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Writing: the activity or skill of making coherent words on paper and composing text. As in all forms of creativity, art takes many forms, and writing, in some forms, is something I really enjoy. Academic writing wasn’t one that I sought out but it was that was given to me by the sake of being in a seminary. Scholarly work is sometimes a mystery, even to those doing the writing, but over time you learn to refine the skills needed. I decided as much for myself as anything else to do a general list of my writing here. I make no claims as to its academic quality except that it takes a lot of effort and time. I welcome comments on any of the PDF’s below. Most of the essays and reviews below are completed works tuned in for review by professors in each field, but some of it is just personal writing like a few poems.

I think writing is becoming a lost art in our culture today. And while I don’t claim to be a “writer” of any published work, I do like to write, and try to write every day. If I am not writing here in my blog I am writing in a journal which I have kept now (and am converting all of it to a digital medium) for years. Regardless whether your writing is perfect or full of grammatical errors, I have found that it becomes priceless as time goes by and memories fade.

For thousands of years, writing has been the form and means of communication between cultures and generations. Today, that medium has changed, or is rapidly changing, to a form of communication of images, not words. As this happens, we read less, write less, and further distance ourselves from the method of communication that was vital to all generations prior to our own. We may be perfectly comfortable with our medium of high def video and perfect audio, but something is always lost in translation. In the exact same way we take a book and turn it into a movie, we lose something, sometimes a great deal. The original message is presented to us in a readers digest form, and the details of the original work are lost.

I am far far from the best reader or the best writer, but I think it is vitally important for our generation and the generations to come to embrace the art of words before symbols on a page, written in full sentences, full detailed thoughts placed there for us to read, becomes an unknown language.

For posts related to seminary work see articles with the tag of LBTS.

Essays and Research Papers

• Augustine and the Doctrine of Original Sin
• Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, Historical Look at It’s Preachability in the 21st Century
• The Synoptic Problem: a Basic Overview of the Synoptic Problem
• Essay Commentary on Romans 12:1-2 and Ephesians 4:17-20
• Spiritual Formation, Living a Life of Discipline
• Define Discipleship in the Post-Modern Culture
• Education and Growth in Discipleship
• The Message of a Disciple-Maker
• Reflection on Religious Pluralism
• Making Disciples in the Modern Church
• How God Organizes People for Effective Action
• 1 Corinthians 12:4-6 Equipping Believers for Ministry and Discipleship
• Interview with Several Pastors in Current Ministry Work
• Discipleship Programs in the Church Today
• The Reformation Defined in Brief
• Position and Argument on the Inerrancy of the Bible
• The Attributes of God: Analysis on the Basic Dimensions of God’s Love
• Put off Flesh, Put on Christ: Colossians 3:5–16
• Mission Theology and the Nature of God
• Unreached People Group Assessment: Swahili of Uganda
• Church Administration Assessment
• Evangelism and Church Growth Assessment
• An Overview of the Work of Christ: Did Jesus Descend into Hell After the Crucifixion
• The Pericope Adulterae: An Exegetical Examination of the Canonicity and Meaning of John 7:53-8:11
• Heavenly Wisdom vs Earthly Wisdom :: James 3:13-18

Critical Reviews

• Book Review: Augustine of Hippo, (Peter Brown)
• Book Review: Jonathan Edwards: A Life (George M. Marsden)
• Theological Education in the Twenty-first Century, Markham (1992)
• God’s Attributes as God’s Clarities: Wolf Krötke Doctrine of the Divine Attributes (2008)
• Book Review: Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament (Christopher J. H. Wright)
• Book Critique of Reflections on the Psalms by C. S. Lewis
• Book Critique of The Unexpected Journey: Converstions with People Who Turned From Other Beliefs to Jesus by Thomas Rainer
• Book Critique of The Necessity of Prayer by E.M. Bounds
• Book Critique of Four Views on Hell by Walvoord
• Book Critique of How to Read the Bible For All Its Worth
• Learning Theory Systems and How They Aid in Preparing Lessons

Poetry

• Spring is Coming to Zion
• The Spirit Phaneroō in Tiberias
• Ode to Pachelbel Canon in D
• Of Hebrew from Alef to Taw

Various Writings by Other Authors

• Ash Wednesday by T.S. Eliot (poem)
• The Valley of Vision (poem)
• Forensic Science and the Charles Manson Murders: Advancements in Forensic Technologies (by Deborah Fillmer)
• The I AM Lenten Reader (20mb file size)
• The All Things New Lenten Reader (5mb file size)

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