Matthew 4:12-23 Epiphany 3 A January 24, 2011 Crossings Conference Belleville, Illinois Rev. Dr. Steven E. Albertin We all like to be chosen. It makes our day when someone says they want us. I have a vivid memory from my childhood that I want to forget. I must have been about six or seven years old. The …
Setting the Foundation: How Distinguishing God’s Law and God’s Gospel brings Jesus’ Full Benefits to Bear on Real Lives in the Real World.
Opening remarks by Jerome Burce at a Crossings Seminar 23 January 2011 ___________ + In Nomine Jesu + My job in these next 45 minutes or so is to get you suspecting that your trip here today was probably worth it. We want you, after all, to be in a good frame of mind when we move on …
“How He Did It”
A Sermon for the Third Sunday after Epiphany, January 23, 2011. Belleville, the Conference of the Crossings Community. Follow me, and I will make you fish for people. INI Way to go, NRSV. You turned Promise into law! Jesus emphatically did not say he would make them do something. He said he would do something. When you …
Cancel any Celebration of the 500th Anniversary of the 95 Theses.
Colleagues, Shortly before Christmas, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, (the New York TImes of Germany) published an article by Jochen Teuffel, a pastor from the Lutheran church in Bavaria, recommending that the plans already underway for church-wide/nation-wide celebration of the 500th anniversary of Luther’s posting the 95 Thesis–October 31, 2017–be canceled. Why? Lutheran church life today in Germany is …
Those “Solas” in Lutheran Theology
Colleagues, There’s a group of Lutheran clergy holding regular meetings–“tell it not in Gath”–here in St. Louis. Half are from the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod, the other half from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. I’m not involved in those gatherings, but I did get invited–by the LCMS chair–to be a guest at the last meeting a …
A Lutheran Missiology: God’s Promise the Cornerstone
Colleagues, One of the Christmas gifts that came my way was the complete text of Jukka Kaariainen’s just-completed doctoral dissertation. The topic line above is what it’s all about. The full title: Missio Shaped by Promissio: Lutheran Missiology Confronts the Challenge of Religious Pluralism. I’ve been a “distant” advisor for Jukka as he navigated the grad school labyrinth …
Bibliography of Edward Schroeder
[Items in bold face are on the Crossings.org website] 1950 1. (untitled) [Women Pastors? NO!] Senior paper in religion at Valparaiso University, May 1950. 1951 2. “New Fields of Evangelism.” in Report of The Commission On Evangelism. A Service Project Report of the Association of Lutheran Seminarians. Concordia Seminary, St. Louis MO 1951, p.19f. 1957 3. “Zwischen …