The ACELC Podcast

Pastor Clint K. Poppe visits with Pastor Phil Hale about Online Worship and Returning to Worship.  

Pastor Philip Hale was born in Oklahoma and raised in Keller, Texas. He attended the University of Texas at Austin and graduated with a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. After working very briefly as an engineer in Austin, he attended Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne. Following a vicarage in Fredericksburg, Iowa, under Pastor Ron Koch, he graduated in 2007 and was called to St. Paul Lutheran Church in Bancroft, Nebraska and then later to St. John Lutheran Church in Lyons, Nebraska as part of a dual parish. He was installed as associate pastor of Zion Lutheran Church, Omaha, NE in August, 2015 and remains in that call currently. In 2007 he married his wife Aubri. They have been blessed with their 10th living child.

Rev. Hale's seminary research paper, written under Dr. Roland Ziegler, was entitled: "A Description and Critique of Narrative Criticism: The Relation of Biblical Interpretation, History, and Theology." He presented at the 2013 ACELC Conference in Austin, Texas: "A Doctrinal View of Worship." His book Confessing the Scriptural Christ against Modern Idolatry: Inspiration, Inerrancy, and Truth in Scientific and Biblical Conflict was published in 2016. His presentation at the 2017 ACELC Free Conference was "The Intertwined Errors of Transsexualism, Malleable Gender Roles, the Body Modification Movement, and Personal Identity." The 1955 CPH book by Fritz Zerbst (trans. by Albert G. Merkens), The Office of Woman in the Church: A Study in Practical Theology, was edited and republished by Hale in 2017. A Doctrinal Exposition of Galatians: A Sermonic Commentary for Laymen, by Rev. Hale, was published in 2018. He also wrote the book Aspects of Forgiveness: The Basis for Justification and its Modern Denial (2019).