Pre-Lenten Workshop 2019 Videos
Reed Lessing rolls out his new Lenten sermon series on the Exodus
Word and Work: Faith in the Midst of Crisis
From surviving unemployment to preaching after a tragedy
Preachers Studio: Jeff Gibbs
Jeff Gibbs discusses the craft of preaching, especially on a difficult text, with David Schmitt
Inclined to Boast: Social Media and Self-Justification
Trevor Sutton explores the implications of digital media on human identity and pastoral care
Word and Work: A Day in the Parish Life
Reed Lessing discusses the transition from seminary to congregation, the joys of ministry, and the routines that sustain it
Concordia Journal, Fall 2018
Featuring Mark Kiessling and Julianna Shults on the millennial generation, Joel Okamoto on “normal nihilism,” and Jeff Gibbs’ follow up on righteous anger
Teaching (and Learning) Greek
Or: Why New Testament Greek is Like a Football Game
Remembering Lamin Sanneh
A theologian of global renown, whom I was honored to call a friend
Preachers Studio: Erik Herrmann
Erik Herrmann discusses with David Schmitt the craft of preaching saint’s days and commemorations
He Came Down To Earth From Heaven
Welcome all wonders in one sight ! Eternity shut in a span! Summer in winter! Day in night! Heaven in earth! And God in man! Great little one, whose all-embracing birth Lifts earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to earth! (Richard Crashaw, Quem Vidistis Pastores) Adventus Domini: The coming of the Lord—it is the great theme ..
Word and Work: The Song of Christmas
Singer-songwriter Peter Mayer reflects on nearly twenty years of singing the songs of Christmas
Recapping SBL 2018
Jim Voelz on this year’s Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting
Preachers Studio: Scott Seidler
Scott Seidler discusses with David Schmitt the craft of preaching difficult texts, in this case Mark 10:2-16
Jeff Gibbs, “The Myth of Righteous Anger”
What the Bible says (and doesn’t say) about human anger
Book Blurbs: Richard Warneck on Pastoral Ministry
His new book engages the theology and practice of the pastoral ministry
Tim Saleska, “The Gospel-Centered Christian”
How the “Gospel-centered” Christian can avoid the Scylla and Charybdis of both fundamentalism and Gospel reductionism