Wade Mobley


Articles by FBLCS President, Wade Mobley
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13/05/21

2021 Graduation Thoughts

Welcome, and please be seated. Thank you for participating in this service of worship and celebration, honoring the Free Lutheran Bible College and Seminary classes of 2020 and 2021. The
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04/03/21

Zero Success

  Morning, pregame, March 4, 2021  If you ask any Free Lutheran Bible College player, coach, or support staff about this basketball season, you won’t have to wait long to
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17/12/20

Church Year Confessions of a Liturgically-Challenged Pastor

Our church body prescribes no specific style of worship, focusing instead on consistent content from congregation to congregation. Our history and heritage fall on the “less structure” side of the corporate
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09/06/20

Seeking to Understand

June 9, 2020Dr. Wade MobleyPresident, Free Lutheran Bible College and Seminary Editor’s note: This post is much longer than usual blog format, but exists to help readers sort through and
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04/02/20

A Boy Like Me

“Stories like that make a boy grow bold; stories like that make a man walk straight.” – Rich Mullins, “Boy Like Me” It occurs to me, regularly and shockingly, that
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12/11/19

Pastoral Competencies

As a seminary, it is our goal to prepare men to “Shepherd the flock” as 1 Peter 5:2 commands. It is our honor to serve the congregations of the AFLC
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21/10/19

Resolutions for Mental Health

There are times when all of us think we are going crazy. Even framing the question is dangerous: “Am I going to make it?” usually sends us in a bad
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21/10/19

Take Dead Aim

There is something about the game of golf that has always been attractive to me. Maybe it’s the beauty of the outdoors; Indoor simulators hold no appeal for me. I’m
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25/09/19

Facilitating Efficient Meetings for Joyful Ministry

One great equalizer of humans, says J. Oswald Sanders, is time: “Others may surpass our abilities, influence, or money, but no one has more time.” (p. 94, Spiritual Leadership, Moody
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10/08/19

Mass murder and the fall of man

One is wise to react and write slowly in times of national lament. Too many times I have joined the cacophony of “too soon” conclusion-jumping. Today’s Twitter culture politicizes events
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29/07/19

What I Wish I Knew Then (And What I Want You To Know Now)

Pastor Wade Mobley President, Free Lutheran Schools At FLBC we say “Start here, go anywhere, grounded in God’s Word.” I am one of the students who didn’t start here, but
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15/07/19

What Keeps Me Going

Pastor Wade Mobley President, Free Lutheran Schools When I came to the Free Lutheran Schools five years ago I was in for the change of a lifetime. I wasn’t a
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