Our Speakers

The Association of Confessional Lutheran brings an exciting range of experience to the Congress on the Lutheran Confessions. It strives annually to assemble the best of available conference speakers.

Dr. Holger Sonntag
Author, Translator, Theologian and Attorney
Dr. Holger Sonntag
Author, Translator, Theologian and Attorney
Rev. Dr. Brian J. Klebig
Professor of Communication, Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato, MN

Rev. Dr. Klebig teaches courses regularly in speech, mass media, and the essentials of Christianity. He actively promotes the usage of the latest in technology in education. As part of his doctoral studies in communication, he helped design and manage the state-of-the-art CARISMA virtual reality lab at Michigan State University. He then designed and deployed a virtual rituality preaching environment for seminarians at Bethany Seminary to practice preaching.

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Rev. Dr. Brian J. Klebig
Professor of Communication, Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato, MN
Rev. Paul Martin Strawn
Pastor of Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Spring Lake Park, Minnesota and Director of the Confessional Lutheran Education Foundation

A parish pastor for 28 years, Pr. Strawn has also prepared many modern editions of Martin Luther's sermons for study in the parish.

Rev. Paul Martin Strawn
Pastor of Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Spring Lake Park, Minnesota and Director of the Confessional Lutheran Education Foundation
Rev. Heath Curtis
Pastor, Zion and Trinity Lutheran Churches, Carpenter and Worden, Illinois

Along with his pastoral duties, Pr. Curtis works as a translator and editor at Concordia Publishing House. He is also an instructor for the Wittenberg Academy and Stewardship Coordinator for the LCMS. His most recent work is entitled: Telling People What To Think: A Concise Homiletics for Lutheran Parish Pastors.

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Rev. Heath Curtis
Pastor, Zion and Trinity Lutheran Churches, Carpenter and Worden, Illinois
Rev. Dr. Steven C. Briel
Pastor Emeritus

Rev. Dr. Briel has served as a professor of Hebrew at St. John's college in Winfield, Kansas as well as a parish pastor until his retirement at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Osseo, Minnesota. During that time he also served the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod on the Board for National Mission, Board for Pastoral Ministry, Board for Higher Education, and Board of Regents for Concordia College in Bronxville, NY. Many of his homiletical studies and articles have been published in the Concordia Theological Quarterly.

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Rev. Dr. Steven C. Briel
Pastor Emeritus
Rev. Dr. Carl Fickenscher II
Professor of Pastoral Ministry and Missions, Concordia Theological Seminary, Ft. Wayne, Indiana

Rev. Dr. Fickenscher served parishes in Michigan and Texas before assuming his current position at Concordia Theological Seminary, in Ft. Wayne. He is the editor of Concordia Pulpit Resources and also chairman of the LCMS Preach the Word project. His latest work, Looking Forward to Sunday Morning, is soon to be published.

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Rev. Dr. Carl Fickenscher II
Professor of Pastoral Ministry and Missions, Concordia Theological Seminary, Ft. Wayne, Indiana
Rev. Dr. Reed Lessing
Director of The Center for Biblical Studies, Concordia University, St. Paul

Prior to his current position, Rev. Dr. Lessing served congregations in Louisiana, Oklahoma, Indiana and Minnesota, and was the Professor of Old Testament theology at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. He has been published extensively, authoring the commentaries on Jonah, Zechariah, Amos, Isaiah and Lamentations in the Concordia Commentary Series, as well as numerous studies in the Lifelight Bible Series.

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Rev. Dr. Reed Lessing
Director of The Center for Biblical Studies, Concordia University, St. Paul
Rev. Dr. Brian Saunders
District President of the Iowa District East of the LCMS
Rev. Dr. Brian Saunders
District President of the Iowa District East of the LCMS
Rev. Robert Kieselowsky Jr.
Director, Philadelphia Lutheran MinistriesMore on Pastor Kieselowsky
Rev. Robert Kieselowsky Jr.
Director, Philadelphia Lutheran Ministries
Rev. Dr. Karl Fabrizius
Pastor Em.

The Rev. Karl F. Fabrizius recently retired from serving as pastor of Our Father's Lutheran Church in Greenfield, Wisconsin, where he had served since 1984. He holds a PhD in historical theology from Marquette University (1994) and an MDiv (1984) from Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He has written a ten volume series of Bible Stories for Daily Prayer that is published by Concordia Catechetical Academy which is suitable for Lutheran schools, home schooling, and private devotions

Rev. Dr. Karl Fabrizius
Pastor Em.