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MN580 Healing Ministry of the Church

What is healing? What does it mean to be  healthy? What does Jesus’ life and ministry model for us about how God  defines health and offers healing? How does one’s definition of health and  healing influence one’s understanding of faithful ministry on the whole?...

MN490 Leading Christian Communities

What is this strange and beautiful, grace riddled, and often distorted work of being  a pastor? What is so peculiar about this vocation? And why do we take on the  stole with joy, but also with fear and  trembling? Together, we’ll ponder Scripture and voices...

MN415 Practice of Counsel & Care

In this introductory course, students  explore giving counsel and offering care  as ministers of Word and sacrament. They  develop an understanding of the fundamental principles of pastoral care  and acquire basic skills required for giving  counsel and offering care....

MN391 Worship Practicum 2: Stewardship of Daily Chapel

Students taking this course will be part of  a team that assists other students, staff,  faculty, and guests in planning and  leading daily worship. Course meets each  week for 1.5 hours to plan and reflect on  past services. Course 2 of 2. 1.5 cr.

MN351 Preaching Foundations

This course explores and grasps a biblical  and Reformed vision of preaching.  Includes a sermon preparation workshop  and a “lab” in which written and preached sermons are carefully analyzed by faculty  and peers. Significant homiletical  concerns are presented,...