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Easter 6 • Acts 17:16–31 • May 25, 2014, Michael Redeker Sep 2015

Easter 6 • Acts 17:16–31 • May 25, 2014, Michael Redeker

Concordia Journal

The true God is not detached and uninterested in humanity, as the philosophers understood the gods to be, but rather God is truly interested and cares for and about creation and all creatures, including humanity.


Easter 5 • Acts 6:1–9; 7:2a, 51–60, Todd Jones Sep 2015

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.


Easter 4 • Acts 2:42–47 • May 11, 2014, Bruce Schuchard Sep 2015

Easter 4 • Acts 2:42–47 • May 11, 2014, Bruce Schuchard

Concordia Journal

All who believed quite naturally and quite regularly shared all things in common, as would, as should, the superabundantly blessed persons of a singular household and family.


“Daddy, Will Animals Be In Heaven?” The Future New Earth, Paul Raabe Sep 2015

“Daddy, Will Animals Be In Heaven?” The Future New Earth, Paul Raabe

Concordia Journal

A New Heaven and a New Earth or a recreated Heaven and Earth as God had always intended.


Back To The Beginning Creation Shapes The Entire Story, Charles Arand Sep 2015

Back To The Beginning Creation Shapes The Entire Story, Charles Arand

Concordia Journal

So creation is more than a stage or scenery for God’s story. It is integral to the entire story. After all, the entire story is about God’s relationship to his creation, especially to those extraordinary creatures that he had formed from the ground to look after and cultivate his creation.


Telling God’S Story, David Schmitt Sep 2015

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.


Christ Is Risen, Indeed Good News For Him, And For Us, Jeffrey Gibbs Sep 2015

Christ Is Risen, Indeed Good News For Him, And For Us, Jeffrey Gibbs

Concordia Journal

God brought the eschatological future into the present. He overturned death, permanently, in the case of Jesus.


“A Gospel-Based Budgeting Of Theology’S Resources”, Dale Meyer Sep 2015

“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.


Divine Kingdom, Holy Order: The Political Writings Of Martin Luther By Jarre Carty, Editor, Theodore Hopkins Sep 2015

Divine Kingdom, Holy Order: The Political Writings Of Martin Luther By Jarre Carty, Editor, Theodore Hopkins

Concordia Journal

Only Carty’s introductory essay is necessary in order for the reader to understand Luther from Carty’s perspective, which enables the reader to read any selection of interest with a lessened chance of confusion.


The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not A Truly Evangelical Reading Of Scrip By Christian Smith, John Bombaro Sep 2015

The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not A Truly Evangelical Reading Of Scrip By Christian Smith, John Bombaro

Concordia Journal

By making a compelling argument that christocentrism, not bibliocentrism, is the truly evangelical response to theological liberalism and cultural caricaturing, The Bible Made Impossible warrants mandatory reading by all thoughtful Christians and thorough discussion by Lutheran pastors, professors, and seminarians.


Implications Of Brain Research For The Church:What It Means For Theology And Ministry By Allen Nauss, Bruce Hartung Sep 2015

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 3 • Acts 2:14a, 36–41 • May 4, 2014, Jeffrey Oschwald Sep 2015

Easter 3 • Acts 2:14a, 36–41 • May 4, 2014, Jeffrey Oschwald

Concordia Journal

This proclamation of the crucified and risen Lord and Christ encompasses all in its call to repentance but addresses each individual personally in its offer of salvation.


Easter 2 • Acts 5:29–42 • April 27, 2014, David Wollenburg Sep 2015

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.


Lent 5 • Ezekiel 37:1–14 • April 6, 2014, Joel Okamoto Sep 2015

Lent 5 • Ezekiel 37:1–14 • April 6, 2014, Joel Okamoto

Concordia Journal

Psalm 118:22, “The stone the builders rejected has become the head of the corner.” Some who saw and heard Jesus firsthand did not believe but instead killed him.


Palm Sunday • Isaiah 50:4–9a • April 13, 2014, Glenn Nielsen Sep 2015

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 5 • Ezekiel 37:1–14 • April 6, 2014, Andrew Bartelt Sep 2015

Lent 5 • Ezekiel 37:1–14 • April 6, 2014, Andrew Bartelt

Concordia Journal

The resurrection is coming: that is the goal, and it brings hope to a hopeless people, not just death but resurrection.


Lent 4 • Isaiah 42:14–21 • March 30, 2014, Robert Kolb Sep 2015

Lent 4 • Isaiah 42:14–21 • March 30, 2014, Robert Kolb

Concordia Journal

Turn to the execution of his promise in Christ, the one who opens our ears to God’s communication, his torah, and who opens our eyes to his concern for us, both in his anguish over our sins and in his love that delivers us from evil.


Lent 3 • Exodus 17:1–7 • March 23, 2014, Benjamin Haupt Sep 2015

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, Arthur Graudin Sep 2015

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, Henry Rowold Sep 2015

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.


Transfiguration Sunday • Exodus 24:8–18 • March 2, 2014, Jeffery Gibbs Sep 2015

Transfiguration Sunday • Exodus 24:8–18 • March 2, 2014, Jeffery Gibbs

Concordia Journal

If OT Israel needed a mediator, the one named and appointed to approach the presence of God on behalf of the people, how much greater is our mediator, the Son of God.


Epiphany 7 • Leviticus 19:1–2, 9–18 • February 23, 2014, Timothy Saleska Sep 2015

Epiphany 7 • Leviticus 19:1–2, 9–18 • February 23, 2014, Timothy Saleska

Concordia Journal

What are our lives to look like and how can they best reflect Christ? It is from this perspective that Leviticus 1–2, 9–18 have something to teach us.


Epiphany 6 • Deuteronomy 30:15–20 • February 16, 2014, Robert Weise Sep 2015

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.


Epiphany 5 • Isaiah 58:3–9a • February 9, 2014, Timothy Dost Sep 2015

Epiphany 5 • Isaiah 58:3–9a • February 9, 2014, Timothy Dost

Concordia Journal

When we put up an appearance of righteousness without attendant love manifesting itself in deeds for the neighbor, we only fool ourselves and, in the end, indicate that our own situation is already ruined by our hardness of heart.


Marriage The Divine And Blessed Walk Of Life, Robert Weise Sep 2015

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, Bruce Hartung Sep 2015

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, Richard Marrs Sep 2015

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, Glenn Nielsen Sep 2015

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, David Peter Sep 2015

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, Dale Meyer Sep 2015

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.