Fred Niedner

HEAVEN’S SECRET Luke 3:15-17 21-22 Baptism of Our Lord, Year C Analysis by Fred Niedner     15As the people were filled with expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Messiah, 16John answered all of them…

Co-missioners, Today we send you the second half of Fred Niedner’s address at the recent closing of the Lutheran School of Theology, St. Louis. If flows directly from the end of Part One where Fred has named the event as…

Co-missioners, We’re about to jar you with a post that will sound distinctly un-Adventish. Is not this brief and blessed season about beginnings? A new church year? An old promise still lurking just past the horizon, and who can say…

Co-missioners, We send you the second half of Fred Niedner’s presentation at the Seminex event in Chicago this past April. You’ll find it stunning. See, not least, Fred’s summation in his second-last paragraph of the Church’s role in the world…

Co-missioners, Fred Niedner earned an STM degree in 1973 at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, his theological alma mater. Two months later a majority of his teachers would find themselves condemned as intolerable by a convention of the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod.…

Co-missioners, Today we send you the second half of Fred Niedner’s essay on “the sweet swap.” And again we add our hope that you’ll be able to join us at the end of January to hear Fred in person along…

Co-missioners, For the past six weeks we’ve been reviewing the core insights of the Lutheran reformation as presented by Philip Melanchthon in Article IV of the Apology, his defense of the Augsburg Confession. Now our focus shifts to the matter…