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Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Life in Christ: Developing a Discipleship Manual, Randall Reagan

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Developing Hearts on Fire Ministry to Ignite Next Generation Leaders, Siegfried Karl Riehl

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The Role of Obscurity in Leadership Emergence as Perceived by Selected Senior Pastors in the Assemblies of God, Eric Scott Speir

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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An Evaluation of the Perceptions Dallas Theological Seminary Students Have About Generation Z, Jeffrey Alan Barber

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Becoming Compassionate Caregivers: Palliative Care Ministry in the Faith Community, Mary Ellen Barrow

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The Blueprint for Reproducing Biblical Characteristics of Integrity, Humility, and Courage in Authentic Church Leaders, Stephen M. Carlson

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A Suggestion in the Importance of Cooperative Ministry Between Local Churches and Campus Ministry Organizations for the Purpose of Revival in Korean Churches: Focusing on Chungju Lord's Church, Hyun Seok Choi

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Leadership That Lasts: An Eschatological Look At Leadership, Drey Clark

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Moral Leadership: Moral Understanding Gleaned from America's Christian Heritage, Lance Wesley Dixon

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The Unity Process and Its Effectiveness in Decreasing Cross Cultural Divisions in Society Due to Racism, Pamela Y. Fields

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Equipping Believers for Spiritual Warfare Through Expository Preaching, Nicolas A. Glenn

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The Indwelling of the Holy Spirit in 1 Corinthians, Michael William Hullinger

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Setting Up a Seminary Degree Program in Biblical Counseling: Counseling Issues and Curriculum, Mark Kelderman

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Seeing and Seeking Embodied Beauty, Craig A. Marshall

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Deep Roots in Christ: An Exploration of Spiritual Formation Through Habits in College Ministry, John Lester Miller IV

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Developing a Lifecycle Ministry Manual for the Purpose of Helping Church Members to Recover the Image of God in themselves: Focusing on Suwon Central Baptist Church, Ji Won Moon

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The Role of Transformational Leadership in Preparing Youth as Future Church Leaders, Michael Kiju Paul

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Discovering Counseling Methods That Military Chaplains Can Use to Increase Spiritual Resiliency, Philip E. Ridley

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The Greatest Showbread Man: How David Eating Showbread Functions as Precedent in the Sabbath Grain Picking Controversy, Stephen J. Selke

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Adolescent Spiritual Formation: Practical Theology as a Filter for Youth Ministry, Jeremy Smith

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Creator God, Humans, and Artificial Intelligence: Framework to Address Theological and Relational Issues, Tinku Thompson

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Mentoring Military Chaplains Online During Their First Two Years of Ministry in the United States Air Force, Mark R. Traeger

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Christ Centered Leadership: the Formation of Millennials, Sean Wood

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Developing Spiritual Leadership in the Desert: Developing Spiritual Leaders Despite a Dearth of Resources through Apprenticing Community, David Arnold

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An Exploration of Spiritual Formation to Increase Awareness and Attachment to God, Self and Others, Susanne Ursula Baldeosingh

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Unconditional Kindness: A Christian Perspective on Neighborliness, Seth Kajang Bature

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'Jeremiah's Response to Suffering: How Jeremiah's Example Repudiates the Health and Wealth Teaching of Joel Osteen, Creflo Dollar, and Frederick K.C. Price Regarding Suffering, Felton Brannon Jr

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Spiritual Formation in a Hong Kong Chinese Context: a Personal Journey, a Teachable Model Based on 1 John 2:12-14, and a Research Report, Hung-Fai Daniel Cho

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Genuine Repentance and Renewing the Image of God: A Suggestion for a Christian Character Building Focusing on Genuine Repentance and Renewing the Image of God, Soon Ae Cho

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The Glory of God: Preaching the Glory of God to the Assembly of Winona Gospel Church in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Gino Dube

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A Biblically Based Structure: The Triple Constraint of Human Rights-Government-Nation's Military (Bounded by God's Wisdom), Michael E. Erickson

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Becoming More Like Him: Spiritual Formation as the Key to Congregational Disciple Making, Alan Chee-Siang Goh

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Cultivate Compassion Through Affective Perspective Taking, Weihua He

