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The Sunday Ticket: Focusing on Christ to Penetrate the Love Affair with Sports
(2016)
Our culture celebrates sporting events more than church. America chooses to show more loyalty to teams than God, and this has shaped their lives around games instead of the Word. Sports are not an evil activity. However, ...
"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 "Storied" Catechism Class
(2016)
Everybody loves a good story. It can be a movie that leaves its viewers crying, happy memories of bedtime stories, or a favorite story from the Bible. Good stories do a number of things. They grab a person’s attention, ...
Are Jesus and the Gospel Unique?
(2016)
This thesis explores the topic of comparative religion especially in regard to the prevalent argument that Christ and the account of him which the New Testament gives is in part borrowed from other figures in ancient myth ...
Intentional Pre-Evangelism: Gaining a Hearing for the Gospel
(2016)
There is a problem with pre-evangelism in our Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
(WELS) churches. The lost unbelievers of this world are not hearing the gospel message. Left
on their own they do not know where to find ...
Educating with the Brain in Mind: The Use of Popular Culture in Bible Class
(2016)
One of the most challenging aspects of a pastor’s ministry is teaching people the truth of God’s Word. This may sound easy, but any pastor knows that communicating the truth of Scripture in a way that people grab hold of ...
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. ...
Cross-Geographic Trends of Outreach in Early Childhood Ministries within the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
(2016)
The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) has recently experienced a
rapid expansion in the number of Early Childhood Ministries (ECM). These ministries which are
spread across geographical boundaries have been ...
Meeting a Growing Need: The Pastoral Candidate's Preparation for Spiritual Care to Alzheimer's Patients
(2016)
1 in 10 people in the United States over the age of sixty-five currently suffers with
Alzheimer’s disease. Over 5 million people have been diagnosed, but thousands more may have
the symptoms and not know it. The demographics ...
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 ...