Course Readings

BG502 Greek II (Please contact the librarian for the pdf version)

• Biblical Greek Textbook by Mounce
• Biblical Greek Workbook by Mounce

BH502 Hebrew II

• Beginning Biblical Hebrew

CH502/702 Reformation & Awakening

• The Story of Christianity Vol. 2
• Church and Politics during the English Reformation (Please contact the librarian)
• Christianity through the Centuries : A History of the Christian church (contact the librarian)
• The Protestant Reformation (contact the librarian)

EM502/702 Lifespan Development & Learning

• Nurture That Is Christian
• The Reciprocating Self
• The Cultural Nature of Human Development
• Christian Formation
• Stages of Faith
• Women's Way of Knowing (contact the librarian)
• Life-Span Development (contact the librarian)

ME503/703 Church Growth

• Understanding Church Growth (contact the librarian)
• Biblical Church Growth

ME504/704 Cross-Cultural Ministry

• Cross-Cultural Connections
• Ministering Cross-Culturally
• Cross-Cultural Conflict (contact the librarian)

ME753 Urban Ministry and Evangelism (Independent Study)

• Urban Ministry: The Kingdom, the City, and the People of God

NT502 Acts & Pauline Epistles

• An Introduction to the New Testament

OT502/703 Prophets

• The Message of the Prophets

PM502 Pastoral Care & Counseling

• Basic Types of and Pastoral Care and Counseling
• Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work (contact the librarian)
• Toughest People to Love: How to Understand, Lead, and Love the Difficult People in Your Life (contact the librarian)
• The skilled helper (p.106-120)
• Trauma and Recovery (p. 33-95)
• The wounded healer: ministry in contemporary society
• On Death and Dying (p. 51-146)
• St. Gregory the Great, Pastoral Care

PM505 Peacebuilding

• Building Peace: sustainable reconciliation in divided societies
• Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination (contact the librarian)
• Reconcile: Conflict Transformation for Ordinary Christian
• Making Peace with Fire: Harnessing Conflict to Transform Your Relationships (contact the librarian)
• Resolving Identity-Based Conflict: in Nations, Organizations and Communities (contact the librarian)

PM703 Team Building

• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
• Teams That Thrive : Five Disciplines of Collaborative Church Leadership
• Leader-Coach. Developing Effective Ministry Teams

PR502 Expository Preaching

• The Four Pages of the Sermon, Revised and Updated
• The Power of Multi-Sensory Preaching and Teaching
• Preaching with Cultural Intelligence

PT501/701 Apologetics

• Mere Apologetics : how to help seekers and skeptics find faith

RM702 Research Methodology II (Please contact the librarian)

• A Manual for Writers of Research Papers by Kate Turabian (9th edition) (Ch. 5)
• Research Design by John W. Creswell (4th Edition) (Ch. 1, 2, 10)
• Introducing Research Methodology by Flick, U. (3rd ed.) (Ch. 5)
• Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods by Patton, M. Q. (4th ed.) (Ch.8)
• Social Research Methods by Bryman, A. (5th ed.) (Ch. 12)
• The Practice of Social Research  by Babbie, E. (14th ed.) (Ch. 4, 7, 10, 13, 14, 16)

ST502 Doctrine of God & Man 

• Show Me Your Glory by Steven, J Lawson (contact the librarian)
• Systematic Theology

ST508/708 Patristic Theology

• Getting to Know the Church Fathers
• Learning Theology with the Church Fathers

BG101 Greek I

• Please check the course syllabus

BH101 Hebrew I

• Beginning Biblical Hebrew

CH101 Church History I

• The Story of Christianity. Vol 1 (Please contact the librarian)
• The Untold Story of the New Testament Church

EM101 Foundations of Educational Ministry

• Foundational Issues in Christian Education
• Introducing Christian Education
• So What Makes Our Teaching Christian?
• Principles and Practices of Christian Education: An Evangelical Perspective
• Exploring the History and Philosophy of Christian Education: Principles for the 21st Century
• Philosophy & Education: An Introduction in Christian Perspective (2006) (1998) (1989) all versions are acceptable
• A Theology for Christian Education

ME101/501 Cultural Anthropology 

• Cultural Anthropology
• Anthropological Insights for Missionaries (ThM and DMin only)

ME102 Biblical Theology of Mission

• The mission of God's people : a biblical theology of the church's mission
• The Open Secret (Proquest)
• Christian mission in the modern world

ME104/504 Contemporary Social Issues

• Issues Facing Christians Today : 4th Edition

MT702 Missiological Seminar B: Doing Theology in Contexts

• Anthropological Insights for Missionaries
• Christianity in Culture: a study in Dynamic biblical Theologizing in Cross-Cultural Perspectives
• Issues Facing Christians Today
• Practicing Theological Interpretation
• Contextualization in the New Testament Patterns for Theology and Mission
• Transforming Worldviews An Anthropological Understanding of how People Change

