9 articles.
Leadership & Pastoral Ministry Expository preaching is a central function and practice of the Christian ministry because it is through the proclamation of the Word that God reveals Himself to the world, saves His people, and ordains them to service for His glory. It is God's appointed means by which He makes Himself known. Therefore, a systematic theology of preaching must not begin with those who exposit the Scriptures or those who hear the message, but with God Himself, who speaks, saves, and sanctifies through His written and spoken Word.
October 25, 2025 ⏱ 9 min read draft
Evangelism & Discipleship Regarding evangelism and its Message, Charles Spurgeon declared, "If a man is to be used as a winner of souls, he must have spiritual life to a high degree… When the Holy Spirit dwells within a living child of God, He later rises out of the very midst of Him as a fountain or a river, so that others may come and participate in the Spirit's gracious influences." Spurgeon's declaration is best noticed in the life of Jesus, who possesses this spiritual life to the utmost degree and "serves as a model evangelist." Furthermore, the latter part of Spurgeon's quote demonstrates the perpetuation of the Gospel in that Jesus personally evangelized His disciples first to save them and then to make them "fishers of men." These followers, empowered by the Holy Spirit they received at Pentecost, are mimickers of Christ's evangelistic endeavors insofar that they would go on to evangelize the entire world.
August 31, 2024 ⏱ 9 min read draft
Evangelism & Discipleship As defined in the book Invitation to Evangelism: Sharing the Gospel with Compassion and Conviction by Timothy K. Beougher, Evangelism is "the compassionate sharing of the [G]ood [N]ews of Jesus Christ with lost people, in the power of the Holy Spirit, for the purpose of bringing them to Christ as Savior and Lord, that they in turn might share [H]im with others." The spirit of evangelism is compassion, the method is sharing, the content is Good News, the recipients are lost people, the power is the Holy Spirit, the purpose is to bring them to Christ as Savior and Lord, and the perpetuation is that they might win others to Christ.
August 24, 2024 ⏱ 4 min read draft
Missiology & Evangelism A short video on missions alongside its transcript
December 1, 2023 ⏱ 4 min read draft
Missiology & Evangelism Coming into this assignment, and even previously in my Christian walk, I had never shared the Gospel with a stranger. I had plenty of experience talking about Jesus with my friends, family, and my peers, but the thought of approaching someone I did not know and sharing Jesus with them often left my stomach in knots. This assignment has helped tremendously to show that evangelism does not have to be scary.
November 4, 2023 ⏱ 3 min read draft
Biographies Gisbertus Voetius, a pioneer in terms of Protestant missiology and a Dutch Reformed theologian, served the Lord on this Earth from 1589-1676. He was a minister, theologian, and professor during a vital time in European Christianity called the Dutch Second Reformation or Further Reformation, a continuation of the Protestant Reformation in the Netherlands. Voetius was the first Protestant theologian to write a complete, comprehensive missiological work.
September 16, 2023 ⏱ 10 min read draft
Book Reviews While this helpful book on missions was written by many authors, it was edited by David Mathis and John Piper. Mathis is the executive director of Desiring God and serves as an elder at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Twin Cities, Minnesota. He earned his degree from Furman University and, at the time this book was published, was completing a degree at Reformed Theological Seminary.
March 9, 2023 ⏱ 8 min read draft
Missiology & Evangelism Before Jesus ascended to the right hand of God, He said something significant to His disciples: "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age" (Matt. 28:19-20). This exhortation is what Christians call the Great Commission, and the profound statement that follows it is what Christians depend on to accomplish the Great Commission.
March 4, 2023 ⏱ 11 min read draft
Missiology & Evangelism A strategy reaction paper on the reading above.
February 5, 2023 ⏱ 1 min read draft