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, [...]
Tagged Dare to Be Lutheran, Higher Things, Youth ConferenceIn 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 [...]
Tagged Confessional Lutheran Youth Retreat, Higher Things, YouthPraise be to God that Pastors and deaconesses will be reaching all corners of the United States (and world) this summer to proclaim the Gospel and serve, as they embark on their new vicarages and internships, placements and Divine Calls. Please keep them in your prayers. They will need all the support they can [...]
Tagged , deaconess, Fort Wayne, SeminaryFort 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 [...]
What a trip and learning experience! It was an honor to accompany 16 seminarians and 2 professors- Dr. Rast and Dr. Quill- to South Africa for a little under 3 weeks. The goals of this excursion were manifold. Both Dr. Quill and Dr. Rast were invited to teach 2 separate courses, Homiletics [...]
Tagged Lutheran Church, Missions, Seminary, South AfricaAnthony Esolen has done it again. His latest blog post is on how the world has lost its soul, its culture, because it has lost in its music any resemblance or building up on the music of the past. Esolen defines culture as that which you have when “you cultivate those beliefs, customs, celebrations, and [...]
Tagged Anthony Esolen, culture, Touchstone, traditionHere is a blog post worth a serious read. And I mean, read it and consider how it speaks to you. Much of the stagnation of thought and practice, which in all reality is a decline, is due to the things that Esolen brings to light in his blog post. [...]
Tagged aesthetics, CTS, LCMS, Music, religion, worshipI just got back from an 8 day Epiphany tour with the seminary Kantorei. The Kantorei is a 16 voice choir made up of seminarians. I was in the Kantorei when I was a fourth year seminarian. This time I was their preacher. Set in the friendly confines of evening prayer, [...]
Tagged CTS, Epiphany, Kantorei, LCMS, Lutheranism, Resch, Seminary
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