Experience

Publications

• Controlled but Not Controlling: Leading with Self-Control

  Palgrave MacMillan

  Contemporary leadership contexts are rife with stress, competitiveness, and demanding expectations. These contexts litter the newsfeed with examples of leaders who have lost control either in their professional or personal lives. Genesis provides the story of Joseph and his inimitable degree of self-control in the presence of those who have forgotten and forsaken him. Out of this study of mastering, curbing, and restraining one’s desires and passions one might wrongly deduce that self-control limits freedom. However, the study of ancient material suggests just the opposite – that it is out of freedom that the most effective self-control is cultivated. This then begins to explain an aspect of the effective leadership characterized by Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, and police officers.

• Controlled but Not Controlling: Leading with Self-Control

  Palgrave MacMillan

  Contemporary leadership contexts are rife with stress, competitiveness, and demanding expectations. These contexts litter the newsfeed with examples of leaders who have lost control either in their professional or personal lives. Genesis provides the story of Joseph and his inimitable degree of self-control in the presence of those who have forgotten and forsaken him. Out of this study of mastering, curbing, and restraining one’s desires and passions one might wrongly deduce that self-control limits freedom. However, the study of ancient material suggests just the opposite – that it is out of freedom that the most effective self-control is cultivated. This then begins to explain an aspect of the effective leadership characterized by Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, and police officers.

• What is Christmas Really?

  Life and Leisure, NJ

  A seasonal article in a community paper examining the biblical basis and meaning of Christmas. Republished annually since 2004.

• Controlled but Not Controlling: Leading with Self-Control

  Palgrave MacMillan

  Contemporary leadership contexts are rife with stress, competitiveness, and demanding expectations. These contexts litter the newsfeed with examples of leaders who have lost control either in their professional or personal lives. Genesis provides the story of Joseph and his inimitable degree of self-control in the presence of those who have forgotten and forsaken him. Out of this study of mastering, curbing, and restraining one’s desires and passions one might wrongly deduce that self-control limits freedom. However, the study of ancient material suggests just the opposite – that it is out of freedom that the most effective self-control is cultivated. This then begins to explain an aspect of the effective leadership characterized by Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, and police officers.

• What is Christmas Really?

  Life and Leisure, NJ

  A seasonal article in a community paper examining the biblical basis and meaning of Christmas. Republished annually since 2004.

• A Trinitarian Leadership Model: Insights from the Apostle Peter

  Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

  The integration of biblical principles with leadership theory has proven a monumental undertaking. Can such principles actually guide Christian leaders even though they are sometimes in tension with current concepts of leadership? It might seem like a difficult balance to achieve. However, by delving into Peter's basic and presuppositional commitments, a clear picture of biblical leadership emerged. Using 1 Peter 5 as the investigative platform, thorough analysis revealed a Trinitarian belief structure underpinning Peter's concept of leadership. Significantly, the transition from simple fisherman to apostle demonstrated a radical transformation in both thought and application of leadership principles. Ultimately, a precise understanding of God's eternal character forms the bridge between theology and leadership theory, offering a glimpse of Trinitarian leadership as a paradigm for future study.

• Controlled but Not Controlling: Leading with Self-Control

  Palgrave MacMillan

  Contemporary leadership contexts are rife with stress, competitiveness, and demanding expectations. These contexts litter the newsfeed with examples of leaders who have lost control either in their professional or personal lives. Genesis provides the story of Joseph and his inimitable degree of self-control in the presence of those who have forgotten and forsaken him. Out of this study of mastering, curbing, and restraining one’s desires and passions one might wrongly deduce that self-control limits freedom. However, the study of ancient material suggests just the opposite – that it is out of freedom that the most effective self-control is cultivated. This then begins to explain an aspect of the effective leadership characterized by Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, and police officers.

• What is Christmas Really?

  Life and Leisure, NJ

  A seasonal article in a community paper examining the biblical basis and meaning of Christmas. Republished annually since 2004.

• A Trinitarian Leadership Model: Insights from the Apostle Peter

  Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

  The integration of biblical principles with leadership theory has proven a monumental undertaking. Can such principles actually guide Christian leaders even though they are sometimes in tension with current concepts of leadership? It might seem like a difficult balance to achieve. However, by delving into Peter's basic and presuppositional commitments, a clear picture of biblical leadership emerged. Using 1 Peter 5 as the investigative platform, thorough analysis revealed a Trinitarian belief structure underpinning Peter's concept of leadership. Significantly, the transition from simple fisherman to apostle demonstrated a radical transformation in both thought and application of leadership principles. Ultimately, a precise understanding of God's eternal character forms the bridge between theology and leadership theory, offering a glimpse of Trinitarian leadership as a paradigm for future study.

• When Servant Leadership Fails: The Importance of Values

  Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership

• Controlled but Not Controlling: Leading with Self-Control

  Palgrave MacMillan

  Contemporary leadership contexts are rife with stress, competitiveness, and demanding expectations. These contexts litter the newsfeed with examples of leaders who have lost control either in their professional or personal lives. Genesis provides the story of Joseph and his inimitable degree of self-control in the presence of those who have forgotten and forsaken him. Out of this study of mastering, curbing, and restraining one’s desires and passions one might wrongly deduce that self-control limits freedom. However, the study of ancient material suggests just the opposite – that it is out of freedom that the most effective self-control is cultivated. This then begins to explain an aspect of the effective leadership characterized by Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, and police officers.

• What is Christmas Really?

  Life and Leisure, NJ

  A seasonal article in a community paper examining the biblical basis and meaning of Christmas. Republished annually since 2004.

• A Trinitarian Leadership Model: Insights from the Apostle Peter

  Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

  The integration of biblical principles with leadership theory has proven a monumental undertaking. Can such principles actually guide Christian leaders even though they are sometimes in tension with current concepts of leadership? It might seem like a difficult balance to achieve. However, by delving into Peter's basic and presuppositional commitments, a clear picture of biblical leadership emerged. Using 1 Peter 5 as the investigative platform, thorough analysis revealed a Trinitarian belief structure underpinning Peter's concept of leadership. Significantly, the transition from simple fisherman to apostle demonstrated a radical transformation in both thought and application of leadership principles. Ultimately, a precise understanding of God's eternal character forms the bridge between theology and leadership theory, offering a glimpse of Trinitarian leadership as a paradigm for future study.

