“Where never is heard a discouraging word, and the skies are not cloudy all…Sunday.” Such is the current reality in many Christian pulpits. In misguided love preachers wash from their sermons any reference to God’s ...
(The following devotion was preached in the chapel of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary on Monday, October 8, 2018) Did anyone need to look very closely to find the malady of last Sunday’s gospel (Mark 10:2-16)? There ...
Next week our seminary campus hosts the Symposium on the Pastor as Shepherd-Leader. Since leadership is a “hot topic,” the world trumpets one new theory after another about the essence of leadership. Even within the ...
Is there a more beautiful chapter than John 6 when it comes to evidence of the patient saving love of Jesus that seeks to overcome the stubborn unbelief of our human hearts? Jesus, in his ...
There is no truth of Scripture so wonderful that my sinful nature cannot distort it into a caricature of itself for my sinful nature’s own purposes! Consider how that works with the theology of the ...
Scottsdale, Arizona. Watertown, South Dakota. Saginaw, Michigan. New Ulm, Minnesota. Clifton Park, New York. Waco, Nebraska. Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Tacoma, Washington. Palm Harbor, Florida. Dallas, Texas. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Watertown, Wisconsin. Over the past two weeks, in ...
Let me present Exhibit A for the reality that God never intended your life or mine to be lived for our own advantage. (A reality that can all too easily escape our awareness when facing ...
Have you mastered the truth of Easter yet? I will confess that I clearly haven’t. I’m not talking about mastering the logistical, factual details of the day’s events. I’ve known that quite well ever since ...
(This devotion, in a slightly modified form, was preached in the chapel of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary on Monday, March 12, 2018. The video of that chapel service can be found here.) About the last word ...
It is often a troubling and confusing thing to follow as a disciple behind him who was “a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering” (Isaiah 53:3). In faith in him we have been exalted ...
