Who hasn’t wondered about the curious question in Sunday’s gospel (Luke 13:22-30)? “Lord, are only a few people going to be saved?” (22) We shake our heads at the unbelieving world and wonder: “Lord, are ...
Volume 23, Number 1 Simple Preaching “Preach to the milkmaids, and the doctors will be edified.” When I first heard that comment by Martin Luther, it instantly became one of my favorites. Let’s preach the ...
At the opening worship on Monday evening, Rev. Steven Pagels was installed as a professor of dogmatics and homiletics and Prof. Earle Treptow was installed as the thirteenth president of the seminary. Professor Steven Pagels ...
In Sunday’s gospel (Luke 10:38-42), did Martha walk away disappointed because Jesus didn’t sanction her well-meaning but distracted busyness by rebuking Mary? Or, perhaps, initially stunned when Jesus’ gentle, loving rebuke came her way and ...
This was the third time I've had the opportunity to dig with Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary (1982, 1999, 2019). This was the first time we got to dig at a Khirbet (ruins) instead of a Tell ...
As our first-ever archaeological dig approached, my wife and I prepared in the way that most couples would probably prepare. We packed our sunscreen and sunglasses. We purchased a couple of trowels and a few ...
It Is About People. Many years ago (actually a few decades ago), I remember seeing a picture and reading an article in the Northwestern Lutheran of now sainted Seminary Professor John Jeske and some other ...
Join your brothers in ministry on Seminary campus beginning on September 16 to highlight Christian Apologetics. Learn, participate, and engage with the three essayists: An Introduction to and Defense of Apologetics (Michael Berg) Lutheran Doctrine ...
Wisconsin’s governor has our country’s most sweeping line item veto power. While its use has led to court challenges, Wisconsin governors have crossed out single words or altered a single digit in an appropriations bill, ...
Volume 22, Number 6 Apologetics in Preaching: You have to Do Something with This Jesus Character God or bad man? This ancient dilemma has faced skeptics for centuries. If Jesus is not true God, then ...
