My Friend and Mentor Bill
On Saturday I received word that my friend and former pastor The Rev’d William W. Spiegelhalder died in the sure and certain hope of the...
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Jeffrey Goodman
- May 24
- 4 min
The Choice We Have Before US
Last evening, I had a chance to hear and meet The Rev. Juhana Pohjola, Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Diocese of Finland. I...
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Jeffrey Goodman
- May 4
- 1 min
Lutheran Bishop flees Russia over Ukraine War
A number of years ago the German broadcaster DW (Deutsche Welle) did a story on the Lutherans in Moscow. A companion story was also done...
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Jeffrey Goodman
- Apr 12
- 4 min
The End of Time and the Good Bishop
Over the last few years I have increasingly become interested studying the lives of pastors who served the church in Germany during the...
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Jeffrey Goodman
- Apr 5
- 1 min
The Apostles Creed Tapestry
I was was super excited on Sunday when after the Divine Service a parishioner mentioned that they had been to the The Metropolitan Museum...
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Jeffrey Goodman
- Mar 30
- 1 min
The Verdict is in!
Not guilty! This is a follow up to the last post from January. Today was a major win for religious liberty and freedom of speech today in...
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Jeffrey Goodman
- Jan 18
- 3 min
Confessing the Faith
Today is the commemoration of the Confession of St. Peter the Apostle. In St. Matthew 16 Peter confessed boldly to Jesus “You are the...
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Jeffrey Goodman
- Jan 5
- 3 min
Decision Fatigue
I don’t remember where I first saw the term or where I heard it, but it resonated with me the first time I came across it: Decision...
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Jeffrey Goodman
- Dec 21, 2021
- 7 min
Christmas Eve in a Gestapo Prison
The Following is Chapter V of a book entitled The Valley of the Shadow by Lutheran pastor Hanns Lilje. During the Second World War, Lilje...
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Jeffrey Goodman
- Dec 14, 2021
- 2 min
Standing the Watch with Bonhoeffer
“The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look...
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Jeffrey Goodman
- Dec 1, 2021
- 3 min
A Stand Firm Story
I have been keenly interested in studying the lives of pastors in Germany from the Weimar period (1920s to 1932) and during the National...
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Jeffrey Goodman
- Nov 17, 2021
- 3 min
The Comforter of Berlin
I came across this photo yesterday. It is a photo of Pastor Bruno Doehring preaching in the crypt of the bombed out and demolished Berlin...
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Jeffrey Goodman
- Nov 15, 2021
- 2 min
A Time to be born and a Time to die...
Justification by faith is the doctrine upon which the church stands or falls. Your salvation is not the result of your efforts or good...
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Jeffrey Goodman
- Nov 11, 2021
- 2 min
Remember Your Baptism
Today on 11 November the church commemorates St. Martin of Tours a former soldier turned missionary bishop to western France in the 4th...
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Jeffrey Goodman
- Nov 9, 2021
- 2 min
Reading Old Books
Today is the birthday of Martin Chemnitz (1522-1586). Known as the “Second Martin” Chemnitz helped to bring order to the Lutheran Church...
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Jeffrey Goodman
- Nov 3, 2021
- 2 min
The Apathetic Bishop and the Hard Monk
Back again to share another new-found insight into the Reformation from Steven Ozment’s book entitled, The Serpent and the Lamb: Cranach,...
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Jeffrey Goodman
- Nov 2, 2021
- 3 min
The Unhappy Poet and the Reformation
Reformation Day 2021 has come and gone. Leading up to the commemoration I wanted to share a new insight into the Reformation I recently...
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Jeffrey Goodman
- Oct 11, 2021
- 2 min
Ambitious Preachers
Preachers are subject to the same fits of ambition and glory as anyone else. Some struggle with envy over other parishes or ministries...
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Jeffrey Goodman
- Oct 9, 2021
- 2 min
Screens and the Church
I have a love/hate relationship with technology. There probably is not a week that goes by that I do not resolve to get rid of my IPhone...
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Jeffrey Goodman
- Oct 8, 2021
- 2 min
Leipzig: Luther, Bach and Muhlenberg
At the cross roads of the Via Imperii (Bergen to Rome) and the Via Regia (Paris to Novogrod) lies the city of Leipzig Germany. The city...
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