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  • Curriculum for Preaching in the North Caucasus Bible Institute
  • Relational Leadership: A Study of Organizational Health and Clergy within the Wesleyan Church
  • Coaching Pastors of Faith Evangelical Church of the Philippines Churches for Church Growth
  • Equipping the Laity Through Discipleship Training in a Korean Church
  • Biblical Preaching
  • Walking to Emmaus: Strengthening Christian Religious Faith
  • A study of why some inner-city, African-American churches in Chicago have undergone significant membership declines, while others have seen large increases in memberships in the post-civil rights era
  • A study of the significant indicators of spiritual and emotional responses of African-American congregations to the transition of the founding or long-term senior pastor
  • Confirmation and ministry participation
  • Mission unfinished : evaluating the impact of the Global Outreach Seminar in the local church
  • Evaluating the effectiveness of assimilation strategies of the Churches of Christ in Christian Union : closing the back door of the church
  • Social transformation through pastoral transformational leadership : a case study of Mombasa Synod
  • Clergy stress : a study of stressors and stress-relieving practices among United Methodist clergy across three districts of the Western North Carolina Conference
  • Spiritual and strategic leadership in pastoral ministry
  • Restoring the balance between doing and being : the functional pastor and Adrian Van Kamm's formative spirituality
  • Images of the missional church : leadership, culture, and practices in context
  • Missional spirituality : invitation to listen
  • An online peer-based spiritual mentoring program for field missionaries
  • Breaking the culture of ethnic hostility in Kenya
  • Seeing the big picture : a study of Walk Thru the Bible's Old Testament storyline seminar's impact on the spiritual health of participants
  • The picture of health : a study of church health in the Central New York District of the Wesleyan Church
  • You are fired : a phenomenological study of pastoral perspectives on termination in a particular county of North Texas
  • Wesleyan discipleship group : Wesleyan discipleship as a catalyst for equipping servants
  • Urban leadership : a study in contextual ministry
  • Theology of Confessionist Dialogue: A Theology of Religions in the Religious Situation in Korea
  • Current knowledge, practies, and desired goals of small group ministry for training implications in the churches of the Trinity Annual Conference of the Methodist Church in Malaysia
  • A study of the effects of awareness of family systems on the staff, leadership, and congregations of First United Methodist Church Paulsboro
  • The understanding and practice of Sabbath
  • Spiritual abuse in the Christian community
  • An evaluation of the 2009 Mindanao training event for CAMACOP evangelists involved in public proclamation for church planting : its impact on the attitudes, knowledge, and practices of the participants
  • An investigation of public leadership formation in select Zimbabwe churches
  • The use of humor in preaching and its relationship with ethos, relational solidarity, and affective learning
  • Discipleship development in persons who considered leaving the Vestal Center United Methodist Church and decided to stay : a grounded theory study
  • Holistic Christian formation for enduring leadership
  • The common characteristics of mentors of new believers in Jesus in Israel
  • Preaching the cross on the healing of shame in Jiksan-eup Korean Methodist Church
  • The sex trade, evil and Christian theology
  • Barriers in conversion (missional and indigenous barriers) : identifying the potential barriers contributing to the stagnant progress of evangelistic work among the Burman Buddhists
  • The leadership of the UMC as a prophetic community for the holistic transformation of post-conflict Liberia
  • Twenty-somethings in the church : the impact of a biblical worldview study
  • Children with disabilities and ministry : training adults for more effective ministry
  • A journey in preaching as a spiritual discipline
  • An exploratory study of marital satisfaction of forty couples at the Africa Inland Church, Jericho, Nairobi, with the view to inform premarital counseling practices in Kenya
  • Sanctuary in time : the effect of Sabbath keeping on the lives of missionaries
  • The influence of cultural coloration on conflict resolution by African Christian leaders : a study of Christian leaders and conflict resolution in Jos, Nigeria
  • Components to effect spiritual and numerical growth in the Good News Churches of Palakonda Division, Srikakulam District, A. P. India
  • Creating synergy in churches with multiple congregations
  • Opening their eyes and ours : a study on the belief and practice of prayer evangelism
  • Can they live again? : an analysis of small churches within the church of the Nazarene who transitioned to vitality from the death spiral
  • The journey of decision making in the Word-directed Christian churches
  • A model for preaching in the missional church : common characteristics of preaching found in effective missional churches within the Pacific Northwest District of the Christian and Missionary Alliance
  • The impact of men's disciple-making programs : how discipleship influences men's lives
  • Lighted to lighten : a study of missional families in Bangalore, India
  • Foot washing : a way to transform pastors' service to God within the United Methodist Church
  • Discover your Wesleyan DNA : a curriculum for the Wesleyan Methodist Church of New Zealand
