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Tips for New Preachers

Preaching is one of the most challenging, enjoyable and dangerous things any pastor will do. The responsibility is tremendous and the world allies with our sinful flesh to make preachers deliver poor sermons and to distract inattentive hearers.
The newly minted pastors leaving the seminary for their first calls have had excellent homiletical training from [...]

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May 12-14, Ezekiel with Dr. Horace Hummel

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 [...]

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God Speak

I expect to be soaking in the blood of Jesus when the preacher says, “Amen.” That bright red river of life from the cross of Calvary makes the robes of God’s people white like snow. The professors at Concordia Theological Seminary would say that a sermon should be a good exposition of Law [...]

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A sermon that sticks with you.

Here is a link to a sermon preached a couple weeks ago by Rev. Jason Braaten here in Kramer Chapel:
Audio // Text
Sometimes there are those sermons that stick with you. They stand out either because they taught you something, struck your stubborn conscience with God’s law, or soothed an aching heart [...]

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Weekly Greek Pericope Studies

Part of the seminary’s new curriculum is a one-hour a week Greek Readings course that covers the Gospel reading for the coming Sunday in the Three-year Lectionary. You may find the outline and questions the students follow helpful in your own study. You can find those resources here.
On vicarage, I was blessed with a supervising [...]