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2018 — The Gift of Creation and Her Redemption in Christ
| 18-1 | Bender P | Christ and the Bible’s Catechesis on Creation: What Is at Stake? |
| 18-2 | Schumacher S | Created by God: One Becomes Two—Two Become One: What’s Love Got to Do with It? |
| 18-3 | Eckardt BF | Behold the Man: The Image of God |
| 18-4 | Stuckwisch | Living the Sacramental Life: The Fulfillment of Creation in the Baptized and Eucharistic Life |
| 18-5 | Aadland T | I Am Most Certainly Baptized: The Life that God Engenders |
| 18-6 | Panel | |
| 18-7 | Fabrizius/Bender | Sermons |
2017 — Confessing Christ in a Hostile World
| 17-0 | Preuses | Teaching the Faith at Home |
| 17-1 | Preus CA | Confessing Christ in a Post-Modern Context |
| 17-2 | Preus AJ | The Vicarious Satisfaction in Light of Current Antinomian Debates |
| 17-3 | Preus SK | Sanctification in the Second Article: Serving Christ |
| 17-4 | Preus JC | Christ as Husband and Father |
| 17-5 | Preus MA | The Church’s Song against a Hostile World |
| 17-6 | Preus DR | Confessing Christ in Latin America |
| 17-7 | Preus RD | Preaching and Confessing |
| 17-8 | various | Sermons from symposium series |
2016 — Keeping Our Children in the Faith
| 16-0 | Bender P | The Task of Catechesis and the Lutheran Catechesis Series |
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| 16-1 | Stuckwisch | Steadfast in His Word and Faith until We Die: How the Head of the Household Teaches His Children to Pray and Confess |
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| 16-2 | Eckardt BF | The Liturgy Is for Children |
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| 16-3 | Fabrizius K | Biblical Families: What’s the Portrait? |
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| 16-4 | Lane J | “We Believe in one holy, catholic, apostolic Church”— Treating our children as if they are saints, because that’s who they are! |
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| 16-5 | Bender P | The Broken Heart of a Christian Parent |
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| 16-6 | Panel | Discussion on keeping our children in the faith |
2015 — Pastoral Care for the Shepherd and His Sheep
| 15-0 | Bender P | Toward the Regular Congregational Practice of Individual Confession and Absolution |
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| 15-1 | Bender P | Stating the Problem: The Need for Pastoral Care |
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| 15-2 | Pless J | Luther’s Oratio, Meditatio, Tentatio as the Shape of Pastoral Care for Pastors |
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| 15-3 | Eckardt BF | “Every Day Will I Bless Thee”: The Divine Influence of the Psalms on Jesus’ Pastors and Their Sheep |
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| 15-4 | Resch R | Pastoral Care for the Shepherd and His Sheep: Singing through Sadness and Gladness |
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| 15-5 | Wolfmueller | Absolved and Absolving: The Comforted Conscience as the Goal and Context of Pastoral Care |
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| 15-6 | Panel | Discussion of pastoral care for the shepherd and his sheep |
2014 — “Lord, Teach Us to Pray” — Catechesis on the Lord’s Prayer
| 14-1 | Stuckwisch | Hallowed be Thy name; Thy kingdom come |
| 14-2 | Engebretson | Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven |
| 14-3 | Berg J M | Give us this day our daily bread |
| 14-4 | Preus RD | And forgive us our trespasses |
| 14-5 | Bender P | And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil |
| 14-6 | Panel | Discussion on Prayer |
2013 — Catechesis and Contemporary Challenges to the Christian Faith
| 13-0 | Bender/May | Workshop on A Singing Congregation |
| 13-1 | Ehlke RC | The Decline of Western Civilization and the Church’s Response |
| 13-2 | Wenthe D | The Christian Vision of Humanity: The Beauty of Truth and the Truth of Beauty |
| 13-3 | Jastram N | A Handbook on Biblical Homosexuality |
| 13-4 | Fisk J | How American Christianity Got So BROKEN and What the Catechist Ought to Do About It |
| 13-5 | Bender P | A Troubled Conscience and the Sufficiency of God’s Grace |
| 13-6 | Panel | Contemporary Challenges to the Christian Faith |
2012 — Christology and the Catechism
| 12-0 | Bender P | Workshop on Lutheran Catechesis |
| 12-1 | Preus RD | Knowing Who Jesus Is by What Jesus Does |
| 12-2 | Fabrizius K | Portraits of Christ in the Old Testament |
| 12-3 | Eckardt BF | The Christology of the Divine Liturgy |
| 12-4 | Scaer D | The Christology of Luther’s Small Catechism |
| 12-5 | Fisk J | “Crucified, Dead, and Buried” — The Chiasm of the Cross as the Structural Heart of the Small Catechism Faith |
| 12-6 | Panel | Panel Discussion |
2011 — The Third Article
| 11-0 | Bender/Stuckwisch | Workshop on Private Confession and Absolution |
| 11-1 | Bender P | Jesus’ Catechesis on the Ministry of the Holy Spirit (and The CCA after 18 Years) |
| 11-2 | Esget C | The Holy Spirit Is Always the Spirit of Christ |
| 11-3 | Stuckwisch | The Forgiveness of Sins: The Breath of the Spirit |
| 11-4 | Scaer P | I Believe and Don’t in the Holy Christian Church |
| 11-5 | Taylor D | I Believe What We Believe: Confessing the Church |