  • Middle-class "Christ is the Answer Ministries" (CITAM) and the urban poor : a study of community action with recommendations
  • Band of brothers : a study in forming spiritual leadership characteristics in men
  • The effect of personal narrative on ethos in preaching to postmoderns
  • Love the one and hate the other : a comparative study of Financial Peace University and wealth and possessions in the New Testament
  • A study of Brazilian cultural issues and servant leadership model for the female pastors in the First Conference of the Methodist Church in Brazil
  • Worldview : the missing dimension of evangelism in postcommunist society
  • The Academy for Student Ministry: a study in youth ministry
  • Vision building as a second chair leader for a large congregation
  • The impact of community ministry on church health in the Anglican churches of South London
  • Spiritual formation and Southern Baptist clergy
  • Christian leadership in the local church : mentoring new Christian disciples
  • Renewing community in the American church
  • Caring for orphans in the Pilgrim Wesleyan Church of Zambia
  • Of merchants and missions : a historical study of the impact of British Colonialism on American Methodism in Singapore from 1885 to 1910
  • Evangelism strategies for reaching pre-Christians in upstate New York : a study of three Wesleyan churches effectively reaching their cultures
  • The power of 3 : small reproducible discipleship groups
  • Staying power : the influence of the call among ministers of the Wesleyan Church
  • A model of missional leadership training in a context of brokenness : a case study of the Restoration Missionary Church in the Democratic Republic of Congo
  • The Life and Ministry of John Sung: Sowing Seeds of Vibrant Christianity in Asian Soil
  • Developing an alternative training program for pastors without formal theological training in Meycauayan City, Bulacan, Philippines
  • The use of internet sermon resources : a study in Christian preaching
  • The impact of a ministry focus on specific spiritual formation emphases and the concurrent patterns of the growth of a specific church plant
  • Paradigm of power and authority in the kingdom of God : a study of the utilization of power and authority and congregational health /|cby Jason Matthew McIntosh.
  • A study to evaluate and establish a leadership development program for organizational leaders in the Christian and Missionary Alliance Churches of the Philippines
  • Personal well-being : issues vital to longevity and faithfulness in the pastoral ministry in the Trinity Annual Conference of the Methodist Church in Malaysia
  • The pastors' study group : research into the spiritual formation of pastors participating in pastors' study groups
  • Equipping Parents to be Spiritual Leaders in the Home
  • The relationship between church effectiveness and pastoral management behavior
  • Asimilación : a study of Costa Rican newcomers in their search for a church, and the church's response to them
  • Revitalization of the urban church: a multi-case study of turnaround churches
  • Suggested strategies for resolving intragroup church conflict through leadership in the Liberia Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church
  • An introductory study into the relationship between ministerial adherance to Wesleyan soteriology and church growth in the North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church
  • Alignment around a missional vision : reaching out in relationships at Grandview Christian Church
  • Gypsy Pentecostals: the Growth of the Pentecostal Movement Among the Roma in Bulgaria and its Revitalization of Their Communities
  • Hearing God's call for life : the impact of call on mobilizing laity for ministry
  • Christian doctrine as a means of Christian spiritual formation
  • Enhancing the leadership competency of CAMACOP (Christian and Missionary Alliance Churches of the Philippines) pastors through the course on leadership in urban ministry in Ebenezer Bible College and Seminary
  • The stained glass ceiling in the black Baptist church : the continuing paradox of liberation
  • Results of the implementation of turnaround strategies for the Maquoketa United Methodist Church based on natural church development
  • The impact of the 40 Days of Purpose Spiritual Growth Campaign in twelve churches of the Alabama-West Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church
  • Measuring the clergy/laity gap and its effect on church health and outreach
  • Salvation as healing : John Wesley's missional theology
  • The core value of evangelism in effective churches
  • The relationship between dispositional forgiveness and a sense of community in a United Methodist Church of the Wisconsin Annual Conference
  • Preaching in the postmodern matrix : the role of biblical narrative preaching and symbolic communication in the formation of Christian identity
  • Learning resiliency: an opportunity for clergywomen
  • Experiences of United Methodist ministers serving in cross-cultural cross-racial appointments
  • Korean immigrants and their mission : exploring the missional identity of Korean immigrant churches in North America
  • Substantialist and relational understandings of entire sanctification among Church of the Nazarene clergy
  • The pastor as missional church architect
  • The Diffusion of Black Gospel Music in Postmodern Denmark: with Implications for Evangelization, Meaning Construction, and Christian Identity
  • Men mentoring women : the impact of male leaders on women entering vocational Christian ministry in the Church of God
  • Training Ecuadorian Church of God disciples to evangelize on three Galápagos islands and in three provinces through the power of Pentecost
  • The impact of a short-term mission experience on the prayer behaviors of participants
