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Why Concordia Theological Seminary? Part I

Why choose Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne?  Three words: Classroom, Chapel, and Community. The new curriculum, now in its fourth full year, incorporates what we call The Three Cs: Classroom, Chapel, and Community. We will look at this in three installments.
Consider, first, the structure of our classroom: Here, not only the content but the [...]

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Is the Pastor Real?

Andrew Park begins his Aug. 15th article in Slate magazine with the following:

Most Sunday mornings at Buckhead Church in downtown Atlanta, one person is conspicuously absent: the senior pastor, Andy Stanley. A nationally known evangelist, Stanley is usually 20 minutes away at North Point Community Church, the suburban megachurch he has [...]

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Posters Pictures Wanted

The response to our FREE posters with the full text of the six chief parts of the Small Catechism has been tremendous.  We’ve sent thousands of sets all around the world.  Every U.S. state plus Canada, Australia, Togo, Kenya, Spain, the Philippines, Singapore, New Zealand, Germany, Poland, Slovakia and more.
If you have received a set [...]

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NATIONAL 08 — The National Lutheran Youth Workers Conference

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, [...]

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The Crisis of a Fiction-less Church

Life seems woefully fragmented for so many people, including Christians. We have brutally compartmentalized the various facets of ourselves, drawing bold unbroken lines of distinction around our hearts, our heads and our bodies respectively.
Christians sometimes over- intellectualize the faith, making God a mere object of study.  Other times, we over- emotionalize, making the Holy Spirit [...]

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Amen! St. Louis Higher Things

Another crowd of young Lutherans-Eight hundred and three-enveloped St. Louis University this past week for one of the three Higher Things conferences this summer.  At our seminary booth this exuberant group had the opportunity, as at the Poconos conference, to decorate their already CTS logo-laden backpacks, sign up for the Amazon.com Gift Card drawing, [...]

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Higher Things-Poconos…”AMEN”

In the first of the 3 summer ‘Higher Things’ conferences, youth from all over the United States (and world!) were in attendance at ‘Amen 2008.’  Six hundred and thirty to be exact. The University of Scranton never looked so Lutheran!

The philosophy of Higher Things is: ‘when we work, we work; when we play we [...]

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Overheard During Christ Academy High School

The last two weeks of June, roughly thirty high school-aged men participated in Christ Academy High School, a two-week program for young men interested in the pastoral ministry. In between classes and choir practice and chapel, they took time out to have some fun at Cedar Point Amusement Park last Friday, enjoying a full day [...]

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Telling them Jesus died for them - Christ Academy 2008

In the midst of a dark and dying world, Christ brings light and life.  Through the work of his cross - his blood washes and nourishes the sinner.  He brings his good news and forges a relationship with you through his Office of the Holy Ministry of Word and Sacrament.  Weak and sinful men carry [...]

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