Building Up the Body of Christ: Supporting Community Life in the Church

Dr. Bruce Hartung is professor emeritus of practical theology at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, where he served as the dean of ministerial formation. He is a diplomate and past president of the American Association of ...

Four Branches July – 2019

Jump to: Exegetical Systematic Historical Practical Exegetical Theology: Three Levels of Analysis in Genesis 18 In Preaching Christ from the Old Testament, Sidney Greidanus presents the helpful exegetical concept that OT narrative can be analyzed ...

Mission at Nuremberg: An American Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis

Tim Townsend, formerly the religion reporter at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, holds master’s degrees from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Yale Divinity School. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, the ...

Is That “Daily” Part Really Necessary?!?!

Wisconsin’s governor has our country’s most sweeping line item veto power.  While its use has led to court challenges, Wisconsin governors have crossed out single words or altered a single digit in an appropriations bill, ...

The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus

Gary R. Habermas (Ph.D., Michigan State) teaches at Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary and Graduate School in Lynchburg, Virgina, and chairs the Department of Philosophy at Liberty University. He has authored, co-authored, or edited forty books. ...

Preach the Word – July/August 2019

Volume 22, Number 6 Apologetics in Preaching: You have to Do Something with This Jesus Character God or bad man? This ancient dilemma has faced skeptics for centuries. If Jesus is not true God, then ...

Four Branches June – 2019

Jump to: Exegetical Systematic Historical Practical Editor's Welcome Brothers, For the last three years I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to serve as the General Editor for The Four Branches. It’s been an incredible encouragement ...

From persecuted to proclaiming

A note from Professor Sorum: After dinner with Rev. Bounkeo Lor and the five elected leaders of the Hmong Fellowship Church, I enjoyed a long conversation with Pastor Vang. He is one of these five ...

An interview with Bounkeo Lor

Prof. E. Allen Sorum accompanied Rev. Bounkeo Lor to Hanoi, Vietnam to conduct a training session from June 10-22, 2019. Prof. Sorum taught the Book of Isaiah and Pastoral Counseling and Family Ministry for Missionaries. ...

Story of Kua

Pastor Vue is one of the pastors with the Hmong Fellowship Church who is training under Rev. Bounkeo Lor and Professor E. Allen Sorum. Currently he has some family members who are suffering persecution in ...