  • Instituting a missional worship style in a local church developed from an analysis of the culture
  • An evaluation of the Teen Challenge program's impact on spiritual change in adolescents
  • The use of business in missions in Chiang Mai, Thailand
  • Identifying gender worldview roadblocks to the ordination of women : a case study of the Church of Christ in Nigeria
  • Good News to the Poor: A Model for Holistic Ministry in Bunyore, Kenya
  • Woodland journey : a study of Christian pilgrimage
  • The holistic mission of the church in northern Ghana : a case study of the Methodist Church Ghana
  • Church health and church growth in congregations of the Russian Church of Evangelical Christians
  • Development and evaluation of computer-based coaching for relational evangelism
  • The impact of spiritual disciplines on persons' ability and willingness to forgive
  • The relationship among organizational culture, pastoral leadership style, and worship attendance growth in United Methodist churches in rapidly growing suburbs of Atlanta
  • Discerning congregational culture for pastoral ministry : the church culture survey
  • Missional Experiential Education for Developing Christian Global Citizens
  • The effect of fasting upon the development of servant leaders at Saint Joseph United Methodist Church, Fort Wayne, Indiana
  • Factors involved in fast-growing, dynamic church plants
  • Factors contributing to wellness throughout the seasons of vocational ministry
  • Developing missional identity through small group spiritual formation
  • Transformation of the traditional circumcision rite of passage for Meru boys in Kenya : a critical response to HIV/AIDS and gang formation
  • The AIDS Orphan Crisis in Kenya: Caring for Kikuyu Children in Escarpment
  • The effect of short-term missions on second generation Korean Americans
  • The fruit of the spirit and the incarnational nature of the missional church
  • We are preaching with you pastor : congregational input for the accurate and relevant application of the word of God
  • The Church's Changing Mission: Working with HIV/AIDS Among the Shona People of Zimbabwe
  • Grow and go : a program for mobilizing the local church for small group participation and ministry involvement
  • Disciple-making boards : the impact of training a church's governing board in small-group spiritual formation leadership
  • Preacher-as-witness : the homiletical approach of E. Stanley Jones
  • Transmission and reception of blended family narratives in the church context
  • Excursions to meet God and renew the spirit / by Charles R. Shonkwiler.
  • Power to become witnesses : the impact of an Acts 1:8 initiative on three participating congregations of the Zeeland Classis, Reformed Church in America
  • Scriptural and rational piety : the development and use of a curriculum for teaching authentic Wesleyan worship
  • From committees and choirs to communities
  • Physicians' perceptions of the chaplain's role in critical care
  • The impact of building a leadership team of laypersons upon the Rockwood United Methodist Charge's embracing and fulfilling of its charge-wide vision statement
  • Church planting using a continuous quality management process in a new Wesleyan church in western New York
  • Compound change in existing congregations
  • The entrepreneurial leader as change agent : developing innovative churches
  • Recovering recovery : toward a new missional understanding in the local church
  • Attendance to discipleship : a study of the Orchard 101 course
  • The relationship of missional outreach to United Methodist Church growth in the central Appalachian region, 1990-2005
  • Charismatic revival and the mission of the church
  • Preparatory elements to promote congregational change
  • The pastor as priestly worship leader
  • Components of lay-mobilizating cultures and systems
  • Built to last pastors : identifying the foundational characteristics of perservering in pastoral excellence
  • Cooperating with the Spirit : a model for spiritual formation within the local church
  • Exploring the missional potential of international churches : a case study of Capital City Baptist Church, Mexico City
  • Missional small churches : transitioning a church from pastoral to program
  • A qualitative case study of a Mississippi multiracial congregation
  • Proclaiming what we have seen and heard : the role of prayer in hermeneutics for homiletics
  • Identifying paradigms of conversion operative in United Methodist churches of the Texas conference
  • Clergywomen with spiritual authority
  • Self-expressed conditions, expectations, assumptions, and experiences of the Rosebud Sioux in the Winner, South Dakota, area that are offered as reasons individuals or households do not participate in local churches
  • The prayer-driven church plant
  • Increasing church attendance for families with young children through a time-saving ministry
  • The emotional health of senior pastors in the Christian and Missionary Alliance of Canada and its connection to the spiritual health of their churches
  • Sports ministry in America's one hundred largest churches
  • Religious publishing and print on demand : a comparison of Warner Press with representative religious publishers between 1980--2005
  • An evaluation of the alpha course as a catalyst for faith transformation
  • The gift of prophecy in the United Methodist Church
  • Preaching to cultivate a whole-person response in the practice of Christian outreach
  • The impact of vision on congregational health in the West Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church
  • A theology of the cross as a guide for spiritual formation
