• Advent 1 • Isaiah 64:1–9 • November 27, 2011

    by Leopoldo A. Sánchez M. The song goes that, after Deuteronomy, Isaiah is the most monotheistic book in the Old Testament. The confession of faith…

  • Greek Zombies

    The disciples inspected the oars, while Jesus made a bench. It gets dark after that . . .

  • Hermann Sasse’s Footnotes to Letter 14

    Some of theologian Hermann Sasse’s (1895-1976) most timely thinking on the doctrine of scripture, inerrancy, and biblical hermeneutics. With introductions by Jeff Kloha and Ron…

  • The fall of Joe Paterno

    Minute by minute, the details of the sexual abuse scandal at Penn State University are becoming more appalling, despicable, and sad. Among other things, Joe…

  • Proper 29 • Matthew 25:31–46 • November 20, 2011

    by Joel Biermann This is a difficult text. Not that it is difficult to understand. In fact, it is altogether too easy to grasp the meaning,…

  • The Preacher’s Studio: Dale Meyer

    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.…

  • WDJT?

    What Did Jesus Teach? And what does that have to do with Christianity?

  • Proper 28 • Matthew 25:14–30 • November 13, 2011

    by Wayne E. Schmidt Editor’s Note: The following homiletical help is adapted from Concordia Journal, July 1985. Financial institutions spend no little effort to keep the…

  • Fall 2011 CONCORDIA JOURNAL sneak peek

    Highlights from the Fall 2011 issue of CONCORDIA JOURNAL, due out in early November.