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Faith in Christ: An Answer to the ΠΙΣΤΙΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ Debate
(2015)Since the 1980s a major source of contention within New Testament scholarship has been the Πίστις Χριστοῦ debate. Paul teaches that our justification occurs ἐκ πίστεως Χριστοῦ (Ro 3:22,26; Ga 2:16,20; 3:22; Eph 3:12; Php ... -
Faith, a Haven for Gen Z's Emotions: A Qualitative Study of How Faith Relates to Gen Z's Emotions
(2024)Gen Z faces unique emotional challenges that stem from a variety of ways in which they are different from generations before them. This paper highlights various challenges that Gen Z Christians have regarding emotions ... -
Family Ministry the Lutheran Way
(2023)How do churches minister to families? This question has been asked by churches since ancient times. Families face new challenges in every generation. While our tools have remained the same, the power of God’s Word and the ... -
Fatherly Concern: A Study of the Ante-Nicene Church Fathers with Emphasis on Christology, the Trinity, and the Authority of Scripture
(2016)There is a common thread found in writings of the earliest Christian theologians. In the years leading up the Council of Nicaea in 325 a substantial amount of Christian literature was produced. This paper will look at ... -
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 ... -
Finding Your Role as a Musical Pastor: A Study of Vocation and Stewardship of Musical Acts
(2024)A pastor who is musically gifted should not feel that he must abandon music altogether for the sake of his ministry. Both can work together for the benefit of the church. If God has blessed a pastor with musical gifts, ... -
Fostering Cross-Cultural Growth at WELS Worker Training Schools
(2013)Look into a classroom of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary classroom in the year 2013 and you will only see maybe one or two minorities amongst the class of around thirty Caucasian students. Ninety-six percent of the MLC student ... -
Free at Heart: A Lutheran Response to Writings on Biblical Masculinity by David Clines and John Eldredge
(Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, 2021-02-19)Many have attempted to construct a definition for biblical masculinity. From Bernard of Clairvaux to John Eldredge, Christian men have struggled with the question, “What does it take to be truly masculine in God’s eyes?” ... -
From Sola to Soli: Focusing Faithfulness for Excellence in the Pastoral Ministry
(2018)There is a question every pastor must ask himself every week: “Have I been faithful?” Faithfulness is God’s standard for his servants, but what exactly constitutes faithfulness may be another question. This thesis seeks ... -
From Spener to Stanley: Exploring Pietistic Themes in Modern American Evangelicalism
(2020)The Pietist movement that took place among German Lutherans in the 17th century was predicated on a turning inward. Pietists saw moral improvement as the goal of Christianity, and focused on Christ in us rather than ... -
From the Lips of Children: A Study on Involving Children in Worship
(2012)The purpose of this project is to identify how to best involve children in worship in the individual congregations of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. The research includes three parts. It accomplishes this ... -
Functional Illiteracy: Ministering to Functionally Illiterate Adults by Employing Modern Educational Philosophies
(2013)This study is meant to familiarize pastors and ministerial educators with functional illiteracy in America. Often this subject is addressed in terms of youth who are functionally illiterate or non-English speakers who are ... -
The Garden Temple: Analyzation and Implications of the Relationship between Eden and the Tabernacle/Temple
(2024)The garden of Eden was God’s non-architectural temple of creation. Adam was the first priest. The future blueprints of the tabernacle and temple which God directed to be built were concessions that allowed humans to remain ... -
Gear Up: Equipping the Christian Soldier for Spiritual Warfare in a Pre-Deployment Environment
(2017)The Christian who enlists in the United States Armed Forces is given all the tools he or she needs to complete the mission on account of their new identity as a US soldier. The aspect of life a soldier will find himself ... -
Go and Make Disciples: How Discipleship in the Form of Small Groups Reaches and Cares for Single Adults in their Twenties and Thirties
(2023)According to the 2020 U.S. census, nearly 50 percent of the population is single or never-married. Statistics show an increase in the single population, but has that resulted in increased single adults in Wisconsin Evangelical ... -
The Goal of Evangelism: an Opportunity to Share the Gospel
(2017)Evangelism has taken on many definitions throughout the ages, and much has been said about its origin in meaning. Proselytizing is not as well-known a term, but oddly enough, it has a plethora of definitions. Since the ... -
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 ... -
God's Dwelling with Man: Prophecies Fulfilled Give Rich Meaning to the Festival of Pentecost
(2023)Is there a simple two sentence explanation that captures the importance of Pentecost? This paper focuses on the question “How do we preach and teach about Pentecost in a way that is meaningful to God’s people?” The methodology ... -
God's Environmentalism: A Study of Biblical Ecology
(2013)For the past half century, the philosophies of environmentalism and ecology have powerfully influenced the passage of international and domestic legislation, the writing of curricula for every stage of learning, and the ... -
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 ...