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The Awkward Shepherd: Tactics For A Young Pastor To Improve His Interpersonal Communication Skills
(2023)
Whether a pastor serves as a minister of a congregational flock or as a teacher of students in an institution, face-to-face communication plays a large role in his call. Yet for some pastors who have just graduated from ...
A City Great to God: Ten Years of WELS Planting to Inform the Next One Hundred Missions
(2023)
From the isolated beginnings of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS), internal tensions have favored planting churches in non-urban settings. Numerous voices within the synod have seen this tendency as an area ...
A Biblical Response to Christian Nationalism
(2023)
American politics are messy, emotional, controversial, and particularly difficult to talk about–especially for Gospel-centered Christians who seek to put their hope in and focus on God’s kingdom. American politics are not, ...
The Church in the Community: Showing Love to our Neighbors
(2023)
“Love your neighbor as yourself” (Mark 12:31 NIV). What does it look like as Christians live out this command from Jesus? This paper looks at the importance of building relationships and loving our neighbors. Now, more ...
Finding Value in a Counterfeit World: A Biblical Evaluation of Feminism
(2023)
Feminism is one of the most influential social justice movements today. It has exposed many terrible abuse cases toward women that were motivated by wicked intentions. However, while responding to abuse, the movement brought ...
St. Paul and Martin Luther: Paradigms of Shepherd-Leaders
(Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, 2018-09-17)
The work of setting objectives and preparing strategies to meet those goals sometimes seem in conflict with the quiet whisper of the Spirit’s working. A careful assessment of Paul’s missionary endeavors and Luther’s work ...
Rousing the Sleeping Giants: A Look into the Spiritual Leadership of Men
(2023)
This thesis is aimed at the discipleship of males who did not have a strong model of spiritual leadership in their early lives (Practical Theology). There are numerous studies on training men up in a Christian way from a ...
Disclosing the Hidden God: Confessional Lutheran Doctrine and Christian Apologetics
(Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, 2019-09-16)
Lutheran theology informs how Lutheran pastors do outreach. What Scripture has to say about God’s hiddenness, the natural knowledge of God, the total depravity of the unregenerate, and the evidentiary and epistemic status ...
The Freedom of a Christian and Treatise on Good Works
(Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, 2020-09-21)
These two essays were the first and last of Luther’s 1520 treatises and they reveal the spirit behind the writings. In them, Luther gives a clear exposition on the Christian life and the relationship between faith and good ...
Shepherds Under the Cross
(Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, 2018-09-17)
The shepherd leader believes with all his heart that the gospel in Word and sacrament is the power source of his ministry, and he administers the means of grace with confident joy. He is eager to proclaim and apply the ...