Review: A Year with the Church Fathers
A Year with the Church Fathers: Meditations for Every Day of the Church Year, by Scott R. Murray. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2011, 408 pages. Scott Murray is an LCMS parish pastor since 1983 ...
Review: Invitation to Biblical Interpretation
Invitation to Biblical Interpretation: Exploring the Hermeneutical Triad of History, Literature, and Theology, by Andreas J. Köstenberger and Richard D. Patterson. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011. 891 pages. Andreas J. Köstenberger (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) ...
The Coming Wrath
Dear Brothers, "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?" (Matthew 3:7) If I were a betting man, I'd place a large wager that you've never seen this greeting on ...
Review: The Eternal Generation of the Son
The Eternal Generation of the Son: Maintaining Orthodoxy in Trinitarian Theology, by Kevin Giles. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2012. 270 pages. Kevin Giles (Th.D. Australian College of Theology) is an ordained Anglican minister who ...
Review: Recovering the Unity of the Bible
Recovering the Unity of the Bible: One Continuous Story, Plan, and Purpose, by Walter C. Kaiser Jr. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2009. 252 pages. Walter C. Kaiser Jr. (PhD, Brandeis University) is a distinguished professor emeritus ...
Review: The Connecting Church
The Connecting Church: Beyond Small Groups to Authentic Communion 2.0, by Randy Frazee, Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013. 256 pages. Randy Frazee is the senior minister of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas, where he ...
Review: Letters to Lutheran Pastors
Letters to Lutheran Pastors, Volume 1 (1948–1951), by Hermann Sasse. Edited and Translated by Matthew C. Harrison. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2013. 480 pages. Hermann Sasse (1895–1976) was a German Lutheran pastor and professor. ...
Preach the Word – November/December 2013
Volume 17, Number 2. Preaching to the Choir Lutheran preachers are, generally-speaking, preaching to believers who are gathered for worship – they are, in essence, “preaching to the choir.” What does the “choir” need to ...
The Master’s Mina
Dear Brothers, The cloth in which he laid away his master's mina was meant for wiping the sweat off his brow as he labored with all his might to put his master's money "to work" ...
Review: A Lutheran Looks at Mega Churches
A Lutheran Looks at Mega Churches, by Andrew P. Bauer. Milwaukee: NPH, 2012. 99 pages. Andrew Bauer is the pastor at New Life Lutheran Church in Lake Zurich, Illinois. Pastor Bauer, the author of A ...