George Barna, founder and president of Barna Research Group, has been studying Christian churches in America for thirty years. In 1998, he wrote his twenty-fourth book - The Second Coming of the Church. The result of four years of research, Barna called this book more personal,...
This paper proposes a narrative approach to theological reflection that better suits both the nature of the D.Min. degree as a professional degree in the practice of ministry...
So begins the portrayal of an anxious young captain, commanding his first ship, coping with the intimidation he feels in relation to his new crew....
This paper is a personal reflection revealing the author’s ideas of faith and belief to have previously been inadequate as they have focussed on believing in particular certainties, even when this way of thinking about faith proved self-destructive....
It is the thesis of this essay that educating clergy in the absence of focal attention to ecclesiology is insufficient. ...
May God continue to guide and empower you as you continue yours important service of His church....
This paper argues that conversion is best construed as the willingness of a convert to endure shame for the sake of identifying publicly with Jesus Christ. ...
Cancer. Suicide. The death of a child. As much as we wish we could avoid tragedies like these, eventually they will strike our church communities....
Stanley P. Saunders, Associate Professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary, has written a helpful exegetical/homiletical commentary for those who want to preach from Matthew’s Gospel....
When Jesus returns to this earth, he will receive a church that is “without spot, wrinkle, or blemish (Eph. 5:27), and that church is dynamically multicultural, multiracial, and subsequently, multidimensional....