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Subscribe to the Memorial Moment: https://www.mlchouston.org/about-us/memorial-moments Check out Rev. Dr. Scott Murray's books: -A year with the church fathers: Devotional with the ancient church fathers -Law, life, and the living God: the third use of the law -The Gates of Hell: Confessing Christ in a Hostile world -Rediscovering the Issues: the 1974 Concordia Seminary walkout The Rev. Dr. Scott R. Murray is a vice-president of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) and a member of the Council of Presidents of the LCMS. He was elected in 2010 and re-elected in 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2023. He represents the church's West-Southwest Region. He also currently serves as senior pastor of Memorial Lutheran Church, Houston, TX where he was called in 1996. Previously, Murray served St. Paul Lutheran Church, Cobourg, Ontario, Canada (1983- 1985), and Salem Lutheran Church, Gretna, LA (1985-1996). He served on the LCMS Commission on Theology and Church Relations — as a member from 1995 to 2001 and as a vice-chair from 1998 to 2001. He also served on the board of the Lutheran Education Association of Houston from 2001 to 2007. He has served as an editorial associate for Logia, a journal of Lutheran theology, and he was chairman of the Board of Directors of Luther Academy from (2012-2015), an organization that promotes confessional Lutheran theology. Born in Kitchener, Ontario, Murray graduated with a B.A. from Concordia University, Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1980 and earned a M.Div. from Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Ind., in 1983. He also holds a M.A. from Loyola University and a Ph.D. from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Murray writes a devotion every weekday called “Memorial Moments,” which is based on the church fathers. He also is the author of Law, Life, and the Living God (Concordia Publishing House, 2001), A Year with the Church Fathers (Concordia Publishing House, 2011), has edited a number of books including The Gates of Hell (Concordia Publishing House, 2018) and has written numerous journal articles. Murray has served on the Board of Regents of Concordia Theological Seminary since 2010, and was elected chairman of the board in May 2021. Murray and his wife, Maryann, live in Houston. They have two daughters, three granddaughters and one grandson. ________________ Grab some gear at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠GoLeadEverything.com/gear⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ________________________ Subscribe to the Phil Swanson YouTube channel. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@philswanson⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Rate and review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/go-lead-everything-gle-with-phil-swanson/id1507270810⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/2xzibFAsAQ86l0famNIufr?si=c77d176ee4d34d48⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Phil Swanson on Social Media: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠GoLeadEverything.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ______________________________ Visit GoLeadEverything.com to find me on social or YouTube. Subscribe, like, rate, review, and share... you know the drill. Soundtrack Credit: Hot Coffee – Patrick Patrikios

Rev. Dr. John Bombaro, Associate Director of Eurasia for the LCMS and Chair of the Systematics Department for Luther Academy in Rīga, Latvia, joins Andy and Sarah to talk about today's age of Humanitarian ethics and the mission of Humanitarianism, how identity plays a role in this worldview, where we see these ethics at play today, and how to recognize and combat these ethics in our families and congregations. Learn more about the Lutheran Church in Latvia, Dr. Bombaro's work with Luther Academy, and the LCMS Eurasia region at engage.lcms.org/latvia-spring-2021. This program originally aired January 13, 2022.

Rev. Dr. John Bombaro, Associate Director of Eurasia for the LCMS and Chair of the Systematics Department for Luther Academy in Rīga, Latvia, joins Andy and Sarah to talk about today's age of Humanitarian ethics and the mission of Humanitarianism, how identity plays a role in this worldview, where we see these ethics at play today, and how to recognize and combat these ethics in our families and congregations. Learn more about the Lutheran Church in Latvia, Dr. Bombaro's work with Luther Academy, and the LCMS Eurasia region at engage.lcms.org/latvia-spring-2021. This is a rebroadcast from January 13, 2022.

