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Pentecost Journal Of Theology And Mission, Vol.2, No.1, August 2017, J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, Kirsteen Kim, William Kay, Andrew Davies, Emmanuel Anim, Ruth Wall, Amos Yong

Pentecost Journal of Theology and Mission

We are pleased to share with you the second edition of the Pentecost Journal of Theology and Mission (PJTM). We are indeed delighted and encouraged by the enthusiastic uptake of our frst issue, July 2016, on Pentecostalism, Migration and World Christianity. An aim of the PJTM is to provide a space for critical reflection on contemporary issues of theology and mission from Pentecostal perspectives that will have practical and transformative impact on the life of the individual, the church and society. The Editors have discovered that such a “space” does not exist without its creation, and the work of creation …

From Frustration To Contentment, Ashley Huizinga

Student Work

"Strive to bring—to be—contentment personified, as you surrender your circumstances to the Lord’s judgment."

Posting about trusting in God's purposes from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

http://inallthings.org/from-frustration-to-contentment/

Two Way Discipleship Curriculum: Correlation Of Discipleship With Pastoral Counseling For South Korean Churches, Yoonsu Lee

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

In South Korea, many churches create and run discipleship programs. The programs help many people to focus on Jesus, but the programs come with significant problem. . If a person is experiencing a mental problem like stress, depression, or addiction, that person has a much more difficult time focusing on Jesus Christ rather than the struggles in his or her own life. Most discipleship programs ignore these prevalent mental issues, but including mental care in the course is vital to develop true disciples. Pastoral counseling has various mental care methods that address the problems facing many of its participants. South …

Trinitarian Teams : The Trinity's Oneness In Our Midst, Jeffrey C. French

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Overflowing Generosity, Glenn Featherstone Douglass

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Laypeople Serving Their Neighbors : Is It Ministry?, Brenda H. May

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Church Based Curriculum Providing Marriage And Family Education For Stepfamilies And Ministries, Richard Helein

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Within the American population, the Stepfamily now outnumbers that of the traditional nuclear family; a trend mirrored in the local church. Stepfamilies within the church culture struggle in navigating the relational complexities, emotional and spiritual strain, and biblical confusion inherent to the formation of a stepfamily, while church leaders lack both understanding and the training necessary to minister to this growing population. Often step-families choose anonymity or leave the local church for fear of being shunned. In synthesizing, existing research with data garnered from stepfamilies via their participation in an anonymous online survey and participatory learning activity (PLA), challenges unique …

A Study On The Factors Of Church Growth By Building Young Adults: The Case Of Busan Happy Church, Sung Kim

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this study is to suggest a church model that can raise up young adults based on a case study focusing on Busan Happy Church, which has experienced a great young adult revival amidst the reality of a decline in Korean churches. Korea has become an aging society due to a decreasing birthrate, and the Korean church is aging more rapidly than society is because young people continue to leave church. This researcher investigates reasons for the rapid decrease in the number of young adults in the Korean church, analyzing both the social and theological aspects in order …

A Letter To Student Pastors, Willie Edward Hucks Ii

Faculty Publications

"Ministry is much more than preaching. The temptation exists to elevate preaching to the exclusion of all other disciplines. While preaching is vital, it is not paramount. Other events that bring the saints together for worship (such as Sabbath School and the midweek prayer service) should receive the same amount of attention and care as most preachers dedicate to the divine worship experience and sermons. Each event provides an opportunity for God’s people to experience a fresh encounter with the Divine."

Reigniting The Firebrand Heart, Melanie Springer Mock

Faculty Publications - Department of English

Excerpt: "From the very first pages of her memoir, Assimilate or Go Home, I felt an affinity with D.L. Mayfield. Perhaps I recognized my students in Mayfield’s idealism and innocence, a missionary fervor that burns brightly in many undergraduates who attend Christian universities like the one where I teach. Perhaps I saw in her narrative my own youthful firebrand heart when, as a senior in college, I longed to get arrested protesting injustice; imagined sitting in a jail, even, believing such activism would show how deeply my convictions ran and how ardently I loved Jesus."

Trinity 7 One Year Series 2017, Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday's Sermon

This PDF comments on the Propers for the Seventh Sunday of Trinity in the One Year Series and offers ideas for preaching.

Propers 12 (Pentecost 8) Series A 2017, Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday's Sermon

This PDF comments on Proper 12 of Series A and offers ideas for preaching

God's Power And Belly Of The Whale, Lisa Smith

Staff Work

"In these stories, Jesus subtly reminds them that there is something more powerful than the greatest of human figures or endeavors."

Posting about God's strength displayed in big and small ways from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

http://inallthings.org/gods-power-and-belly-of-the-whale/

Do You Know What You Believe And Why You Believe It?, C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

These handwritten notes offer a brief reflection on the topic of knowing what one believes and why one believes it.

Longing For God, Ashley Bloemhof

Student Work

"To thirst for God, to seek after His teachings and long for His presence, is to adopt the posture of the psalmist in Psalm 119."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­acknowledging our need for God from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

http://inallthings.org/longing-for-god/

A Father's Heart, Brandon Huisman

Staff Work

"This journey is not meant to be walked alone, but together—in covenant community."

Posting about growing in faith from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

http://inallthings.org/a-fathers-heart/

Embracing Immigrants Is A Religious Imperative, Christopher R. Fee

English Faculty Publications

I’m an English professor, and in leftist intellectual circles it’s often considered somewhat unsophisticated and definitely uncool to argue in favor of traditional religious beliefs. However, as the clerk of a tiny Quaker Meeting in a farming community in rural Pennsylvania, I feel led to do so in the context of the debate about immigration. I would submit that Scripture is explicit in its requirement that we accept and embrace the immigrants in our midst, and note that Leviticus (19:34) makes no mention of legal status. (excerpt)

Stewards Of God’S Mercy: Vocation And Priestly Ministry In Africa, Jordan Nyenyembe

Journal of Global Catholicism

A reflection on the tasks of priestly ministry in Africa with specific reference to the example and exhortation of Pope Francis. Among the issues addressed and critiqued are Western “cultic” understandings of the priest and the, the “Igwe Syndrome" which likens the priest to a chief.

