Winter Quarter Begins!
Monday marks the beginning of the Winter Quarter. For me, that means Elementary Hebrew which is technically a pre-seminary course. For the other three bloggers, Matt, Tyler, and Andrew, they get to take real classes.Anyway, here we go!+ SDG + ------------------------------------ Listen to our radio show, This Week In Seminary at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/This-Week-In-Seminary

Progress of the CTS Library Expansion
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Fly Through of CTS Library Expansion
Check out what is in store for current and future CTS students...http://www.ctsfw.edu/Page.aspx?pid=360+ SDG + ------------------------------------ Listen to our radio show, This Week In Seminary at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/This-Week-In-Seminary

Pittelko's Four Axioms
On Thursday evenings at Concordia Seminary in Saint Louis, some students gather at the home of Rev. Dr. Ronald Feuerhahn to read and ponder the works of Hermann Sasse. While we have been reading from the We Confess Anthology, Dr. Feuerhahn also references articles appearing in his festschrift, Lord Jesus Christ, Will You Not Stay.This festschrift is outstanding. [Editor's note: this post, from this point on, has nothing to do with Hermann Sasse or Dr. Feuerhahn.] There is so much worth quoting from this book, but fo

The Church of Sweden Approves of Gay Marriage
Today in my "Pastor, Congregation, Synod" class we discussed a recent report from the Church of Sweden supporting gay marriage. We did not have ample time to cover the entire forty page report, but one paragraph that we did look at has been in my mind all day. I have heard it said before that Christendom's embrace of contraception is linked to the blessing of gay marriage in some of its denominations. The Church of Sweden agrees. "Men and women united in marriage have gradually come to be seen as two equal, economically independent parties with a joint responsibility for children and the home. Women are no longer dependent on men providing for them. Through contraception and the econo