Book Blurbs: Festschrift for Mark Seifrid
A wide-ranging conversation inspired by the collection of essays to honor beloved New Testament scholar Mark Seifrid
Why Read Rare Books?
Bruce Durazzi talks about Concordia Seminary’s world-class rare book collection, with direct connections to Martin Luther and J.S. Bach
ICYMI: Thinking About Bach’s Bible
Two recent posts on Bach’s personal Bible, housed in Concordia Seminary’s Library
The Life of Prayer
Rev. Michael Coppersmith talks about the connections between prayer, God’s Word, and the work of the Holy Spirit
The Advent of the Word
Reflecting on the advent(s) of Christ in a year of interruptions
Feeding on the Scriptures
Dr. Tom Egger talks about how to listen to the Scriptures in a time of suffering
66 Texts from 66 Books
A new sermon series to preach every book of the Bible in one year
Word and Work: Reading the Bible in the Holy Land
Tom Zelt talks about his summer seminary course, where he takes students to Israel to study the Bible in the places where it happened
Word and Work: The Impact of the Bible
Jeff Kloha gives a virtual walk-through of the Museum of the Bible
“The Devil is a Liar and So is His Father”: Why Greek Matters
…and why seminary students take Summer Greek
Teaching (and Learning) Greek
Or: Why New Testament Greek is Like a Football Game
Recapping SBL 2018
Jim Voelz on this year’s Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting
Jeff Gibbs, “The Myth of Righteous Anger”
What the Bible says (and doesn’t say) about human anger
Tim Saleska, “The Gospel-Centered Christian”
How the “Gospel-centered” Christian can avoid the Scylla and Charybdis of both fundamentalism and Gospel reductionism
The Gospel–Centered Christian
How we relate the Gospel and the Scriptures affects the Christianity we practice
ICYMI: How Martin Luther Changed Bible Study
Robert Kolb recently published an article for Bible Study magazine, for their special issue on the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. We are all accustomed to his expertise on all things Luther and the Reformation, but this is but one example of how his expertise reaches beyond our usual Lutheran circles. The article: “How Martin ..