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CL 510 Formation for United Methodist Ordained Ministry

H. O. Thomas

• Hunt, Richard, Christian As Minister: Ministry Inquiry Process: The United Methodist Church (Nashville: General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, 1997). • Hunt, Richard A., Candidacy Guidebook: For Deacons, Elders, and Local Pastors: The United Methodist Church, 1997-2000(Nashville: General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, 1997).
CL 553 United Methodist Polity And Discipline

H. O. Thomas

Book of Discipline (2000)Polity, Practice and the Mission by Thomas FrankUnited Methodist Hymnal and/or the Book of Worship
IR 700 Senior Reflection Community

H. O. Thomas

The Senior Reflection Seminar serves as an integrative closure to the Seminary experiences of spiritual, intellectual, personal and vocational formation. The experience is designed to foster a sense of community through peer reflection and group interaction. Major components of the course include case studies, and a Theology of Ministry paper. It is required in the final semester of a student's degree program. Two hours of credit will be given for the seminar.
PM 604 United Methodist Polity and Discipline

H. O. Thomas

Read the entire Book of Discipline (2000). Please type and submit to the professor by each reading due date on the course calendar two observations/reflections taken from your assigned weekly reading. An observation is a reference to a particular sentence or paragraph in the Discipline (please cite) and your reflection should be approximately 2 paragraphs in length (not to exceed 3/4 page in length) single-spaced. (Value of the final grade: 15% -- 15 points.)Read Polity, Practice and the Mission by Thomas Frank. Please type and submit to the professor by each reading due date on the course calendar an approximately two-paragraph summary (not to exceed 3/4 page in length) of each chapter to be read that week. (Value of the final grade: 12% -- 12 points.)
SM 601 SM 602 Local Church Placement and SM 603 Institutional Placement

H. O. Thomas

This SUPERVISED MINISTRY HANDBOOK is your working guide and textbook for two semesters of field education. It serves for SM 601, SM 602, and SM 603. Therefore, it is recommended that you keep it in a separate three-ring binder, since it is not a bookbound. STUDENT PASTORS who are enrolled in SM 601C+ will not use this handbook but will use the handbook titled, SUPERVISED MINISTRIES SM 601, SM 602 - STUDENT PASTOR. In addendum of this handbook is the EXTENDED CASE GUIDELINES (Some professors may also use the text CASE BRIEF GUIDELINES). The self- referent case study based on our EXTENDED CASE GUIDELINES format is the basic learning instrument for courses in supervised ministries. This addendum provides you with the model format and instruction for good case writing. This handbook can be purchased at the Cokesbury seminary bookstore. • Other required texts: SM 601, 602 The text Lay Leadership for Ministry Training is required for Courses SM 601 and 602. This text is needed for the Pastor and Local Church Lay Committee members of the local church where you serve. Please pick up your free copies for each member in the S. Min. Office. Please collect each copy at the end of the placement and return to the SMin Office. The text Field Supervisors Handbook: Parish should be distributed to your supervising pastor to familiarize him/her with the role of supervising and mentoring pastor. • SM 603 The text Field Supervisors Handbook: Institutional should be distributed to your supervisor to familiarize him/her with the role of supervising and mentoring
NT 511 The Gospel of Mark

David Loren Thompson

1. Revised Standard Version. Any edition that gives an uncluttered text, without paragraph titles or other interpretive comments is recommended. Similar formated editions of the NASB, NRSV, and NIV are also acceptable. 2. Bible Study That Works. Revised edition. Evangel Press, 1994. Thompson, David L (=BSTW). This non-technical book will give us a quick overview of the terrain we will explore more precisely throughout the semester. I require it to help pay my youngest daughter’s college remaining tuition and recommend purchasing multiple copies if you wish, perhaps for your family and friends (though, of course, I do not want to be informed of this).
NT 530 The Gospel of Mark

David Loren Thompson

1. Revised Standard Version. Any edition that gives an uncluttered text, without paragraph titles or other interpretive comments is recommended. Similar formated editions of the NASB, NRSV, and NIV are also acceptable. 2. Bible Study That Works. Revised edition. Evangel Press, 1994. Thompson, David L (=BSTW). This non-technical book will give us a quick overview of the terrain we will explore more precisely throughout the semester.
NT 530 The Gospel of Mark

