Walking in a Winterim Wonderland

The Grow in Grace office is dreaming about many WELS pastors joining us for continuing education classes during the week of January 8-12, 2024, the week of January 15-19, 2024, or for both weeks. We ...

WELS Preacher Podcast

A few years ago, WELS Congregational Services and Grow in Grace, the seminary’s continuing education department, both had an idea: “What if we produced a podcast that could help WELS preachers?” A podcast featuring a ...

Reserve Your Spot for the Heritage Tour NOW!

Prof. Aaron Christie and Prof. Joel Otto will be leading a Lutheran Heritage Tour to Germany in 2024. This is not your typical “off the rack” trip to Germany. We hope to put the Lutheran ...

Join Us on Campus

Experience the peace and prayerful environment at WLS by participating in a private/individual or circuit retreat in our guest rooms. WLS welcomes you to come to campus during Winterim 2024 (even if you’re not enrolled in ...

Psalm 128

Dear brothers in faith and ministry, fellow pilgrims, The songs of “goings up” are the largest grouping of psalms, found in Book V, psalms 120-134. “Goings up” has a great ring to it. It reminds ...

Follow Me: Discipleship According to Saint Matthew

Four Branches – October 2023

Jump to: Exegetical Systematic Historical Practical Exegetical Theology:  What’s ἀγάπη got to do with it? Part 2 The Septuagint demonstrates the Hellenistic tendency to use ἀγαπάω instead of the other words for love. It also ...

Exegetical Gems from Biblical Hebrew

Four Seminary Professors Celebrate 25 Years in the Ministry

At a special chapel service on October 20, family, students, and faculty celebrated the 25th anniversary in the ministry of Professor Jonathan Micheel, Professor Steven Pagels, Professor Paul Waldschmidt, and Professor Robert Wendland. Professor Jonathan ...

Renewing Appreciation for Lutheran Art

In 2021, the seminary received as a gift a reproduction of the altarpiece at St. Mary’s Church in Wittenberg, Germany. St. Mary’s was the church at which the Luther family worshiped and where Luther often ...