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Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Their Families, and the Worship Service
(2015)
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is being diagnosed more often every year throughout the entire world. This means that more children with this disorder and their families will be members of our congregations. This disorder ...
Choosing Temptations Wisely: A Line Between Allowing No Temptation and Allowing All Temptations
(2015)
“Temptation leads to sin; therefore avoid temptation.” This maxim, in whatever form it may appear, has received much more representation than the view offered herein, that temptation cannot always be avoided and sometimes ...
A Key to Mormon Outreach Is Distinguishing Between Mormon Terminology and Biblical Terminology Regarding the Plan of Salvation
(2015)
Talking to your Mormon friends can be confusing as they use the same language that the Bible uses. Since they use the same language that the Bible does, it makes evangelizing them difficult as it seems like both the Christian ...
Lent's Forgotten Joy: Contemporary Depiction and Emotionalization of the Passion History Evaluated in Light of a Literary Analysis of the John 19:1-37 Narrative
(2015)
Especially in the past decade with Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ and the tendency to view other passion history videos in congregational settings, American Christianity has seen a rise in the graphic depiction of ...
Unearthing the Flood: Evaluating Geological Flood Theory and Its Use in Christian Lives
(2015)
Due to the work of creation science organizations such as the Answers in Genesis apologetics ministry, the possible geologic effects of the Genesis Flood have once again become a popular topic in both scientific and Christian ...
A Method for Discovering and Applying the Specific Gospel in Your Specific Congregation
(Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, 2015-03-11)
Within confessional Lutheran circles, the term “specific law” has a well-understood and
widely-recognized meaning in the field of homiletics. In recent decades, the term “specific
gospel” has grown in popularity. However, ...
The Benefits of Comprehensive Ministry Planning and Its Correlation to Congregational Health
(2015)
A plethora of literature on the market seeks to instruct leaders on how to take their congregation through a ministry planning process. While these resources are conveniently at our finger tips, the research of this thesis ...
Reevaluating Ministerial Education: The Need There Is, the Problem We Have, and Thoughts for the Future
(2015)
"The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few" (Matthew 9:37). The fact was true in Jesus‘ day and the fact remains true to this day. With the declining numbers in the ministerial education system and an increasing ...
Use of Davidic Psalms Is an Effective Way to Counsel Military Personnel with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
(2015)
Counseling is part of a pastor’s call. He is to rightly divide law and gospel to nurture and sustain God’s people in the one true faith. Not all counseling is the same. Sometimes trauma is involved and affects people in ...
"How Can They Believe in the One of Whom They Have Not Heard? And How Can They Hear without Someone Preaching to Them?" Evangelizing the Deaf Community by Overcoming the Obstacle of the Spoken Word
(2015)
Deaf ministries can be found in almost every church body in the United States. However, less than 10% of deaf people attend church. Evangelism to the deaf community is often hindered because of the communication barrier ...