• When Servant Leadership Fails: The Importance of Values

  Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership

• Acknowledging Our Sin: A Protestant Confessional

  Ecumenical Trends

  Protestants disobey James 5:16. With that as a backdrop, this article seeks to identify a path to obey this command that is uniquely Protestant while drawing upon the history of Catholic and Orthodox branches of Christianity. A brief history of confession within the Catholic branch of Christianity is explored up until the Reformation. Then, a Protestant view of confession is discussed. Included are the questions of absolution, whether justified people need confession, and the contemporary Protestant method of accountability as a form of confession. The article continues by sketching a theology of confession that recognizes confession’s role in bringing sin to light, defining sin, highlighting sin’s destructiveness to relationships, and the future hope that is obtained through forgiveness. A Protestant form of confession is recommended with a description of how each step might take form within a Protestant context. Received Honorable Mention (Best Essay: Professional and Special Interest Magazines including Clergy and Religious), 2014.

• Controlled but Not Controlling: Leading with Self-Control

  Palgrave MacMillan

  Contemporary leadership contexts are rife with stress, competitiveness, and demanding expectations. These contexts litter the newsfeed with examples of leaders who have lost control either in their professional or personal lives. Genesis provides the story of Joseph and his inimitable degree of self-control in the presence of those who have forgotten and forsaken him. Out of this study of mastering, curbing, and restraining one’s desires and passions one might wrongly deduce that self-control limits freedom. However, the study of ancient material suggests just the opposite – that it is out of freedom that the most effective self-control is cultivated. This then begins to explain an aspect of the effective leadership characterized by Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, and police officers.

• What is Christmas Really?

  Life and Leisure, NJ

  A seasonal article in a community paper examining the biblical basis and meaning of Christmas. Republished annually since 2004.

• A Trinitarian Leadership Model: Insights from the Apostle Peter

  Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

  The integration of biblical principles with leadership theory has proven a monumental undertaking. Can such principles actually guide Christian leaders even though they are sometimes in tension with current concepts of leadership? It might seem like a difficult balance to achieve. However, by delving into Peter's basic and presuppositional commitments, a clear picture of biblical leadership emerged. Using 1 Peter 5 as the investigative platform, thorough analysis revealed a Trinitarian belief structure underpinning Peter's concept of leadership. Significantly, the transition from simple fisherman to apostle demonstrated a radical transformation in both thought and application of leadership principles. Ultimately, a precise understanding of God's eternal character forms the bridge between theology and leadership theory, offering a glimpse of Trinitarian leadership as a paradigm for future study.

• When Servant Leadership Fails: The Importance of Values

  Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership

• Acknowledging Our Sin: A Protestant Confessional

  Ecumenical Trends

  Protestants disobey James 5:16. With that as a backdrop, this article seeks to identify a path to obey this command that is uniquely Protestant while drawing upon the history of Catholic and Orthodox branches of Christianity. A brief history of confession within the Catholic branch of Christianity is explored up until the Reformation. Then, a Protestant view of confession is discussed. Included are the questions of absolution, whether justified people need confession, and the contemporary Protestant method of accountability as a form of confession. The article continues by sketching a theology of confession that recognizes confession’s role in bringing sin to light, defining sin, highlighting sin’s destructiveness to relationships, and the future hope that is obtained through forgiveness. A Protestant form of confession is recommended with a description of how each step might take form within a Protestant context. Received Honorable Mention (Best Essay: Professional and Special Interest Magazines including Clergy and Religious), 2014.

• In Search of a Healthy Church: A Meta-Ethnographic Study

  Great Commission Research Journal

  After a brief literature review, eight of the primary contemporary church health resources are subjected to a meta-ethnographic study. The resources’ combined twenty-six health indicators are translated through the meta-themes of organizational structure, developing community, church characteristics, and personal characteristics. A discussion and visual synthesis of the translations point to the church literature developing community through organizational structure which in turn cultivates church and personal characteristics. Future research recommendations include expanding the study of church metaphors beyond “body” and identifying metaphor-speciWc characteristics through exegetical study.

• Controlled but Not Controlling: Leading with Self-Control

  Palgrave MacMillan

  Contemporary leadership contexts are rife with stress, competitiveness, and demanding expectations. These contexts litter the newsfeed with examples of leaders who have lost control either in their professional or personal lives. Genesis provides the story of Joseph and his inimitable degree of self-control in the presence of those who have forgotten and forsaken him. Out of this study of mastering, curbing, and restraining one’s desires and passions one might wrongly deduce that self-control limits freedom. However, the study of ancient material suggests just the opposite – that it is out of freedom that the most effective self-control is cultivated. This then begins to explain an aspect of the effective leadership characterized by Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, and police officers.

• What is Christmas Really?

  Life and Leisure, NJ

  A seasonal article in a community paper examining the biblical basis and meaning of Christmas. Republished annually since 2004.

• A Trinitarian Leadership Model: Insights from the Apostle Peter

  Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

  The integration of biblical principles with leadership theory has proven a monumental undertaking. Can such principles actually guide Christian leaders even though they are sometimes in tension with current concepts of leadership? It might seem like a difficult balance to achieve. However, by delving into Peter's basic and presuppositional commitments, a clear picture of biblical leadership emerged. Using 1 Peter 5 as the investigative platform, thorough analysis revealed a Trinitarian belief structure underpinning Peter's concept of leadership. Significantly, the transition from simple fisherman to apostle demonstrated a radical transformation in both thought and application of leadership principles. Ultimately, a precise understanding of God's eternal character forms the bridge between theology and leadership theory, offering a glimpse of Trinitarian leadership as a paradigm for future study.

• When Servant Leadership Fails: The Importance of Values

  Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership

• Acknowledging Our Sin: A Protestant Confessional

  Ecumenical Trends

  Protestants disobey James 5:16. With that as a backdrop, this article seeks to identify a path to obey this command that is uniquely Protestant while drawing upon the history of Catholic and Orthodox branches of Christianity. A brief history of confession within the Catholic branch of Christianity is explored up until the Reformation. Then, a Protestant view of confession is discussed. Included are the questions of absolution, whether justified people need confession, and the contemporary Protestant method of accountability as a form of confession. The article continues by sketching a theology of confession that recognizes confession’s role in bringing sin to light, defining sin, highlighting sin’s destructiveness to relationships, and the future hope that is obtained through forgiveness. A Protestant form of confession is recommended with a description of how each step might take form within a Protestant context. Received Honorable Mention (Best Essay: Professional and Special Interest Magazines including Clergy and Religious), 2014.

