Oswald Bayer, world-renowned scholar of Luther and his theology, will deliver a lecture at Concordia Seminary on March 21. Many of you will be familiar with Bayer through his writings Living by Faith: Justification and Sanctification (2003), Theology the Lutheran Way (2007), and Martin Luther’s Theology: A Contemporary Interpretation (2008). The theme of his lecture, “A Public ..
By Richard H. Warneck Easter on the Mountain of the Lord Easter! Begins at graveside. Mary and Mary Magdalene and Joanna to a burial plot. Heavy hearts, heavy steps. We know—death, burial—we have been there. Easter truth—verse 6 Fearful thought on the way— the truth is we all die. Steve Jobs to biographer, Walter Isaacson—life/death—like ..
By Robert Rosin The Grace is in the Details “Have I got a deal for you.” No sooner do we hear those words than we stiffen and step back. Too good to be true? Probably. So often—too often—talk is cheap, and, as the saying goes, the devil is in the details. So those who heard ..
By Paul Devantier We have all had some strange requests during our lifetime. Many pastors tell stories of someone in their life who once said to them, “You should consider becoming a pastor.” And at the time, they may have thought the suggestion made no sense at all. And everyone can tell a story of ..
Great Auk—Wikipedia Commons The year 2011 saw a number of species go into extinction. These include among others, the western black rhinoceros . Others are in danger as well. On Friday, Oct 28, 2011 USA Today ran and article entitled, “Extinct in 20 Years?” “Tigers, Lions, Cheetahs, extinct in 20 years?
Bach at the Sem will perform new concerts on February 12 and April 22, 2012, both at 3:00pm in the chapel of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
The journey from text to pulpit can be a long and winding road, filled with false starts, surprising discoveries, and hard choices along the way. On a semi-regular basis, the homiletics faculty of Concordia Seminary invites you to walk the road with the preacher in the Preacher’s Studio series. Each sermon was preached during chapel ..
Concordia Seminary will host the 3rd Multi-Ethnic Symposium, January 30-31, 2012, which will conclude with the 7th Annual Lecture in Hispanic/Latino Theology and Missions, given by Gregory Klotz
The full preface to the book, written by Robert Kolb
Paul Robinson will lead the winter Lay Bible Institute, “Are We Still Fighting the Crusades?” The Institute will take place Wednesday evenings, Jan 11-Feb 1, 2012 on the Concordia Seminary campus
Dr. Reed Lessing, Professor of Exegetical Theology at Concordia Seminary, is the author of a new Bible study: “Jeremiah: A Book on Surviving Disasters.” According to the publisher, Author Reed Lessing uses the Book of Jeremiah as the source material for helping us as God’s people to survive disasters through such means as honesty, refusing ..
Being Engaged by the Word
The latest book from a prominent figure in the “Emergent Church Movement”
Profs. Burreson and Cook discuss the new revisions of the English Roman Mass in this month’s Concordia Journal Currents
