Last week, four of us from the Admission Office hopped into a packed twelve passenger van and headed out for Indianapolis. We went to Indy for NATIONAL 08, the National Lutheran Youth Workers Conference hosted by the LCMS’s Office of Youth Ministry.
Gathered together for the sake of the young men and women of our church, [...]
In the beginning, when all was formless and void, God created all things giving it substance and form, establishing order out of chaos. He did so through the Law. By the Law is meant the eternal, unchangeable Law of God, which is the revelation of His will, the standard of perfection, and the mold and [...]
Tagged Creation, God's Law, God's Word, Redemption, Third Use of the Law.Months ago, I wrote about masculinity and femininity. Recently, I read an interview that ZENIT conducted with Anthony Esolen on the topic of “Finding the Masculine Genius.” There were a couple striking points that we, as Lutherans and for unknown reasons, have not discussed. The first addresses Esolen’s understanding of what the terms masculinity [...]
Tagged Anthony Esolen, Masculinity, VirtueThe churches among us teach with complete unanimity . . . .
So begins Article I of the Augsburg confession, and today we celebrate and commemorate the presentation of the Augsburg Confession to Emperor Charles V at the imperial Diet of Augsburg on 25 June 1530. On that day, the Augsburg Confession was submitted as a [...]
Here’s a little piece in Best Life Magazine that puts Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the top 20 of best places to raise a family. And this doesn’t even take into consideration what the seminary community is like. If the city is this good, just imagine what the seminary is like (wink)!
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To remember, in this day and age, tends to be thought of exclusively as a cognitive enterprise, as an exercise of the mind done in quiet solitude. From a biblical perspective, however, remembering is nothing of the sort. To remember in the Scriptures is to recall and retell the past for the benefit of ages [...]
Tagged Corpus ChristiLocated on the east side of Kramer Chapel is the Springfield Bell Tower. The bell itself was cast in 1882 for use at Concordia Theological Seminary when it resided in Springfield, Illinois. When the seminary was moved back to Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1976, however, the bell was put in storage until 1984 when it [...]
Tagged Kramer Chapel, Springfield BellPlants deserve respect is what a team of Swiss experts say about the dignity of creatures in the plant world. How can this be when people across the world, the born and unborn alike, are treated with less respect and less dignity than garbage to be gotten rid of?
Perhaps this statement will call attention to [...]
Fort Wayne, IN - May 12-14
EZEKIEL
Horace D. Hummel, Ph.D.
A study of the varied contents and message of this often neglected major prophet. How do we move from “What it meant” to “what it means”? Or is that the proper procedure? Ezekiel’s often strange visions and action-prophecies (not symbolical [...]
Two weeks after Pope Benedict XVI’s pastoral visit to the US, both seminaries of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod placed pastoral candidates in Lutheran congregations across the US. Strangely, the concerns of those nights were of a quite different nature than one of the concerns addressed by the pope during his visit. The challenge our communion [...]
Tagged Clergy Shortage, Pope Benedict XVI, Prayer
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