• In Search of a Healthy Church: A Meta-Ethnographic Study

  Great Commission Research Journal

  After a brief literature review, eight of the primary contemporary church health resources are subjected to a meta-ethnographic study. The resources’ combined twenty-six health indicators are translated through the meta-themes of organizational structure, developing community, church characteristics, and personal characteristics. A discussion and visual synthesis of the translations point to the church literature developing community through organizational structure which in turn cultivates church and personal characteristics. Future research recommendations include expanding the study of church metaphors beyond “body” and identifying metaphor-speciWc characteristics through exegetical study.

• Who's Controlling Locus of Control?: Cross-Cultural LOC Usage

  International Journal of Leadership Studies

  Rotter’s Internal-External Locus of Control scale has been broadly used in both American contexts as well as in other cultures around the world. A review of the research that first transitioned this scale into other cultures shows a number of significant validity and reliability threats. Given that many more recent studies have based their validity and reliability on these earlier studies, it is important to understand the threats that existed so current research can strengthen the validity and reliability of this important scale across other cultures. Recommendations for various forms of validity and reliability are provided.

• Controlled but Not Controlling: Leading with Self-Control

  Palgrave MacMillan

  Contemporary leadership contexts are rife with stress, competitiveness, and demanding expectations. These contexts litter the newsfeed with examples of leaders who have lost control either in their professional or personal lives. Genesis provides the story of Joseph and his inimitable degree of self-control in the presence of those who have forgotten and forsaken him. Out of this study of mastering, curbing, and restraining one’s desires and passions one might wrongly deduce that self-control limits freedom. However, the study of ancient material suggests just the opposite – that it is out of freedom that the most effective self-control is cultivated. This then begins to explain an aspect of the effective leadership characterized by Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, and police officers.

• What is Christmas Really?

  Life and Leisure, NJ

  A seasonal article in a community paper examining the biblical basis and meaning of Christmas. Republished annually since 2004.

• A Trinitarian Leadership Model: Insights from the Apostle Peter

  Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

  The integration of biblical principles with leadership theory has proven a monumental undertaking. Can such principles actually guide Christian leaders even though they are sometimes in tension with current concepts of leadership? It might seem like a difficult balance to achieve. However, by delving into Peter's basic and presuppositional commitments, a clear picture of biblical leadership emerged. Using 1 Peter 5 as the investigative platform, thorough analysis revealed a Trinitarian belief structure underpinning Peter's concept of leadership. Significantly, the transition from simple fisherman to apostle demonstrated a radical transformation in both thought and application of leadership principles. Ultimately, a precise understanding of God's eternal character forms the bridge between theology and leadership theory, offering a glimpse of Trinitarian leadership as a paradigm for future study.

• When Servant Leadership Fails: The Importance of Values

  Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership

• Acknowledging Our Sin: A Protestant Confessional

  Ecumenical Trends

  Protestants disobey James 5:16. With that as a backdrop, this article seeks to identify a path to obey this command that is uniquely Protestant while drawing upon the history of Catholic and Orthodox branches of Christianity. A brief history of confession within the Catholic branch of Christianity is explored up until the Reformation. Then, a Protestant view of confession is discussed. Included are the questions of absolution, whether justified people need confession, and the contemporary Protestant method of accountability as a form of confession. The article continues by sketching a theology of confession that recognizes confession’s role in bringing sin to light, defining sin, highlighting sin’s destructiveness to relationships, and the future hope that is obtained through forgiveness. A Protestant form of confession is recommended with a description of how each step might take form within a Protestant context. Received Honorable Mention (Best Essay: Professional and Special Interest Magazines including Clergy and Religious), 2014.

• In Search of a Healthy Church: A Meta-Ethnographic Study

  Great Commission Research Journal

  After a brief literature review, eight of the primary contemporary church health resources are subjected to a meta-ethnographic study. The resources’ combined twenty-six health indicators are translated through the meta-themes of organizational structure, developing community, church characteristics, and personal characteristics. A discussion and visual synthesis of the translations point to the church literature developing community through organizational structure which in turn cultivates church and personal characteristics. Future research recommendations include expanding the study of church metaphors beyond “body” and identifying metaphor-speciWc characteristics through exegetical study.

• Who's Controlling Locus of Control?: Cross-Cultural LOC Usage

  International Journal of Leadership Studies

  Rotter’s Internal-External Locus of Control scale has been broadly used in both American contexts as well as in other cultures around the world. A review of the research that first transitioned this scale into other cultures shows a number of significant validity and reliability threats. Given that many more recent studies have based their validity and reliability on these earlier studies, it is important to understand the threats that existed so current research can strengthen the validity and reliability of this important scale across other cultures. Recommendations for various forms of validity and reliability are provided.

• Apprentices or Pupils? An Analysis of Teaching in the New Testament

  Evangelical Review of Theology

  This research uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to determine the emphasis of apprentice—based or pupil—based teaching in early Christian follower development. The quantitative analysis bases its results on domain of meaning words that are associated with the Greek word for teaching, didasko. The quantitative results suggested an emphasis towards apprenticeship. The qualitative analysis is based on human coder results. The results also tended to emphasize an apprenticeship model. This shift in meaning has impact on the development of followers and leaders in the church, Christian education, and disciple—making methods.

• Controlled but Not Controlling: Leading with Self-Control

  Palgrave MacMillan

  Contemporary leadership contexts are rife with stress, competitiveness, and demanding expectations. These contexts litter the newsfeed with examples of leaders who have lost control either in their professional or personal lives. Genesis provides the story of Joseph and his inimitable degree of self-control in the presence of those who have forgotten and forsaken him. Out of this study of mastering, curbing, and restraining one’s desires and passions one might wrongly deduce that self-control limits freedom. However, the study of ancient material suggests just the opposite – that it is out of freedom that the most effective self-control is cultivated. This then begins to explain an aspect of the effective leadership characterized by Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, and police officers.

• What is Christmas Really?

  Life and Leisure, NJ

  A seasonal article in a community paper examining the biblical basis and meaning of Christmas. Republished annually since 2004.

• A Trinitarian Leadership Model: Insights from the Apostle Peter

  Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

  The integration of biblical principles with leadership theory has proven a monumental undertaking. Can such principles actually guide Christian leaders even though they are sometimes in tension with current concepts of leadership? It might seem like a difficult balance to achieve. However, by delving into Peter's basic and presuppositional commitments, a clear picture of biblical leadership emerged. Using 1 Peter 5 as the investigative platform, thorough analysis revealed a Trinitarian belief structure underpinning Peter's concept of leadership. Significantly, the transition from simple fisherman to apostle demonstrated a radical transformation in both thought and application of leadership principles. Ultimately, a precise understanding of God's eternal character forms the bridge between theology and leadership theory, offering a glimpse of Trinitarian leadership as a paradigm for future study.