David Loren Thompson

1. Revised Standard Version. Any edition that gives an uncluttered text, without paragraph titles or other interpretive comments is recommended. Similar formated editions of the NASB, NRSV, and NIV are also acceptable. 2. Bible Study That Works. Revised edition. Evangel Press, 1994. Thompson, David L (=BSTW). This non-technical book will give us a quick overview of the terrain we will explore more precisely throughout the semester.
OT 610 Pentateuch

David Loren Thompson

A. Required Texts Revised Standard Version of the Bible or some other contemporary, standard (nonparaphrasing) version with minimal editorial clutter in the layout. NRSV, NASB, and NIV are also fine. Bible Study That Works. Revised edition. Evangel Press, 1994. David L. Thompson B. Library Reserve Achtemeier, Elizabeth. Preaching from the Old Testament. Westminster/John Knox, 1989. Brueggemann, Walter. Texts Under Negotiation: The Bible and Postmodern Imagination. Fortress, 1993. _______. Cadences of Home: Preaching Among Exiles. Westminster/John Knox, 1997. Craddock, Fred B. Preaching. Abingdon, 1985. Holbert, John C. Preaching Old Testament: Proclamation and Narrative in the Hebrew Bible. Abingdon, 1991.Long, Thomas G. The Witness of Preaching. WJK, 1989. Miller, Donald G. The Way to Biblical Preaching. Abingdon, 1957.
OT 610 Pentateuch

David Loren Thompson

Revised Standard Version of the Bible or some other contemporary, standard (nonparaphrasing) version with minimal editorial clutter in the layout. NRSV, NASB, and NIV are also fine. Bible Study That Works. Revised edition. Evangel Press, 1994. David L. Thompson
OT 620 Pentateuch

David Loren Thompson

1. Revised Standard Version of the Bible or some other contemporary, standard (non-paraphrasing) version with minimal editorial clutter in the layout. NRSV, NASB, and NIV are also fine. 2. Bible Study That Works. Revised edition. Evangel Press, 1994. David L. Thompson
OT 630 Minor Prophets

David Loren Thompson

1. Revised Standard Version of the Bible, or some other contemporary, standard (non-paraphrasing) version such as The New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, New American Standard Bible, with minimal editorial clutter in the layout. 2. Bible Study That Works. Revised edition. Evangel Press, 1994. David L. Thompson 3. Biblical Resources for Ministry, edited by David R. Bauer. Second edition. Nappanee, IN: Evangel Press, 1995
OT 720 Psalms

David Loren Thompson

1. New American Standard Bible, Revised Standard Version, or New Revised Standard Version of the Bible or some other modern, standard (non-paraphrasing) version with minimal editorial clutter in the layout. 2. Bible Study That Works. Revised edition. Evangel Press, 1994. David L. Thompson 3. Biblical Resources for Ministry. Revised edition. Evangel Press, 1995. David R. Bauer
CH HT 612 Contemporary Cults

Steven Tsoukalas

Sire, James. Scripture Twisting: Twenty Ways the Cults Misread the Bible. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1980. Stark, Rodney, and William Sims Bainbridge. The Future of Religion: Secularization, Revival, and Cult Formation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. Tsoukalas, Steven. Masonic Rites and Wrongs: An Examination of Freemasonry. Phillipsburg, N.J.: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1995. Tucker, Ruth. Another Gospel: Alternative Religions and the 'ew Age Movement. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1989. *In addition to the above (approx. 1,100 pages), students are required to research primary source cultic literature toward the submission of a research paper.
CE 632 Recruiting and Empowering Laity for Ministry

Thomas F. Tumblin

The New Reformation, by Greg Ogden (Zondervan, 1991, 224 pgs) Starter Kit for Lay Mobilization (Leadership Training Network, 1996, 120 pgs) Discovering Your Ministry Identity by Paul R. Ford (Church Smart, 1998, 54 pgs) Community of the King by Howard Snyder [IVP, 216pgs] Another sample assimilation tool (like Networking, S.H.A.P.E., Ministry Exploration and others) An additional 600 pages of reading using the following topics: Ministry to different generations Dealing with conflict and change Teams Small Groups Other topics of your choice related to working with volunteers/unpaid servants
CE 632 Recruiting and Empowering Laity for Ministry