  • The stewardship of older adults in the church and within the broader community
  • The influence of spiritual gifts on effectiveness of leadership development among undergraduate college students
  • The impact of verbal faith sharing within the evangelism curriculum on alumni/ae serving in full-time pastoral appointments
  • Incarnational ministry : a program for spiritual formation and renewal
  • Leading by example : the impact of a spiritual growth experience on a church staff
  • Deploying laity into ministry among lay-releasing congregations in the North Georgia Conference
  • An analysis of systems that train and release servant leaders for the edification of the church and the evangelization of the world
  • The effect of video venue preaching on Christian life transformation
  • From the new day to the new century : Free Methodist strategies for metropolitan church planting in light of 1985-2000 efforts and results
  • Towards an ortho-doxological missional ministry
  • E. Stanley Jones had a wife: the life and missiological contributions of Dr. Mabel Lossing Jones, missionary to India, 1878-1978
  • As goes the seminary : how seminaries are intentionally producing spiritually alive pastors
  • Identifying and promoting effective spiritual leadership through the role of district superintendent in the Northeast Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church
  • An evaluation of pastoral self-leadership and church health in church plants
  • The effectiveness of expository, narrative, and topical preaching in a new church setting
  • Leading from the margins : recovering the Christian tradition of hospitality in church leadership
  • The good time coming : the impact of William Booth's eschatological vision
  • Using proverbs to contextualize Christianity in the Builsa culture of Ghana, West Africa
  • Relevant Indigenous Disciple-Making in the Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA): a Case Study of the Kaninkon People in Nigeria
  • Victor Emile Frankl's meaning paradigm : logotherapy as a model for meaning-centered pastoral ministry in the contemporary Singaporean context
  • Incarnational evangelism : developing a culturally sensitive model to engage people with the gospel of Jesus Christ
  • Preaching Christian doctrine in a post-Christian society
  • The common leadership qualities of Nazarene women pastors who have led good to great churches
  • Beauty in worship : a paradigm incorporating philosophical and theological attributes of beauty in assessing worship
  • The interaction of church health, theological understanding, and the first year of Connected in Christ at Kingswood United Methodist Church in Clovis, New Mexico
  • Using '40 Days of Purpose' spiritual growth campaign as a key intervention in small church turnaround
  • The Wellspring Academy for Christian Leadership : a strategy for developing transformational leaders in the North Carolina Annual Conference
  • How a pastor reads the local culture in its immediate context in order to present the good news
  • Discovering the catalysts for growing true disciples in an emerging postmodern culture
  • Evidence of the gospel in preaching to postmoderns : a study of the sermons of leading preachers
  • Training vocational ministers in the practice of spiritual disciplines through the use of David Kolb's learning cycle
  • Breaking the two hundred barrier at Bonaire United Methodist Church through lay ministries
  • The graphic gospel : preaching in a postliterate age
  • Identifying barriers to an apostolic ethos within Park United Methodist Church
  • The spiritual life and ministerial crises
  • Evaluating the impact of Christian Schwarz's eight quality characteristics on three plateaued and/or declining churches and the involvement of an outside coach
  • Exploring internet use among the growing churches of the Holston Conference of the United Methodist Church
  • Developing church-planting leaders for the Fountain of Life churches based upon the principles derived from Paul's speech at Miletus in Acts 20:17-38
  • Facing the challenge of the urban frontier : creating effective Christian church congregations in the cities of the United States
  • Factors affecting shared ministry in multiple-point charges in the East Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church
  • Celebrate Jesus mission : an exploration of pastoral experiences
  • Faith development through crosscultural interaction and liminality : bonding to the meaning of scripture through the short-term mission experiences
  • Developing servant leadership in the Wesleyan Church of Myanmar
  • Critical contextualization of Chinese folk beliefs and practices : feng shui as a case study
  • A study of church health among Lutheran congregations transitioning to a discipleship model for ministry
  • Building an altar prayer ministry in a local United Methodist Church
  • Unlocking the heart of a mentor : reflections of mentoring by pastors of large churches
  • The locus of a call : a comparative study of "call" and how call is actualized within ethnically diverse Churches of God
  • Effectiveness of multisensory communication in worship
  • Missional transformation : a congregational change process for making new disciples
  • Recovering the priesthood of all believers : a study of the discovery and deployment of spiritual gifts for service and their effect on the individual's assurance of God's grace and awareness of neighbor's need
  • Restoring trust in God : an observation of the process
  • Reaching the heart of the city the street-smart way : strategic principles for urban ministry
  • Persuasion and church ministry as it relates to woman abuse : an evaluation of 'No place for abuse' on the knowledge, attitudes, and behavior of Asbury Theological Seminarians