• When Servant Leadership Fails: The Importance of Values

  Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership

• Acknowledging Our Sin: A Protestant Confessional

  Ecumenical Trends

  Protestants disobey James 5:16. With that as a backdrop, this article seeks to identify a path to obey this command that is uniquely Protestant while drawing upon the history of Catholic and Orthodox branches of Christianity. A brief history of confession within the Catholic branch of Christianity is explored up until the Reformation. Then, a Protestant view of confession is discussed. Included are the questions of absolution, whether justified people need confession, and the contemporary Protestant method of accountability as a form of confession. The article continues by sketching a theology of confession that recognizes confession’s role in bringing sin to light, defining sin, highlighting sin’s destructiveness to relationships, and the future hope that is obtained through forgiveness. A Protestant form of confession is recommended with a description of how each step might take form within a Protestant context. Received Honorable Mention (Best Essay: Professional and Special Interest Magazines including Clergy and Religious), 2014.

• In Search of a Healthy Church: A Meta-Ethnographic Study

  Great Commission Research Journal

  After a brief literature review, eight of the primary contemporary church health resources are subjected to a meta-ethnographic study. The resources’ combined twenty-six health indicators are translated through the meta-themes of organizational structure, developing community, church characteristics, and personal characteristics. A discussion and visual synthesis of the translations point to the church literature developing community through organizational structure which in turn cultivates church and personal characteristics. Future research recommendations include expanding the study of church metaphors beyond “body” and identifying metaphor-speciWc characteristics through exegetical study.

• Who's Controlling Locus of Control?: Cross-Cultural LOC Usage

  International Journal of Leadership Studies

  Rotter’s Internal-External Locus of Control scale has been broadly used in both American contexts as well as in other cultures around the world. A review of the research that first transitioned this scale into other cultures shows a number of significant validity and reliability threats. Given that many more recent studies have based their validity and reliability on these earlier studies, it is important to understand the threats that existed so current research can strengthen the validity and reliability of this important scale across other cultures. Recommendations for various forms of validity and reliability are provided.

• Apprentices or Pupils? An Analysis of Teaching in the New Testament

  Evangelical Review of Theology

  This research uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to determine the emphasis of apprentice—based or pupil—based teaching in early Christian follower development. The quantitative analysis bases its results on domain of meaning words that are associated with the Greek word for teaching, didasko. The quantitative results suggested an emphasis towards apprenticeship. The qualitative analysis is based on human coder results. The results also tended to emphasize an apprenticeship model. This shift in meaning has impact on the development of followers and leaders in the church, Christian education, and disciple—making methods.

• Unusual Power: Leading with Gentleness

  Palgrave MacMillan

  While gentleness is not typically on a list of leadership characteristics, we can see from the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday that the concept of a gentle leader has both Old and New Testament roots. This chapter will analyze this type of gentle leadership that is able to flourish in the midst of resistance and injustice while finding leniency in the midst of judgment. The contemporary model of Social Power Base Theory provides a framework for applying these ancient insights to contemporary leaders. It is out of this comparison that not only a more fascinating understanding of biblical gentleness is seen but also how gentleness becomes exemplified by the cultural desire to see gentleness that offsets stern laws.

• Controlled but Not Controlling: Leading with Self-Control

  Palgrave MacMillan

  Contemporary leadership contexts are rife with stress, competitiveness, and demanding expectations. These contexts litter the newsfeed with examples of leaders who have lost control either in their professional or personal lives. Genesis provides the story of Joseph and his inimitable degree of self-control in the presence of those who have forgotten and forsaken him. Out of this study of mastering, curbing, and restraining one’s desires and passions one might wrongly deduce that self-control limits freedom. However, the study of ancient material suggests just the opposite – that it is out of freedom that the most effective self-control is cultivated. This then begins to explain an aspect of the effective leadership characterized by Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, and police officers.

• What is Christmas Really?

  Life and Leisure, NJ

  A seasonal article in a community paper examining the biblical basis and meaning of Christmas. Republished annually since 2004.

• A Trinitarian Leadership Model: Insights from the Apostle Peter

  Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

  The integration of biblical principles with leadership theory has proven a monumental undertaking. Can such principles actually guide Christian leaders even though they are sometimes in tension with current concepts of leadership? It might seem like a difficult balance to achieve. However, by delving into Peter's basic and presuppositional commitments, a clear picture of biblical leadership emerged. Using 1 Peter 5 as the investigative platform, thorough analysis revealed a Trinitarian belief structure underpinning Peter's concept of leadership. Significantly, the transition from simple fisherman to apostle demonstrated a radical transformation in both thought and application of leadership principles. Ultimately, a precise understanding of God's eternal character forms the bridge between theology and leadership theory, offering a glimpse of Trinitarian leadership as a paradigm for future study.

• When Servant Leadership Fails: The Importance of Values

  Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership

• Acknowledging Our Sin: A Protestant Confessional

  Ecumenical Trends

  Protestants disobey James 5:16. With that as a backdrop, this article seeks to identify a path to obey this command that is uniquely Protestant while drawing upon the history of Catholic and Orthodox branches of Christianity. A brief history of confession within the Catholic branch of Christianity is explored up until the Reformation. Then, a Protestant view of confession is discussed. Included are the questions of absolution, whether justified people need confession, and the contemporary Protestant method of accountability as a form of confession. The article continues by sketching a theology of confession that recognizes confession’s role in bringing sin to light, defining sin, highlighting sin’s destructiveness to relationships, and the future hope that is obtained through forgiveness. A Protestant form of confession is recommended with a description of how each step might take form within a Protestant context. Received Honorable Mention (Best Essay: Professional and Special Interest Magazines including Clergy and Religious), 2014.

• In Search of a Healthy Church: A Meta-Ethnographic Study

  Great Commission Research Journal

  After a brief literature review, eight of the primary contemporary church health resources are subjected to a meta-ethnographic study. The resources’ combined twenty-six health indicators are translated through the meta-themes of organizational structure, developing community, church characteristics, and personal characteristics. A discussion and visual synthesis of the translations point to the church literature developing community through organizational structure which in turn cultivates church and personal characteristics. Future research recommendations include expanding the study of church metaphors beyond “body” and identifying metaphor-speciWc characteristics through exegetical study.

