NEW Confident and Curious: A Wittenberg Guide to Living in a Scientific Age This workshop builds upon and expands the "Great Evangelical Debate" offered in the past couple years by Dr. Charles Arand. This workshop will pick up on some of those themes by first asking, “What are the theological questions/problems raised by the scientific […]
Job: Blessed be the Name of the Lord Martin Luther asserted that “Job is magnificent and sublime as no book of Scripture.” Others have called Job “the Shakespeare of the Bible.” Yet the early Christian scholar Jerome perhaps put it best when he called the book of Job an “eel,” since the more one tries […]
Prophet, Prostitute and Prodigals: Hosea’s and the LORD’s Relentless Pursuit Dr. Kevin Golden During this one-day workshop, Dr. Kevin Golden, associate professor of Exegetical Theology, will help participants learn from the prophet Hosea, his faithfulness to his wife, and in him, show how Yahweh, the Lord Himself, is faithful to us through our Savior Jesus […]
The Book of Jeremiah: Overcoming Life’s Sorrows Based upon Dr. Reed Lessing’s book Overcoming Life’s Sorrows: Learning from Jeremiah (Concordia Publishing House, 2021), this course will be a combination of in-depth study and practical application — all based upon one of the prophet’s major themes, surviving life’s sorrows. Dr. Reed Lessing Professor of Theology and […]
NEW Luther’s Soul Care Theology for the 21st Century Many Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod pastors and other church leaders realize that much of what passes for Christian counseling is based in the Law and not the Gospel of Christ. C.F.W. Walther said that properly dividing Law and Gospel in “private ministrations” is more difficult than in […]
LCMS Foundation Golf Outing Paid participants can sign up for the free golf outing during the registration process for the 32nd Annual Theological Symposium, “Search the Scriptures: Finding Christ and Ourselves in the History of Exegesis” TIME EVENT 10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Networking/Registration 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Lunch in the World’s Fair Room 12:30-3:30 p.m. Golf outing […]
Search the Scriptures: Finding Christ and Ourselves in the History of Exegesis What are the differences between an ancient and modern approach to biblical interpretation? How might the exegetical approach of the early Christian theologians enrich the life of the church today? This the focus of the 32nd Annual Theological Symposium, “Search the Scriptures: Finding […]
Join Dr. James W. Voelz, the Dr. Jack Dean Kingsbury Professor of New Testament Theology, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, for the seventh annual Dr. Jack Dean Kingsbury Lecture in New Testament Theology. Doing Biblical Interpretation the Concordia St. Louis Way Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, is a confessional Lutheran Seminary whose exegetes practice a conservative method […]
How the Early Church Read the Bible Dr. David Maxwell Registration deadline: Sept. 23, 2022 The Bible has been around for more than 2,000 years, and people have read it in different ways. This course explores how the church read the Bible in the first 500 years of the church's history. By entering into the […]
With an ever-increasing number of churches utilizing digital ministry, it’s important for pastors and ministry leaders to think through the benefits and limitations of online ministry. This topic is explored in a new online continuing education course, “Making Sense of Ministry in a Digital World,” offered in partnership by Concordia Seminary, St. Louis and Concordia […]
