Informal Continuing Education

The Grow in Grace team provides resources for informal (not-for-credit) continuing education. This 11-minute exegetical video on the account of “the Bethel bears” in 2 Kings 2 is an example of the kind of resources we could ...

Prepared for the Parsonage

I'm not a pastor’s kid. I graduated from a non-WELS high school. I’m not from the Midwest, and I’m an introvert. So, as I consider my recent transition to the parish life, I’m asking myself, ...

Psalm 130

The fall season in Wisconsin was beautiful this year, but fall also reminds us that life in this world is limited. “How long, O Lord?” The last Sunday of the church year we hear Jesus ...

Forming Pastors in Other Cultures

By the grace of God, the Lord is still using me to proclaim his praise at the age of 75 years. Like the apostle Paul, who said, “what I received, I passed on,” I have ...

Shaped by Brotherhood

"Brothers!" I vividly remember hearing that word over and over again on our class trips to the seminary during my college years. Everywhere we went on campus, the seminarians would call us “brothers.” At first ...