• Who's Controlling Locus of Control?: Cross-Cultural LOC Usage

  International Journal of Leadership Studies

  Rotter’s Internal-External Locus of Control scale has been broadly used in both American contexts as well as in other cultures around the world. A review of the research that first transitioned this scale into other cultures shows a number of significant validity and reliability threats. Given that many more recent studies have based their validity and reliability on these earlier studies, it is important to understand the threats that existed so current research can strengthen the validity and reliability of this important scale across other cultures. Recommendations for various forms of validity and reliability are provided.

• Apprentices or Pupils? An Analysis of Teaching in the New Testament

  Evangelical Review of Theology

  This research uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to determine the emphasis of apprentice—based or pupil—based teaching in early Christian follower development. The quantitative analysis bases its results on domain of meaning words that are associated with the Greek word for teaching, didasko. The quantitative results suggested an emphasis towards apprenticeship. The qualitative analysis is based on human coder results. The results also tended to emphasize an apprenticeship model. This shift in meaning has impact on the development of followers and leaders in the church, Christian education, and disciple—making methods.

• Unusual Power: Leading with Gentleness

  Palgrave MacMillan

  While gentleness is not typically on a list of leadership characteristics, we can see from the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday that the concept of a gentle leader has both Old and New Testament roots. This chapter will analyze this type of gentle leadership that is able to flourish in the midst of resistance and injustice while finding leniency in the midst of judgment. The contemporary model of Social Power Base Theory provides a framework for applying these ancient insights to contemporary leaders. It is out of this comparison that not only a more fascinating understanding of biblical gentleness is seen but also how gentleness becomes exemplified by the cultural desire to see gentleness that offsets stern laws.

• Including The Perspective Of Christian Leadership: A Review Of The JBPL

  The Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership

  This article contains a scholarly review of the articles published in the Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership (JBPL) from 2006-2011. Each article is summarized with a listing of methodologies and leadership theories that the article interacts with. Four recommendations are made for future publications: (1) encourage the use of recognized qualitative research methods rather than a general exegetical approach; (2) encourage the use of inductive data analysis, especially in historical Hebrew and Christian sacred writing, rather than a deductive approach of identifying contemporary approaches in ancient literature; (3) call for papers that seek to add confirmability of theoretical material in modern contexts; and (4) continue to broaden the thematic elements of the journal.

• Controlled but Not Controlling: Leading with Self-Control

  Palgrave MacMillan

  Contemporary leadership contexts are rife with stress, competitiveness, and demanding expectations. These contexts litter the newsfeed with examples of leaders who have lost control either in their professional or personal lives. Genesis provides the story of Joseph and his inimitable degree of self-control in the presence of those who have forgotten and forsaken him. Out of this study of mastering, curbing, and restraining one’s desires and passions one might wrongly deduce that self-control limits freedom. However, the study of ancient material suggests just the opposite – that it is out of freedom that the most effective self-control is cultivated. This then begins to explain an aspect of the effective leadership characterized by Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, and police officers.

• What is Christmas Really?

  Life and Leisure, NJ

  A seasonal article in a community paper examining the biblical basis and meaning of Christmas. Republished annually since 2004.

• A Trinitarian Leadership Model: Insights from the Apostle Peter

  Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

  The integration of biblical principles with leadership theory has proven a monumental undertaking. Can such principles actually guide Christian leaders even though they are sometimes in tension with current concepts of leadership? It might seem like a difficult balance to achieve. However, by delving into Peter's basic and presuppositional commitments, a clear picture of biblical leadership emerged. Using 1 Peter 5 as the investigative platform, thorough analysis revealed a Trinitarian belief structure underpinning Peter's concept of leadership. Significantly, the transition from simple fisherman to apostle demonstrated a radical transformation in both thought and application of leadership principles. Ultimately, a precise understanding of God's eternal character forms the bridge between theology and leadership theory, offering a glimpse of Trinitarian leadership as a paradigm for future study.

• When Servant Leadership Fails: The Importance of Values

  Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership

• Acknowledging Our Sin: A Protestant Confessional

  Ecumenical Trends

  Protestants disobey James 5:16. With that as a backdrop, this article seeks to identify a path to obey this command that is uniquely Protestant while drawing upon the history of Catholic and Orthodox branches of Christianity. A brief history of confession within the Catholic branch of Christianity is explored up until the Reformation. Then, a Protestant view of confession is discussed. Included are the questions of absolution, whether justified people need confession, and the contemporary Protestant method of accountability as a form of confession. The article continues by sketching a theology of confession that recognizes confession’s role in bringing sin to light, defining sin, highlighting sin’s destructiveness to relationships, and the future hope that is obtained through forgiveness. A Protestant form of confession is recommended with a description of how each step might take form within a Protestant context. Received Honorable Mention (Best Essay: Professional and Special Interest Magazines including Clergy and Religious), 2014.

• In Search of a Healthy Church: A Meta-Ethnographic Study

  Great Commission Research Journal

  After a brief literature review, eight of the primary contemporary church health resources are subjected to a meta-ethnographic study. The resources’ combined twenty-six health indicators are translated through the meta-themes of organizational structure, developing community, church characteristics, and personal characteristics. A discussion and visual synthesis of the translations point to the church literature developing community through organizational structure which in turn cultivates church and personal characteristics. Future research recommendations include expanding the study of church metaphors beyond “body” and identifying metaphor-speciWc characteristics through exegetical study.

• Who's Controlling Locus of Control?: Cross-Cultural LOC Usage

  International Journal of Leadership Studies

  Rotter’s Internal-External Locus of Control scale has been broadly used in both American contexts as well as in other cultures around the world. A review of the research that first transitioned this scale into other cultures shows a number of significant validity and reliability threats. Given that many more recent studies have based their validity and reliability on these earlier studies, it is important to understand the threats that existed so current research can strengthen the validity and reliability of this important scale across other cultures. Recommendations for various forms of validity and reliability are provided.

• Apprentices or Pupils? An Analysis of Teaching in the New Testament

  Evangelical Review of Theology

  This research uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to determine the emphasis of apprentice—based or pupil—based teaching in early Christian follower development. The quantitative analysis bases its results on domain of meaning words that are associated with the Greek word for teaching, didasko. The quantitative results suggested an emphasis towards apprenticeship. The qualitative analysis is based on human coder results. The results also tended to emphasize an apprenticeship model. This shift in meaning has impact on the development of followers and leaders in the church, Christian education, and disciple—making methods.

