If it weren’t so serious, we would all get a good laugh out of what is going on in our country.

In these difficult economic times, most in our government have determined that the only possible way that the people of the nation can survive is if someone bails them out. After years of greed, foolish overspending, and irresponsible living on credit, the liberals and secularists of our age are putting their collective heads together and coming up with their solution to the problem that the popula

"I believe . . . in the forgiveness of sins."

This is the fifteenth article on the teachings which we confess in the Apostles’ Creed. The fact that our sins are forgiven is the work of the Holy Spirit—the third part of this creed. It is the Holy Spirit, through the Word, who works this important element of faith in our hearts—that Jesus has fully paid the penalty of sin. And it is also the Holy Spirit who gives us the assurance and comfort that, to all who believe in Jesus, their sins are...
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Brothers and sisters, if Jesus were standing in a church pulpit today, what would He preach? What would He think is the number one need for our culture, our country, our congregation, for your family, for your individual soul? If Jesus were here on earth, He would see that people feel disconnected and left out in a world traveling at light-speed with its advancing technology and super-busy chaotic lifestyle. He would see by reading through local church advertisements that churches are competing

“Come to Heidelberg Theological Seminary and help the church by becoming a preacher.”

More than likely, you have heard about the Macedonian call recorded in the book of Acts. “And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, ‘Come over to Macedonia and help us.’ Now after he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them” (Acts 16:9–10). Absent the

The book of First Peter provides much insight into the theme “Living Godly in an Ungodly Age.” We will be looking at verses 3–4 of chapter 1.

We see at the beginning of the letter in verses 1–2 that believers have a new identity: not only as pilgrims in the world, but as God’s elect. As God’s pilgrims, they are “elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ” (1 Pet. 1:2).

Dear partners in the mission,

As we are already well into the year 2009, busy with our daily activities, many of us might well think, with Ecclesiastes: “What does man gain from all his labor at which he toils under the son? Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises… What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the son…” And, even worse: “So I