Browsing Senior Theses by Title
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More Than a Spiritual Problem: The Pastor Deals with Anxiety
(Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, 2022-02-18)A pastor will encounter many joyful opportunities in his ministry; so also does he encounter many difficulties and challenges. The anxiety he feels in those moments is his body telling him to prepare for those challenges. ... -
The Most Important Aspect of a Congregation's Youth Ministry is Pastor-Teen Relationships
(2012)Why is youth ministry so difficult in today’s culture? Why do so many congregations’ youth ministries sputter out and fail? Why can’t youth ministers seem to be able to get their youth active in the life of their ... -
The Mother of All Vigils: the Use of the Ancient Easter Vigil in 21st Century Lutheran Churches
(2017)The Great Easter Vigil is certainly the most majestic and beautifully symbolic service in all of Christendom. With roots that trace back to the early second century, the Great Vigil is the most ancient of genuinely Christian ... -
Multi-Site Ministry: How This Model can Enhance the Ability of WELS Congregations to Adopt a Mission Mindset
(2020)Multi-site ministry has captivated the attention of congregations in recent decades by showing the potential for greater impact in surrounding communities. This thesis investigates the nuances of multi-site ministry ... -
Music as a Tool for Outreach: A Look at Its Historical and Modern Use for Reaching Non-Christians with the Gospel
(2016)The Word of God is all that is needed to convert people from unbelievers to believers. But throughout the history of the Christian Church, music has been used as a tool to aid the proclamation of the Gospel. This thesis ... -
"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 Narrow Lutheran Middle: The Problem of Being a Clinically-Depressed Christian
(2019)Clinical depression can bring about a great deal of problems in a person’s life. These include a depressed mood, negative self-image, harmful self-talk, a flawed perception of the truth, feelings of anger, sadness, ... -
Near-Death Experiences
(2016)Since the 1970s, near death literature has proliferated on library shelves and even the shelves of Lutherans. In recent years some of these books, such as 90 Minutes in Heaven and Heaven is for Real, have enjoyed widespread ... -
The Necessary, Relevant, & Practical Digital Media for the Development and Dissemination of a Worship Compendium in the 21st Century: A Hymnal Rebuild from the Cloud Down
(2013)The advent of digital technology, both for storing and displaying information, provides Christians at worship with new tools for facilitating worship, in both formal and informal settings. By taking a broad historical look ... -
No Middleman Necessary: Equipping Pastors to Serve Persons with Physical, Mental, and Developmental Disabilities
(2018)The pastor serving his congregation will quickly realize his members are not all the same. They each come with their own challenges and blessings, and this is especially true as he serves a member with disabilities. The ... -
Occultic Movies and Videos: Affects on Confirmation Students
(2020)Movies portraying the occult are too numerous to count. Television shows and videos also fantasize about the supernatural world. The number of confirmation age children encountering such movies and videos has only ... -
On Navigating the Narrow Lutheran Middle in Our Preaching Between Gospel Negligence and Gospel Obsession in Reference to the Temporal Promises of God's Providence
(2015)In our preaching, there lies a narrow middle road between neglecting the gospel of forgiveness for other parts of God’s word and obsessing over it to the exclusion of other parts of God’s word. Specifically, this paper ... -
Our Marriage Practice in the Light of the Doctrine of the Two Kingdoms and an Anti-Christian Culture
(2017)This paper wrestles with the question, “Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that Homosexual marriage is a constitutional right, what should we do?” Marriage is an area where the work of the church and the state overlap. ... -
Our Stories, God's Stories: Re-Conceptualizing the Stories We Live by Through a Close Reading of the Psalms of David
(2019)People love stories. Not only that, a large body of psychological research suggests that people actually live by the stories they tell themselves. Stories are the way people make sense of a confusing world. The problem is, ... -
Outreach in a Lutheran Grade School Can Succeed by Appropriately Applying Biblical Principles of Church Fellowship
(2013)As an evangelical church body one of our chief goals is to follow the command of the Great Commission. Obviously this has implications for many facets of ministry but that which this paper addresses is how this relates to ... -
Overcoming Obstacles to Member Visitation in the 21st Century
(2016)“The home-going pastor makes a church-going people.” This advice has been given to pastors for more than 150 years, but is it true, relevant, or even practical for a 21st century pastor to conduct regular personal visits ... -
An Overview of Addiction and Addiction Treatment with a Special Focus on the Opioid Epidemic
(2018)For at least 20 years the United States has been in the midst of a severe opioid problem. The problem escalated rather gradually at first, but in the last 10 years it has grown significantly. With the current state of ... -
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 ...