Essay File: Recent submissions
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Abortion in the Light of Scripture
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Termination of Membership
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The Hymn-of-the-Week Plan
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The Church of the Firstborn
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Our Way of Worship
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Church Fellowship
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Three Advent Sermon Studies: Isaiah Pictures the Coming Messiah
(0000)This series of Advent sermon studies will let the prophet Isaiah speak. Seven centuries before the birth of Christ, Isaiah pictured the coming Messiah for his hearers and readers. The three Isaiah texts chosen for this ... -
Women in the Teaching Ministry
(1975)Female teachers are most definitely in the public ministry of the Word. However, we do not call women to be pastors because of the relationship which God laid out for men and women at creation. Paul reiterated this command ... -
What Is Heresy?
(0000)This paper was written is response to a 1965 revision of an LCMS document entitled Theology of Fellowship. After a thorough word study of the usage of the New Testament word for heresy, the author examines heresy as defined ... -
What Church Do You Mean?
(1967)The picture the New Testament gives of ekklesia is an assembly which possesses the keys of the kingdom of God. This assembly administers these keys by Christ’s authority and according to his will. Luther saw only one church, ... -
What About Women Visitors?
(0000)The purpose of school visitors is to evaluate the curriculum of the school, encourage Christian education, and to help the individual teacher do his job as best as he can. If a woman were to become a school visitor, would ... -
The WELS' Walther Heritage
(1987)Written in commemoration of the 175th anniversary of his birth and the 100th anniversary of his death, Professor Gawrisch shows the impact of Walther through his students who taught on Wisconsin Synod campuses as well as ... -
The Twentieth Century Crucifixion of Christ
(1970)The professed goal of twentieth century theology is to persuade modern man to accept the Christian faith. Twentieth century theology speaks to man’s reason. Not only does modern theology reject the inspiration, inerrancy, ... -
The Separation of Church and State as it Relates to our Christian Schools
(0000)The church is to make disciples of all nations by using the gospel. The state, on the other hand, has the purpose of preserving a certain measure of peace and order in human society. There is a certain separation between ... -
The Separation of Church and State
(1986)Though both the Church and State are divinely created, their purpose and the means by which they carry out their purpose are completely different. The Christian is a citizen of two kingdoms. He is a citizen of the spiritual ...