NT 101 New Testament I

• An Introduction to the New Testament

OT101/501 Pentateuch

• Handbook on the Pentateuch
• The Pentateuch

PM101 Pastoral Theology and Ministry

• Lectures to My Students by Charles Spurgeon (Vol 1) and (Vol 3)
• The Reformed Pastor by Richard Baxter
• Under the Unpredictable Plant: An Exploration in Vocational Holiness (Please contact the librarian)

PM501/701 Spiritual Formation of a Christian Leader

• Desiring God’s Will
• Surrender to Love
• How people change
• Renovation of the Heart : Putting on the Character of Christ
• Sacred Rhythms
• Christian Spiritual Formation

PR101 Homiletics

• Patterns of Preaching
• Biblical Preaching
• Christ-Centered Preaching

PT502 Theological Reflection in an Age of Technology

• Please check the course syllabus

RM00/01 Research Methodology/Formatting

• A Manual for Writers of Research Papers
• An introduction to theological research: A guide for college and seminary students
• Research Design by John W. Creswell
• Fundamentals of Qualitative Research

RM701 Research Methodology/Literature Review (Please contact the librarian for all the course readings below)

• Writing Literature Reviews: A Guide for Students of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
• The Literature Review: Six Steps to Success
• The Craft of Research (4th ed.).
• The Literature Review: A Step-by-Step Guide for Students
• Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Research Imagination
• A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations
• Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches (4th ed.).

ST101 Prolegomena & Hermeneutics

• Who needs theology (2021)
• Against Liberal Theology (2022)
• 40 Questions About Interpreting the Bible

ST104 Doc. of Hs, Ch & Last Things

• Berkhof's systematic theology
• The Meaning of the millennium : four views (2021)
• Are miraculous gifts for today? : four views (2022)
• When Narcissism Comes to Church (2023)
• Faith Seeking Understanding, Fourth ed (2024)
• Majority World Theology : Christian Doctrine in Global Context (2024)

ST501 Doctrine of Sanctification

• Five Views On Sanctification

BG102 Greek II

• Please check the course syllabus

BH102 Hebrew II

• Beginning Biblical Hebrew

CH102 Reformation & Awakening

• The Story of Christianity Vol. 2
• Christianity through the centuries : a history of the Christian church
• Church and Politics during the English Reformation (ask the librarian)
• The Protestant Reformation (ask the librarian)

EM102 Lifespan Development & Learning

• Nurture That Is Christian
• The Reciprocating Self
• The Cultural Nature of Human Development
• Christian Formation
• Stages of Faith
• Women's Way of Knowing (ask the librarian)
• Adult learning : linking theory and practice
• Brain-based learning (ask the librarian)

ME102 Biblical Theology of Mission

• The mission of God's people : a biblical theology of the church's mission
• The Open Secret
• Christian mission in the modern world

ME104/504 Church Growth

• Understanding Church Growth
• Biblical Church Growth

ME105/505 Cross-Cultural Ministry

• Cross-Cultural Connections
• Ministering Cross-Culturally
• Cross-Cultural Conflict

NT102 Acts & Pauline Epistles

• An Introduction to the New Testament

NT506 Introduction to NT Christology

• Please check the course syllabus

OT102/502 Prophets

• The Message of the Prophets

PM102 Pastoral Care & Counseling

• Basic Types of and Pastoral Care and Counseling
• Pastoral Care and Counseling, Redefining the Paradigms
• Dictionary of Pastoral Care and Counseling (DPCC)
• The skilled helper (p.106-120)
• Trauma and Recovery (p. 33-95) (ask the librarian)
• Hope in pastoral care and counseling
• The wounded healer; ministry in contemporary society
• On Death and Dying (p. 51-146) (ask the librarian)
• St. Gregory the Great, Pastoral Care (p. 23-88) (ask the librarian)

PM103 Leadership & Administration

• Spiritual Leadership: Moving People on to God's Agenda
• Being Leaders: The Nature of Authentic Christian Leadership
• Practicing Greatness: 7 Disciplines of Extraordinary Spiritual Leaders

PM501 Spiritual Formation of a Christian Leader

• Desiring God’s Will
• Surrender to Love
• How people change
• Renovation of the Heart : Putting on the Character of Christ

PM503 Team Building

• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
• Teams That Thrive : Five Disciplines of Collaborative Church Leadership
• Leader-Coach. Developing Effective Ministry Teams

PM505 Peacebuilding

• Building Peace
• Working with conflict : skills and strategies for action (2023)
• The combat trauma healing manual : Christ-centered solutions for combat trauma (2023 - Please ask the librarian)

PM508 Approach in Leadership

• Lead Like Jesus Revisited
• Jesus on Leadership

PR102 Expository Preaching

• Biblical Preaching: The Development and Delivery of Expository Messages
• Christ-centered preaching: redeeming the expository sermon
• Preaching with Cultural Intelligence
• The Four Pages of the Sermon, Revised and Updated (Proquest)
• The Four Pages of the Sermon (Archive.org) 1999 version
• The Power of Multi-Sensory Preaching and Teaching

PT101 Apologetics

• Mere Apologetics : how to help seekers and skeptics find faith

PT102/502B Faith and Science

• Science and Faith: A New Introduction (2023)

