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  • Teach With This Trait in Mind: Immediate Application

    This is the final article in a five-part series by Prof. Stephen Geiger, who teaches education and New Testament at Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, the seminary of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Why study the Bible? The Apostle Paul gives a great answer to Timothy: “From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able…

  • “No One Believes in Sin Anymore”

    If you have ever wondered why anyone would have wanted a nice man like Jesus dead, your answer can be heard, furious and shout­ing, in the gospel of Matthew, chapter 23. We call this scene the Seven Woes of Jesus. Savor the bitter words. Read the pathos and pain between the lines when Love got…

  • Teach With This Trait in Mind: Task-Oriented

    This is the third article in a five-part series by Prof. Stephen Geiger, who teaches education and New Testament at Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, the seminary of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Sunday morning adult Bible class is not the time to teach people how to use a new computer program. But if it were, you…

  • Priorities Chapter 3: Priorities For Our Families

      Tethered to his room by an oxygen hose, Art could do little other than sit and think. The prospect of impending death drove his thoughts back to a time he had desperately tried to forget. Though 20 years had passed, Art could barely contain the sob that surged from deep within. His son had…

  • Teach With This Trait in Mind – Experienced

    This is the second article in a five-part series by Prof. Stephen Geiger, who teaches education and New Testament at Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, the seminary of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. How many teachers do you have in your Sunday morning Bible study? Before you start trying to figure out whether you have any grade…

  • “The Christian Faith is Too Negative”

    A secret disciple from the ranks of Jewish leadership, Nicodemus stepped out of the shadows to ask for the body of Christ. At great personal cost, he and another Pharisee, Joseph of Arimathea, climbed that dreadful hill and approached the lifeless Jesus. They worked in a rush as they wrapped his body. The sun was…

  • Priorities Chapter 2: For Husbands and Wives

    Art Remus couldn’t sleep. He was dying of cancer, and the process seemed to consume every minute of his existence. The doctor hadn’t said much—he hadn’t needed to. The familiar twinkle was gone from his eyes; there were no more jokes. These things had betrayed the truth: The disease was out of control. Art wouldn’t…

  • Who Can Really Say What Death Means?

    The town of Nain rested on the side of a hill. It was surrounded by a wall that had one gate. As Jesus led his crowd of followers up the path toward the city, a funeral procession was leaving town by the same narrow road. Picture two human parades silently slipping past each other. The…