  • Preaching in postmodern times : a peer mentoring preaching program for effective Biblical preaching within the emerging postmodern context
  • Understanding the cross of Christ as it relates to leadership development at Wesley United Methodist Church
  • Spiritual formation in the church and its impact upon spiritual free agency
  • Building for critical mass when launching new churches
  • Connecting to God : exploring the language, motivation, and three strategic evidences in conversion to Christ
  • Understanding the relationship between Asbury Theological Seminary and its alumni "metacommunity"
  • The impact of completion of the Upper Room's two year academy for spiritual formation upon the ministry of ordained participants
  • Holistic healing ministry : the current understandings and attitudes of clergy and laity of Wesleyan Holiness Churches of Japan
  • Leadership formation for building healthier congregations in Brazil
  • Preaching the doctrine of covenant and its impact upon the spiritual discipline of prayer
  • The impact of sabbaticals on burnout precusors and tenure among Nazarene clergy in the United States
  • Preaching doctrine in a postmodern world
  • The relationship between church health and church growth in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church
  • The evaluation of a program (Teach one to lead one), that teaches universal priniciples in the context of relationships among students at North Cobb High School
  • Equipping women for leadership in a Wesleyan church
  • The Diffusion of Christianity Among Urban Chinese people in Diaspora: The Case of Metropolitan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • Measuring the personal impact of a seminary's spiritual formation curriculum
  • An exploratory case study of servant leadership in Taiwan Mennonite churches
  • The role of mentoring in the preparation of church planters of reproducing churches
  • Korean prayers : evaluating the prayer phenomena at the Prayer Mountain centers in Korea
  • Church health and church growth among General Association of General Baptist churches
  • The future of South American church leadership : images, behaviors, and competencies
  • Using strategic small groups to improve church health at Rockledge Baptist Church, Rockledge, Florida
  • Perceptions of pastoral leadership principles and practices within the Church of God (Cleveland, TN)
  • The origins, nature, and significance of the Jesus Movement as a revitalization movement
  • Preaching to cultivate a whole-person response in developing a healthy church
  • Outfitting disciples: a team-designed process for developing and equipping disciples
  • Discipleship out of transition : a study of the new membership policies and procedures of the Free Methodist Church and its impact on discipleship
  • Identity or mission : which will guide the Brethren in Christ into the twenty-first century
  • The relationship of pastoral leadership style and church growth in Nazarene churches
  • Spiritual growth of small group participants using a Wesley-developmental model
  • Strengthening the vitality of New Hope Free Methodist Church through the natural church development approach
  • The effect of metanoia : a forty-day season of prayer, on heart attitudes of Murry Hill United Methodist Church
  • Preparing Korean missionaries for cross-cultural effectiveness
  • Internal Pastoral Changes in a Growing Church
  • Building culturally relevant bridges for the gospel between the local church and the world at its door
  • The impact of a short-term mission experience on faith maturity
  • Biblical preaching and church growth : the role of lectionary preaching
  • Doctrinal preaching in an emerging postmodern age
  • Releasing God's people in a ministry of excellence through total quality ministry: a case study of Southern Acres Christian Church
  • Positioning a local church for a new model of church planting in a postmodern culture
  • Examining the vital link between preacher, prayer, and proclamation
  • Decentralizing ministry inside the soul of the pastor through spiritual disciplines
  • Preaching to cultivate a whole-person response in the practice of stewardship
  • Developing structures for health and growth for Northgate Free Methodist Church in Batavia, New York
  • Developing a strategic plan based on a church's purpose statement
  • From Jerusalem to Athens: a model of contemporary evangelistic preaching
  • Spiritual and emotional growth as experienced by participants in "The Weigh Down Workshop"
  • Narrative pastoral leadership: pastor and people working together
  • Ministry in small membership churches: a bachelor's degree course for the sudents of Evangelical Methodist Seminary of Costa Rica
  • Preaching to the secularized who misunderstand the nature of God
  • The Christian leader as a spirit-driven visionary
  • A study to explore the process of the merger of four United Methodist churches in Elkhart, Indiana
  • A game plan for the healthy congregation: a collegial group of clergy
  • A study to identify and describe chaplain role expectations on ships in the United States Navy
  • Churches and poor people : ǂb the impact of covenant discipleship groups in local churches and their relation to increased face-to-face contact with the poor
  • Pastoral theology and use of power
  • New life for old churches: a multi-case study of four turnaround small churches
  • Divine initiative and human response: experiencing God in worship through a structured ministry time
  • A study of spiritual gifts and church leadership
  • The Christian faith and divisive ethnicity in Africa : a case study of the Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA) in Nigeria
