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Evangelizing Millennials: Studying Millennials to Understand How Relationships through Friendship Evangelism are the Best Way to Bring the Gospel to Their Culture
(2018)If you look online, in a library, even on a newsfeed, you’ll very easily find resources that are dedicated to studies of the current millennial generation. Millennials are a hot topic of study right now as they become ... -
An Examination of Elihu and His Role in the Book of Job
(2023)In this paper, I examine the character of Elihu and his role within the book of Job and demonstrate how he, unlike the so-called “three friends” (Job 2:11), offers words of divine wisdom to Job at a crucial point in the ... -
An Examination of Jesus Christ's Resurrection as a Historically Verifiable Event
(2016)History is arguably the most important area of study. It not only contains every other field of inquiry, but it defines and demonstrates what and who people are. In A.D. 30, historians find a single event which alone is ... -
Examination Variability: One size Does Not Fit All
(2024)Examination before confirmation has been practiced since the early centuries of Christian Church history. Even with a practice this longstanding, the Lutheran Church does not have a uniform methodology or purpose for ... -
An Exegetical Study of 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 as it Pertains to the Doctrine of the Antichrist
(2012)The purpose of this thesis is to address the topic of the Antichrist. This paper will demonstrate that the misconceptions held by many cinematographers, authors, church bodies, Bible scholars, and exegetes result from ... -
Exploring the Role of Federation Pastors in Promoting Support and Recruitment Opportunities for Small Area Lutheran High Schools
(2018)Area Lutheran high schools are an integral part of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod‘s educational system. Of these 25 schools, many of them have less than one-hundred students and often depend on local pastors who ... -
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 ... -
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 ...