CONTENS

Keeping Our Balance: Maintaining Unity in a World (and Church!) of Diversity/Andrew H. Bartelt
Not All Adiaphora Are Created Equal/Charles P. Arand
Civic Participation by Churches and Pastors: An Essay on Two Kinds of Righteousness/William W. Schumacher
Idols, Eating, and Rights (1 Cor. 8:1-11:1): Faithful and Loving Witness in a Pluralistic Culture/Jeffrey Kloha
A Framework for the Practice of Evangelism and Congregational Outreach/David J. Peter
The Impact of Societal and Educational Trends on Theological Education in The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod/John M. Palka

The Redactional Interpretation of Discontinuity in Prophetic Text: Isaiah 23 as a Test Case/Reed Lessing
The Centrality of Isaiah 6 (-8) within Isaiah 2-12/Andrew H. Bartelt
Look to the Holy One of Israel, All You Nations: The Oracles about the Nations Still Speak Today/Paul R. Raabe
Babylon in the Book of Isaiah/Deomar Roos

Textual Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Trying to Make Progress/James W. Voelz
Pastors Who Play God/Timothy E. Saleska
My Pilgrimage to Luther/Won Yong JI
Identifying Authorities and Pastoral Practice in the Early Church. Two Case Studies: Basil of Caesarea
and Ephrem of Syri/ James Alan Waddell

The Challenge of Homosexuality: What Is at Stake?/David L. Adams
Christian Responses to the Culture's Normalization of Homosexuality/Robert W. Weise
The Local Congregation Approaches the Issues: Lutheran Responses, "Sin, Sex, and Civil Silence"/Joel D. Biermann.
Where Is the Holy Family Today?: Marriage a Holy Covenant Vbefore God-The Biblical Role of Man and Woman/Louis A. Brighton

The Wrath of God: A Biblical Overview Scott A. Ashmon.

Orignial Sin in the New Testament Charles A. Gieschen........ Sin in Cyril of Alexandria's Commentary on John/David R. Maxwell
The Origins and Consequences of Original Sin in Luther's Bondage of the Will Cameron/A. MacKenzie.
Speaking to Contemporary American Culture on Sin and the Wrath of God/John W. Oberdeck
God's Wrath Against Sin/James V. Bachman, Peter L. Senkbeil, Kerri L. Thomsen