  • Reversions in the African church: a case study of the Bagisu Christians of Uganda
  • Meekness : a new approach to Christian witness to the Thai people
  • The way of meekness : being Christian and Thai in the Thai way
  • Indigenous Christian response to the challenge of contemporary Korean Shamanism within the Protestant churches of Korea
  • A study of how certain characteristics within small groups contribute to lay involvement in ministry in four selected United Methodist churches
  • Clergy career orientation toward support systems as means of self-care
  • Discovering the struggle between good and evil through antagonism within an United Methodist church with the help of Ignatius' and Wesley's understanding of discernment of spirits
  • An examination of worship music in United Methodist churches of the Missouri West Annual Conference
  • From class meetings to cell groups: the strength of early Methodism for the twenty-first century church
  • Changes that occur in the knowledge and attitudes of individuals and a group who attend a six week sermon series on AIDS
  • Perception and response to receptivity: the history and growth of the Wesleyan Church in the Philippines, 1932-1994
  • Reengineering of the national organization of the General Association of General Baptists
  • The relationship of the pastors' sermon preparation methods to average worship attendance in the churches of the Missouri East Conference of the United Methodist Church
  • Six ministry strategies for planting a seeker sensitive church
  • The relationship of pastoral succession to church growth in the United Methodist congregations of the Conway District of the North Arkansas Conference
  • A team approach to creative worship
  • Breaking down cultural barriers to personal evangelism
  • An exploration of relationships between perceptions of family system and spiritual well-being
  • Well-being of women married to ministers (WMMs) in the Christian and Missionary Alliance
  • A spiritual formation and discipleship study for believers in the local church
  • A study to evaluate a church intervention recovery program at East Stonewall A.M.E. Zion Church
  • Leading lay ministers : ǂb a study of the relationship between leadership and factors associated with lay minister job satisfaction in the Fort Worth Free Methodist Church
  • The significance of the Asbury revival of 1970 for some aspects of the spiritual lives of the participants
  • The impact of Chrysalis on the spiritual formation of youth
  • Christian conversion in postcommunist Estonia
  • Developing elder leadership for the Princeton Church of God
  • Wesley's development of discipleship
  • Exploring the role of Biblical preaching in the growth of the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)
  • Church growth through an off-site, second worship service
  • Retaining relocating members in the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec
  • The relationship between the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® and preferences for prayer
  • The impact of a pilgrimage to the holy land on the spiritual life of United Methodists from the Winchester District of the Virginia Annual Conference
  • The development of a manual of study about the Lord's Supper for children in the Free Methodist Church
  • Thomas Merton's understanding of the cross and its positive impact upon the spiritual well-being of adult lay people
  • Spiritual genealogy: early church influences on the life and work of John Wesley and their renewing impact on his successors today
  • Mountain cathedrals: an exploratory study of spiritual growth in teen-agers through backpacking
  • The Christian founder-leader : ǂb qualities necessary for founding an effective ministry of evangelism and discipleship, with case studies of founders
  • Going with the grain : ǂb an experiment in people-sensitive preaching
  • Hope for recovery: correlations among codependency, internalized shame, and spiritual well-being
  • Hope for recovery: correlations among codependency, internalized shame, and spiritual well-being
  • A study of the impact of intercessory prayer upon changes in the spiritual well-being, feelings, beliefs, and practices of a small group in a local church
  • The impact of pastoral leadership style on growth in the churches with an average worship attendance of 200-350 in the Holston Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church
  • The spirit and sanctification: changes within American Wesleyanism
  • The development, implementation, and evaluation of a lay pastoral care program
  • Cultivating spiritual well-being through pastoral home visitation
  • The impact of personal grief due to loss of a spouse on a pastor's ongoing ministry: a study of loss in the first fifteen years of ministry
  • Finding small healthy Free Methodist Churches in the state of Illinois
  • Divine healing in the experience, thought, and ministry of Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • Harmonizing role expectations of the church board and pastor
  • Corporate discernment of God's will in the administrative processes of the local church
  • A curriculum of spiritual formation in the Wesleyan tradition for the Pegram United Methodist Church
  • The development of the screenplay, A time to mourn and a time to dance
  • Growing together: a study of Christ model discipleship
  • Partnership in crosscultural mission: the impact of Kentucky Baptist short-term, volunteer missions
  • A twelve week seminar on spiritual formation utilizing the beatitudes as a reflective model
  • Spiritual formation and entire sanctification: the Denver City model
  • The impact of a storytelling seminar for friend-grievers
