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10 mins read|08/10/26A multi-day workshop for pastors to hone the Craft of Preaching
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8 mins read|08/03/26A multi-day workshop for pastors to hone the Craft of Preaching
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11 mins read|06/05/26We’re in This Together. In this episode, we sit with Bo Giertz and read his open letter to the churches — A Shepherd’s Letter. As translator, Bror Erickson says of the opening section (we read on the show), “Crises and Sources of Strength”: “Christians had been systematically persecuted by the Nazis, and this systematic persecution continued in soviet countries. However, in Western Europe, church leaders like Bo Giertz saw how increasing industrialization was also assisting an increasing secularism. There were huge population shifts into the city, and people lost track of the church even as the church lost track of the people during these shifts. Some political parties were also actively hostile to the church. The trends toward secularism and atheism in the West have continued, of course, and have also become a point of consternation for believers even to this day. This age has not ceased to be evil since Paul designated it as such in Gal. 1:4. So the church continues and will continue to suffer crises, and so the essay “Crises and Sources of Strength” takes on a sort of timeless dimension that way.
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24 mins read|06/02/26From the very beginning, the community that God was forming was going to be much more inclusive than anyone could have imagined.
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15 mins read|06/01/26There are important historical reasons for making a distinction between ministry and vocation.
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24 mins read|05/26/26The same words of hope and peace that were entrusted to Israel are available to all, to “everyone who believes” (Acts 10:43).
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19 mins read|05/04/26Trueman engages the question of “What is man?” and demonstrates how contemporary definitions of mankind result in the dehumanizing of our neighbor.
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16 mins read|04/27/26May we, as preachers, rise and proclaim that Jesus Christ is sufficient for all our spiritual hunger.
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14 mins read|04/18/26The Easter season is designed to cultivate our resurrection thinking throughout the year. When God looks at us each day, He sees us through the lens of Christ’s resurrection. We should look at our lives the same way.
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10 mins read|03/20/26One great thing about our post-denominational age is that it has opened up opportunities to make common cause with other Lutherans who, despite their differences and eccentricities, can agree on some of the most important things.
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12 mins read|03/16/26The Church’s unity is not uniformity in every matter of her well-being. It is faithfulness in what constitutes her being.
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11 mins read|03/07/26I wrote a sentence in the front of my Prayer Book, a line I still return to often: There is only one Savior of the universe, and you are not it.
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