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03-26 Under the Fig Tree: Helping others better understand Christianity with hip-hop artist FLAME
No full textJoin hosts Rev. Micah Glenn and Dr. Ben Haupt as they talk with Lutheran hip-hop artist Flame, Marcus Gray, who earned a Master of Arts from Concordia Seminary in 2018. Listen in as FLAME shares his journey to the Seminary, his conversion to Lutheranism from Calvinism and why he thinks future church workers should remember their own human experiences and the “regular concerns” of others before coming to the Seminary. He also explains why he wants to get involved in new music projects exploring Confession, Absolution and vocation. The doctrine of vocation, he says, is “one of the greatest contributions out of Lutheran thought.” He said he has seen a lot of Christians try to monitor their motives and do things for the right reasons in hopes of glorifying God more. But that seems to cultivate insecurity and lead them away from Christianity because it’s “too complex.”
“I want to talk about vocation because I think it helps people understand that in all of the varying areas that you find yourself in, God says, ‘Amen. Do good in those to the best of your ability for the sake of those around you, not so you can get cool points from Me or earn extra credit in My eyes,’” FLAME says. “Jesus said, ‘It is finished on the cross,’ so what He has done for us has been secured. … I want people to understand Christianity and reimagine God and reimagine what it means to be a believer.”
Under the Fig Tree is a video and audio podcast of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. New video and audio episodes are added weekly each Monday. Under the Fig Tree can be found on YouTube and most podcast platforms including Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts, and Scholar. Those interested in vocational ministry are invited to learn more about Concordia Seminary at csl.edu or by contacting the admissions team at [email protected] or 800-822-9545
Sectional 1: Response to 17th Annual Hispanic Lecture
No full textIn this response to the 17th Annual Lecture in Hispanic/Latino Theology and Missions, Rev. Lincon Guerra will identify and address the challenges of the church in the areas of outreach and ministry to second- and third-generation Hispanics in the United States
Sectional 2: Is There Hope for Second Generation Immigrants?
No full textMany denominations in the United States, including Lutherans, are engaged in helping immigrant congregations plant mono-ethnic congregations. This is mainly due to the choice of first-generation immigrants to worship in their languages. The key challenge that these ethnic congregations face is how to accommodate the younger generations into the life and ministry of the church. Whether the immigrant communities are African, Asian or Hispanic, these challenges are strikingly similar. There exists fear within immigrant congregations that younger generation immigrant American Christians are leaving their parents’ churches and abandoning their faith. This presentation will discuss the challenges of the Ethiopian immigrant congregations in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minn., and focus on their struggle to understand how to incorporate second- and third-generation immigrants into their communities
Plenary: The Gospel and the Church for All Peoples and Every Generation
No full textHow might the Gospel be heard as good news? How might the church be a meaningful community to belong to? These questions always matter. But they are more urgent where, like it is in the United States, there are people from various places and of different generations. This presentation will explore how we go about discerning faithful answers to these questions so that the Gospel and the church might truly be for all people and every generation
144. Luke 24:44–53
Get PDFChapel Sermon by Kirk Clayton from Luke 24:44–53 on Wednesday, May 17, 2023
Jeremiah 28:05-09
No full textJeremiah 28:5-9 presented by Phil Penhallegon for the Old Testament reading for Sunday, July 2, 2023, 5th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 8)
137. Revelation 19:6–10
Get PDFChapel Sermon by Kent Burreson from Revelation 19:6–10 on Monday, May 8, 2023. This is the fifth sermon of a nine-part series on the new stained-glass windows in the chapel.
See the Tour of the stained glass windows and the accompanying sermons at Chapel Windows Exhibit
056. Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11
No full textIsaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 presented by Philip Penhallegon for the First reading (Series B) for Sunday, December 31, 2023, First Sunday after Christmas
Praying Like a Lutheran in a Secular Age
No full textMartin Luther’s theology of prayer is informed by his theology of justification by faith. Full reliance on the merits of Christ for salvation causes Luther to base even his prayers on trust. This sectional examines The Large Catechism, Luther’s Little Prayer Book and his Treatise on Good Works, as well as select prayers to show how Luther’s theology of justification flows into his theology of prayer and his own prayer life. This sectional will also explore how Luther’s trust-based theology of prayer benefits those praying in a secular world