Ugh! I can't believe it's ben a month since I last posted! It's been a busy time. Since I last posted I had a trip to Saint Louis, our special Good Shepherd Seminar weekend, then our vacation to Hawaii! Then after that, catching up from being away. So I'm going to try to post about these now, especially some vacations photos.
First, we had Rev. Dr. Carl Beckwith with us for our 18th Annual Good Shepherd Seminar. I always enjoy this weekend to have a seminary professor out to present. This year, our topic was "Confessing the Faith of Our Fathers: Athanasius, Luther, and the 1,700th Anniversary of the Nicene Creed." He did a great job and was well received. I learned a lot of history I did not know about events leading up to the Council. If you'd like to listen to his presentation, it is posted on our church website, along with many previous seminars. Give a listen!
Presenting Dr. Beckwith with an icon of Saint Athanasius to remember his time with us!
Next year, I believe our topic will be on free will. This year is the 500th anniversary of Luther's seminal work The Bondage of the Will, and you often hear folks say things like, "We all have free will." Is that true? If so, in what way is it true? What do the Scriptures say? I haven't firmed this up yet, but I've already spoken to Dr. Roland Ziegler who expressed verbally his openness to coming. So I hope to nail him down soon!
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