• Unusual Power: Leading with Gentleness

  Palgrave MacMillan

  While gentleness is not typically on a list of leadership characteristics, we can see from the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday that the concept of a gentle leader has both Old and New Testament roots. This chapter will analyze this type of gentle leadership that is able to flourish in the midst of resistance and injustice while finding leniency in the midst of judgment. The contemporary model of Social Power Base Theory provides a framework for applying these ancient insights to contemporary leaders. It is out of this comparison that not only a more fascinating understanding of biblical gentleness is seen but also how gentleness becomes exemplified by the cultural desire to see gentleness that offsets stern laws.

• Including The Perspective Of Christian Leadership: A Review Of The JBPL

  The Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership

  This article contains a scholarly review of the articles published in the Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership (JBPL) from 2006-2011. Each article is summarized with a listing of methodologies and leadership theories that the article interacts with. Four recommendations are made for future publications: (1) encourage the use of recognized qualitative research methods rather than a general exegetical approach; (2) encourage the use of inductive data analysis, especially in historical Hebrew and Christian sacred writing, rather than a deductive approach of identifying contemporary approaches in ancient literature; (3) call for papers that seek to add confirmability of theoretical material in modern contexts; and (4) continue to broaden the thematic elements of the journal.

• Benedictine Times: The Flow of Life in the Holy Rule

  Downside Review

  The Holy Rule of Saint Benedict provides the ecclesial leader with a structure for transforming believers over the course of their lives into worshippers who reflect God’s glory. Benedict presented a cyclical regulation of time that produces self-discipline for the purpose of focus upon the works of God in the moment. When the recognition of these God-moments is repeated throughout a lifetime, they produce a spiritually mature disciple with Christ-like attributes. Thus, the Rule perceives time in several dimensions including maturation, chronological, and sacral. Ecclesial leaders who apply these lessons will emphasize the benefits of relearning lessons and will reproduce these experiences in the lives of others with a radically Christ-centered emphasis.

• Controlled but Not Controlling: Leading with Self-Control

  Palgrave MacMillan

  Contemporary leadership contexts are rife with stress, competitiveness, and demanding expectations. These contexts litter the newsfeed with examples of leaders who have lost control either in their professional or personal lives. Genesis provides the story of Joseph and his inimitable degree of self-control in the presence of those who have forgotten and forsaken him. Out of this study of mastering, curbing, and restraining one’s desires and passions one might wrongly deduce that self-control limits freedom. However, the study of ancient material suggests just the opposite – that it is out of freedom that the most effective self-control is cultivated. This then begins to explain an aspect of the effective leadership characterized by Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, and police officers.

• What is Christmas Really?

  Life and Leisure, NJ

  A seasonal article in a community paper examining the biblical basis and meaning of Christmas. Republished annually since 2004.

• A Trinitarian Leadership Model: Insights from the Apostle Peter

  Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

  The integration of biblical principles with leadership theory has proven a monumental undertaking. Can such principles actually guide Christian leaders even though they are sometimes in tension with current concepts of leadership? It might seem like a difficult balance to achieve. However, by delving into Peter's basic and presuppositional commitments, a clear picture of biblical leadership emerged. Using 1 Peter 5 as the investigative platform, thorough analysis revealed a Trinitarian belief structure underpinning Peter's concept of leadership. Significantly, the transition from simple fisherman to apostle demonstrated a radical transformation in both thought and application of leadership principles. Ultimately, a precise understanding of God's eternal character forms the bridge between theology and leadership theory, offering a glimpse of Trinitarian leadership as a paradigm for future study.

• When Servant Leadership Fails: The Importance of Values

  Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership

• Acknowledging Our Sin: A Protestant Confessional

  Ecumenical Trends

  Protestants disobey James 5:16. With that as a backdrop, this article seeks to identify a path to obey this command that is uniquely Protestant while drawing upon the history of Catholic and Orthodox branches of Christianity. A brief history of confession within the Catholic branch of Christianity is explored up until the Reformation. Then, a Protestant view of confession is discussed. Included are the questions of absolution, whether justified people need confession, and the contemporary Protestant method of accountability as a form of confession. The article continues by sketching a theology of confession that recognizes confession’s role in bringing sin to light, defining sin, highlighting sin’s destructiveness to relationships, and the future hope that is obtained through forgiveness. A Protestant form of confession is recommended with a description of how each step might take form within a Protestant context. Received Honorable Mention (Best Essay: Professional and Special Interest Magazines including Clergy and Religious), 2014.

• In Search of a Healthy Church: A Meta-Ethnographic Study

  Great Commission Research Journal

  After a brief literature review, eight of the primary contemporary church health resources are subjected to a meta-ethnographic study. The resources’ combined twenty-six health indicators are translated through the meta-themes of organizational structure, developing community, church characteristics, and personal characteristics. A discussion and visual synthesis of the translations point to the church literature developing community through organizational structure which in turn cultivates church and personal characteristics. Future research recommendations include expanding the study of church metaphors beyond “body” and identifying metaphor-speciWc characteristics through exegetical study.

• Who's Controlling Locus of Control?: Cross-Cultural LOC Usage

  International Journal of Leadership Studies

  Rotter’s Internal-External Locus of Control scale has been broadly used in both American contexts as well as in other cultures around the world. A review of the research that first transitioned this scale into other cultures shows a number of significant validity and reliability threats. Given that many more recent studies have based their validity and reliability on these earlier studies, it is important to understand the threats that existed so current research can strengthen the validity and reliability of this important scale across other cultures. Recommendations for various forms of validity and reliability are provided.

• Apprentices or Pupils? An Analysis of Teaching in the New Testament

  Evangelical Review of Theology

  This research uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to determine the emphasis of apprentice—based or pupil—based teaching in early Christian follower development. The quantitative analysis bases its results on domain of meaning words that are associated with the Greek word for teaching, didasko. The quantitative results suggested an emphasis towards apprenticeship. The qualitative analysis is based on human coder results. The results also tended to emphasize an apprenticeship model. This shift in meaning has impact on the development of followers and leaders in the church, Christian education, and disciple—making methods.

• Unusual Power: Leading with Gentleness

  Palgrave MacMillan

  While gentleness is not typically on a list of leadership characteristics, we can see from the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday that the concept of a gentle leader has both Old and New Testament roots. This chapter will analyze this type of gentle leadership that is able to flourish in the midst of resistance and injustice while finding leniency in the midst of judgment. The contemporary model of Social Power Base Theory provides a framework for applying these ancient insights to contemporary leaders. It is out of this comparison that not only a more fascinating understanding of biblical gentleness is seen but also how gentleness becomes exemplified by the cultural desire to see gentleness that offsets stern laws.

