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Caring for the Cared For: The Roles and Responsibilities of Lutheran Pastors and Mental Health Professionals
(2023)
Mental health is a more open and prominent topic in the culture of 2023. As mental health clinics fill up, pastors must be ready to address and care for mental health illnesses in their congregations. This paper seeks to ...
Adapting an Evangelical Lutheran Homiletical Approach to Communicate More Effectively in a Pakistani Cultural Setting
(2023)
There have been many studies on an honor/shame culture in the fields of missiology, theology, and hermeneutics. Scholars have diligently labored to research how to apply biblical hermeneutics and methodology in an honor/shame ...
Quiet in the Pulpit: A Qualitative Study of Introverted Pastors
(2023)
Many of the duties involved in the pastoral ministry involve large amounts of interaction with other people. From preaching and teaching to mixing and mingling, a pastor needs to be able to spend time with members and ...
The Battle's Fierce, but the Victory's Won: The Unique Tasks and Blessings of the Competitive Christian
(2023)
In The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis suggests that Satan and his evil angels can only mutilate and cannot create anything. Where does competitiveness come from? Is it a product of God’s creation or of Satan’s mutilation? ...
A Shepherd Among his Sheep: The Relationship Between a Pastor and His Members
(2023)
Love God’s Word. Love God’s people. Love connecting God’s Word to God’s people. Perhaps that would be a good way of summarizing pastoral ministry. Many pastors entered the ministry out of love for God’s people. Through ...
American Heresy: Christian Zionism and the Scriptural Response
(2023)
Christian Zionism is an increasingly pervasive heresy that has sprung up and flourished in the American Evangelical zeitgeist. While it is primarily an American Protestant issue, Lutherans in this country are not immune ...
Go and Make Disciples: How Discipleship in the Form of Small Groups Reaches and Cares for Single Adults in their Twenties and Thirties
(2023)
According to the 2020 U.S. census, nearly 50 percent of the population is single or never-married. Statistics show an increase in the single population, but has that resulted in increased single adults in Wisconsin Evangelical ...
The Seelsorger Cares for Survivors' Souls: Burden or Blessing?
(2023)
What can a pastor do? What can he say? When a person who comes to him and reveals the painful scars seared into the mind and body, they surely expect help. As the pastor listens to the details surrounding the trauma ...
Pastor Pomeranus: The Life of Johannes Bugenhagen and the Lessons We Can Learn from His Pastoral Relationship with Martin Luther
(2023)
The opportunity to study Lutheran history has revealed that there are many different aspects to the history of Lutheranism that a Lutheran needs to be enlightened on. It has also revealed that there are many more aspects ...
What is the Word of God? Understanding Divine Communication through a Relevance-Theoretic Model of Communication
(2023)
What is the word of God? The question is a provocative one, no doubt. Or perhaps it is one which a person may be tempted to shrug off for being so patently obvious. To be sure, a fruitful answer to this question is accessible ...