Concordia Journal
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Proper 11 • Isaiah 44:6–8 • July 20, 2014
Witnesses of the Living God This approach focuses on the comparison of the God of creation who formed man with the gods formed by man…
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Proper 13 • Isaiah 55:1–5 • August 3, 2014
He came to dance our dance with death, died on a cross, and rose victorious never to die again.
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MY BRIGHT ABYSS: Meditation of a Modern Believer. By Christian Wiman
Christian Wiman’s My Bright Abyss stands in a long line of spiritual writings that mix memoir with theology with a kind of deep spiritual insight.
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Proper 18 • Ezekiel 33:7–9 • September 7, 2014
In the chapter that follows our text for today Ezekiel points us to the Messiah as the true Shepherd who will deliver and feed his…
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Lent 1 • Genesis 3:1–21 • March 9, 2014
By divine design, Genesis 3 is an inseparable part of a unit (Gn 1–3), and neither Genesis 1–2 nor Genesis 3 should be discussed without…
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Palm Sunday • Philippians 2:5–11 • March 29, 2015
Our English too often comes off sounding like Jesus was something less than God, as if he merely appeared to be God.
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Proper 16 • Ephesians 5:22–33
The bulk of this passage has as its focus the role of husbands and how they are to love.
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Light from Above, Laser Our Hearts
It is a great time to be in the ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ! To our seminarians, I hope this year will fuel your…
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Palm Sunday • Isaiah 50:4–9a • April 13, 2014
After describing what Jesus will go through, the sermon retells how Peter answers correctly Jesus’s question about whom the disciples say he is only to…