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Aging

• The Bible and Aging

• Translating the Bible: What Bible Should I Read?

• Aging & Spiritual Resiliency
• Aging, Sexuality and Christian Faith
• Women, Aging and Faith

• What is the Church? Current Ecumenical Perspectives and Why They Matter

Archeology

• Archeology and the Bible/ Archeology in the Holy Land
• The Holy Land/Jerusalem

• Biblical Theology of the Land
• Creation/Environment

• The History of Jerusalem from Biblical Times to the Present

Bible
(see also New Testament, Old Testament, Theology)

• Bible Study, esp. Matthew, Luke John Acts, Galatians, I Corinthians, James
• How the Bible Came to Us/Authority and Canon of the Bible
• When the Fire Goes Out, What Then? Bible Study on James  (1-6 sessions)

• Bible Study on Assigned Texts

• Authority of the Bible
• Evil in the Bible
• Healing in the Bible
• The Bible and Stewardship
• The Human in the Bible

• Martin Luther and the Bible

• How to Use the Bible in Moral Deliberation
• Interpreting the Bible
• The Bible and Art
• Women in the Bible

• Gospels that Didn't Make it into our Bibles

• Bible Studies on the Parables in the Gospel of Matthew
• Bible Studies on the Parables in the Gospel of Matthew

• Bible Basics
• How the Bible Came to Be
• How to Read the Bible
• The Bible as the Word of God

• The Biblical Text: Which Bible is Best?
• The Dark Side of God in the Bible

• The Gospel Through Stories

• Story and Reality -- The Gospel Is a Story

• Why is that in the Bible? A Look at Some "Odd" Texts

• How to Read and Interpret the Bible
• Where Did Our Bible Come From?

• Authority of Scripture

• Bible Translations: Which Ones Shall We Use?
• Troubling Parables

Church and Society
(see also Congregational Life, Ethics, Spirituality)

• Paul and Politics

• Christians and Politics: A Lutheran Perspective
• What is the Church?

• Base Christian Community
• The Church and Public Life

• A Christian Looks at ... (specific social issues)
• The Church and Politics

• Aging, Sexuality and Christian Faith

• Seeing the Gospel in TV and Movies

• Human Sexuality: Marriage and Debates over Gay Marriage in Church and Society

• De-mythologizing Christmas: An Honest Look at the Christmas Story

• Faith and American Public Life
• Faith and Public Policy
• How Is and Isn't America a "Christian Nation?"
• Matters of Faith and Politics

• Thinking about the Millennium as Christians

• Church/State Relationships -- Politics

Church History
(see also Congregational Life, Luther & Reformation)

• Windows of Faith: The Early Church in its New Testament Setting  (1-6 sessions)

• Creating a Useful Congregational Archive
• Planning Your Congregation's Anniversary Celebration
• Preservation Issues in Congregational Archives
• Publishing Your Church's History
• Using History as the Basis for Mission Planning
• Using History to Enrich Congregational Life

• Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity

• African American Christianity Before the Civil War
• Christianity in America (can focus on a number of topics)

• Luther on Worship

• John Wesley and Methodist Theology

• My Favorite Heretics: Who They Are and Why They Keep Coming Back

Congregational Life
(see also Church and Society, Church History, Creeds and Doctrine, Cultural Issues, Family Life, Global Mission, Teaching)

• Base Christian Community
• The Ministry of the Laity

• Establishing and Marketing a Congregational Endowment Fund
• Stewardship in Your Congregation

• Congregational Studies and Mission
• Lay Leadership Development
• Long Range Planning
• Visioning

• Worship/Daily Prayer (communal)
• Worship/Daily Prayer (individual)

• Common Threads of Healthy Congregations

• Facilitating Caring Congregations

• Are You Really "Born Again?"  (1-3 sessions)
• How to Listen to a Sermon
• Recalling the Catechism

• Stewardship

• Creating Catechumenal Congregations

Creeds and Doctrine
(see also Church and Society, Church History, Congregational Life, Luther & Reformation)

• Luther's Catechisms: History and Use

• Doctrine of the Church

• Luther's Catechism and Today's Questions

• A Short Course in Christian Doctrine  (1+ sessions)

• Creeds and Confessions: Religion in America
• Lutheran Identity

• So...How Does Jesus Save Us Anyway? (Atonement)

Cultural Issues
(see also Congregational Life, Global Mission, Teaching, World Religions)

• Arab and Jew in the Holy Land

• Issues in Inclusive Language

• Racism: What Are We Really Dealing with Here?
• The Art of Crossing Cultures

• Faith and Popular Culture (esp. Music)
• Faith in a Secular Age

• The Duh-Vinci Code

Ecumenism
(see also Creeds and Doctrine, Cultural Issues, Global Mission, World Religions)

