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From the Lips of Children: A Study on Involving Children in Worship
(2012)
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 ...
The Most Important Aspect of a Congregation's Youth Ministry is Pastor-Teen Relationships
(2012)
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 ...
Keeping in Step with the Spirit: His Fruit in the Life and Classroom of a Christian Teacher
(2012)
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 ...
An Exegetical Study of 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 as it Pertains to the Doctrine of the Antichrist
(2012)
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 ...
Worship Space of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod in the Context of Historical Christian Architecture and Art
(2012)
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 ...
Book Digitization: A Practical and Urgent Necessity for the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
(2012)
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 ...
A Matter of Choice: On the Feasibility and Utility of an Eclectic Text of the Hebrew Bible
(2012)
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 ...
Encountering Authenticity: The Gospel Fills the Needs of a Post-Postmodern Society
(2012)
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 ...
The Hymn of the Day: Its Development and Use
(2012)
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 ...
The Role of Training in Short Term Missions
(2012)
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 ...