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The Word is Worth Sticking With
(Southeastern Conference of the Michigan District, 2018-04-11)
Post Incarceration Outreach through Community Based Residential Facilities Makes a Church Grow
(2017)
In 2011 the Bureau of Justice reported that the prison population in the United States has steadily grown and shows no signs of reversing. An average of six hundred and eighty thousand1 prisoners are released each year ...
Knowing How to Help: Forming an Outreach Relationship
(2017)
Every pastor, staff minister, or church secretary knows the discomfort of answering the phone at church and being asked for money. When the phone rings and someone is asking for financial assistance, how should the church ...
Preaching the Law to Christians: Insights on the Parallels between the Sermon on the Mount and the Epistle of James.
(2017)
When one becomes well-acquainted with the scholarship on the book of James, it becomes clear that the epistle has an uncanny amount of similarities with the sayings of Jesus, the Sermon on the Mount in particular. These ...
Ministering to the Recovering Alcoholic: Understanding Alcoholics Anonymous and Making Soul-Saving Connections
(2017)
“Hark! The voice of Jesus crying, ‘Who will go and work today?’ Fields are ripe and harvest waiting; Who will bear the sheaves away?” These are a few of the words found in a Hymn titled “Hark, the Voice of Jesus Crying.” ...
Our Marriage Practice in the Light of the Doctrine of the Two Kingdoms and an Anti-Christian Culture
(2017)
This paper wrestles with the question, “Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that Homosexual marriage is a constitutional right, what should we do?” Marriage is an area where the work of the church and the state overlap. ...
Counseling At The Empty Tomb - Hopeful Resolve
(2017)
Thesis – Just as counseling at the cross brings the sure resolve of forgiveness to the guilt-ridden soul, through Jesus’ substitutionary, debt-settling death, so also counseling at the empty tomb brings hopeful resolve to ...
Insights from Early Lutheran Worship
(2002-07-22)