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Preach, Sleep, and Play: A Little Encouragement for Busy Pastors

Here’s the understatement of the New Year: Pastors are busy people! Coming out of the hectic Christmas season, pastors look a bit worn out as Epiphany begins. Yet the tasks and demands of pastoral work are ongoing: Preaching, teaching, worship, spiritual care and visitation, mission and evangelism, leadership and administration, and works of mercy and ..

Preachers Studio: David Maxwell

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. On a semi-regular basis, the homiletics faculty of Concordia Seminary invites you to walk the road with the preacher in The Preachers Studio series. Each sermon was preached during chapel services ..

When Pastor Becomes Professor

Now I understand Lionel Richie. “Easy like Sunday morning.” While serving in the parish, Sunday mornings were busy, and they gave birth to more activity as conversations with members would prompt follow-up visits. Sunday mornings are far more relaxed now. Christmas, too, was a far more relaxed pace than what I have known in the ..

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FIVE THINGS NEW TESTAMENT TRANSLATIONS DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW

“Why do we teach Greek and Hebrew at the seminary? Don’t we already have good translations of the Bible?” … We don’t teach Greek and Hebrew so that the students can produce their own translations of the Bible, but so that they can understand the decisions that the translators have made on their behalf

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Pentecost • John 7:37–39 • June 12, 2011

By R. Reed Lessing “The Fly-Over Lands of our Lives” John’s Use of Water Our Lord’s turning water into wine at the Cana wedding (Jn 2:1–11) makes Jesus the focal point of water symbolism in John’s Gospel. Speaking to Nicodemus, Christ links water and the Spirit (Jn 3:5), while “living water” (Jn 4:7–15) is symbolic of ..

Preach, Sleep, and Play: A Little Encouragement for Busy Pastors

Preachers Studio: David Maxwell

When Pastor Becomes Professor

FIVE THINGS NEW TESTAMENT TRANSLATIONS DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW

FIVE THINGS NEW TESTAMENT TRANSLATIONS DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW

Pentecost • John 7:37–39 • June 12, 2011

Pentecost • John 7:37–39 • June 12, 2011

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