Christmas at the Seminary 2025

Join the Seminary Chorus for Christmas at the Seminary, a service of lessons and carols, at 3:00pm and 7:00pm on Sunday, December 14, 2025. The annual Christmas concert includes traditional and modern anthems for choir, hymns, and ...

Telling People What to Think: A Concise Homiletics for Lutheran Parish Pastors

  “I get paid to tell people what to think.”   That’s the “cocktail party job-description” LCMS pastor and district president Heath Curtis suggests for pastors (2). Curtis argues that his pithy description can apply to almost every aspect of our varied ...

Four Branches—April 2026

Jump to: Exegetical Systematic Historical Practical Eschatological Discourse, Part Five: Concluding Caution The “Heavenly Upheaval”[1]  section describes the events immediately following the New Testament (NT) era. Jesus says, “But in those days, following that distress” ...

Limping with God: Jacob & The Old Testament Guide to Messy Discipleship

  A man and a divine messenger grapple on a canvas of deep blue. They are locked in a struggle on the surface, but their faces betray something deeper between them. Though intertwined in tension, ...