Thomas F. Tumblin

The New Reformation, by Greg Ogden (Zondervan, 199 1,224 pgs) Starter Kitfor Lay Mobilization (Leadership Training Network, 1996, 120 pgs) Discovering Your Ministry Identity by Paul R. Ford (Church Smart, 1998, 54 pgs) Community of the King by Howard Snyder [IVP, 2 1 Gpgs]
CL 614 Leading Groups and Organizations

Thomas F. Tumblin

Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice and Leadership, 2nd ed. by Lee G. Bolman and Terrence E. Deal (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997) ISBN: 0787908215 (450 pages). Leading Congregational Change: A Practical Guide for the Transformational Journey by Jim Herrington, Mike Bonem and James H. Furr. (San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2000) ISBN: 0787947652 (186 pages). 2 Organizational Culture and Leadership, 2nd ed., by Edgar H. Schein (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997) ISBN: 0787903620 (448 pages). After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity by Miroslav Volf (GrandRapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998) ISBN: 0-8028-4440-5 (314 pages). FaithQuest: A Journey Toward Congregational Transformation (Bible Study) by Dan R. Dick (Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 1998) ISBN: 0881772399 (168 pages).
SM 514 Christian Leadership Practicum

Thomas F. Tumblin

The Call by Os Guiness
SM 614 Christian Leadership Practicum

Thomas F. Tumblin

Living the Life You Were Meant to Live by Thomas Paterson
SM 714 Advanced Christian Leadership Practicum

Thomas F. Tumblin

Connecting by Robert Clinton
CH 661 A Historical/Theological Survey of the Pentecostal/Charismatic Movements

Robert G. Tuttle

Donald W. Dayton, Theological Roots of Pentecostalism, Zondervan Press, 1987, ISBN 0-310-39371-X. Robert G. Tuttle, Jr., Sanctity without Starch: A Layperson’s Guide to a Wesleyan Theology of Grace, Bristol House, 1992, ISBN 0-917851-19-6.
MS 610 The Ministry of Evangelism

Robert G. Tuttle

Required Texts: ME 501 Selected Articles Packet (125 pp.). 1. The Faith Sharing Congregation, Swanson and Clement (107 pp.). 2. To Spread the Power, George Hunter, III (200 pp.). 3. Becoming a Contagious Christian, Hybels and Mittelberg (221 pp.). 4. Turnaround Strategies for the Small Church, Ron Crandall (160 pp.). 5. Can We Talk?, Robert Tuttle, Jr. (110 pp.). Collateral Texts: Read at least one of the following not previously read. 1. The Heart of Youth Ministry, Goddard and Acevedo (Bristol, 1989). 2. Tell It Well, J. T. Seamands, Beacon Hill, 1981. 3. How to Reach Secular People, George Hunter, III (Abingdon, 1992). 4. A Song of Ascents, E. Stanley Jones (Abingdon, 1979). 5. New Testament Evangelism, Michael Green, OMF Literature, 1979.
PH 501 Philosophy of Christian Religion

Jerry L. Walls

A. William Hasker, Metaphysics. B. Michael Peterson et al., Reason and Religious Belief: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion, 2nd edition. C. Michael Peterson et. al., Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings, 2nd Edition (Readings)
PH 610 Systematic Apologetics

Jerry L. Walls

TEXTS 1. James Sire, The Universe Next Door. 2. Thomas V. Morris, Making Sense Of It All. 3. Blaise Pascal, Pensees. 4. G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy. 5. Burson and Walls, C.S. Lewis and Francis Schaeffer. 6. Reading Packet
NT 520 New Testament Introduction.

Joseph S. Wang

Green, Joel B. ed., Hearing the New Testament, Strategies for Interpretation Guthrie, Donald, New Testament Introduction. Revised Edition Johnson, Luke T., The Writings of the New Testament, An Interpretation, Revised Edition.