Black music is a powerful art form. Artists' creations often go where words cannot. The music is special--sacred. However, it's still frequently shoehorned into the ambiguous categories of secular and sacred. Is God Funky or What?: Black Biblical Culture and Contemporary Popular…
The interests and obsession of this writing lie in exploring femininity as constructed as well as inherited, following a matrilineal thread that is interwoven through genetics, experience, and location. Within this manuscript of poetry, Preying Women, the women figures are self …
This research project taught about and provided opportunities for the purpose and practice of authentic community to the members at Cambrian Park Baptist Church in San Jose, California. Chapter 1 describes the ministry context of the project and the rationale for its implementat…
Pastors have been called by God to disciple their flocks. Moreover, they have been called to equip the flock to disciple others in order to fulfill the Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20). Southern Baptists have long decried the woes of deficient discipleship. However, many have n…
This project seeks to introduce leaders to biblical counseling at Mount Ararat Bible Church (MABC) in Northridge, California. Chapter 1 describes the ministry context of MABC and the goals of the project. Chapter 2 establishes the centrality of the heart in biblical counseling t…
The purpose of this study is to enhance the self-esteem of immigrant women who are members of Antioch Baptist Church of Hawaii. This project was conducted as a pastoral group counseling sessions with 9 participants for 12 weeks. And it is a report that observes and evaluates the…
This project develops a curriculum that provides biblical guidance about alcohol abuse among young adults and then implements the teaching through a training course in five Baptist Churches in Abia state.
Biblical narrative learning is a non-critical educational approach for Christian communities with diverse learning backgrounds. It is grounded in humankind's universal capacity to teach and learn through stories and built on practices in narrative learning, along with biblical n…
This study investigates the image of the church as the household of God and the relevance of this image for effective mission in India, using a sociocultural approach. Three major areas are studied: biblical, Greco-Roman, and Indian concepts of household. Close attention is give…
The title of this dissertation is "The Verbal System of Biblical Aramaic: A Distributional Approach." The thesis is that Biblical Aramaic has a primary verbal form for narration and a primary verbal form for discourse. The qtl form presents the foreground of narration, and the y…