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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 ... -
The Awkward Shepherd: Tactics For A Young Pastor To Improve His Interpersonal Communication Skills
(2023)Whether a pastor serves as a minister of a congregational flock or as a teacher of students in an institution, face-to-face communication plays a large role in his call. Yet for some pastors who have just graduated from ... -
The Battle Against the Self: How Philosophy, Scripture, and Physiology Affect Self-Discipline
(2024)As mankind’s culture has shifted throughout history, the conflict of worldly culture and Christianity has always remained. However, in today’s culture we have seen a slight shift in how culture forms identity. No longer ... -
The Battle's Fierce, but the Victory's Won: The Unique Tasks and Blessings of the Competitive Christian
(2023)In The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis suggests that Satan and his evil angels can only mutilate and cannot create anything. Where does competitiveness come from? Is it a product of God’s creation or of Satan’s mutilation? ... -
The Benefits and Challenges of Using Traction for Ministry Planning
(Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, 2022-02-18)In ministry planning, proposed methods for planning are abundant. Congregations utilize those methods in many different ways to plan and carryout ministry. Over fifty congregations in WELS employ one method called “Traction.” ... -
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 ... -
Biblical Performance Criticism: An Exegetical Tool to Analyze Communication Events in the New Testament
(Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, 2022-02-18)Since the beginning of the world, people have communicated orally through speech. As time progressed, communication technology advanced and began to aid oral communication to make it more accessible and permanent. The ... -
A Biblical Response to Christian Nationalism
(2023)American politics are messy, emotional, controversial, and particularly difficult to talk about–especially for Gospel-centered Christians who seek to put their hope in and focus on God’s kingdom. American politics are not, ... -
Biblical Text Messages: The Effect of Bible Software on Seminary Students
(2018)Practitioners of media ecology study the powerful influence media exert on human perception. Research has discovered that digital technologies, such as computers and smart phones, interact with the plasticity of the human ... -
The Biblical Use of Narrative and the Benefits of its Inclusion as the Primary Method of Instruction for Adult Converts to the Christian Faith
(2012)The Bible is essentially one grand story focused on Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who lived a perfect life and gave himself into death for the sins of the world. It is not incidental that as God told salvation’s story ... -
The Blessings of Properly Applied Multi-site Church Planting in the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
(2014)In the last decade, the multi-site church planting model has become a major factor in the way American churches have chosen to expand their reach into the community. Many nondenominational and Evangelical churches have ... -
Bolstering Ministerial Influence and Recruitment at Area Lutheran High Schools for Full-Time Pastoral Ministry in the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
(2015)The issue of pastoral recruitment is an on-going one. The numbers at the synodical schools of WELS are constantly in flux. How does WELS get a handle on it? How will WELS continue to fulfill Christ’s mission if its pool ... -
Book Digitization: A Practical and Urgent Necessity for the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
(2012)More than a decade into the 21st century, life is becoming ever more digitized. A major part of this movement is the digitization of print literature. This paper examines digital libraries around the globe and discusses ... -
Boundaries, Not Barriers: A Sociolinguistic Examination of Ingroup-Outgroup Concepts in 1 and 2 Corinthians
(2019)Since God designed humans to communicate and relate to one another socially, the divinely inspired human authors make use of language in ways consistent with sociolinguistic schema common to other members of humanity. The ... -
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. ... -
The Brave New World of Gospel Ministry: Taking the Great Commission Seriously at a Time of Perceived Christian Marginalization
(2014)It is a generalization, but certainly not simply a presumption, that there is consternation on the part of many Christians as they look at the present and toward the future of Christendom in America. Members of the Wisconsin ... -
Breaking the Spell: Investigating Screen-Based Media for Gospel-Driven Outreach
(Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, 2022-02-18)We live in a world of screens. In the past, we used them mainly for entertainment. However, in today’s digital age, we use screens for practical endeavors too. Their efficiency and emotional appeals create ample desire for ... -
Bridge Building: Being Sensitive in Cross-Cultural Preaching
(Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, 2022-02-18)How does a minister preach cross-culturally? Can they bridge the culturally divide?What can a preacher implement into his sermon-writing process to help him preach cross-culturally? This paper introduces the approach of ... -
Building with Wisdom: Conceptual Metaphors for House Building in Proverbs 3
(2023)How does Proverbs 3:19–20 function in the context of chapter 3? To answer this question, I utilize cognitive linguistics and conceptual metaphor theory to analyze both ANE sources and the Hebrew Bible. I conclude that in ... -
Burning the Plow: Addressing the Challenges and Capitalizing on the Blessings of Second-Career Seminary Students
(2019)“The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field” (Matt 9:37–38 NIV84). With these words, Jesus reminds his church that there will ...