Browsing Senior Theses by Title
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Parental Involvement in Choice and Charter Schools: Dealing with a Paradigm Shift
(2013)God has given parents the primary role in the religious education of their children. The church’s role has always been secondary as a supporting partner. In recent years cities like Milwaukee, Wisconsin have started voucher ... -
Parenting with Law and Gospel
(2013)This thesis examines how a Christian parent will carry out his or her God-given task of parenting. This world is full of different parenting books and styles. This paper aims to identify God’s method of parenting. By ... -
The Pastor and His Wife: Fortifying Marriage Against the Demands of Ministry
(2019)This thesis aims to contribute to practical theology. Marriage and the public ministry are two gifts of God that are uniquely intertwined as a pastor serves his church and his family. God intends both of these to be blessings ... -
The Pastor as Team Leader: Building a Focused Leadership Team
(2014)Many ideas exist about how to lead. The pursuit of this paper is to synthesize a variety of leadership concepts into key principles and suggestions that can be applied to the mission of the local congregation. Through ... -
A Pastor in Motion Stays in Motion: The Relationship between Exercise and Mental and Emotional Health
(Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, 2022-02-18)Something that often is left out of the discussion among pastors is exercise. God creates us body and soul, and the best way to teach is by example. Several benefits stem from exercise as it applies to the ministry. This ... -
Pastor Pomeranus: The Life of Johannes Bugenhagen and the Lessons We Can Learn from His Pastoral Relationship with Martin Luther
(2023)The opportunity to study Lutheran history has revealed that there are many different aspects to the history of Lutheranism that a Lutheran needs to be enlightened on. It has also revealed that there are many more aspects ... -
A Pastor's Guide to Providing Care for his Congregation within the First Year of it Being Touched by Suicide
(2024)Suicide is as important an issue as any for a pastor to be prepared to handle. Over 34,000 people in the United States alone take their own lives each year.[1] Contemporary factors contributing to a rise in mental illness ... -
A Pastoral Approach to Counseling Believers in Pregancy Loss
(2015-03-11)The stark reality of pregnancy loss and the manner in which pregnancy loss ministry is mistreated or ignored in our world present compelling reasons for pastors to seriously consider how they will respond in such situations. ... -
Pastoral Care for Wives With Husbands Addicted to Pornography
(2018)The goal of this thesis is to equip pastors to provide pastoral care to wives who are married to a husband addicted to pornography. Pornography addiction is a widespread and prevalent issue. In the recent years, Wisconsin ... -
Pastoral Resilience: Maintaining a Healthy Life in Ministry
(2023)The public ministry presents the pastor with blessings that prove to be gracious gifts of God. However, it also manifests many temptations, trials, and tribulations. The expectations placed upon a pastor can leave him ... -
A Pastor’s Daily Struggle as Both Sinner and Saint to Strive for Excellence while Avoiding Perfectionism
(2017)In a world where pastors are expected to complete an infinite number of tasks and do all of them to the highest degree, these expectations can affect a pastor both mentally and physically. The pressures pastors experience ... -
Perceptions of God: Effectively Ministering to Men Whose View of God has been Negatively Impacted by a Dysfunctional Father Figure
(2017)This research examines the link between how a father fulfills his role and how his children, specifically his sons, view God as a result. This work is meant to establish awareness and recognition that transference of 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 ... -
Player or Played: How Does the Counseling Pastor Help Someone Suffering from Video Game Addication?
(Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, 2022-02-18)Video games have exploded in popularity in the past decade or so. With the rise of video game prominence on the global scale comes an emergent concern of video game related disorders like addiction. Addiction can be a ... -
Possessed Places: A Lutheran Perspective on Demonic Activity Within the Home
(2019)The Christian Church has given much attention to the topic of demon possession throughout its history. But there are some Christians who continue to face other forms of demonic activity, particularly within their homes. ... -
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 ... -
Pre-Seminary Curriculum Re-Evaluation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Non-Biblical Language Requirement
(2018)In a changing world, the WELS must constantly reassess the system by which it trains men for the public ministry. Over the course of more than 150 years, the pre-seminary curriculum has adapted to changing times, circumstances, ... -
Preaching God's Story in Psalms: The Importance of Seeing the Tapestry in the Threads
(2023)This paper seeks to answer: “What homiletical strategies can help pastors preach the Psalms in a way that reinforces the hermeneutic that all of Scripture is a unified story of God’s love for people?” The paper is split ... -
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 ... -
Preparing Our Youth to Defend Their Faith
(2019)There has been a resurgence of the study of apologetics in Lutheran circles recently, in the Missouri Synod as well as the Wisconsin Synod. As our society continues to become more and more “post-Christian,” Christians ...