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The New Shape Of World Christianity: How American Experience Reflects Global Faith. By Mark A. Noll, Ken Chitwood

Concordia Journal

Noll proposes that North American Christianity molded, and is related to, worldwide Christianity via an amalgamation of missionary influence, evangelical attitudes, and shared historical contexts.

Case For Character: Towards A Lutheran Virtue Ethics. By Joel D. Biermann, Mark Mattes

Concordia Journal

Over all, Biermann’s contribution is significant, timely, and a remarkable achievement that will alter current discussions of ethics among Lutherans and other Christians.

Easter 5 • 1 John 4:1–11 (12–21) • May 3, 2015, Mark Rockenbach

Concordia Journal

We show the love of God to our neighbor when we confess sin and speak words of forgiveness that began not with us, but with Jesus Christ who atoned for the sin of the world.

Easter 4 • 1 John 3:16–24 • April 26, 2015 Preliminary Considerations, Victor Raj

Concordia Journal

Christians do not simply resign from this world of harassment, resentment, and sorrow, but endure hardship trusting in the reconciling love God has lavished for them in the Lord Christ.

Easter 3 • 1 John 3:1–7 • April 19, 2015, Paul Raabe

Concordia Journal

Being Like Jesus The almighty Creator, through the atoning death and bodily resurrection of his incarnate Son, has given you his wondrous love.

Easter 2 • 1 John 1:1–2:2 • April 12, 2015 Drawn Into God’S Fellowship, Henry Rowold

Concordia Journal

The Christian fellowship is a humbler fellowship, namely the fellowship of the forgiven children of God—and it’s not a solitary walk, but a fellowship with each other and with the God who guides us in his light.

The Resurrection Of Our Lord • 1 Corinthians 15:1–11 • April 5, 2015 The Occasion For Paul’S Words, David Peter

Concordia Journal

The resurrection of Jesus Christ is an indispensable component of the gospel and an essential basis of our salvation.

Palm Sunday • Philippians 2:5–11 • March 29, 2015, Todd Jones

Concordia Journal

Our English too often comes off sounding like Jesus was something less than God, as if he merely appeared to be God.

Lent 5 • Hebrews 5:1–10 • March 22, 2015 Sermon Notes, Andrew Bartelt

Concordia Journal

The end result (telos) of Christ’s high priestly work, which was “made perfect” or complete when he himself cried, “It is finished,” is the “eternal salvation of all who obey him”

Lent 4 • Ephesians 2:1–10 • March 15, 2015, Wally Becker

Concordia Journal

Secure in our relationship with God (by grace through faith – first kind of righteousness) we are empowered by God to live as God’s people in this world, loving God, by loving our neighbor.

Lent 3 • 1 Corinthians 1:18–31 • March 8, 2015 The Word Of The Cross, Wayne Knolhoff

Concordia Journal

The preacher has the wonderful opportunity in this text to invite his hearers to respond to Christ by believing the word of the cross and living according to it.

Lent 2 • Romans 5:1–11 • March 1, 2015, Robert Kolb

Concordia Journal

Suffering does not save, but those who have found salvation and peace in Christ can expect the hostility of Satan in the midst of daily life as it manifests itself in attacks and temptations of various kinds.

Lent 1 • James 1:12–18 • February 22, 2015, William Carr Jr.

Concordia Journal

We need to let James be James. We ought not try to make him sound like Paul, or John, or Peter, or anyone else.

Transfiguration • 2 Corinthians 3:12–13 (14–18); 4:1–6 • February 15, 2015, David Lewis

Concordia Journal

As Paul uses this image of the veil to describe what happens with unbelievers when they hear God’s word, this image should not be directly applied to believers today as if they are still impeded by such a veil.

Epiphany 5 • 1 Corinthians 9:16–23 • February 8, 2015, Arthur Graudin

Concordia Journal

In a portion of the Collect the worshipper joins in praying that God the loving Father would enable him to do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

Making Sense Of Confessionalism Today, Joel Okamoto

Concordia Journal

Okamoto states that problems with confessionalism come from taking the Confessions for granted. He suggests making the confessions our own by seeking to explain and defend them for our time and place. The Apology of the Augsburg Confession should remain in force, but a twenty-first Apology could provide a contemporary explanation for current circumstances. This would be a way to appropriate the confessions as confessions, not merely as doctrinal standards, and would be a constructive rather than defensive approach.

