Lord, What Should We Do?
“You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?” (Luke 3:7). Wow, is that John the Baptizer’s suggested homiletical greeting for Gaudete? That historic name for next Sunday, taken from the ...
Four Branches December 2018
Jump to: Exegetical Systematic Historical Practical Exegetical Theology: Appreciating Isaiah's Poetry If you page through the book of Isaiah in most English editions of the Bible, you will notice that much of the text ...
The Gospel Preached Through Music: The Purpose and Practice of Lutheran Church Music
Daniel Zager has served as organist and director of music for several Lutheran congregations. He was a member of the Hymnody Committee for Lutheran Service Book. Zager has served as editor of CrossAccent: Journal of the ...
Preach the Word – November/December
Volume 22, Number 2 Apologetics in Preaching: Prophecies Fulfilled in Real History To some apologetics is a dirty word. The obvious objection to apologetics is “What about faith?” This concern is not unique to sola ...
Four Branches November 2018
Jump to: Exegetical Systematic Historical Practical Exegetical Theology: Little Words, Big Worth - καί These last two months we’ve discussed how particles like ἀλλά and δέ help an exegete navigate a text. Today we’ll ...
Do You Love Your Hearers? Then Speak of God’s Judgment!
“Where never is heard a discouraging word, and the skies are not cloudy all…Sunday.” Such is the current reality in many Christian pulpits. In misguided love preachers wash from their sermons any reference to God’s ...
Luther and the Stories of God: Biblical Narratives as a Foundation for Christian Living
Robert Kolb (PhD, University of Wisconsin) is Mission Professor of Systematic Theology emeritus at Concordia Seminary and the author of numerous books. Some readers of this review may recognize him as an editor for one ...
Four Branches October 2018
Jump to: Exegetical Systematic Historical Practical Exegetical Theology: Little Words, Big Worth - δέ Particles can be extremely helpful in exegesis because of what they do: they show how the various statements of the ...
Look Closer, What Whom Do You See?
(The following devotion was preached in the chapel of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary on Monday, October 8, 2018) Did anyone need to look very closely to find the malady of last Sunday’s gospel (Mark 10:2-16)? There ...
Four Branches September 2018
Jump to: Exegetical Systematic Historical Practical Exegetical Theology: Little Words, Big Worth - ἀλλά Often the littlest words get the longest entries in dictionaries. With the many different glosses offered for particles like καί and ...