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Why Won't My Members Come to Bible Class? A Study of the Possible Factors Leading to Low Adult Bible Class Attendance Among WELS Congregations
(2019)
What is it that makes a Bible class desirable? This is a question that has been asked many times by many WELS pastors. What makes this question so popular? It is the numbers; they don’t lie. WELS congregations, historically, ...
Stacked Against the Odds: Preparing Teens to Stand Firm in the Faith
(2019)
What does it mean to make a promise? Every year, there are many young Christians
around the world who make their promise to remain faithful to God and to His Word. It would be
easy to keep that promise in a perfect world, ...
Applying Christ-Like and Other Leadership Qualities to Millennial Lay Leadership
(2019)
The use of excellent lay leadership is vital to a healthy church, but what does excellent lay
leadership look like? It can certainly be modeled from Christ and from other important
leadership qualities. Which demographic ...
The Pastor and His Wife: Fortifying Marriage Against the Demands of Ministry
(2019)
This thesis aims to contribute to practical theology. Marriage and the public ministry are two gifts of God that are uniquely intertwined as a pastor serves his church and his family. God intends both of these to be blessings ...
By the Rivers of Babylon: Interpretation and Application of the Imprecatory Psalms
(2019)
“Break the teeth in their mouths, O God. Like a stillborn child, may they not see the sun” (Ps 58:6,8). Such curses have shocked casual readers of the psalms and biblical scholars alike for years. They seem to be incompatible ...
Silver Screen - Golden Opportunity: The Value of Film in Pastoral Ministry
(2019)
The American movie industry is perhaps the premier entertainment industry in the world today. The films that are released every year dominate popular culture in the United States and have a profound impact on meaning-making ...
Our Stories, God's Stories: Re-Conceptualizing the Stories We Live by Through a Close Reading of the Psalms of David
(2019)
People love stories. Not only that, a large body of psychological research suggests that people actually live by the stories they tell themselves. Stories are the way people make sense of a confusing world. The problem is, ...
Burning the Plow: Addressing the Challenges and Capitalizing on the Blessings of Second-Career Seminary Students
(2019)
“The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send
out workers into his harvest field” (Matt 9:37–38 NIV84). With these words, Jesus reminds his
church that there will ...
Preparing Our Youth to Defend Their Faith
(2019)
There has been a resurgence of the study of apologetics in Lutheran circles recently, in the
Missouri Synod as well as the Wisconsin Synod. As our society continues to become more and
more “post-Christian,” Christians ...
The Proper Distinction Between Antilegomena and Homologoumena: Its History and Application
(2019)
Orthodox Lutherans have varied in how they treat the antilegomena. Martin Chemnitz believed the antilegomena should not be used to establish doctrine. This was the practice in the Wisconsin Synod until not too long ago. ...