“I Make These Confessions My Own” Lutheran Confessional Subscription In The Twenty-First Century Robert Kolb And Charles P. Arand, Robert Kolb, Charles Arand

Concordia Journal

The spirit of Augsburg and the method of the Wittenberg theologians carry the content of the Lutheran confessional documents into the many societies and cultures of the twenty-first century in which God calls Lutherans to repeat their confession of faith for the benefit of church and world.

The Nicene Creed In The Church, David Maxwell

Concordia Journal

“Let us confess our Christian faith in the words of the Nicene Creed.” But what do we mean when we identify the content of the faith with the words of the creed.

Talking To Jesus, Dale Meyer

Concordia Journal

If the beginning of the twenty-first century is marked by “Epicurean indifference,” the temptation to doctrinally focused people is, quoting Melanchthon again, “Pharisaic pride.” What Jesus said to the ancient Pharisees can help us resist this subtle temptation to imagine that we own the truth.

Introduction From The Chair, Joel Okamoto

Concordia Journal

I propose that we think of “confessionalism” as understanding our identity and life as Christians in terms of the basic confession “Jesus is Lord.”

Cooperative Collection Development Requires Access: Saltoc—A Low‐Tech, High‐Value Distributed Online Project For Article‐Level Discovery In Foreign‐Language Print‐Only Journals, Aruna P. Magier

Charleston Library Conference

Foreign‐language journals are an essential component of interdisciplinary area studies collections at research libraries but are, by definition, low‐use materials. Librarians who select them seek to broaden these collections, reduce duplication, and enable shared access to them. The challenge is lack of article‐level discoverability: these are print‐only journals, not covered in online indexing/abstracting services. If users cannot discover these articles, then how can cooperating libraries share them, and distribute responsibility for collecting them, which is essential to coordinated collection development?

The SALToC project collaboratively address this issue by creating simple, centrally browsable tables of contents for target journals, through a …

Divine Kingdom, Holy Order: The Political Writings Of Martin Luther. By Jarrett A. Carty, Paul Robinson

Concordia Journal

Carty has collected the texts from Luther’s Works that touch significantly on topics such as law, government, authority, and war.

1–3 John. Concordia Commentary Series. By Bruce G. Schuchard, Robert Yarbrough

Concordia Journal

The commentary will prove particularly valuable to seminary students seeking to get a feel for these epistles’ message in light of ongoing scholarly discussion.

Epiphany 4 • Micah 6:1–8 • February 2, 2014, William Carr Jr.

Concordia Journal

We are the beneficiaries of God’s new and, indeed, greater paradigm, Christ.

Epiphany 3 • Isaiah 9:1–4 • January 26, 2014, Quentin Wesselschmidt

Concordia Journal

The unrepented sins of Israel received their due; so the sins of our age will not go unpunished by God unless people confess their sins and cast themselves upon the mercy of God that is offered in Christ Jesus.

Baptism Of Our Lord • Isaiah 42:1–7 • January 12, 2014, Thomas Manteufel

Concordia Journal

Through the baptismal covenant, we are united with Christ and receive his blessings.

Epiphany 2 • Isaiah 49:1–7 • January 19, 2014, Erik Herrmann

Concordia Journal

This is the great epiphany—the mystery hidden for ages but now revealed, the surprising “new thing” of God’s salvation!

Epiphany • Isaiah 60:1–6 • January 5, 2014, Leopoldo Sánchez

Concordia Journal

Who are those in our neighborhood who have yet to be drafted into Jesus, the new Israel, brought into the light of the Lord, so that they too may be saved and worship him?

Christmas 1 • Isaiah 63:7–14 • December 29, 2013, Joel Biermann

Concordia Journal

Deluded by the illusion of self-mastery and bolstered by the culture’s eager affirmation of the supremacy of the individual, autonomous man is as resistant to the incursion of a new ruler as was Herod of Jerusalem.

Advent 4 • Isaiah 7:10–17 • December 22, 2013, Wally Becker

Concordia Journal

The sign of Immanuel is a sign of hope and promise, of grace and mercy, for Jesus has come to be with us, with forgiveness, life, and salvation.