Why Don’t We Listen Better Book Review
My SummationJames C. Petersen’s book, Why Don’t We Listen Better? Communicating & Connecting in Relationships, is a treatise on talking and listening organized in five sections. The first section explores communication options. The second section...9 Things You Simply Must Do to Succeed Book Review
My SummationHenry Cloud’s book, 9 Things You Simply Must Do to Succeed in Love and Life: A Psychologist Probes the Mystery of Why Some Lives Really Work and Others Don’t, is an analysis of nine practices of successful people. Cloud labels these successful...Pastoral Ministry Book Review: MacArthur
SummaryIn Pastoral Ministry: How to Shepherd Biblically, John MacArthur and the faculty of Master’s Seminary provide a series of twenty-two vignettes in the form of chapters that address a broad spectrum of topics related to pastoral ministry. With the stated...Letters to My Students Book Review
SummaryLectures to My Students is a compilation of Charles Spurgeon’s lectures to students of the Pastors’ College, a college Spurgeon (2010, vii) opened in 1856 to train students to preach rather than to become scholars. The purpose of the original...Sharing Jesus without Fear Book Review
Content SummaryThe thesis of Fay’s book is that all believers can share the Gospel and never fail, and the purpose is to encourage believers to do so. Accordingly, Fay begins by suggesting that sharing one’s faith is, by definition, success, and...Family to Family Book Review
Content SummaryThe thesis of Jerry Pipes and Victor Lee’s book is that parents can provide a meaningful and significant family experience and pass the Christian faith to their children (Pipes and Lee 1999, 1). The purpose of Family to Family is to help parents...The Believer’s Church Article Review
SummaryThe following review of Jason Duesing’s work, “The Believers Church: A ‘Natural Resource’ Worth Conserving,” summarizes the article’s contents along with a survey of its major strengths and weaknesses. The author’s...Baptists and the Ecumenical Movement Article Review
SummaryThe following review of Briggs’ work, “Baptists and the Ecumenical Movement,” will include a summary of the article’s contents along with a survey of its major strengths and weaknesses. The author’s intent is to prove that,...John Wesley’s Doctrine of Justification
INTRODUCTIONSome consider John Wesley the most influential theologian since the sixteenth century.[1] Alternatively, many academicians do not believe Wesley was even a “real” theologian.[2] Furthermore, the eclectic nature of Wesleyan thought has been...Foundational Doctrines for Pastoral Counselors
IntroductionSince the writings of Paul, the doctrine of justification has likely caused more controversy than all other doctrines combined. From Augustine’s influence upon Luther’s breakthrough interpretation of Roman 1:17 that led to the Protestant...John the Baptist: Character Study
Character Study: John the Baptist Lesson One:...Unreached People Group of Yemen
IntroductionThe Bible testifies to the necessity of taking the message of the gospel to all the nations. Writing to the churches in Galatia, the Apostle Paul reminds his readers in Galatians 3:8 that “Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by...Theology of Missions
IntroductionThe twentieth-century explosion of the advancement of global mission is unprecedented. However, an important question to consider is the specific basis for global mission for today’s Christians. The purpose of this paper is to articulate a...Religious Freedom: Two Baptist Views
IntroductionSince the passing of the first amendment to the United States Constitution, historians have debated the influence of Baptists upon religious liberty in America. A question remains regarding the extent of homogeneity among Baptists regarding religious...Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Religionless Christianity
PART 1Welcome to another deep dive. Are you ready to get kinda philosophical? Always look for a good philosophical deep dive. So today, we’re gonna be taking a look at some of the ideas of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Oh wow, Yeah, Yeah. A German theologian writing from...Radical Secular Theologians
What were the views of radical secular theologians in the mid-twentieth century about God and religion? Base your answer on the textbook readings and any other relevant sources that might aid class discussionResponseTo many evangelicals, Dietrich Bonhoeffer may not be...Isaac Dorner’s Divine Immutability
IntroductionThe doctrine of God has a long theological history. From the Church Fathers through the Middle Ages and from the Reformation into modernity, each period, in its own way, contributes to the conversation. The pressing problem centers specifically around the...Dorner, Bushnell, and God’s Accessibility
In what ways did Dorner and Bushnell try to find a theological middle ground between theories of God’s accessibility and inaccessibility? Base your answer on the textbook readings, lecture videos, and any other relevant sources that might aid...The Theology and Epistemology of Charles Hodge
What were Charles Hodge’s responses to the theological tendencies of Modernism? What were the reactions of Fundamentalists to Hodge’s theology? Base your answer on the textbook readings and any other relevant sources that might aid class...
Freedom: How Grace Transforms Your Life Now
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