Registration for Celebration of Ministry Opens November 1!

Registration for the 2025 Celebration of Ministry retreats opens November 1. We look forward to gathering with you in 2025! Members of the classes of 1990, 2000, 2015, 2022 along with their wives are invited ...

Spring Online 2025

Online courses allow you to participate in formal continuing education, without traveling away for your home and office. Course activities are asynchronous and somewhat flexible, which means you can fit your learning into your weekly ...

Last Chance to Apply for a Grant Opportunity for Your Congregation

A retired pastor and his wife have generously provided two $500 gifts. These gifts are intended to encourage WELS pastors to partner with their lay leaders as they grow together to meet a ministry challenge ...

Consider the Winterim Opportunity in January 2025

January may seem a long way away, but it’s not. All pastors—those far away from the seminary and especially those within driving distance of the seminary—are encouraged to consider attending Winterim from January 6-10, 2025. ...

1 Timothy 4:1–5

The Grace Notes devotions in 2024 are based on verses from 1 Timothy. Each devotion includes Greek, pastoral ministry notes, and prayer. January: Paul’s salutation (1 Tim 1:1–2). February: Paul’s purpose in writing to Timothy ...

Commendation From Outsiders

The insider may so accommodate himself to his surroundings that he becomes oblivious to problems an outsider immediately notices. Conversely, familiarity may lead the insider to become so fixated on weaknesses that he fails to ...

Him We Proclaim: Preaching Christ from All the Scriptures

Christmas at the Seminary 2024

Join the seminary chorus for Christmas at the Seminary, a service of lessons and carols, at 3:00pm and 7:00pm on Sunday, December 8, 2024. The annual Christmas concert includes anthems by the choir and hymns for the ...

Four Branches – September 2024

Jump to: Exegetical Systematic Historical Practical Exegetical Theology: A Case Study in Why You Should Retain Your Hebrew: Psalm 110, Part 3 For this final pep talk on keeping up with your Hebrew we will ...

New Testament Rhetoric: An Introductory Guide to the Art of Persuasion in and of the New Testament