Rev. Dr. Cory Rajek, Eurasia Regional Director for the LCMS Office of International Mission joins Andy for an update on the Lord's work in Eurasia including growth at Luther Academy, the seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia.  To Learn more about Dr. Rajek's service in Eurasia visit lcms.org/rajek

Carl Beckwith joined the faculty of Beeson Divinity School in 2007. He teaches courses in church history and doctrine, focusing especially on patristic, medieval, and early Reformation theology. He is most recently the author of The Holy Trinity, volume 3 of the Confessional Lutheran Dogmatics series (Luther Academy, 2016) and editor of Martin Luther's Basic Exegetical Writings (Concordia Publishing House, 2017). Beckwith is an ordained minister in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. He and his wife, Julie, have two daughters. JM's Album Of The Week: The Wood Drake Sessions - From The Valley to the Golden Shore

Anne Gonzalez, Manager of Short-term Mission Training & Engagement with LCMS International Mission, joins Andy and Sarah to talk about what happens in Online English Conversation Partner programs, the current group of students studying with Luther Academy in Latvia who are in need of English Conversation Partners, how this program is helpful to those who participate, who can participate as a Conversation Partner, and how to get involved. Learn more and apply at servenow.lcms.org/opp/online-english-conversation-partner-latvia.

In this installment of our ongoing segment, The Floor is Yours, Steph hands over the floor to Rev. Dr. John Pless, as he discusses how Luther's Small Catechism provides a helpful framework for Christian thought and action in regards to life issues. Download A Small Catechism on Human Life at lcmslife.org/resource/a-small-catechism-on-human-life. Find other resources and books from this author at cph.org. Bio: Rev. John T. Pless is assistant professor of pastoral ministry and missions at Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne where he also serves as director of field education. Prior to joining the faculty, he served for seventeen years as campus pastor at University Lutheran Chapel at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. From 1979 to 1983, he served on the staff at the Chapel of the Resurrection at Valparaiso University. Since 2009 he has served as a visiting lecture at Lutheran Theological Seminary in Pretoria, South Africa.  Prof. Pless is the author of Pastor Craft: Essays and Sermons, Martin Luther: Preacher of the Cross-A Study in Luther's Pastoral Theology, Mercy at Life's End, Handling the Word of Truth: Law and Gospel in the Church Today, A Small Catechism on Human Life, Word: God Speaks to Us, Confession: God Gives Us Truth, Praying Luther's Small Catechism, Luther's Small Catechism: A Manual for Discipleship and numerous chapters in other books published in both the United States and Germany.  With Matthew Harrison he is editor of Women Pastors? The Ordination of Women in Biblical Lutheran Perspective, One Lord, Two Hands: Essays on the Two Kingdoms, and Closed Communion: Admission to the Lord's Supper in Biblical Lutheran Perspective He served on the Agenda Committee for the Lutheran Service Book and is a member of the Catechism Revision Committee. With Albert Collver and James Nestingen, he is co-editor and an author of two chapters in The Necessary Distinction: A Continuing Conversation on Law and Gospel. He is on the editorial council of Lutheran Quarterly.  A regular lecturer at various conferences both in the United States and overseas, Prof. Pless is a fellow of the Luther Academy for Madagascar. Dr. Pless is a member of the Synod's Commission on Theology and Church Relations. In 2013, his former students recognized his 60th birthday with a festschrift, Theology is Eminently Practical: Essays in Honor of John T. Pless edited by Jacob Corzine and Bryan Wolfmueller. He was awarded the D.Litt by Concordia University-Chicago in 2018. Learn about LCMS Life Ministry at lcms.org/life, and email us at friendsforlife@lcms.org. Not all the views expressed are necessarily those of the LCMS; please discuss any questions with your pastor.

Rev. Dr. John Bombaro, Associate Director of Eurasia for the LCMS and Chair of the Systematics Department for Luther Academy in Rīga, Latvia, joins Andy and Sarah to talk about today's age of Humanitarian ethics and the mission of Humanitarianism, how identity plays a role in this worldview, where we see these ethics at play today, and how to recognize and combat these ethics in our families and congregations.  Learn more about the Lutheran Church in Latvia, Dr. Bombaro's work with Luther Academy, and the LCMS Eurasia region at engage.lcms.org/latvia-spring-2021.

Deaconess Danelle Putnam, who serves the Lord in the Dominican Republic with the LCMS Office of International Mission, and her husband Rev. Carlos Schumann, who serves with Luther Academy in Latin America, join Andy and Sarah to talk about what life is like on the mission field in Latin America, the work that Danelle is called to do in the Dominican Republic, and how Luther Academy supports pastors and congregations in Latin America. Learn more about Danelle and how to support her work at lcms.org/putnam. Learn more about the work of Luther Academy at lutheracademy.com.

