Nicholas T. Batzig

Identifying, training and installing church officers (i.e. elders and deacons) is one of the most important and difficult tasks with which God... Read More

What are we to do when we find the preaching to be deficient in the local church to which we belong? For... Read More

God’s providence is among the most mysterious and perplexing realities in the Universe. Ironically, many pass themselves off as being quite proficient... Read More

A friend of mine, who has pastored the same church for 35 years, has made the observation that much division, discontentment and discord in... Read More

Over the years I’ve developed something of a preoccupation with theological compilation volumes. Though such volumes generally only undergo a single printing (only to be... Read More

When I was a teenager, I had a conversation with my mom about parents leaving their children an inheritance. At some point in... Read More

Over the years, thoughtful pastors and teachers have raised a litany of warnings about the dangers of making the online ministries of... Read More

The local church is the sphere of God’s promised spiritual blessing–the place where Christ shepherds His people through His word, sacraments and... Read More

The question concerning the relationship between the believer and indwelling sin is one of the most theologically difficult to navigate. On one... Read More

I recently listened to one of the fathers of our denomination speak about the “ups and downs” that he was experiencing in ministry.... Read More