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Upon the Lips of Another Christian: Private Confession and Absolution as Described by Lutheran Pastors Today
(2020)
Confessional Lutherans know from Luther’s Small Catechism that private confession and
absolution is good and scriptural, but is it feasible to implement into twenty-first century gospel
ministry? We know our great ...
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 ...
History of Suicidology: Learning from the Past for a Better Future
(2019)
Since 2008, suicide has ranked among the top 10 leading causes of death in the United States. In
2016, suicide was the second leading cause of death for individuals ages 10-34 and the fourth
leading cause of death for ...
Chosen By God: Teaching the Doctrine of Election to Encourage our People in Outreach
(2020)
While it is considered by many as a difficult and tricky doctrine, Scripture shows us that election
is nothing to be afraid of. It is the purpose of this thesis to explore the application of this doctrine
to our gospel ...
Post Incarceration Outreach through Community Based Residential Facilities Makes a Church Grow
(2017)
In 2011 the Bureau of Justice reported that the prison population in the United States has steadily grown and shows no signs of reversing. An average of six hundred and eighty thousand1 prisoners are released each year ...
Knowing How to Help: Forming an Outreach Relationship
(2017)
Every pastor, staff minister, or church secretary knows the discomfort of answering the phone at church and being asked for money. When the phone rings and someone is asking for financial assistance, how should the church ...
Preaching the Law to Christians: Insights on the Parallels between the Sermon on the Mount and the Epistle of James.
(2017)
When one becomes well-acquainted with the scholarship on the book of James, it becomes clear that the epistle has an uncanny amount of similarities with the sayings of Jesus, the Sermon on the Mount in particular. These ...
Ministering to the Recovering Alcoholic: Understanding Alcoholics Anonymous and Making Soul-Saving Connections
(2017)
“Hark! The voice of Jesus crying, ‘Who will go and work today?’ Fields are ripe and harvest waiting; Who will bear the sheaves away?” These are a few of the words found in a Hymn titled “Hark, the Voice of Jesus Crying.” ...
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. ...
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 ...