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Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Israel After Exile, the Church After Christendom, Tim Dalton
Building Up the Whole Body: Discipleship in Diverse Urban Community, Marc De Jeu
Cultivating Missional Imagination: Listening as a Way Forward for First Presbyterian Church of Pomona, Adam Donner
A Journey Toward Discernment in the Leadership of Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church, Andrew Eagles
Strengthening Integrity and Accountability in the Leadership of the Lutheran Church of Nigeria, Christian Okon Ekong
The Decline of the Church in North America Calls for Creativity and the Celebration of the Imago Dei, Teresa Beth Garner
An Impact Study of a Ministry of Full Reconciliation, Steven M. Hall
Silence to Active Voice: a Leadership Process for Conversations on Timely and Sensitive Topics, James E. Hoffman
An Examination Of Selected Steps For The Local Church To Move Spiritually Broken People Toward Healing And Christlike Maturity, Jason Paul Holleman
The Spiritual And The Moral Sense: The Role Of Theology And British Moral Sense Philosophy In Jonathan Edward's 'True Virtue', James Michael Hooks
Increasing The Appointment Of Women As Pastors In The Church Of God Of Prophecy In The Mid Atlantic Region, Loretta Regina Husbands
A Spiritual-Moral Imagination Inculturating a Spirituality of Reconciliation in the Korean Context: 'Pan-Puri,' a Way of Homecoming, Mi-Kyoung Hwang
A Critical Analysis Of Black Women In The Black Church, Boise Kimber
The Overshadowed Mission of the China Inland Mission: The Analysis of the CIM Mission to Muslims in Gansu until 1920, Younghwa Kim
The Impact of Personality Training on Lay Leadership, Young Jun Kim
Breaking Bread: The Dynamic Relationship between Bread and the Growing Post Christian Movement in America, Andy Konigsmark
Storydwellers: A Narrative Approach to Teaching Scripture to Adolescents, James Archer Layton Jr
Inner Healing in Small-Groups in the Church that Focuses on Sharing Stories, Myungsoo Lee
Spiritual Life Development For Young Christian Leaders In Hong Kong, Michael Yue Wang Leung
Social Engagement as the Preferred Means to Incarnational Mission in the Context of Malay Hegemony, Khee-Vun Lin
Pentecostalism Re-Imagined: Reconfiguring Pentecostalism in Twenty First Century New Zealand, Joseph C. McCauley
Missionaries for America: A Strategy for Nurturing Bridge Leaders Serving in Greater Los Angeles, James A. Milley
Unity In Diversity: An Intentional Plan To Move From Inclusion To Belonging To Becoming, Brian R. Mowrey
Developing Grace Assembly of God, Singapore to Become a Missional Family Church, Alan Lim Mun Chuan
Raising Commitment Among First Generation Vietnamese Churches To Developing Second Generation Leaders In San Jose, California, Tim T. Nguyen
Short-Term Mission Trips: A Wesleyan Theology for Service and Lifelong Spiritual Formation, Kathryn C. Nix
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
Physical Activity And Perceptions Of Spiritual Formation, Tara Song
Religious Media Politics in the Assemblies of God "Mexican Work" 1914-1919, Samuel Stella
Fivefold Ministry: An Expressional Church Model For Releasing 21st Century Disciples Into Their Missional Potential And Design, Nick Francis Stephens
Tomorrow's Church: Transforming the Body of Christ for the Mission to Come, Wesley C. Telyea
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
My Eyes Have Seen Your Consolation: PARAKLHSIS In Luke Acts, Alexandre Teixeira Vieira
A Gospel Centered Process for Christian Discipleship, James Whatley
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
From exile to freedom: how to wander well through emerging adulthood, Angela C. Aadahl
Equipping Selected Leaders of New Dawn Baptist Church, Victoria Island, Lagos, with Servant Leadership Skills, Samson Aderinto Adedokun
The Implications of a Pneumatological Reading of the Luke-Acts Narrative for Christian Witness in an Emerging Post-Christian Culture, Stephen V. Allen
Developing Emotional Competence: A Skill Based Model for Leadership and Effective Ministry, Celillon Alteme
Evaluation Of A Domestic Violence Awareness Campaign For Black Churches And Their Response, Jairite Anderson-Cole
Christian Camp Program Director Perceptions of the Role of High School Camp Programs in Facilitating Identity Formation for Adolescents, Emily Anderson
A Study Of Correlation Between Church Vitality And Direction Of Church Mission Through Diakonia For Local Society, Seung-Kyu Baek
A Study On The Development And Effect Of A Shame Healing Program, Sung-Kyu Bang
Through The Lens Of Grace: Spiritual Formation Towards Christlikeness In A Holiness Context, Linda Christene Diane Bond
Factors advancing or limiting evangelical mission in Ukraine, Timothy L. Boyd Sr
An Evaluation Of A Mentoring And Partnering Program To Mobilize Small Harlem Churches To Intentional Community Engagement, Carlton T. Brown
Non-Death Related Grief: The Church's Responsibility To Assist In The Healing Process, Nickol Calhoun
