NEW! Family Discipleship: Exploring an Effective Partnership of the Congregation and Home This workshop will explore helping ministries become family-centered and church-supported in raising children in the faith. Biblical mandates […]
The Present God: Exploring a Major Biblical Theme For many Christians, the theological value of the Old Testament is limited to messianic prophecies and the comforting assurances of the Psalms. […]
NEW! The Bible We Read in Church Christian denominations using a lectionary tend to read the Bible more extensively in church than most denominations that do not use a lectionary. As we use the Three-Year Lectionary Series, what exactly are we reading in church each year? What will never be read? What specifically are we […]
Meeting the Crisis of Scripture as “People of the Word”: How to Avoid Liberal Criticism and Biblical Fundamentalism Conservative Lutherans have never felt at home in the modern “Battle for the Bible.” We reject liberal critics, for they have abandoned the foundational Christian belief that the Scriptures are the written Word of God. But we […]