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Seeing the Book of Isaiah Through the Lens of Isaiah 6: a Theological Study of the Tensions Between the Holy One and Israel in a Canonical Approach, Lenny Kwok-Ming Hon

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Preaching is Apologetics: Expository and Contextual Reflections for Preaching, Paul Kim

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A Training Program on the Provision of Pastoral Care to Marginalized Older Adults in Hong Kong, Emma Mak

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Adapters: a Meta-Theoretical Conceptualization of Human Functioning and Therapeutic Intervention, Gary Wade McDonald

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Metaphorical Imagery in Colossians: The Narrative of Christian Living, Paul Muther

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Using Social Media Effectively in Ministry, Robert A. Peterson

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YUCH as Subject in Relation to Salvation History in Luke Acts, Stephen Reasor

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The Ethicalization of Religious Difference as the Cause of Deuteronomic War Ideology, Herem, in Deuteronomy 7: Based on Deuteronomic and Assyrian War Ideologies, Jini Shin

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The Fear of the Lord: Its Meaning and Use as a Motivation for Christian Living, Bradley R. Sickler

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Preaching John 17 as a Model for Praying Theologically at Arrow Heights Baptist Church, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, Roger A. Taylor

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Transhumanism, Humanity, and the Image of God: A Systematic Theological Response to Transhumanist Anthropology, Robb L. Torseth

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Leadership Lessons: A Theology of the Liminal Leader, Deniqua Washington

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Contemplation and Characteristic Damage: Some Problems in Sarah Coakley's Theologie Totale, Benjamin Wyatt

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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James 1:27a Fulfilled: The Cooperative Roles of Parents, Helping Professions, and the Church in Addressing the Needs of Internationally-Adopted Children, Mark Andrews

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Spiritual Direction In Discerning Religious Experiences: Its Principles And Implications To Japanese Churches, Miyuki Asada

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In Humility: Developing Intercultural Competence Among Leaders Of A Christian Reconciliation Organization In Israel-Palestine, Debra Jean Bayes

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Physical Activity And Perceptions Of Spiritual Formation, Molly Bender

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Western Humanism Meets Eastern Orthodoxy: The Dawning Of The Transylvanian Reformation, Ligia Raluca Bojor

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An Enhanced Delphi Study To Determine International Student Ministry Best Practices: A Diaspora Missions Population, Dennis C. Bradford

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Contextualised, Memorable Training: A Strategy for Developing Disciples in Papua New Guinea, Michael Bullard

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Racial Injustice in America: Helping Women of Color See the Hope of the Gospel Through the Pain of Injustice, Rachel Cain

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Discovering How African American Male Soldiers' Self-Esteem is Diminished and Restored in the Army, Everett Caldwell

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A Fivefold Leadership Practice at Zion Community Church of the Nazarene, Karla G. Celada

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Developing Thai Leaders for Long Term Fruitfulness within the Association of Churches in Bangkok, David D. Chang

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Incarcerating the Image of God? A Theological Assessment of Arguments for and against Higher Education in Prison, George Chochos

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Race, Evangelicalism, and the Local Church: Prophetic Practices to Awaken Racial Consciousness, Jin H. Cho

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Jesus Is My Everything: A Christology Of Syrian Christian Refugees In Lebanon, Derek Chu

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Making Disciples of the Post Christian Generation: A Strategy for Auckland Bible Church, Tim Collins

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The Faith Pyramid Evangelism Strategy: A Tool for Integrating Apologetics into Evangelism Training for Middle School and High School Students, Samuel Lee Dallas III

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Israel After Exile, the Church After Christendom, Tim Dalton

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Building Up the Whole Body: Discipleship in Diverse Urban Community, Marc De Jeu

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Cultivating Missional Imagination: Listening as a Way Forward for First Presbyterian Church of Pomona, Adam Donner

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A Journey Toward Discernment in the Leadership of Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church, Andrew Eagles

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Strengthening Integrity and Accountability in the Leadership of the Lutheran Church of Nigeria, Christian Okon Ekong

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The Decline of the Church in North America Calls for Creativity and the Celebration of the Imago Dei, Teresa Beth Garner

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An Impact Study of a Ministry of Full Reconciliation, Steven M. Hall