An examination of the best practices of a church based model for ministering to military families, Guillermo Cardona
A Cultural Methodology: Tinkering with Feminist Resources in Preaching and Worship, Emilie Casey
Work-Life Balance through Sabbath Keeping for Cornerstone Chinese Alliance Church in Markham, Ontario, Joe Mun Chan
Public Discipleship: Forming Disciples for the Sphere of Neighborhood and Justice, Abraham Cho
Biblical Leadership Training For The Ministry Team Leaders At New Song Church Through The Comparison With Jesus' Leadership Style, Dong Myung Choi
A Pastoral Way Of Solution For The Loss Of The Old People In An Aging Society: Focusing On Daejeon Sansung Methodist Church, Nam Sung Cho
Empowering Young Chinese Fathers in Australia to Experience Spiritual Transformation through Contemplative Disciplines, Pui Leung (Andrew) Choy
John Owen's Use of the Church Fathers in His Pneumatologia, Maranatha Chung
Is It Just a Camp High? a Study on the Continuing Effects Attendance at Christian Summer Camps Has on Spiritual Formation in Adolescents, Emily Cloughly
Kingdom imagination and the church: fostering faithful nonconformity through ecclesial practices, Jonathan W. Crandall
A Correlational Quantitative Study Of Servant Leadership Practices And Pastoral Engagement In Evangelical Churches In Montana, Mark Duane Danielson
An Exploratory Study on the Leadership Development of Seasonal Staff at Camp, Sarah Davis
Adventures In Spiritual Formation: Exploring God's Grace, Intentional Human Response, And Growth From The Holy Spirit, Werner Herbert De Jong
Life with the Spirit: a Path to Renewal at Sonrise Christian Reformed Church, William Delleman
Discovery Of The Need For A Small Group Integrating Personal Narrative Into The Healing Journey, Juliet R. Johnson Depriest
Reformatting the debate on infallible and fallible prophecies: an alternative schema on the authority of the New Testament spiritual gift of prophecy, Bernard Kwangki Do
Articulating The Doctrine Of Penal Substitutionary Atonement In The Twenty First Century: Integrating Relational Paradigm With The Metaphor Of A Kaleidoscope, Patrick Alexander Early
Attachment And African American Foster Parents, Alecia Evans-Hayes
Walter Marshall (1628-1680): the relationship between justification and sanctification within the framework of union with Christ, Sherif A. Fahim
A Discovery Project on Forgiveness and Reconciliation of Broken Relationships, La Vanda Fondren-Copeland
Spiritual Abuse in the Church: A Guide to Recognition and Recovery, Kenneth J. Garrett
An Investigation Into The Implications Of Confessional Subscription To The Lutheran Confessionis On The Understanding Of The Triune God And Church Fellowship In The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY), Lalissa Daniel Gemechis
Identity Formation in Christian Emerging Adult Women: Sources of Negative and Positive Construction of Identity, Christina Gilliland
Oikos Power: Relational Networks Infused with the Demonstration and Declaration of the Kingdom of God, Liam Glover
From Building a Megachurch to Making Disciples: A Journey Towards Spiritual Maturity, John B. Gorin
The Impact Of A Small Group Experience Of The Dad Connection On Fathering, Darrell Lee Greenawalt
An evaluation of the learn, live, hope relationship counseling program in relationship satisfaction, Johan Green
Jonathan Edwards and Charles Finney on the Theology and Methodology of Religious Revivals, Kamil M. Halambiec
An Investigation Of Self-Care Practices And Principles Among The Pentecostal-Apostolic Clergy, Chelsea A. Hall
La incidencia misional de la iglesia Israel, en las Congregaciones Plantadas en Guayaquil, Ecuador, Jose Parrish Jácome Hernandez
Spiritual Formation in an Atomized World: The Necessity of the Church as Family in the Spiritual Formation of Midadolescents, Adam Herndon
Gracious Assertiveness: Learning to Lead a Staff Toward a New Missional Imagination, Austin Hill
An Ethnohistorical Study Of Thai Christians And Their Participation In Cross-Cultural Missions From 1870-1940, Austin Lee House
Listening for Christ, proclaiming Christ: small groups as a catalyst of transformation at Grace Covenant, Bobby Hulme-Lippert
Sanctifying Work of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament Saints, Prakash Thycad Jacob
The Study Of The Post Conversion Worldview Allegiance Among Overseas Chinese With A Special Reference To Ancestor Worship, Jaewoo Jeong
Plan for Distance Leadership in Young Life in Latin America and the Caribbean, Daniel Jessup
Reconciliation In Post War Sri Lanka Through The Healing Of Memories And The Rold Of The Catholic Church, J. M. Joseph Jeyaseellan
Examining The Relationship Between Smartphone Use And Spiritual Habits In Christian College Students, Ethan A. Jones
Awakening: A Study On Congregational Revitalization And The First Reformed Church Of Grand Haven, Michigan, John Kenny
Training Church Leaders To Lead An Intensive Faith And Work Discipleship Program, David H. Kim
A Study On The Efficacy Of Pastoral Care In The Multicultural Context Of Korea, Il Kim
Cell Leadership Study from Community View of Church, Jong Seok Kim
