Jacob Corzine

What I wrote in the first post in this series about the clear passages of Scripture helping us read the more challenging ones is not just a general statement. It really is true that some Bible passages are so clear that they can be our guide as we read through the whole Bible.

This series of blog posts covers Bible passages every Lutheran should know. The idea is simple: Our faith is eminently biblically based, but we also recognize that some parts of the Bible are easier to grasp than others, and we follow the principle when we read the Bible that the right tools for interpreting the challenging passages of Scripture are the clear, obviously unambiguous ones.

What actually happens when the Christian dies? What do we have to look forward to (or to fear)? Can we look toward death with confidence, with trust in God?

I sat with some friends back in October, talking about when we put up Christmas trees as kids. Everyone in the group said “the day after Thanksgiving” except one. She had grown up putting up her tree on Christmas Eve. Where she was from, Advent was Advent and Christmas was Christmas. But that’s not so easy today. 

The Concordia Publishing House team recently took a field trip to Perry County, Missouri. This place is as much the original home of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (the LCMS, our parent church body) as is St. Louis, Missouri, though not as well known.