Second half of this interview with Dr Guntis Kalme of the Luther Academy in Riga, Latvia.

Two-part interview on martyrdom with Dr Guntis Kalme, professor of Systematic theology and Church history at the Luther Academy in Riga, Latvia.

Second half of this series with Rev. Dr. Charles Cortright. Dr. Cortright teaches at the Luther Academy of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia.

First of two interviews with Rev. Dr. Charles Cortright. Dr Cortright teaches at the Luther Academy of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia.

In today's News: Electors choose interim seminary president At a meeting yesterday, the electors charged with calling the next president of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis chose to issue a new call for candidates. Also yesterday, the Seminary’s Board of Regents named Dr. Daniel Preus Interim president effective July 1. He will serve until the new president is called and takes office. Preus previously served, at various times, as the LCMS’ first, third, fourth and fifth vice president. He also has served congregations in Indiana, Minnesota, Illinois, Colorado and Missouri. From 1995–2001, he served as director of Concordia Historical Institute, St. Louis, and from 2005–12, as director of Luther Academy, also in St. Louis, an organization devoted to promoting confessional Lutheran theology. The call for nominations is the second one issued for the presidency after the first round, originally issued in October, and the subsequent process resulted in a call that was declined last week. Call accepted for LCMS Life Ministry Deaconess Tiffany Manor has accepted a call from the LCMS Office of National Mission to serve as director of LCMS Life Ministry. She began her new role on April 14. Before joining the Office of National Mission, Manor served the LCMS New England District in the areas of church worker wellness, human care and school ministry. For the last several years, Manor has served on the Synod’s Ministerial Care Coalition, a project of Concordia Plan Services that began in 2014 to foster wide-ranging discussion and advocacy of worker wellness in the LCMS. Manor’s installation is currently scheduled for June 12 at the LCMS International Center in St. Louis.   Religious freedom priority in U.S. foreign policy President Donald Trump Issued an executive order yesterday that prioritizes international religious freedom concerns for United States foreign policy. Specifically, it requires the U.S. Department of sState and the U.S. Agency for International Development to create long-term strategic plans for advancing religious freedom internationally, provides $50 million per year for religious freedom programs and requires U.S. foreign service members to receive extensive training on religious freedom. The order also provides for the greater use of economic tools—including reductions of foreign assistance, visa restrictions, and sanctions—to advance religious freedom in countries that have been deemed serious religious liberty violators. Dismemberment protection is struck down A federal appeals court struck down a Kentucky law Friday that protects unborn babies from dismemberment abortions. The 2018 law prohibits abortions “that will result in the bodily dismemberment, crushing or human vivisection of the unborn child” while he or she is still alive. These gruesome methods commonly are used in D&E abortions in the second trimester. Last year, U.S. District judge Joseph H. McKinley, Jr., A nominee of pro-abortion President Bill Clinton, argued that the law creates an “undue burden” for women seeking second-trimester abortions. Friday, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that ruling. The American Civil Liberties Union sued on behalf of EMW Women’s Surgical Center, the only abortion business in Kentucky, and a judge temporarily blocked the law in 2018 before Judge McKinley issued the injunction.

Guest Rev. Dr. Robert H. Bennett, Executive Director of Luther Academy and author of I Am Not Afraid: Demon Possession and Spiritual Warfare and Afraid: Demon Possession and Spiritual Warfare in America, both available from cph.org, shares insights into spiritual warfare in America and in our churches, including why and how the devil attacks us and what we can do about it. Today’s program is a rebroadcast from October 25, 2017.

Guest Rev. Dr. Robert H. Bennett, Executive Director of Luther Academy and author of I Am Not Afraid: Demon Possession and Spiritual Warfare and Afraid: Demon Possession and Spiritual Warfare in America, both available from cph.org, shares insights into spiritual warfare in America and in our churches, including why and how the devil attacks us and what we can do about it.

Guest Rev. Dr. Robert H. Bennett, Executive Director of the Luther Academy and author of Afraid: Demon possession and spiritual warfare in America, talks about the dangerous world of demons. We live in a world where ghosts and spirits are often downplayed as not eternally dangerous in films and literature. Rev. Bennett talks about what the scriptures say about communicating with demons and the dangers that those conjurings can create. Learn more about Luther Academy at lutheracademy.com and find Dr. Bennet’s book on cph.org. Today’s program is a rebroadcast from October 27, 2016.

