Senior Theses: Recent submissions
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No Middleman Necessary: Equipping Pastors to Serve Persons with Physical, Mental, and Developmental Disabilities
(2018)The pastor serving his congregation will quickly realize his members are not all the same. They each come with their own challenges and blessings, and this is especially true as he serves a member with disabilities. The ... -
Exploring the Role of Federation Pastors in Promoting Support and Recruitment Opportunities for Small Area Lutheran High Schools
(2018)Area Lutheran high schools are an integral part of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod‘s educational system. Of these 25 schools, many of them have less than one-hundred students and often depend on local pastors who ... -
Meaningful Preaching on the First Commandment for Teens
(2018)Attention spans are short. Distractions are screaming for acknowledgment. Listening to an entire sermon is difficult. This may not be true for an entire congregation, but it might be a commonality among many people. When ... -
Loving my Neighbor from the Voting Booth: The Christian and the Social Contract
(2018)Modern, liberal democracy provides Christians with a unique position in the history of politics: regardless of age, economic status, religion, race, or gender, many in the world today are promised a vote. Voters, in ... -
Making a Pre-Marriage Course that Makes a Difference
(2018)Graduates from Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary will be expected to fulfill all of the roles of pastor which include giving pre-marriage counseling. This is a daunting task for any young, inexperienced pastor. One might borrow ... -
Pastoral Care for Wives With Husbands Addicted to Pornography
(2018)The goal of this thesis is to equip pastors to provide pastoral care to wives who are married to a husband addicted to pornography. Pornography addiction is a widespread and prevalent issue. In the recent years, Wisconsin ... -
Preaching the Law to Christians: Insights on the Parallels between the Sermon on the Mount and the Epistle of James.
(2017)When one becomes well-acquainted with the scholarship on the book of James, it becomes clear that the epistle has an uncanny amount of similarities with the sayings of Jesus, the Sermon on the Mount in particular. These ... -
Ministering to the Recovering Alcoholic: Understanding Alcoholics Anonymous and Making Soul-Saving Connections
(2017)“Hark! The voice of Jesus crying, ‘Who will go and work today?’ Fields are ripe and harvest waiting; Who will bear the sheaves away?” These are a few of the words found in a Hymn titled “Hark, the Voice of Jesus Crying.” ... -
WELS Outreach in Las Vegas: Moving Forward with the Gospel by Looking at the Past and Present
(2017)It may be surprising to hear that there are seven Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) churches in Sin City, USA. With the possibility of a new mission start in the Southwest part of the Las Vegas valley, the total ... -
The Mother of All Vigils: the Use of the Ancient Easter Vigil in 21st Century Lutheran Churches
(2017)The Great Easter Vigil is certainly the most majestic and beautifully symbolic service in all of Christendom. With roots that trace back to the early second century, the Great Vigil is the most ancient of genuinely Christian ... -
A Pastor’s Daily Struggle as Both Sinner and Saint to Strive for Excellence while Avoiding Perfectionism
(2017)In a world where pastors are expected to complete an infinite number of tasks and do all of them to the highest degree, these expectations can affect a pastor both mentally and physically. The pressures pastors experience ... -
Using Andragogy to Integrate Assimilation and Bible Information Course
(2017)In Bible Information Course (BIC), non-Christians interested in Christianity are met head on with the gospel. In the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS), most congregations implement a 10-20 lesson BIC. This ... -
Gear Up: Equipping the Christian Soldier for Spiritual Warfare in a Pre-Deployment Environment
(2017)The Christian who enlists in the United States Armed Forces is given all the tools he or she needs to complete the mission on account of their new identity as a US soldier. The aspect of life a soldier will find himself ... -
Perceptions of God: Effectively Ministering to Men Whose View of God has been Negatively Impacted by a Dysfunctional Father Figure
(2017)This research examines the link between how a father fulfills his role and how his children, specifically his sons, view God as a result. This work is meant to establish awareness and recognition that transference of the ... -
The Church Intentionally Evangelizing to De-churched, Millennial Families Through the Use of Their Preschool to Make the Family Lifelong Members.
(2017)There is a phenomenon occurring in Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod preschools. Millennial parents who have a church background, but are not currently actively involved in a church, are enrolling their young children ... -
Using the Old and New Man in Sanctification
(2017)Why do Christians sometimes sin? What part of you is a sinner? Does Psalm 119 speak to your Old or New Man? Who is your New Man? How do we interact with our Old Man? Does everyone have an Old and New Man? Why do we do what ... -
The Goal of Evangelism: an Opportunity to Share the Gospel
(2017)Evangelism has taken on many definitions throughout the ages, and much has been said about its origin in meaning. Proselytizing is not as well-known a term, but oddly enough, it has a plethora of definitions. Since the ... -
Educating Pastors to Protect them against Pornography Usage in the Current Age
(2017)Despite the widespread access to pornography and the amount of pastors who have become addicted to pornography, little has been done to prepare the pastor to deal with his own pornography problems. Scripture urges pastors ... -
Persecution and the Church: Why Continual Study of the Persecuted Church Matters
(2017)Persecution against the Christian church consistently appears in the news. ISIS is killing Christians, governments pass laws that do not permit any preaching of God’s Word, and the media ridicules the “bigoted, closed-minded ... -
Can Meaning Exist Without God? A Close Reading of Qohelet in Light of the Secular Social Imaginary
(2017)This study explores the timeliness of the book of Qohelet (Ecclesiastes) in Christian Apologetics. It follows a methodology of close reading in Qohelet conducted within the conceptual frame of Charles Taylor’s Secular ...