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God's People Grow Together: The Church's Responsibility to Invigorate Spiritually Overlooked Twenty-Somethings
(2015)The purpose of this thesis project was to investigate the reasons why Twenty-Somethings are not involved with congregational activities and what the congregation can do to improve in this area of ministry. By the use of a ... -
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Their Families, and the Worship Service
(2015)Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is being diagnosed more often every year throughout the entire world. This means that more children with this disorder and their families will be members of our congregations. This disorder ... -
Choosing Temptations Wisely: A Line Between Allowing No Temptation and Allowing All Temptations
(2015)“Temptation leads to sin; therefore avoid temptation.” This maxim, in whatever form it may appear, has received much more representation than the view offered herein, that temptation cannot always be avoided and sometimes ... -
A Key to Mormon Outreach Is Distinguishing Between Mormon Terminology and Biblical Terminology Regarding the Plan of Salvation
(2015)Talking to your Mormon friends can be confusing as they use the same language that the Bible uses. Since they use the same language that the Bible does, it makes evangelizing them difficult as it seems like both the Christian ... -
Lent's Forgotten Joy: Contemporary Depiction and Emotionalization of the Passion History Evaluated in Light of a Literary Analysis of the John 19:1-37 Narrative
(2015)Especially in the past decade with Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ and the tendency to view other passion history videos in congregational settings, American Christianity has seen a rise in the graphic depiction of ... -
Unearthing the Flood: Evaluating Geological Flood Theory and Its Use in Christian Lives
(2015)Due to the work of creation science organizations such as the Answers in Genesis apologetics ministry, the possible geologic effects of the Genesis Flood have once again become a popular topic in both scientific and Christian ... -
The Benefits of Comprehensive Ministry Planning and Its Correlation to Congregational Health
(2015)A plethora of literature on the market seeks to instruct leaders on how to take their congregation through a ministry planning process. While these resources are conveniently at our finger tips, the research of this thesis ... -
Reevaluating Ministerial Education: The Need There Is, the Problem We Have, and Thoughts for the Future
(2015)"The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few" (Matthew 9:37). The fact was true in Jesus‘ day and the fact remains true to this day. With the declining numbers in the ministerial education system and an increasing ... -
Use of Davidic Psalms Is an Effective Way to Counsel Military Personnel with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
(2015)Counseling is part of a pastor’s call. He is to rightly divide law and gospel to nurture and sustain God’s people in the one true faith. Not all counseling is the same. Sometimes trauma is involved and affects people in ... -
"How Can They Believe in the One of Whom They Have Not Heard? And How Can They Hear without Someone Preaching to Them?" Evangelizing the Deaf Community by Overcoming the Obstacle of the Spoken Word
(2015)Deaf ministries can be found in almost every church body in the United States. However, less than 10% of deaf people attend church. Evangelism to the deaf community is often hindered because of the communication barrier ... -
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. ... -
A Method for Discovering and Applying the Specific Gospel in Your Specific Congregation
(Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, 2015-03-11)Within confessional Lutheran circles, the term “specific law” has a well-understood and widely-recognized meaning in the field of homiletics. In recent decades, the term “specific gospel” has grown in popularity. However, ... -
The Sunday Ticket: Focusing on Christ to Penetrate the Love Affair with Sports
(2016)Our culture celebrates sporting events more than church. America chooses to show more loyalty to teams than God, and this has shaped their lives around games instead of the Word. Sports are not an evil activity. However, ... -
"My Son Is a Homosexual." A Pastoral Approach to Guiding Believers Dealing with Homosexual Family Members in a World of Contrasting Views
(2016)A homosexual’s “coming out” event is viewed by the secular world as one of the most significant moments in their life. Among believers there should be common ground, yet opinions are mixed. Some Christians have given in ... -
The "Storied" Catechism Class
(2016)Everybody loves a good story. It can be a movie that leaves its viewers crying, happy memories of bedtime stories, or a favorite story from the Bible. Good stories do a number of things. They grab a person’s attention, ... -
Are Jesus and the Gospel Unique?
(2016)This thesis explores the topic of comparative religion especially in regard to the prevalent argument that Christ and the account of him which the New Testament gives is in part borrowed from other figures in ancient myth ... -
Intentional Pre-Evangelism: Gaining a Hearing for the Gospel
(2016)There is a problem with pre-evangelism in our Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) churches. The lost unbelievers of this world are not hearing the gospel message. Left on their own they do not know where to find ... -
Educating with the Brain in Mind: The Use of Popular Culture in Bible Class
(2016)One of the most challenging aspects of a pastor’s ministry is teaching people the truth of God’s Word. This may sound easy, but any pastor knows that communicating the truth of Scripture in a way that people grab hold of ... -
Branding WELS Campus Ministry
(2016)It has always been important for Christian ministries to present an understandable and compelling identity for themselves. This paper focuses on the efforts of campus ministries in the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. ... -
Cross-Geographic Trends of Outreach in Early Childhood Ministries within the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
(2016)The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) has recently experienced a rapid expansion in the number of Early Childhood Ministries (ECM). These ministries which are spread across geographical boundaries have been ...