Concordia Journal
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Proper 9 • Zechariah 9:9–12 • July 6, 2014
The people of God (depicted as the daughter of Zion/Jerusalem) are summoned to rejoice and exult at the king’s arrival.
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Easter 2 • 1 John 1:1–2:2 • April 12, 2015 Drawn into God’s Fellowship
The Christian fellowship is a humbler fellowship, namely the fellowship of the forgiven children of God—and it’s not a solitary walk, but a fellowship with…
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Easter 5 • Acts 6:1–9; 7:2a, 51–60
This text challenges us to let grace define our witness; grace that speaks the truth in love, and grace that sows the seeds of forgiveness.
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Things We Do Not Fully Preach About Preparing to Die
So what is the final and ultimate victory over death? The last day finds God not abandoning His creation but remaking it. He redeems His…
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Pedagogy for a Politicized Church
Students will come, study, and leave Concordia Seminary either to join in the politicization of the church and thereby acquiesce to American culture or they…
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“A Gospel-Based Budgeting of Theology’s Resources”
“Lead with the gospel” does, and that is our focus as we offer you our faculty’s time, learning, and energies for your ministry.
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Empowering Confident Confessor-Servant Evangelists Twenty-First-Century Multicultural Mission Work
Amid such real tensions the church of Jesus Christ is challenged to be the body of Christ for others, to build bridges, to more boldly…
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Telling God’s Story
Telling God’s Story In Telling God’s Story: Narrative Preaching for Christian Formation, John Wright examines the tensions that arise as Christians retell the biblical story…
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Proper 6 • 2 Corinthians 5:1–10 (11–17) • June 14, 2015
This God-given, Spirit-driven longing to have our perishable bodies replaced by something permanent is evidence that full communion with the Father is possible through Jesus…