• Including The Perspective Of Christian Leadership: A Review Of The JBPL

  The Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership

  This article contains a scholarly review of the articles published in the Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership (JBPL) from 2006-2011. Each article is summarized with a listing of methodologies and leadership theories that the article interacts with. Four recommendations are made for future publications: (1) encourage the use of recognized qualitative research methods rather than a general exegetical approach; (2) encourage the use of inductive data analysis, especially in historical Hebrew and Christian sacred writing, rather than a deductive approach of identifying contemporary approaches in ancient literature; (3) call for papers that seek to add confirmability of theoretical material in modern contexts; and (4) continue to broaden the thematic elements of the journal.

• Benedictine Times: The Flow of Life in the Holy Rule

  Downside Review

  The Holy Rule of Saint Benedict provides the ecclesial leader with a structure for transforming believers over the course of their lives into worshippers who reflect God’s glory. Benedict presented a cyclical regulation of time that produces self-discipline for the purpose of focus upon the works of God in the moment. When the recognition of these God-moments is repeated throughout a lifetime, they produce a spiritually mature disciple with Christ-like attributes. Thus, the Rule perceives time in several dimensions including maturation, chronological, and sacral. Ecclesial leaders who apply these lessons will emphasize the benefits of relearning lessons and will reproduce these experiences in the lives of others with a radically Christ-centered emphasis.

• True Confession: An Interview with Russell Huizing

  Alliance Life

  This interview discusses the use of confession in Protestant church contexts.

• Controlled but Not Controlling: Leading with Self-Control

  Palgrave MacMillan

  Contemporary leadership contexts are rife with stress, competitiveness, and demanding expectations. These contexts litter the newsfeed with examples of leaders who have lost control either in their professional or personal lives. Genesis provides the story of Joseph and his inimitable degree of self-control in the presence of those who have forgotten and forsaken him. Out of this study of mastering, curbing, and restraining one’s desires and passions one might wrongly deduce that self-control limits freedom. However, the study of ancient material suggests just the opposite – that it is out of freedom that the most effective self-control is cultivated. This then begins to explain an aspect of the effective leadership characterized by Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, and police officers.

• What is Christmas Really?

  Life and Leisure, NJ

  A seasonal article in a community paper examining the biblical basis and meaning of Christmas. Republished annually since 2004.

• A Trinitarian Leadership Model: Insights from the Apostle Peter

  Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

  The integration of biblical principles with leadership theory has proven a monumental undertaking. Can such principles actually guide Christian leaders even though they are sometimes in tension with current concepts of leadership? It might seem like a difficult balance to achieve. However, by delving into Peter's basic and presuppositional commitments, a clear picture of biblical leadership emerged. Using 1 Peter 5 as the investigative platform, thorough analysis revealed a Trinitarian belief structure underpinning Peter's concept of leadership. Significantly, the transition from simple fisherman to apostle demonstrated a radical transformation in both thought and application of leadership principles. Ultimately, a precise understanding of God's eternal character forms the bridge between theology and leadership theory, offering a glimpse of Trinitarian leadership as a paradigm for future study.

• When Servant Leadership Fails: The Importance of Values

  Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership

• Acknowledging Our Sin: A Protestant Confessional

  Ecumenical Trends

  Protestants disobey James 5:16. With that as a backdrop, this article seeks to identify a path to obey this command that is uniquely Protestant while drawing upon the history of Catholic and Orthodox branches of Christianity. A brief history of confession within the Catholic branch of Christianity is explored up until the Reformation. Then, a Protestant view of confession is discussed. Included are the questions of absolution, whether justified people need confession, and the contemporary Protestant method of accountability as a form of confession. The article continues by sketching a theology of confession that recognizes confession’s role in bringing sin to light, defining sin, highlighting sin’s destructiveness to relationships, and the future hope that is obtained through forgiveness. A Protestant form of confession is recommended with a description of how each step might take form within a Protestant context. Received Honorable Mention (Best Essay: Professional and Special Interest Magazines including Clergy and Religious), 2014.

• In Search of a Healthy Church: A Meta-Ethnographic Study

  Great Commission Research Journal

  After a brief literature review, eight of the primary contemporary church health resources are subjected to a meta-ethnographic study. The resources’ combined twenty-six health indicators are translated through the meta-themes of organizational structure, developing community, church characteristics, and personal characteristics. A discussion and visual synthesis of the translations point to the church literature developing community through organizational structure which in turn cultivates church and personal characteristics. Future research recommendations include expanding the study of church metaphors beyond “body” and identifying metaphor-speciWc characteristics through exegetical study.

• Who's Controlling Locus of Control?: Cross-Cultural LOC Usage

  International Journal of Leadership Studies

  Rotter’s Internal-External Locus of Control scale has been broadly used in both American contexts as well as in other cultures around the world. A review of the research that first transitioned this scale into other cultures shows a number of significant validity and reliability threats. Given that many more recent studies have based their validity and reliability on these earlier studies, it is important to understand the threats that existed so current research can strengthen the validity and reliability of this important scale across other cultures. Recommendations for various forms of validity and reliability are provided.

• Apprentices or Pupils? An Analysis of Teaching in the New Testament

  Evangelical Review of Theology

  This research uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to determine the emphasis of apprentice—based or pupil—based teaching in early Christian follower development. The quantitative analysis bases its results on domain of meaning words that are associated with the Greek word for teaching, didasko. The quantitative results suggested an emphasis towards apprenticeship. The qualitative analysis is based on human coder results. The results also tended to emphasize an apprenticeship model. This shift in meaning has impact on the development of followers and leaders in the church, Christian education, and disciple—making methods.

• Unusual Power: Leading with Gentleness

  Palgrave MacMillan

  While gentleness is not typically on a list of leadership characteristics, we can see from the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday that the concept of a gentle leader has both Old and New Testament roots. This chapter will analyze this type of gentle leadership that is able to flourish in the midst of resistance and injustice while finding leniency in the midst of judgment. The contemporary model of Social Power Base Theory provides a framework for applying these ancient insights to contemporary leaders. It is out of this comparison that not only a more fascinating understanding of biblical gentleness is seen but also how gentleness becomes exemplified by the cultural desire to see gentleness that offsets stern laws.

