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Spiritual Formation For Ministry, Eugene I. Van Antwerp
Spiritual Formation For Ministry, Eugene I. Van Antwerp
Concordia Theological Monthly
Dimiui Shostakovich has described his Fifth Symphony (D Major, Opus 47), composed just 30 years ago, as "the assertion of personality. It is man with all his emotions and experiences that I saw as the focus of design in this work."
Called To Service And To Seminary, David S. Schuller
Called To Service And To Seminary, David S. Schuller
Concordia Theological Monthly
How does it happen? On assignment day the whole world spread out before him… entering the ministry … his own group of people to shepherd … the heady challenge of a world needing both the courage of a prophet and the resounding proclamation of a gospel … the continuity of the holy Christian church. He was about to step into the procession of the Te Deum. His wife's hand squeezed his as his name was called. Not too many years later late at night he sits wondering. It hasn't turned out as he had dreamed. The opposition was more insidious, …
The Brotherly Task, Paul J. Bauermeister
The Brotherly Task, Paul J. Bauermeister
Concordia Theological Monthly
Between the years 1951 and 1956 I sat out there where you are with enough regularity that no one ever got overly concerned about my spiritual condition. Back in those days, it seems to me, there was less concern about the "spiritual condition" and more concern about chapel attendance. I think that's progress. During those years I sat out there I remembered thinking, frequently, that I did not want to be up here in the chancel-ever! - that the good place to be was out there-not up here. I was right; but as we say: That's my problem.