RM02 Research Methodology II

• A Manual for Writers of Research Papers
• An introduction to theological research: A guide for college and seminary students
• Research Design by John W. Creswell
• Qualitative research : a guide to design and implementation
• Constructing grounded theory : a practical guide through qualitative analysis
• American Psychological Association.
• Exploring Research
• Statistics for people who (think they) hate statistics
• Interpreting basic statistics

ST102 Doctrine of God & Man

• The Forgotten Trinity
• Loving God with All Your Mind (2023)
• Systematic Theology

ST108/506 Evangelicals and Postmodernism

• Postmodernism 101
• Another Gospel 
• Understanding Postmodernism : A Christian Perspective
• Postmodern Times: A Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture (2023)

BG103: Introduction to Greek Exegesis

• Please check the course syllabus

BH103: Intro to OT Exegisis (Hebrew III)

• Beginning Biblical Hebrew
• The Art of Biblical Poetry
• Jewish Bible : A JPS Guide

CH103 History III: Early Modern Church History/ CH503 Global Church in History

• The next Christendom: the coming of global Christianity
• The Lost History of Christianity
• Untold Story of the New Testament Church
• The Emergence of the Church: Context, Growth, Leadership & Worship
• History of the World Christian Movement: Earliest Christianity to 1453
• A Global History of Christians: How Everyday Believers Experienced Their World
• A History in Asia, V. 1: Beginnings to 1500
• The Church of the East: Apostolic & Orthodox (Please ask the librarian)
• The Church of the East edited by John Holzmann (Ask the librarian)

EM103: Effective Teaching and Learning

• The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life (Proquest - unlimited access)
• Teaching to Change Lives: Seven Proven Ways to Make Your Teaching Come Alive
• Teaching to Change Lives (Archive.org)
• Teaching Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Learning and Teaching
• The Craft of Christian Teaching: Essentials for Becoming a Very Good Teacher
• Creative Teaching Methods (Proquest - unlimited access)
• Creative Teaching Methods: Be an Effective Christian Teacher  (Archive.org)
•  Adult learning : linking theory and practice (Proquest - unlimited access)
•  Adult learning: Linking Theory and practice (Archive.org)

ET101/501 Ethics & Social Issues

• Evangelical Ethics

ME106/506 Evangelical Theology & World Religions

• Understanding World Religions
• Can Evangelicals Learn From World Religions?

ME108/508 Evangelism & Church Planting

• The Master Plan of Evangelism (unlimited version)
• The Master Plan of Evangelism
• Global Church Planting
• Global Church Planting (unlimited version)

ME500: Role of Spiritual Warfare in Christian Life and Ministry

• The Steps to Freedom in Christ. 3rd edition (Archive.org)
• 3 Crucial Questions about Spiritual Warfare
• Deep Wounds, Deep Healing (Archive.org)
• Letting God Be Judge - Ask the librarian (Archive.org)

NT103 NT Theology

• Please check the course syllabus

OT103B Wisdom Books/ OT503 Wealth and Poverty in Wisdom Books

• Old Testament Wisdom Literature : A Theological Introduction
• An Introduction to Wisdom Literature: The Wisdom of Proverbs, Job & Ecclesiastes.
• Social and Economic Life in Second Temple Judea
• Interpreting the Wisdom Books : An Exegetical Handbook

PM103 Leadership & Administration

• Spiritual Leadership: Moving People on to God's Agenda
• Being Leaders: The Nature of Authentic Christian Leadership
• Practicing Greatness: 7 Disciplines of Extraordinary Spiritual Leaders

PM106 Presbyterian Polity

• Book of Order - The Constitution of. the Presbyterian Church (U.SA.), Part II
• Presbyterian Polity for Church Leaders

PM503: Building and Working with Teams 

• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
• Teams That Thrive : Five Disciplines of Collaborative Church Leadership
• Leader-Coach. Developing Effective Ministry Teams

PM504 Mentoring

• Mentoring: Confidence in Finding a Mentor and Becoming One
• Connecting: The Mentoring Relationships You Need To Succeed in Life
• The Mentor Handbook—Detailed Guidelines and Helps for Christian Mentors and Mentorees.

PR103 Senior Preaching

• Between two worlds : the art of preaching in the twentieth century (1982)
• Models for Biblical Preaching, Expository Sermons from the Old Testament (2014)
• Handbook of Contemporary Preaching (1992)
• Design for Preaching (1958)
• Prophetic Preaching: A Pastoral Approach
• Postcolonial Preaching: Creating a Ripple Effect (Please ask the librarian)

PT102 Apologetics

• Mere apologetics : how to help seekers and skeptics find faith
• Humble Apologetics : Defending the Faith Today (DMin and ThM only)

RM02 Research Methodology II

• A Manual for Writers of Research Papers
• An introduction to theological research: A guide for college and seminary students
• Research Design by John W. Creswell
• Qualitative research : a guide to design and implementation
• Constructing grounded theory : a practical guide through qualitative analysis

ST103 Doctrine of Christ & Salvation

• The Case for the Real Jesus
• Free Grace Theology (2022)
• Systematic Theology

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