| 11-6 | Panel | Panel Discussion |
2010 — The Ten Commandments
| 10-1 | Stuckwisch | The Fatherhood of God |
| 10-2 | Preus RD | Christ and Creation |
| 10-3 | Bender P | Sample Catechesis: Creation and the Fall: Catechesis on Genesis 1-3 |
| 10-4 | Bender P | Atheism, Evolution, and the Christian Faith and Life |
| 10-5 | Menuge A | Made in the Image of God: A Defense |
| 10-6 | Panel | Panel Discussion |
2009 — The Liturgy as Catechesis
| 09-0 | Bender P | How catechumens are taught the Church’s liturgy and use of the hymnal |
| 09-1 | Bender P | What Is the Divine Liturgy? Theses on Worship: Comparing “Traditional” and “Contemporary” |
| 09-2 | Stuckwisch | The Divine Liturgy: Is It Necessary for Faith and Life? |
| 09-3 | Johnson S | Music as Catechesis: Solutions for Our Time |
| 09-4 | Eckardt/Petersen | Open Forum with Gottesdienst: The Journal of Lutheran Liturgy |
| 09-5 | Grime P | Contemporary Worship: Challenges for Us or a Challenge to Us? |
| 09-6 | Panel | Discussion of the liturgy as catechesis |
2008 — The Sanctity of Life
| 08-0 | Bender P | DVD presentation of sample catechesis |
| 08-1 | Bender P | Sample Catechesis: Fifth Commandment Basics: Cain and Abel and the “Murder of God” |
| 08-2 | Malysz P | Humanity in the Image of God |
| 08-3 | Voss K | The Future of Medicine: Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research? |
| 08-4 | Eyer R | The Theology of the Cross and End-of-Life Decision Making |
| 08-5 | Voss K | Christian Approaches to Contraception and an Excursis on Fertility Issues |
| 08-6 | Harrison M | Sample Catechesis: “Help and support him in every physical need”: Christian Mercy Flows from Faith in Christ |
| 08-7 | Panel | Panel Discussion |
2007 — Why Being Lutheran Matters
| 07-0 | Bender P | Workshop on Lutheran Catechesis |
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| 07-1 | Feuerhahn R | Being Lutheran, What Matters: Gospel, Justification, Faith, Doctrine, … |
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| 07-2 | Forss E | The Holy Spirit’s Worship Is Inseparable from His Work: Rooting the Lutheran Confession of the Church in the Gospel of Jesus Christ |
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| 07-3 | Petersen D | A New Twist on the Theology of Glory and the Endless Quest for Pure Doctrine |
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| 07-4 | Bender P | The Church of Cain and Abel: Encouragement from the Old and New Testament Church |
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| 07-5 | Collver A | Never Despair! The Gates of Hell Will Not Prevail |
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| 07-6 | Panel | Panel Discussion |
2006 — God’s Gift of Sexuality and Marriage
| 06-1 | Preus RD | Basic Catechesis on the Sixth Commandment |
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| 06-2 | Bender P | God’s Gift of Marriage and Sexuality: What is it for? Pre-Marital Catechesis on the Rite of Holy Matrimony |
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| 06-3 | Stuckwisch | Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage in the Kingdom of God: Catechesis on 1 Corinthians 7 |
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| 06-4 | Eckardt BF | Spiritual Intimacy through Baptism, Prayer, and the Lord’s Supper |
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| 06-5 | Bender P | The Ministry of Pastoral Care and Private Absolution for Those Who Have Sinned Against the Sixth Commandment |
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| 06-6 | Preus RD | The Vocation of Christian Marriage and Family |
2005 — Parents and the Task of Catechesis
| 05-0 | Bender P | Workshop on Lutheran Catechesis series: Establishing a Culture of Catechesis and Prayer in the Congregation |
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| 05-1 | Just A | Can There Be a Lutheran Catechumenate? What the New Testament and the Fathers Have to Teach Us |
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| 05-2 | Preus Daniel | How My Father Taught Me the Faith |
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| 05-3 | Stuckwisch | How We Teach Our Children to Know Our Father in Heaven — Jesus’ Catechesis on the Lord’s Prayer (Luke 11) |
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| 05-4 | Fabrizius K | Freedom in the Midst of Vanity — Comfort and Counsel for Christian Parents |
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| 05-5 | Bender P | “95 Theses for Christian Parents” (Well, Not Quite) — Implications of the Fourth Commandment for Fathers and Mothers |
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| 05-6 | Panel | Discussion of the relationship of the Office of the Ministry to Christian parents, and answering many practical questions |
2004 — The Ten Commandments
| 04-1 | Arand C | Christ, the Catechism, and the Law |
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| 04-2 | Stuckwisch | Sample Catechesis: Christ Is the Fulfillment of the Law in Faith and Love — Jesus Catechizes the Rich Young Ruler |
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| 04-3 | Kuhlman B | Sample Catechesis: The First Commandment — “You shall have no other gods” |
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| 04-4 | Eckardt BF | Sample Catechesis: The Second Commandment — “You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God” |
