Let the Fire Begin!
Dear Brothers I have a love/hate relationship with the Olympics. As a child I ate it up. I dreamt of being an Olympic swimmer or runner or biker - or whatever competition I had just ...
Preach the Word – July/August 2016
Volume 19, Number 6 Don Patterson is a 1992 graduate of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary. He is one of three pastors at Holy Word Lutheran Church, Austin, Texas. He has helped 18 vicars hone their preaching ...
Creeds and Councils
Some people identify themselves as non-creedal Christians. They reject the historic Christian creeds and confessions in favor of what they might call a more “authentic” or “biblical” Christianity. There are also Christians who have ...
Jesus’ To-Do List…or Yours?
It doesn’t seem like a hard question to answer, does it? Is God’s to-do list more important than your to-do list? That’s what we call a no-brainer, right? Not so fast. In the midst of ...
Frederick the Wise
It seems strange that much of the life of one of the men who saved the Lutheran Reformation is, in Wellman’s words, “unseen.” We think we know so much about Frederick the Wise, the ...