Jeffrey Goodman4 days ago5 minMy Friend and Mentor BillOn 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...
Jeffrey GoodmanMay 244 minThe Choice We Have Before USLast evening, I had a chance to hear and meet The Rev. Juhana Pohjola, Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Diocese of Finland. I...
Jeffrey GoodmanMay 41 minLutheran Bishop flees Russia over Ukraine WarA number of years ago the German broadcaster DW (Deutsche Welle) did a story on the Lutherans in Moscow. A companion story was also done...
Jeffrey GoodmanApr 124 minThe End of Time and the Good BishopOver the last few years I have increasingly become interested studying the lives of pastors who served the church in Germany during the...
Jeffrey GoodmanApr 51 minThe 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...
Jeffrey GoodmanMar 301 minThe 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...
Jeffrey GoodmanJan 183 minConfessing the FaithToday is the commemoration of the Confession of St. Peter the Apostle. In St. Matthew 16 Peter confessed boldly to Jesus “You are the...
Jeffrey GoodmanJan 53 minDecision FatigueI 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...
Jeffrey GoodmanDec 21, 20217 minChristmas Eve in a Gestapo PrisonThe Following is Chapter V of a book entitled The Valley of the Shadow by Lutheran pastor Hanns Lilje. During the Second World War, Lilje...
Jeffrey GoodmanDec 14, 20212 minStanding 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...
Jeffrey GoodmanDec 1, 20213 minA Stand Firm StoryI have been keenly interested in studying the lives of pastors in Germany from the Weimar period (1920s to 1932) and during the National...
Jeffrey GoodmanNov 17, 20213 minThe Comforter of BerlinI came across this photo yesterday. It is a photo of Pastor Bruno Doehring preaching in the crypt of the bombed out and demolished Berlin...
Jeffrey GoodmanNov 15, 20212 minA 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...
Jeffrey GoodmanNov 11, 20212 minRemember 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...
Jeffrey GoodmanNov 9, 20212 minReading Old BooksToday is the birthday of Martin Chemnitz (1522-1586). Known as the “Second Martin” Chemnitz helped to bring order to the Lutheran Church...
Jeffrey GoodmanNov 3, 20212 minThe Apathetic Bishop and the Hard MonkBack again to share another new-found insight into the Reformation from Steven Ozment’s book entitled, The Serpent and the Lamb: Cranach,...
Jeffrey GoodmanNov 2, 20213 minThe Unhappy Poet and the ReformationReformation Day 2021 has come and gone. Leading up to the commemoration I wanted to share a new insight into the Reformation I recently...
Jeffrey GoodmanOct 11, 20212 minAmbitious Preachers Preachers are subject to the same fits of ambition and glory as anyone else. Some struggle with envy over other parishes or ministries...
Jeffrey GoodmanOct 9, 20212 minScreens and the ChurchI 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...
Jeffrey GoodmanOct 8, 20212 minLeipzig: 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...