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| 04-5 | Preus Klemet | Sample Catechesis: The Third Commandment — “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy” |
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| 04-6 | Bender P | Christian Vocation — An Extension of the First Commandment |
2003 — The Sacrament of the Altar
| 03-1 | Scaer D | “Unless You Eat the Flesh of the Son of Man”: John 6 Resolved |
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| 03-2 | Stuckwisch | Sample Catechesis: “What is the Sacrament of the Altar?” The Old Testament Passover and the New Testament in His Blood |
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| 03-3 | Koch A | Sample Catechesis: “What is the benefit of this eating and drinking?” The Feeding of the Five Thousand |
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| 03-4 | Fabrizius K | Sample Catechesis: “How can bodily eating and drinking do such great things?” Our Lord’s Catechesis on the Sacrament of the Altar |
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| 03-5 | Bender P | “Who receives this Sacrament worthily?” Closed Communion: Its Theology and Practice |
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| 03-6 | Panel | Discussion on the Sacrament of the Altar |
2002 — Holy Baptism and Confirmation
| 02-1 | Burreson K | The Rite of Holy Baptism: A Theological and Historical Introduction to Luther’s Baptismal Rite Proposed for the 2007 Hymnal Project |
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| 02-2 | Fabrizius K | Sample Catechesis: The Baptism of Our Lord: “What is Baptism? What benefits does Baptism give?” |
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| 02-3 | Preus RD | Sample Catechesis: The Word of God in and with the Water: “How can water do such great things?” |
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| 02-4 | Stuckwisch | Sample Catechesis: The Shape of the Christian Life — The Christian’s Good Friday and Easter: “What does such baptizing with water indicate?” |
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| 02-5 | Bender P | The Rite of Confirmation: An Historical and Theological Study of Confirmation in the Lutheran Church with Recommendations for the Future |
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| 02-6 | Panel | Discussion on Proposed Rites for Holy Baptism and Confirmation |
2001 — The Lord’s Prayer: The Holy Life of Faith in Christ
| 01-1 | Bender P | Faith under Siege: The Context for Prayer in Luther’s Catechesis |
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| 01-2 | Fabrizius K | Holy Trinity of Our Fathers— The Lord’s Prayer in Matthew, Luke, and the Liturgy |
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| 01-3 | Senkbeil H | Sample Catechesis: Lord Teach Us to Pray: The Introduction and the First Petition |
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| 01-4 | Fenton J | Sample Catechesis: Realize and Receive with Thanksgiving: The Fourth Petition |
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| 01-5 | Bender P | Sample Catechesis: The Stilling of the Storm: The Sixth and Seventh Petitions |
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| 01-6 | Wiest S | Mouthpieces of Jesus: Christ’s Own Prayers in the Psalter through His Many Saints |
2000 — How Christians Should Be Taught to Confess
| 00-1 | Bender P | Public Preaching and Private Absolution: Is There a Difference? |
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| 00-2 | Pless J | Your Pastor Is Not a Therapist — Private Confession: The Ministry of Repentance and Faith |
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| 00-3 | Bender P | Sample Catechesis: “What Is Confession?” (The Parable of the Prodigal Son) |
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| 00-4 | Fenton J | Sample Catechesis: “What Sins Should We Confess? Which Are These?” (The Prophet Nathan Is Pastor to David) |
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| 00-5 | Wiest S | Why We Are Scared to Confess: The Use and Abuse of Private Confession Among Our Saxon Fathers |
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| 00-6 | Panel | Open Forum about Private Confession and Absolution |
1999 — A Christian’s Life in This World
| 99-1 | Rast L | The Table of Duties: How Did It Find Its Way into the Catechism? |
| 99-2 | Eckardt BF | Sample Catechesis: The Christian in the Church |
| 99-3 | Cwirla W | Sample Catechesis: The Christian in the State |
| 99-4 | Bender P | Question and Answer Open Forum on Lutheran Catechesis |
| 99-5 | Bender P | Sample Catechesis: The Christian in the Home |
| 99-6 | Hagen K | Luther on Vocation: A Response to Wingren and American Evangelicalism |
1998 — Korby the Katechist
| 98-1 | Krodel G | Luther’s Catechism in the Context of Medieval Catechetical Work |
| 98-2 | Hoger A | Bible Story and Catechetical Formation |
| 98-3 | Winger T | The Oral Use of Scriptures in Prayer and Meditation |
| 98-4 | Keller W | St. Matthew’s Teaching on the Forgiveness of Sins and Holy Absolution |
| 98-5 | Cwirla W | Catechizing Children for Private Confession and Absolution |
| 98-6 | Korby K | Episcopal Governance: Paul’s Address to the Ephesian Elders |