Category: President’s Ponderings

October 29, 2025

What Is Your Dearest Treasure?

by Timothy Teuscher Our synod’s ‘Together One’ campaign, which is in its initial stages, is intended to provide earthly treasures to support the preaching of God’s Word and administration of the Sacraments in all our congregations and missions, so that people now and in the…

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September 7, 2025

Luther on Church Worker Recruitment and Support

by Timothy Teuscher One of the Strategic Initiatives of our synod is the recruitment, education, and support of church workers. This is nothing new—as Jesus Himself says: “The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest…

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June 16, 2025

Wanted: A Few More Like Irenaeus

by Timothy Teuscher Pastoral and diaconal candidates at our two seminaries were recently placed in their first field of service and vicars assigned to congregations as part of their pastoral formation. While we thank God for raising up these individuals in our midst, the fact…

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April 24, 2025

Ruminations on Stewardship from Lent and Holy Week

by Timothy Teuscher In the Large Catechism we read the following concerning the First Commandment: “Many a person thinks that he has God and everything he needs when he has money and possessions, in which he trusts and boasts so arrogantly and securely that he…

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March 10, 2025

With the Wisemen Let Us Go and Do Likewise

by Timothy Teuscher “And going into the house, they saw the Child with Mary His mother, and they fell down and worshiped Him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered Him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh” (Matthew 2:11). The season of Epiphany, which recently ended,…

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December 23, 2024

Then With Shepherds Let Us Go

by Timothy Teuscher In the familiar account of the nativity of our Lord from St. Luke’s Gospel, we come across a number of individuals. First and foremost, of course, is the “Babe lying in a manger” (Luke 2:7), our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Then…

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