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Divine Call - Human Protocol. An Evaluation of Calling Practices within the Christian Church
(2018)
God directly called prophets and apostles to proclaim his Word. While God no longer directly
calls Christians to proclaim his Word, he still calls individuals to do this work publicly – that is
among and on behalf of ...
Shut-Ins Who Feel Shut Out: Increasing Ministry to Homebound Congregation Members Through Lay Visitation and In-Home Bible Study
(2018)
Is shut-in ministry as strong as it should be? Pastors often do not have enough time to visit members in their homes regularly. Involving lay members of the congregation can be an excellent way to combat this problem. ...
No Middleman Necessary: Equipping Pastors to Serve Persons with Physical, Mental, and Developmental Disabilities
(2018)
The pastor serving his congregation will quickly realize his members are not all the same. They each come with their own challenges and blessings, and this is especially true as he serves a member with disabilities. The ...
Making a Pre-Marriage Course that Makes a Difference
(2018)
Graduates from Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary will be expected to fulfill all of the roles of pastor which include giving pre-marriage counseling. This is a daunting task for any young, inexperienced pastor. One might borrow ...
God Knows What He is Talking About: Using Secular Data to Show That Cohabitation is a Detriment to Individuals and Society
(2018)
Every pastor is familiar with the issue of premarital cohabitation. It is becoming one of the
biggest enemies of traditional marriage in our society today. The bad news is that it’s not going
anywhere anytime soon. In ...
The Importance of Impacting iGen: Ministering to Generation Z Through Websites and Social Media
(2018)
Millennials are no longer the newest generational cohort. Generation Z is on the rise. This
generation grew up knowing technology before learning to speak. They have mastered the
smartphone, but has the smartphone ...
Martin Luther's Theology of Justification. A Response to the New Finnish Interpretation of Luther
(2018)
In his writings, Martin Luther strove to present justification as the glorious gift that it is: God’s free forgiveness given on the basis of Jesus’ sacrifice for sinners. The Lutheran Confessions rightly maintain this ...
Honor Y Verguenza: Understanding Honor and Shame in Latin America
(2018)
The spectrum of guilt-shame-fear cultures has been studied by anthropologists for some
time now. However, more recently Christian missiologists have begun to study the benefits and
challenges each of these cultures ...