Many might suppose that animistic belief is fundamentally incompatible with modern Western culture. "It's something of the past", it might be said, or "a feature of life in other less-'enlightened' places". And yet, argues our guest Rev. Dr. Robert H. Bennett, animism is on the rise even in the USA, and we shouldn't think that Christians always remain unaffected by its subtle, yet often harmful, influence. Dr. Bennett, who is Executive Director of Luther Academy in Fort Wayne Indiana and a specialist in missions, joined us last year to discuss his field-research book I Am Not Afraid : Demon Possession and Spiritual Warfare : True Accounts from the Lutheran Church of Madagascar. He now returns to the show to introduce his new follow-up book Afraid: Demon Possession and Spiritual Warfare in America, and shares with us his biblical conviction that, in the face of all spiritual deception and oppression, there is only one answer: Jesus Christ. (For show notes please visit http://themindrenewed.com)

Many might suppose that animistic belief is fundamentally incompatible with modern Western culture. "It's something of the past", it might be said, or "a feature of life in other less-'enlightened' places". And yet, argues our guest Rev. Dr. Robert H. Bennett, animism is on the rise even in the USA, and we shouldn't think that Christians always remain unaffected by its subtle, yet often harmful, influence. Dr. Bennett, who is Executive Director of Luther Academy in Fort Wayne Indiana and a specialist in missions, joined us last year to discuss his field-research book I Am Not Afraid : Demon Possession and Spiritual Warfare : True Accounts from the Lutheran Church of Madagascar. He now returns to the show to introduce his new follow-up book Afraid: Demon Possession and Spiritual Warfare in America, and shares with us his biblical conviction that, in the face of all spiritual deception and oppression, there is only one answer: Jesus Christ. (For show notes please visit http://themindrenewed.com)

Rev. Dr. Robert Bennett, executive director of Luther Academy and author of I Am Not Afraid and Afraid: Demon Possession and Spiritual Warfare in America, discusses an aspect of video games we don't often consider -- the danger posed by spiritual predators that can use video games to influence players.

This week we welcome Rev. Dr. Robert H. Bennett, Executive Director of Luther Academy in Fort Wayne Indiana and specialist in missions, for a fascinating conversation on his research into demon possession and spiritual warfare in the context of Madagascar. In 2007, while on a trip to Madagascar, Dr. Bennett experienced something that was to have a profound effect on his future research and ministry: in the midst of a Lutheran worship service, right at his feet, a woman began to convulse and receive calm and controlled exorcism ministry from members of the congregation. Through the field research that followed, Dr. Bennett investigated the indigenous animism of the Malagasy people, and sought to understand the role of exorcism in the mission of the Lutheran Church of Madagascar. Based on this research, in 2013 he published the book, I Am Not Afraid : Demon Possession and Spiritual Warfare : True Accounts from the Lutheran Church of Madagascar, a scholarly work that not only documents his findings and sets them in the context of biblical practice and church history, but issues a challenge to the too-often-spiritually-compromised church in the West: exorcism is, and always has been, part of the ministry of Christ through the Church, and we neglect it at our peril. (For show notes please visit http://themindrenewed.com)

This week we welcome Rev. Dr. Robert H. Bennett, Executive Director of Luther Academy in Fort Wayne Indiana and specialist in missions, for a fascinating conversation on his research into demon possession and spiritual warfare in the context of Madagascar. In 2007, while on a trip to Madagascar, Dr. Bennett experienced something that was to have a profound effect on his future research and ministry: in the midst of a Lutheran worship service, right at his feet, a woman began to convulse and receive calm and controlled exorcism ministry from members of the congregation. Through the field research that followed, Dr. Bennett investigated the indigenous animism of the Malagasy people, and sought to understand the role of exorcism in the mission of the Lutheran Church of Madagascar. Based on this research, in 2013 he published the book, I Am Not Afraid : Demon Possession and Spiritual Warfare : True Accounts from the Lutheran Church of Madagascar, a scholarly work that not only documents his findings and sets them in the context of biblical practice and church history, but issues a challenge to the too-often-spiritually-compromised church in the West: exorcism is, and always has been, part of the ministry of Christ through the Church, and we neglect it at our peril. (For show notes please visit http://themindrenewed.com)