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Applying Christ-Like and Other Leadership Qualities to Millennial Lay Leadership
(2019)
The use of excellent lay leadership is vital to a healthy church, but what does excellent lay
leadership look like? It can certainly be modeled from Christ and from other important
leadership qualities. Which demographic ...
Spiritual Energy Management: Avoiding Pastoral Burnout by Developing a Healthy Devotional Life
(2017)
Experiencing occupational burnout is not uncommon in a society that lives to work, and the pastor is no exception to this. Given the “serve not be served” nature of the ministry, coupled with its specific and wide-ranging ...
Do Not Neglect the Gift You Have: The Blessings and Challenges of Equipping Ministry
(2017)
“Why don’t more people volunteer?” “Why is getting congregational involvement in ministry like pulling teeth at times?” “Why does my church have 20% of the people doing 80% of the work?” These questions and others like ...
Educating Pastors to Protect them against Pornography Usage in the Current Age
(2017)
Despite the widespread access to pornography and the amount of pastors who have become addicted to pornography, little has been done to prepare the pastor to deal with his own pornography problems. Scripture urges pastors ...
The Church Intentionally Evangelizing to De-churched, Millennial Families Through the Use of Their Preschool to Make the Family Lifelong Members.
(2017)
There is a phenomenon occurring in Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod preschools. Millennial parents who have a church background, but are not currently actively involved in a church, are enrolling their young children ...
The Ninety-Five Theses: The Little Spark That Grew Into A Reforming Fire
(2016)
Professor em. James F. Korthals describes how the Ninety-Five Theses of Dr. Martin Luther began, what caused them to be written, what Luther hoped to accomplish through them, and the lasting effect they have had on the ...
Persecution and the Church: Why Continual Study of the Persecuted Church Matters
(2017)
Persecution against the Christian church consistently appears in the news. ISIS is killing Christians, governments pass laws that do not permit any preaching of God’s Word, and the media ridicules the “bigoted, closed-minded ...
Using the Old and New Man in Sanctification
(2017)
Why do Christians sometimes sin? What part of you is a sinner? Does Psalm 119 speak to your Old or New Man? Who is your New Man? How do we interact with our Old Man? Does everyone have an Old and New Man? Why do we do what ...
Loving my Neighbor from the Voting Booth: The Christian and the Social Contract
(2018)
Modern, liberal democracy provides Christians with a unique position in the history of politics:
regardless of age, economic status, religion, race, or gender, many in the world today are
promised a vote. Voters, in ...
Awakened to Confessional: The Doctrinal Development of F.C.D. Wyneken and its Place in the Course of Lutheranism in America
(2018)
Friedrich Conrad Dietrich Wyneken: the "Father of Lutheran Home Missions," the
inspiring voice which led to the influx of hundreds of pastors to America and the establishment
of seminaries in two continents, the leader ...