Cancer. It is the elephant in the room no one ever wants to mention. It is considered taboo in today’s culture and often referred to as “the big C” or another nickname. Though it may be difficult, it is the Lutheran pastor’s ...

This thesis explains the pitfalls of the Social Gospel and Quietism concerning the roles of the church and the Christian in society. While it responds to these pitfalls in a Lutheran way, it answers the question: “What is ...

This paper will give an overview of the different ways the Year of Jubilee is interpreted and applied by modern scholars and theologians. First, Lev 25, the Jubilee chapter, will be given a detailed overview with major ...

Educational debt is now a burden that the majority of students who have graduated from Martin Luther College are going into the ministry burdened with. Students are seeing record-high amounts of educational debt that they ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a Russian author and Christian apologist living in the nineteenth century. Martin Luther was a German monk, Christian pastor, and theologian living in the sixteenth century. Both emphasized the ...

Christian preaching hinges on the specificity of both law and gospel. “This is for you.” This is not only a dogmatic conclusion, but an exegetical one. Both law and gospel, as they are proclaimed in Scripture, necessitate ...

This paper seeks to analyze C.S. Lewis's beliefs about the inspiration of certain parts of Scripture, particularly Esther and the Old Testament. Lewis thought it likely that the book of Esther was work of fiction. In this ...

Roughly every two to three decades, a new generation comes on the scene. The newest generation, Generation Z, is the largest on record. Spanning approximately from 1995-2015, this generation accounts for 32 percent of the ...

If someone were to walk into a church and see many ceremonies being carried out, a question might enter their minds. That question would be: “why are they doing these things; and why this way?” The answer to that question ...

The pastor is tasked with a multitude of duties in his ministry that he strives to do well. The pastor’s vocational responsibilities do not stop at the church’s door. He has various vocations outside of ministry that will ...