• Ecumenism

• The ELCA and the Eccumenical Movement  (1-3 sessions)
• What is a Lutheran?  (1-3 sessions)

• Ecumenism

Ethics
(see also Church and Society, Congregational Life)

• Ethics of Sexuality in the New Testament

• Introduction to Social Ministry and Social Ethics

• Genetics and Christian Ethics

• Ethics in the Business World

• Bio-Genetic Ethics and the Big Questions of Life
• Bonhoeffer for Today
• Foundations of Christian Ethics
• Foundations of Lutheran Ethics
• Homosexuality: Tradtional and Current Ethical Assessments
• Is There a Lutheran Ethic of Marriage?

• Ethics Questions Facing the Church

Family Life
(see also Aging, Church and Society, Congregational Life, Spirituality)

• The Family

• Issues in Caregiving: Caregiving and Spiritual Resiliency
• Stepfamilies -- Challenges, Resources & Faith Issues

• Faith as a Way of Life

Global Mission
(see also Cultural Issues, Teaching, World Religions)

• Luther Seminary's Mission Heritage Collection: Using Artifacts To Understand Global Mission Efforts

• Cross-Cultural Ministry -- Who Needs It?
• Mission and Intercultural Communication
• Our Mission in a World of Many Cultures

• The Church's Part in New Central Europe

• Opening the Door of the China Closet -- China Awakes

• The Good, but Neglected, News from Africa  (1+ sessions)

Luther & Reformation
(see also Theology, Creeds and Doctrine, Spirituality)

• The Shaping of a Reformer: Martin Luther on Romans  (1-6 sessions)

• Luther's Catechisms: Good News for Today
• Martin Luther as a Translator and Interpreter of the Bible
• Martin Luther: The Man & His Work

• Luther on Worship

• Luther's Three Dramatic Days: His Marriage, Trial, and Death

• A Look at the Lutheran Confessions
• Martin Luther as a Preacher

• Luther and Spirituality
• Luther's Catechism and Today's Questions
• Reformation Theology: Then and Now

• Luther on the Christian Life
• Reformation

Luther Seminary

• Presenting and Interpreting the Seminary

• Faces of Hope: A Luther Seminary Update

New Testament
(see also Archeology, Bible, Theology, Church History, Prophecy)

• Studies in Paul: Galatians, Philippians
• Studies in the Gospel, or Letters of John
• Studies in the Synoptics: Matthew, Mark, or Luke
• The New Testament is the Church's Book

• Historical Setting and/or Backgrounds of New Testament

• Philippians  (1-4 sessions)
• The Gospel of Luke

• Judaism in New Testament Times
• Life in New Testament Times
• Paul's Letters
• The Book of Acts
• The Gospel of Luke

• Jesus in the Gospels of Thomas and Judas
• Paul and His Letters
• The Parables of Jesus

• The Death and Resurrection of Jesus in the Gospel of John
• The Word of Life: A Study of John's Gospel

• Christmas in John's Gospel
• John's Story of Jesus
• Paul's Letters
• Samaritans and a Savior: One Woman's Encounter with Jesus
• The Book of Revelation
• The Death of Jesus: Four Gospel Accounts
• The Gospel According to Luke
• The Gospel According to Mark

• The Book of James

• Overview of the New Testament
• Reading and Understanding the Parables of Jesus
• The Acts of the Apostles
• The Apostle Paul: His Writings, His Life, and His Theology
• The Cruxifixion of Jesus: What Happened, and What Does It Mean?
• The Gospel according to Luke
• The Gospel according to Mark

Old Testament
(see also Archeology, Bible, Theology, Prophecy)

• Jeremiah
• Job
• Psalms (with special focus on the Laments)

• Creation and Law
• Genesis 1-11
• Old Testament

• Isaiah 40-66
• Old Testament Prophecy
• Preaching from the Old Testament

• Law in the Old Testament
• The Book of Exodus
• The Book of Psalms
• The Creation
• The Figure of Woman Wisdom and the Books of Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiates
• Women in the Old Testament

• Daniel
• God and War in the Old Testament
• Law and Gospel: Old Testament Perprectives
• Psalm 23
• The Commandments in Biblical Perspective
• The Experience of Exile and Restoration: Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah

• The Book of Daniel

• Five Seldom Used Gems From the Bible: Ruth, Song of Solomon, Ecclesiastes, Lamentations and Esther

