Author: Rev. Bernie Seter

The slaughter of innocents has always awakened a sense of horror in individuals who have any sense of a moral compass.  Societies and governments are particularly tasked to protect the innocent.  We have failed in so many ways...

I grew up with the word “mod”.  It was a short form of “modern” created by folks who were “far out”, “cool”, and “groovy”.  We were “with it” and...

For Lutherans the great read has to be “The Hammer of God” by Bo Giertz.  Sadly the original has been badly served by American translators who all but excised Giertz’s defense of Confessional Lutheranism and...

One of the great joys of life is reading.  I love to read and there is a genre of book that is probably overlooked by many people and that is what I call “denominational novels”.  It is a novel written from the...

The first President of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod wrote, “When Christ suffered and died, He was judged by God, and He was condemned to death in our place. But when God in the resurrection awakened Him again, who...