  • A storytelling-based curriculum for use in porviding small group support to hurting parents
  • Christian charities and cultural changes: a descriptive study
  • Discipleship through small group ministry in a congregation of the Church of God (Anderson)
  • Shame and the church dropout: the effect of embarrassment, humiliation, and shame on church attendance in small rural churches
  • Developing the family's spiritual life through the spiritual disciplines
  • A search for the christology of the Jehovah's witnesses as interpreted through it historical development
  • Mission possible: United Methodist Church renewal in New England
  • Church planting strategies and methods for Harvest Community Church of God
  • The dynamics between obesity and spirituality
  • A study of religious switching among interfaith marriages at the Trinity United Methodist Church, Clayton, New Jersey
  • The development of a model of leadership for a church planting project
  • An analysis of the unique growth at Evangel Christian Life Center in Louisville, Kentucky with insights recognized by the church growth movement
  • Let my people go: breaking the 200 barrier at Wheatland Salem United Methodist Church through lay ministries
  • The meaning of prayer: a case model for spiritual renewal
  • The development and implementation of a program of baptismal instruction at Mount Forest United Church
  • Implementing a Wesleyan understanding and appreciation of holy communion in a local congregation
  • Grace under stress: does the ministry of encouragement directed at the means of grace transform stress?
  • The dual sunday school program, its philosophy and practice at First Wesleyan Church, High Point, NC
  • The effects of a discipleship program on the local church
  • The effects of a discipleship program on the local church
  • The discovery of a church's purpose through corporate spiritual discernment
  • Qualitative and quantitative growth for a small plateaued/declining congregation
  • Church revitaqlization in the Southwest Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church: conference church revitalization and extension using the organizational perception indicator -- OPI
  • Rise up men of God
  • The Wesleyan movement and liberation theology: encounter and dialogue
  • Not by bread alone: a study in the Christian discipline of fasting
  • Ministerial burnout causes and prevention: a retreat model for clergy self-care, renewal, and support
  • Ministerial burnout causes and prevention: a retreat model for clergy self-care, renewal, and support
  • A study to identify and define the principle characteristics and approaches in Christian premarital preparation
  • Enhancing Biblical interpretation in the local church
  • Addressing the issues faced by single, divorced mothers through a divorce recovery group in the First Baptist Church of Oxford, Florida
  • A study of marriage preparation practice among Free Methodist pastors in the Wabash Conference
  • The renewal effect upon the congregation by small groups using an adaptation of John Wesley's band model
  • The spiritual formation of aspirants for lay and ordained ministries in an Episcopal diocese
  • Leadership development in the local church: a study of the possibilities and problems connected with developing leaders for the local church
  • Leadership development in the local church: a study of the possibilities and problems connected with developing leaders for the local church
  • How "groups with purpose" stimulate spiritual formation in a local church
  • A projection and strategy for church growth using an analysis of recent growth at the Burgin, Kentucky, United Methodist Church
  • Equipping the laity through christian education: the pastoral role
  • A study of the changes in the cognitive and affective responses of remarried couples following a Christian remarriage enrichment weekend
  • The effect of history-recital on congregational self-image
  • John Wesley's instituted means of grace in the spiritual formation of the local church
  • The development of a comprehensive plan for church growth and evangelism at the First United Methodist Church, Beeville, Texas
  • A study of the causes and effects of vocational stress among pastoral ministers in the North Mississippi Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church with strategies for stress management
  • A study of the changes in the spiritual and interpersonal relationships of Christian marriages following a Christian marriage enrichment weekend with follow-up sessions
  • Patterns of Free Methodist worship: historic freedoms
  • The place of faith in the healing of persons at Central United Methodist Church, Decatur, Illinois
  • Pastoral role expectations in the local church
  • Soulistic health: the church's ministry of healing intercession
  • A selected study of Wesleyan Church leaders: discovering principles for minstry in the local church
  • The local church in a Christian academic community: a process for discovering and developing its identity, mission and ministry
  • A theological and historical study and application of the nature and scope of ministry as it relates to the laity
  • The relationship of Christian practice to the doctrine of heart purity in the Wesleyan tradition
  • Theology of ministry and church growth principles
  • Management by objectives: a model for the local Wesleyan Church
  • Effecting ministry in the local church
  • The invisible congregation: a study of attitudes among inactive and active church members
  • Applying principles of organizational development in the work of the church
  • Magic in the ancient Near East and the Old Testament :study of metaphysics
  • Educational policy of the Meiji restoration and Christian education for women in Japan
 