• Elijah and Elisha
• Excuses, Excuses, Excuses...Moses, the Burning Bush, and God's Call
• Genesis One: Creation as Relation
• Genesis: Plan, Peril, and Promise
• Genesis: Sunday School Stories or Soap Opera?
• Job and the Problem of Evil
• Old Testament Prophecy
• Psalm 23: The Lord is My...?
• Psalms: Songs in the Center of Life  (1-6 sessions)
• Voices in the Pentateuch
• What Would Moses Do? (10 Commandments)

Other

• Landscape and Its Effect on Memory and Faith
• The Detective Story and its Pertinence for Christians

• Artifact Exhibition and Interpretation

• Martin Luther and Preaching

• A Look at Ecology

Peace and Justice
(see also Bible, New Testament, Old Testament, Prophecy)

• God and Suffering
• Justice and Judgement

• The Struggle in the Middle East: Why Can't Jews and Arabs Get Along and Why Should We Care?

• Job, the Innocent Sufferer
• Suffering and Hope in Jeremiah
• Where is God in My Suffering

• Jesus, Justice, and the Prophets  (1-6 sessions)

Prayer
(see also Bible, New Testament, Old Testament, Worship and Liturgy)

• Praying with the Bible

• Prayer

• Prayer in Biblical Perspective

• Martin Luther and Prayer

• Taize
• Worship/Daily Prayer (communal)
• Worship/Daily Prayer (individual)

• Prayer and Spirituality

• Praying the Christian Life

• Where is God in My Praying?

Prophecy
(see also Bible, New Testament, Old Testament, Theology)

• Daniel and the Apocolypse

• Prophecy and the Future

• The Apolalypse Now: A Study of Revelation

• Four Not So Minor Prophets: Hosea, Amos, Jonah, and Micah
• Old Testament Prophecy and the Coming of Jesus
• Who are the Biblical Prophets and What is Their Message?

Spirituality
(see also Theology, Congregational Life, Creeds and Doctrine, Family Life, Worship and Liturgy)

• Spirituality and Prayer Life
• Varieties of Lutheran Pieties

• Spirituality and Social Justice

• Spirituality

• Aging & Spiritual Resiliency
• Issues in Caregiving: Caregiving and Spiritual Resiliency

• Angels Around Us

• Apocalyptic Writing

• Hope for Life After Death
• In Whom and for What Do We Hope

• Breathing Lessons: Thinking About the Holy Spirit  (1+ sessions)

Stewardship

• Establishing Endowment Funds
• Estate Planning for Christians
• Stewardship

Teaching
(see also Congregational Life, Cultural Issues, Family Life, Global Mission)

• Biblical Preaching

• Abraham Lincoln
• Funamentalism, Social Gospel, Pentecostalism, Mormonism
• Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Why Cross-Cultural Education

The Middle East
(see also Cultural Issues, Peace and Justice)

• The Struggle in the Middle East: Why Can't Jews and Arabs Get Along and Why Should We Care?

Theology
(see also Bible, New Testament, Old Testament, World Religions)

• How? and Why? Reading the Scriptures

• Images of God

• Images of God

• Perspectives on the Passion
• Recent Views of Jesus

• Issues in Evangelical Theology Today
• John Wesley and Methodist Theology
• Scripture and Science

• God's Hiding Places: How God Hides -- Why and Where

• Death and Resurrection  (3 sessions)

• Jesus Today: Who Do Contemporary Theologians Say He Is?
• Reformation Theology: Then and Now
• Trinity Matters Today

• What Are Theologians Saying About Jesus  (1+ sessions)
• What Does It Mean When We Speak of God as the Trinity?

• Evil and the Demonic

Women's Issues

• Women, Aging and Faith

World Religions
(see also Bible, Cultural Issues, Global Mission)

• Arab and Jew in the Holy Land

• Christians and Jews

Worship and Liturgy
(see also New Testament)

• Hymn Sings on Various Topics
• Liturgy and the Church Year

• Psalms/Old Testament Worship

• Advent: The Season and its Celebrations

• Worship

• Luther on Worship
• Luther on Worship
• Taize
• Worship/Daily Prayer (communal)
• Worship/Daily Prayer (individual)

• Creation in Biblical Hymns
• Songs of Pain and Songs of Praise: The Psalms and Country Music.

• Streams of Innovation in Worship
• The Citizenship Formed in Worship

• Architecture for Worship
• Calling 911: Worship at Life's Passages
• Worship is Doing the Bible
• Worship is Everybody's Business
• Worship Planning: The Seasons
• Worship's Lively Tensions: Contemporary and Traditional

• Plagues, Passover, and the Passion of Christ (Lent)