In Sacred Page and Winged Word: Prophets and Poets for Israel and the Church Part 2

The church fathers read the Old Testament in ways that can look strange to modern eyes. In their sermons, they use biblical texts in ways that would not normally occur to us. What accounts for the differences between ancient and modern reader? What can we learn from them? How might they shape our own interpretation and use of the Old Testament? In this plenary, we will compare our own interpretive practices with the practices of select church fathers in order to explore some answers to these questions

Epiphany 7 • Leviticus 19:1–2, 9–18 • February 23, 2014

What are our lives to look like and how can they best reflect Christ? It is from this perspective that Leviticus 1–2, 9–18 have something to teach us

The Gospel-Centered Christian

When I was a seminarian back in 1980 we were less than six years distant from the synodical upheavals that came to a head in 1974. One of the documents that every seminarian was required to read in those days was the 1970 report of the LCMS Commission of Theology and Church Relations (CTCR) entitled, Gospel & Scripture. Prof. Harry Huth of Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, who served as the primary drafter for the report, penned what is arguably one of the most important reports ever put out by the CTCR. Or at the very least, it was a very formative for an entire generation of seminarians like myself. That report formed in us a distinctively Lutheran way of approaching the relationships between the Gospel and the Scriptures by identifying two boundaries to avoid within our culture. On the one hand, it distinguished Gospel centrality from Gospel reductionism (Gospel as norm in Scripture versus norm of Scripture) as had all too often happened in more liberal theologies on the left as a way to dismiss difficult passages of Scripture. On the other hand, it distinguished a Lutheran approach to the Bible from fundamentalist approaches on the right that was often modernist and rationalistic. That is to say, “Our view of the Bible is a result of our faith in the Gospel; our faith in the Gospel is not a result of our view of the Bible” (Gospel & Scripture, 15). The issues it dealt with nearly fifty years ago remain in various forms today. And so here Dr. Timothy Saleska picks up the theses and central points made in Gospel & Scripture and applies them to our context today to keep us from veering into the ditch on either side of the road

Epiphany 2 • 1 Corinthians 6:12–20 • January 18, 2015

Paul argues against the idea that our physical bodies are of little value and so the way Christians use their bodies is “morally irrelevant.

Commencement Services 5-17-2019

Commencement Service 5-17-2019https://scholar.csl.edu/academic_services/1007/thumbnail.jp

The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

The FLUXNET2015 dataset provides ecosystem-scale data on CO2, water, and energy exchange between the biosphere and the atmosphere, and other meteorological and biological measurements, from 212 sites around the globe (over 1500 site-years, up to and including year 2014). These sites, independently managed and operated, voluntarily contributed their data to create global datasets. Data were quality controlled and processed using uniform methods, to improve consistency and intercomparability across sites. The dataset is already being used in a number of applications, including ecophysiology studies, remote sensing studies, and development of ecosystem and Earth system models. FLUXNET2015 includes derived-data products, such as gap-filled time series, ecosystem respiration and photosynthetic uptake estimates, estimation of uncertainties, and metadata about the measurements, presented for the first time in this paper. In addition, 206 of these sites are for the first time distributed under a Creative Commons (CC-BY 4.0) license. This paper details this enhanced dataset and the processing methods, now made available as open-source codes, making the dataset more accessible, transparent, and reproducible.Peer reviewe

Translating the Psalms

Dr. Saleska raises how the Psalms should be translated to relay the poetic and emotion of the Psalms

Reading the Psalms for Spiritual Strength Week 4-1

A brief study of Psalm 23 and how we are being lead by God and receive the reward of following God on the Last Day.https://scholar.csl.edu/lbipsalmsforstrength/1006/thumbnail.jp

033- Habakkuk 3:1-7

Dr. Saleska leads a study of Habakkuk 3:1-7 from the Hebrew