  • Karl Barth among the postliberals by William J. Brennan III

    Karl Barth among the postliberals

    William J. Brennan III

    Thesis (M. A.), 2012

  • Curriculum for Preaching in the North Caucasus Bible Institute by Vitaliy Bak

    Curriculum for Preaching in the North Caucasus Bible Institute

    Vitaliy Bak

    Thesis (D. Min.), 2011

  • Relational Leadership: A Study of Organizational Health and Clergy within the Wesleyan Church by Brian Voyght Bradford

    Relational Leadership: A Study of Organizational Health and Clergy within the Wesleyan Church

    Brian Voyght Bradford

    Thesis (D. Min.), 2011

  • Coaching Pastors of Faith Evangelical Church of the Philippines Churches for Church Growth by Brent Hunter Burdick

    Coaching Pastors of Faith Evangelical Church of the Philippines Churches for Church Growth

    Brent Hunter Burdick

    Thesis (D. Min.), 2011

  • Equipping the Laity Through Discipleship Training in a Korean Church by Yijoon Chang

    Equipping the Laity Through Discipleship Training in a Korean Church

    Yijoon Chang

    Thesis (D. Min.), 2011

  • Biblical Preaching by Ovidiu Ionel Dragan

    Biblical Preaching

    Ovidiu Ionel Dragan

    Thesis (D. Min.), 2011

  • Walking to Emmaus: Strengthening Christian Religious Faith by David Allen Estep

    Walking to Emmaus: Strengthening Christian Religious Faith

    David Allen Estep

    Thesis (D. Min.), 2011

  • A study of why some inner-city, African-American churches in Chicago have undergone significant membership declines, while others have seen large increases in memberships in the post-civil rights era by Norman Goodwin

    A study of why some inner-city, African-American churches in Chicago have undergone significant membership declines, while others have seen large increases in memberships in the post-civil rights era

    Norman Goodwin

  • A study of the significant indicators of spiritual and emotional responses of African-American congregations to the transition of the founding or long-term senior pastor by Cynthia Hinson Graham

    A study of the significant indicators of spiritual and emotional responses of African-American congregations to the transition of the founding or long-term senior pastor

    Cynthia Hinson Graham

  • Confirmation and ministry participation by Jeffrey S. Harper

    Confirmation and ministry participation

    Jeffrey S. Harper

  • Mission unfinished : evaluating the impact of the Global Outreach Seminar in the local church by Michael Karl Hoppe

    Mission unfinished : evaluating the impact of the Global Outreach Seminar in the local church

    Michael Karl Hoppe

  • Evaluating the effectiveness of assimilation strategies of the Churches of Christ in Christian Union : closing the back door of the church by Earl Ralph Hux

    Evaluating the effectiveness of assimilation strategies of the Churches of Christ in Christian Union : closing the back door of the church

    Earl Ralph Hux

  • Social transformation through pastoral transformational leadership : a case study of Mombasa Synod by Pius N. Kagwi

    Social transformation through pastoral transformational leadership : a case study of Mombasa Synod

    Pius N. Kagwi

  • Clergy stress : a study of stressors and stress-relieving practices among United Methodist clergy across three districts of the Western North Carolina Conference by Claude J. Kayler

    Clergy stress : a study of stressors and stress-relieving practices among United Methodist clergy across three districts of the Western North Carolina Conference

    Claude J. Kayler

  • Spiritual and strategic leadership in pastoral ministry by Pedro P. Magalhães

    Spiritual and strategic leadership in pastoral ministry

    Pedro P. Magalhães

  • Restoring the balance between doing and being : the functional pastor and Adrian Van Kamm's formative spirituality by H. Fred Meadows

    Restoring the balance between doing and being : the functional pastor and Adrian Van Kamm's formative spirituality

    H. Fred Meadows

  • Images of the missional church : leadership, culture, and practices in context by Brian Vann Miller

    Images of the missional church : leadership, culture, and practices in context

    Brian Vann Miller

  • Missional spirituality : invitation to listen by David Mullens

    Missional spirituality : invitation to listen

    David Mullens

  • An online peer-based spiritual mentoring program for field missionaries by Thomas David Nichols

    An online peer-based spiritual mentoring program for field missionaries

    Thomas David Nichols

  • Breaking the culture of ethnic hostility in Kenya by Geoffrey Kamau Njuguna

    Breaking the culture of ethnic hostility in Kenya

    Geoffrey Kamau Njuguna

  • Seeing the big picture : a study of Walk Thru the Bible's Old Testament storyline seminar's impact on the spiritual health of participants by Robbie D. Phillips

    Seeing the big picture : a study of Walk Thru the Bible's Old Testament storyline seminar's impact on the spiritual health of participants

    Robbie D. Phillips

  • The picture of health : a study of church health in the Central New York District of the Wesleyan Church by Matthew Daniel Pickering

    The picture of health : a study of church health in the Central New York District of the Wesleyan Church

    Matthew Daniel Pickering

  • You are fired : a phenomenological study of pastoral perspectives on termination in a particular county of North Texas by Bruce E. Pratt

    You are fired : a phenomenological study of pastoral perspectives on termination in a particular county of North Texas

    Bruce E. Pratt

  • Wesleyan discipleship group : Wesleyan discipleship as a catalyst for equipping servants by Steven Kayne Pulliam

    Wesleyan discipleship group : Wesleyan discipleship as a catalyst for equipping servants

    Steven Kayne Pulliam

  • Urban leadership : a study in contextual ministry by Claude Solano

    Urban leadership : a study in contextual ministry

    Claude Solano

 
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