Author: Rev. Bernie Seter

I wish every American would take every 4th of July and really read some history of the American Revolution and read it from different historians.  After hearing and maybe singing “The Star Spangled Banner” take some...

We have been talking about pastors and scholarship.  I have gotten several questions about the need for scholarship and erudition in the pastoral office.  The implication of the questions is that scholars should not be in the...

A Lutheran Pastor named Herbert Lindemann spoke at a banquet at a meeting of the Institute on the Church and Society almost exactly 50 years ago.  The topic was “The Pastor as Scholar”.  It was obviously a topic then...

Out of the blue I get a question from someone which absolutely intrigued me.  “Why does a Pastor need to be a scholar?  The question brought back pictures of the academician some would call an egg head who is so heavenly...

Matthew 21:28-32New King James Version (NKJV – Jesus said, “But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, ‘Son, go, work today in my vineyard.’ 29 He answered and said, ‘I will not,’...