The Fall 2005 issues of Higher Things is now on the press and will soon be out the door! This issue has articles on everything from hell to video games, Narnia to plastic surgery, and the ever present Kathy Luder installment. But for our online friends, we have three special additions:
- In addition, there is an article (also online in PDF) on how to listen to sermons by our own Pastor William Cwirla. This article helps young (and old) with what they are to listen for, how to listen, when to cut the preacher some slack, and how to find Jesus.
In honor of Pastor Cwirla’s article on preaching, we have also posted two articles that were originally sermons from the Dare to Be Lutheran youth conference. Here they are:
- Equal to the Apostles, by Dr. Norman Nagel. This was the sermon Dr. Nagel (one of Pr. Cwirla’s teachers) preached at our Divine Service at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, this past summer. We commemorated the Eve of St. Mary Magdelene, and the text was from Luke 7. Dr. Nagel invites the hearers to recognize that Jesus is the one who draws us into HIs Holy Kingdom by HIs blood, and that “our sin is not the measurement of HIs love.” This sermon (along with a bunch of great pictures from DTBL), is also available in PDF format.
- Enslaved, Seduced, and Shackled: And ‘The Lord was with Joseph’ , by Pastor Peter Cage. This sermon is on Genesis 39, the seduction of Joseph by Potiphar’s wife. This was probably one of the more interesting and difficult texts we had at Dare to Be Lutheran this past summer, and Pr. Cage did a wonderful job pointing out how Joseph’s faithfulness points us to the faithfulness of Christ, who is always true to His Bride, the Church. It is also available in PDF format.
Look for your copy of Higher Things in the mail in the next few weeks, and in the meantime, enjoy the teasers!
Pastor Todd Peperkorn, STM
Executive Editor
Higher Things: Dare to Be Lutheran
editor@higherthings.org