Contested Moral Issues In Contemporary African Catholicism: Theological Proposals For A Hermeneutics Of Multiplicity And Inclusion, Stan Chu Ilo

Journal of Global Catholicism

Drawing upon the broad work of Vatican II and Pope Francis’ Evangelicum Gaudium the article proposes how a hermeneutic of multiplicity and inclusion could help hold in balance the tension between tradition and innovation, universal principles and specific contextual application for Catholicism in Africa. Among the issues addressed are cultural relativism, natural law theory, and polygamy.

Communicating The Justice And Peace Of God In Africa Today, Walter Ihejirika

Journal of Global Catholicism

Engaging with the work and theories of Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner, the article charts out a spirituality of communication within Nigerian Catholicism. Discussing the intersection between various forms of media and community, the article argues for the utilization of media in the pursuit of social justice and the dismantling of inequalities.

Inculturation Of Liturgical Music In The Roman Catholic Church Of Igbo Land: A Compositional Study, Benedict Nwabugwu Agbo

Journal of Global Catholicism

A study of inculturation, composition and music among Catholics in Igboland, Nigeria. The article insects with contemporary discussions of inculturation/enculturation after Vatican II and the recommendation of St. John Paul II in his Ecclesia in Africa.

Editor's Introduction, Marc Roscoe Loustau

Journal of Global Catholicism

Introduction to African Catholicism: Contemporary Issues: Volume: 1, Issue 2 of the Journal of Global Catholicism

The Ease And Speed Of Judgment, Aaron Baart

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"I am simultaneously sinner and saint, the old man and the new creation I am becoming in Christ."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­God as the only just judge from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

http://inallthings.org/the-ease-and-speed-of-judgment/

Propers 11 (Pentecost 7) Series A 2017, Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday's Sermon

This PDF comments on proper 11 of Series A in the Three Year Lectionary and offers ideas for preaching

Trinity 6 One Year Series 2017, Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday's Sermon

This PDF comments on the propers for the Sixth Sunday after Trinity in the One Year Series and offers ideas for preaching.

Our Christian Nation: White Supremacy And The Making Of An American Theology, Sophia Driscoll Gamber

Religious Studies Summer Fellows

What does it mean to be a “Christian nation,” a nation which is blessed by God above other nations? This moniker of divinity and chosen-ness has been in some way attached to the American project since its conception, though many in the ensuing years have criticized American life and culture as distinctly un-Christian. Furthermore, what does it mean to be American? To trace citizenship back to the origins of the nation reveals a sense of American-ness which is bound to whiteness. Since our earliest foundations, white supremacy has been in a close symbiotic relationship with our structures of government and …

Meeting Her, Liz Moss

Staff Work

"I wonder if we would take more time to notice God’s presence if the crazy, unknowns would be filled with peace and assurance."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­a mother's difficult decision from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

http://inallthings.org/meeting-her-2/

Faith And Allegiance, Benjamin J. Lappenga

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"I’d like to devote attention to some ways these books address biblical and theological topics that animated the Reformation debates and continue to garner interest today."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­two book reviews from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

http://inallthings.org/faith-and-allegiance/

Número 33: Primer Domingo De Adviento - Domingo Después De Navidad

Estudios Exégeticos Homiléticos

Domingo 01.12.2002 – Primer Domingo de Adviento
Salmo 80:1‑7.16-18; Isaías 64:1-9; 1 Corintios 1:3‑9; Marcos 13:24‑37

Domingo 08.12.2002 – Segundo Domingo de Adviento
Salmo 85:1‑13; Isaías 40:1‑11; 2 Pedro 3:8‑15; Marcos 1:1‑8

Domingo 15.12.2002 – Tercer Domingo de Adviento
Salmo 126; Isaías 61:1‑11; 1 Tesalonicenses 5:16‑24; Juan 1:6‑8 y 19‑28

Domingo 22.12.2002 – Cuarto Domingo de Adviento
Salmo 89:1‑4.19-26; 2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16; Romanos 16:25‑27; Lucas 1:26‑38

24.12.2002 – Nochebuena
Salmo 89:15‑18; Isaías 9:2‑7; Tito 2:11‑14; Lucas 2:1‑20

25.12.2002 – Día de Navidad
Salmo 98; Isaías 52:7‑10; Hebreos 1:1‑6; Juan 1:1‑18

29.12.2002 – Domingo después de Navidad
Salmo 148; Isaías …

Número 32: 24º Domingo Después De Pentecostés - Último Domingo De Pentecostés

Estudios Exégeticos Homiléticos

Domingo 03.11.2002 – 24º Domingo después de Pentecostés
Salmo 43; Miqueas 3:5-12; 1 Tesalonicenses 2:5-13; Mateo 23:1-12

Domingo 10.11.2002 – 25º Domingo después de Pentecostés
Salmo 70; Amós 5:18-25; 1 Tesalonicenses 4:13-18; Mateo 25:1-13

Domingo 17.11.2002 – Penúltimo Domingo después de Pentecostés
Salmo 90:1-12; Sofonías 1:7.12-18; 1 Tesalonicenses 5:1‑11; Mateo 25:14‑30

Domingo 24.11.2002 – Último Domingo de Pentecostés; Cristo Rey
Salmo 95:1-7; Ezequiel 34:11‑16.20-24; Efesios 1:15-23; Mateo 25:31‑46