Thank God the Fleeting Privilege Is Still Yours!
It is a sad but very real ability of my sinful nature to turn any task - no matter how gracious a privilege it is - into a grievous burden. My life is littered with ...
Rewiring Your Preaching: How the Brain Processes Sermons
Richard H. Cox (M.D., Ph.D., D.Min.) is president emeritus of Forest Institute of Professional Psychology in Springfield, Missouri, and teaches in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences as Duke University Medical School. The author ...
Four Branches March – 2019
Jump to: Exegetical Systematic Historical Practical Exegetical Theology: The Cross as Metonymy in 1 Corinthians 1:18 The Second Lesson for Lent 4 features a particularly potent use of metonymy. The entire section of 1 Corinthians ...
Preach the Word – March/April
Volume 22, Number 4 Apologetics in Preaching: Resurrection Apologetics I have to admit, to my great shame, that I had trouble preaching during the Easter season. Easter Sunday was great. Preaching on Doubting Thomas the ...
Wired for Intimacy: How Pornography Hijacks the Male Brain
William Struthers is an associate professor of psychology at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He teaches courses on behavioral neuroscience, men and addictions, and ...
Lord, Grant That I in Ev’ry Place May Glorify Your Lavish Grace!
(This is the chapel devotion for Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary on Monday, March 18, 2019) What will deter you in carrying out ministry? Will it be the frustration of that summer-camp that sees many kids eagerly ...
Four Branches February 2019
Jump to: Exegetical Systematic Historical Practical Exegetical Theology: God's New Thing The Exodus from Egypt was a tremendous act of deliverance by God. In Isaiah 43:16-21 (Lent 5C), God reminds his people of this ...
Commentary on 1 and 2 Timothy
Commentary on 1 and 2 Timothy, by Johann Gerhard. Translated by Joshua J. Hayes. Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2017. 231 pages. The Concordia Theological Seminary Master of Divinity Class of 2017 and Alternate Route ...
Jesus Redefines Our Best Days!
I’ve only preached on next Sunday’s gospel (Luke 6:17-26) twice in 33 years. (No doubt shorter Epiphany seasons and 20 years of professor-ing have played into that reality.) As I looked back, both times I ...
The Commentators’ Bible: Deuteronomy
The Commentators’ Bible: Deuteronomy: The Rubin JPS Miqra’ot Gedolot, edited, translated, and annotated by Michael Carasik. Philadelphia, PA: The Jewish Publication Society, 2015. 296 pages. Michael Carasik teaches Biblical Hebrew at the University of Pennsylvania. ...