What Is the Ideal? What are We Striving For?
Rev. Schultz reflects on LCC from his perspective as headmaster of a classical school, suggesting that LCC’s approach to education can serve as a model for Lutheran classical education at all levels.
Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Caleb Karges
I met the people here and learned that this is a beautiful and supportive community of believers. My experience since then has confirmed it far beyond my original estimation.
On Starting a College
Luther Classical College is both remarkably new and unmistakably old.
Forgiven (Poem)
I walked a dark and lonesome road one night, / And sharp temptation whispered in my ear, / “You see the fire yonder, burning bright? / Its warmth is sweet—go nearer, have no fear.”
‘To Presume to Be Nothing but a Good Shepherd’: The Letters of Rev. Fritz Reddin, 1913-141
I have stayed here in my place for the sake of the people. I have really kind and good people in my congregation, but there are also those who make life hard for me (but more of that later), and I wanted to maintain the good reputation that I had received. I wanted to presume to be nothing but a good shepherd.
Charlie’s Race Is Finished; Yours Is Not
Our best days are ahead! Onward!
Are Rulers to Uphold Both Tables of the Law?
Luther consistently maintained that no one could force faith; however, outward suppression of blasphemy and the preaching of false doctrine were distinct from compelling faith. Luther believed that only the Word of God could cure heresy, and that private false belief was an inward matter not to be dealt with by the magistrate.
Immigration and Christian Conscience
Once we allow the teachings of men to subsume and replace God’s commandments, we may allow anything. Once our smartphones teach us more than the Bible, we may be taught to obey or to think or to feel or to denounce anything. If we are the world’s mouthpieces, we will not speak for God.
A Defense of Christian Culture in the Post-Pandemic Era
The outlandish argument that the Two Kingdoms somehow coexist as two self-contained silos was foreign to our fathers.
The Conservative Reformation: Lutheranism, the Guarantor of the Ancient Faith
Not only in the faith confessed by our forebears, but in their very methodology, do we find the guarantor of the faith once for all delivered to the saints.