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 ...

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 ...

This is a brief paper establishing the purpose and reasoning for creating a series of devotions for a high school faculty. In it are discussed the benefits of Scriptural study both in the personal life of the believer ...

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 ...

This study examines the history of Christian architecture and art, and how Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) churches shape worship space in the 21st century. When believers come together in corporate worship ...

More than a decade into the 21st century, life is becoming ever more digitized. A major part of this movement is the digitization of print literature. This paper examines digital libraries around the globe and discusses ...

The exegesis of any biblical text is only as good as the text it examines. This thesis will lay out the case for the feasibility and utility of an eclectic text of the Hebrew Bible. First it explains the necessity and ...

As long as people are sinful, they have spiritual needs which on their own they cannot satiate. Jesus’ gospel of salvation fills those needs. This paper is a study of how Jesus’ gospel applies to the specific spiritual ...

This thesis depicts the development of the Hymn of the Day as it was born out of Luther’s Graduallied and how the concept of the Hymn of the Day was born out of the Lutheran Reformation. The Graduallied was a hymn Luther ...

This project’s objective was (1) to research the training that volunteers in the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) receive for short-term mission trips and (2) to determine whether existing training manuals can ...