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Intercultural Competency: Offering an Alternate Leadership Tool that Shifts Congregations from a Mono-Cultural Model of Church to an Adaptive, Intercultural Congregation that Integrates More New People, Younger People and More Diverse People, Stephen Emanuel Handy Sr

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Silence to Active Voice: a Leadership Process for Conversations on Timely and Sensitive Topics, James E. Hoffman

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The Spiritual And The Moral Sense: The Role Of Theology And British Moral Sense Philosophy In Jonathan Edward's 'True Virtue', James Michael Hooks

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A Spiritual-Moral Imagination Inculturating a Spirituality of Reconciliation in the Korean Context: 'Pan-Puri,' a Way of Homecoming, Mi-Kyoung Hwang

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The Overshadowed Mission of the China Inland Mission: The Analysis of the CIM Mission to Muslims in Gansu until 1920, Younghwa Kim

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The Impact of Personality Training on Lay Leadership, Young Jun Kim

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Breaking Bread: The Dynamic Relationship between Bread and the Growing Post Christian Movement in America, Andy Konigsmark

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Storydwellers: A Narrative Approach to Teaching Scripture to Adolescents, James Archer Layton Jr

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Inner Healing in Small-Groups in the Church that Focuses on Sharing Stories, Myungsoo Lee

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Social Engagement as the Preferred Means to Incarnational Mission in the Context of Malay Hegemony, Khee-Vun Lin

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Taiwan da xing jiao hui wen hua yu zhu ren mu shi de ling dao li: li lun yu shi jian =Senior Pastor Leadership and Mega Church Culture in Taiwan: Theory and Practice, Wei Ling Liu Liu

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Strengthening Our Relationship with God: A Training Strategy for Adult Leaders to Practice Spiritual Exercises, Scott Loo

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Pentecostalism Re-Imagined: Reconfiguring Pentecostalism in Twenty First Century New Zealand, Joseph C. McCauley

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Missionaries for America: A Strategy for Nurturing Bridge Leaders Serving in Greater Los Angeles, James A. Milley

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Unity In Diversity: An Intentional Plan To Move From Inclusion To Belonging To Becoming, Brian R. Mowrey

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Developing Grace Assembly of God, Singapore to Become a Missional Family Church, Alan Lim Mun Chuan

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Raising Commitment Among First Generation Vietnamese Churches To Developing Second Generation Leaders In San Jose, California, Tim T. Nguyen

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Short-Term Mission Trips: A Wesleyan Theology for Service and Lifelong Spiritual Formation, Kathryn C. Nix

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Renewing the Vanguard: Charles Price Jones as a Model for Spirit-Empowered Pastoral Leadership and the Potential Renewal of the Black Baptist Pastorate in the Third Millennium, Carroll Edward Rhodes II

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The Classical Doctrine of God and Christian Salvation: A Reflection on the Soteriological Implications of Classical Christian Theism, Seth Snyder

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Physical Activity And Perceptions Of Spiritual Formation, Tara Song

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Religious Media Politics in the Assemblies of God "Mexican Work" 1914-1919, Samuel Stella

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Fivefold Ministry: An Expressional Church Model For Releasing 21st Century Disciples Into Their Missional Potential And Design, Nick Francis Stephens

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Tomorrow's Church: Transforming the Body of Christ for the Mission to Come, Wesley C. Telyea

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The Development of John Owen's Pneumatology from 1657 to 1682, Focusing on Communion with God and Pneumatologia, Books 1, 2, 7, 8 and 9, Gideon Teo

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Spiritual Formation Among Church Leaders In China: An Evaluative Study Of The Impact Of A Spiritual Formation Retreat On The Spiritual Lives Of A Select Group Of Church Leaders In China, Rodney Van Schooten

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A Gospel Centered Process for Christian Discipleship, James Whatley

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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From exile to freedom: how to wander well through emerging adulthood, Angela C. Aadahl

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Equipping Selected Leaders of New Dawn Baptist Church, Victoria Island, Lagos, with Servant Leadership Skills, Samson Aderinto Adedokun

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The Implications of a Pneumatological Reading of the Luke-Acts Narrative for Christian Witness in an Emerging Post-Christian Culture, Stephen V. Allen

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Developing Emotional Competence: A Skill Based Model for Leadership and Effective Ministry, Celillon Alteme