Lectionary@Lunch Live – Ezekiel 17:22-24
Prof. Bill Carr discusses the Old Testament pericope for the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 6), in the Year B lectionary
Lectionary@Lunch Live – Genesis 3:8-15
Prof. Bill Carr discusses the Old Testament pericope for the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 5), in the Year B lectionary
Engaging the Digital Age: Days of Theological Reflection, 2015
View video from this year’s featured speakers: Tom Boomershine and Matt Peeples
Proper 5 • 2 Corinthians 4:13–5:1 • June 7, 2015
By Michael J. Redeker Christians are faced with the realities of this world. We cannot escape this. Along with the joys that come from life, we also face the trials and tribulations that come with living in a broken world. These present realities can wear down a Christian’s faith. And some people might abandon the faith altogether because ..
Lectionary@Lunch Live – Isaiah 6:1-8
Prof. Bill Carr discusses the Old Testament pericope for Trinity Sunday, in the Year B lectionary
Holy Trinity • Acts 2:14a, 22–36 • May 31, 2015
By Erik Herrmann The Christian confession of the Trinity is both sublime and difficult. Trying to grasp the distinction of the divine persons while maintaining the unity of the Godhead can feel like an abstraction that places God further away from us instead of drawing near. The distinctions are important as the language of the Athanasian Creed gives ..
Pentecost • Acts 2:1–21 • May 24, 2015
By Kent Burreson The Feast Day of Pentecost is the fiftieth day of the Easter season, the eighth day beyond the seven weeks of seven days. It is the culmination of the joyous, uninterrupted feast of the resurrection of Christ Jesus. It is the end of the beginning (the celebration of the risen Christ among his people) and ..
Easter 7 • 1 John 5:9–15 • May 17, 2015
by Leopoldo A. Sánchez M. Testifying in the Courtroom Life is one of the apostle’s favorite images of salvation, and he makes use of it in the assigned text: “And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son” (1 Jn 5:11). John speaks of eternal life in a ..
Summer workshops offered across the country
Concordia Seminary faculty and staff are hitting the road for summer workshops on a wide variety of timely, contemporary topics. Check the schedule to find one near you
Easter 5 • 1 John 4:1–11 (12–21) • May 3, 2015
By Mark Rockenbach We have done no act of love, at any time, in any way to God (Is 53:6, Rom 3:10-12, 1 Jn 4:10). The love between us and God began with God and not with us. For the narcissist this might be difficult to accept. But consider what it means to be narcissistic: ..
Easter 4 • 1 John 3:16–24 • April 26, 2015
By Victor Raj Preliminary Considerations Placed midway between Easter and Pentecost, the appointed lessons for the fourth Sunday of Easter cumulatively call for a resurrection living for the Christian faithful in this world. Together, they are an exhortation for the baptized toward the demonstration of God’s righteousness in their daily living as they engage the world ..
Lectionary@Lunch Live – Ezekiel 37:1-14
Jumping ahead of the Easter season (when the first reading is taken from Acts), Prof. Bill Carr discusses the Old Testament pericope for the Day of Pentecost, in the Year B lectionary
Lectionary@Lunch Live – Isaiah 25:6-9
Prof. Bill Carr discusses the Old Testament pericope for the Resurrection of Our Lord (Easter), in the Year B lectionary
Easter 3 • 1 John 3:1–7 • April 19, 2015
by Paul R. Raabe During the Easter season the epistle lessons come from 1 John. The epistle lesson appointed for the third Sunday of Easter is 1 John 3:1–7. Here is the helpful translation and lineation given by Bruce Schuchard in his commentary on the Johannine Epistles: See what kind of love the Father has given us, that ..
Easter 2 • 1 John 1:1–2:2 • April 12, 2015
By Henry Rowold Drawn into God’s Fellowship Not by accident does this pericope begin where John’s gospel does: “that which was from the beginning” is both pegged to and flows from the gospel’s prologue. What we have in this brief letter, therefore, is given not merely for just a few, but for those whom God has loved “from the ..
The Resurrection of Our Lord • 1 Corinthians 15:1–11 • April 5, 2015
By David Peter The Occasion for Paul’s Words The first verse of the text begins with these words: “Now I would remind you, brothers.” This formula indicates that Paul is responding to an issue which had been a part of his original instruction to them. In this case, the issue is the resurrection of the body. Apparently the subject ..