook, scroll through twitter, or scan Instagram and you can see updates on everything! From the birth of a first child to the death of a loved one, from their favorite new show to Fantasy Football failures, it is pretty easy to learn a lot about a person and their life today with only so much as a couple of clicks on a screen or a keyboard.
A Triptych Of Hymns, Kyle Ronchetto
A Triptych Of Hymns, Kyle Ronchetto
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Poetry composed by Kyle Ronchetto.
No. 1451, Groaning, Garrick Sinclair Beckett
No. 1451, Groaning, Garrick Sinclair Beckett
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Poetry composed by Garrick (Ricky) Sinclair Beckett.
Grapho 2019, Jordan Voges
Grapho 2019, Jordan Voges
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The complete Grapho for 2019.
I Still Feel - Kind Of Temporary About Myself, Trevor Freudenberg
I Still Feel - Kind Of Temporary About Myself, Trevor Freudenberg
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Meet Alexa. Not the ubiquitous digital assistant, but an individual in the process of crafting an identity for herself. Alexa Abraham is a 24-year-old woman living in London who defines herself as an ‘influencer.’ A recent article in 1843 Magazine details how Alexa has created this identity of ‘influencer’ using social media, especially Instagram.
Historical Deficiencies And Present Needs, Jordan Voges
Historical Deficiencies And Present Needs, Jordan Voges
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The second decade of the twenty-first century is drawing to a close. In the realm of the sciences, round-the-clock work continues to discover whatever might fill in the next paradigmatic gap, cure some heretofore fatal disease, or make the tabloid headlines.1 If the recent past is any indicator, from the discovery of the Higgs Particle at CERN to the enamoring photos of the Pluto system and Ultima Thule by the aptly named New Horizons space probe, science has and will continue to stir excitement in the global public.
Funerals- Typical Planning And A Typological Sermon, Joshua H. Jones
Funerals- Typical Planning And A Typological Sermon, Joshua H. Jones
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Like many other aspects of our culture, the landscape of planning and officiating funerals seems to have changed quite rapidly over the last decade. That is not to say that many of the things happening today were not present previously. However, the intensity and frequency of what we might call “challenging funerals” appears to have escalated. In what follows, I hope to provide a brief sketch of the anatomy of what may be encountered in funeral planning, as well as some proposals for how Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) pastors might faithfully handle some of the challenging aspects of ministering to …
Burying Jeremiah, Adelphos Mikroteros
Burying Jeremiah, Adelphos Mikroteros
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Narrative composed by Adelphos Mikroteros.
Letter From The Chairman Of Student Publications, Jordan Voges
Letter From The Chairman Of Student Publications, Jordan Voges
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Why a student journal? The simple answer is: you, you the writers, and you the readers. To those who want an outlet for their mind and creativity, who want to test their work in the public forum, who have something to say in words to the academy, in poetry, in pictures, or in prose, we offer you these pages. And to those who want to read and see the work of Concordia Seminary students, to debate and discuss, to think and question, to appreciate and applaud, and to thereby be enriched and learn, we offer you these pages now filled …