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Intergenerational Education in the Church: Parental Benefits of Learning alongside Children
(2017)
The majority of Christian churches structure their Christian education opportunities by dividing groups according to age—Sunday School consists of different classrooms according to grade while a different Bible class is ...
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. ...
Spiritual Energy Management: Avoiding Pastoral Burnout by Developing a Healthy Devotional Life
(2017)
Experiencing occupational burnout is not uncommon in a society that lives to work, and the pastor is no exception to this. Given the “serve not be served” nature of the ministry, coupled with its specific and wide-ranging ...
Do Not Neglect the Gift You Have: The Blessings and Challenges of Equipping Ministry
(2017)
“Why don’t more people volunteer?” “Why is getting congregational involvement in ministry like pulling teeth at times?” “Why does my church have 20% of the people doing 80% of the work?” These questions and others like ...
Educating Pastors to Protect them against Pornography Usage in the Current Age
(2017)
Despite the widespread access to pornography and the amount of pastors who have become addicted to pornography, little has been done to prepare the pastor to deal with his own pornography problems. Scripture urges pastors ...
The Church Intentionally Evangelizing to De-churched, Millennial Families Through the Use of Their Preschool to Make the Family Lifelong Members.
(2017)
There is a phenomenon occurring in Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod preschools. Millennial parents who have a church background, but are not currently actively involved in a church, are enrolling their young children ...