Pastor Andrew Packer

A Word Fitly Spoken Podcast and Blog – A Review

The last seven months have been insanely busy. My various vocations have had me running in every direction imaginable—to the point where human…

Deciding what conferences to attend as a pastor always feels like a gamble to me. I’m gambling my time and the church’s money….

Here is the third plenary session from The Bugenhagen Conference.

Man Up! The Quest for Masculinity, by Jeffrey Hemmer (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2017) I won’t lie to you. When I first…

Consider yourself invited. July 21-22, 2017. Register here. You know you want to spend a couple of days in Denver hearing faithful teaching….

Very beautiful is the statement of Augustine in which he says of his mother Monica that she bound her soul with the chain…

I’ve already written a review of this magnificent devotion here. It is now available through Lulu in its final form for only $4.37. …

I have been married for over 15 years and a pastor now for over 5 years. In my vocations, as a husband and…

Pastor John Henry and his family have been through a terrible ordeal involving extremely high levels of lead in the home and the risk…

A lot of Lutherans have seen and shared this meme with Hank Hill from the animated series “King of the Hill”: …

We just celebrated the Festival of the Reformation. A central part to the success of the Reformation was the hymnody. Lutheran hymnody took…