• Including The Perspective Of Christian Leadership: A Review Of The JBPL

  The Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership

  This article contains a scholarly review of the articles published in the Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership (JBPL) from 2006-2011. Each article is summarized with a listing of methodologies and leadership theories that the article interacts with. Four recommendations are made for future publications: (1) encourage the use of recognized qualitative research methods rather than a general exegetical approach; (2) encourage the use of inductive data analysis, especially in historical Hebrew and Christian sacred writing, rather than a deductive approach of identifying contemporary approaches in ancient literature; (3) call for papers that seek to add confirmability of theoretical material in modern contexts; and (4) continue to broaden the thematic elements of the journal.

• Benedictine Times: The Flow of Life in the Holy Rule

  Downside Review

  The Holy Rule of Saint Benedict provides the ecclesial leader with a structure for transforming believers over the course of their lives into worshippers who reflect God’s glory. Benedict presented a cyclical regulation of time that produces self-discipline for the purpose of focus upon the works of God in the moment. When the recognition of these God-moments is repeated throughout a lifetime, they produce a spiritually mature disciple with Christ-like attributes. Thus, the Rule perceives time in several dimensions including maturation, chronological, and sacral. Ecclesial leaders who apply these lessons will emphasize the benefits of relearning lessons and will reproduce these experiences in the lives of others with a radically Christ-centered emphasis.

• True Confession: An Interview with Russell Huizing

  Alliance Life

  This interview discusses the use of confession in Protestant church contexts.

• Mentoring Together: A Literature Review of Group Mentoring

  Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning

  Researchers have shown the benefits of mentoring in both personal and professional growth. It would seem that group mentoring would only enhance those benefits. This work represents a literature review of peerreviewed articles and dissertations that contribute to the theory and research of group mentoring. This work reviews the articles that contributed to the development of group mentoring theory as well as relevant research. Four primary types of group mentoring emerge—peer group, one-to-many, many-to-one, and many-to-many. Despite over 20 years of research, significant gaps remain in the research methods, demographic focus, and fields of study. The review concludes with recommendations for future research. - Top Viewed Article - 2012-16

• Controlled but Not Controlling: Leading with Self-Control

  Palgrave MacMillan

  Contemporary leadership contexts are rife with stress, competitiveness, and demanding expectations. These contexts litter the newsfeed with examples of leaders who have lost control either in their professional or personal lives. Genesis provides the story of Joseph and his inimitable degree of self-control in the presence of those who have forgotten and forsaken him. Out of this study of mastering, curbing, and restraining one’s desires and passions one might wrongly deduce that self-control limits freedom. However, the study of ancient material suggests just the opposite – that it is out of freedom that the most effective self-control is cultivated. This then begins to explain an aspect of the effective leadership characterized by Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, and police officers.

• What is Christmas Really?

  Life and Leisure, NJ

  A seasonal article in a community paper examining the biblical basis and meaning of Christmas. Republished annually since 2004.

• A Trinitarian Leadership Model: Insights from the Apostle Peter

  Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

  The integration of biblical principles with leadership theory has proven a monumental undertaking. Can such principles actually guide Christian leaders even though they are sometimes in tension with current concepts of leadership? It might seem like a difficult balance to achieve. However, by delving into Peter's basic and presuppositional commitments, a clear picture of biblical leadership emerged. Using 1 Peter 5 as the investigative platform, thorough analysis revealed a Trinitarian belief structure underpinning Peter's concept of leadership. Significantly, the transition from simple fisherman to apostle demonstrated a radical transformation in both thought and application of leadership principles. Ultimately, a precise understanding of God's eternal character forms the bridge between theology and leadership theory, offering a glimpse of Trinitarian leadership as a paradigm for future study.

• When Servant Leadership Fails: The Importance of Values

  Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership

• Acknowledging Our Sin: A Protestant Confessional

  Ecumenical Trends

  Protestants disobey James 5:16. With that as a backdrop, this article seeks to identify a path to obey this command that is uniquely Protestant while drawing upon the history of Catholic and Orthodox branches of Christianity. A brief history of confession within the Catholic branch of Christianity is explored up until the Reformation. Then, a Protestant view of confession is discussed. Included are the questions of absolution, whether justified people need confession, and the contemporary Protestant method of accountability as a form of confession. The article continues by sketching a theology of confession that recognizes confession’s role in bringing sin to light, defining sin, highlighting sin’s destructiveness to relationships, and the future hope that is obtained through forgiveness. A Protestant form of confession is recommended with a description of how each step might take form within a Protestant context. Received Honorable Mention (Best Essay: Professional and Special Interest Magazines including Clergy and Religious), 2014.

• In Search of a Healthy Church: A Meta-Ethnographic Study

  Great Commission Research Journal

  After a brief literature review, eight of the primary contemporary church health resources are subjected to a meta-ethnographic study. The resources’ combined twenty-six health indicators are translated through the meta-themes of organizational structure, developing community, church characteristics, and personal characteristics. A discussion and visual synthesis of the translations point to the church literature developing community through organizational structure which in turn cultivates church and personal characteristics. Future research recommendations include expanding the study of church metaphors beyond “body” and identifying metaphor-speciWc characteristics through exegetical study.

• Who's Controlling Locus of Control?: Cross-Cultural LOC Usage

  International Journal of Leadership Studies

  Rotter’s Internal-External Locus of Control scale has been broadly used in both American contexts as well as in other cultures around the world. A review of the research that first transitioned this scale into other cultures shows a number of significant validity and reliability threats. Given that many more recent studies have based their validity and reliability on these earlier studies, it is important to understand the threats that existed so current research can strengthen the validity and reliability of this important scale across other cultures. Recommendations for various forms of validity and reliability are provided.

• Apprentices or Pupils? An Analysis of Teaching in the New Testament

  Evangelical Review of Theology

  This research uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to determine the emphasis of apprentice—based or pupil—based teaching in early Christian follower development. The quantitative analysis bases its results on domain of meaning words that are associated with the Greek word for teaching, didasko. The quantitative results suggested an emphasis towards apprenticeship. The qualitative analysis is based on human coder results. The results also tended to emphasize an apprenticeship model. This shift in meaning has impact on the development of followers and leaders in the church, Christian education, and disciple—making methods.

• Unusual Power: Leading with Gentleness

  Palgrave MacMillan

  While gentleness is not typically on a list of leadership characteristics, we can see from the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday that the concept of a gentle leader has both Old and New Testament roots. This chapter will analyze this type of gentle leadership that is able to flourish in the midst of resistance and injustice while finding leniency in the midst of judgment. The contemporary model of Social Power Base Theory provides a framework for applying these ancient insights to contemporary leaders. It is out of this comparison that not only a more fascinating understanding of biblical gentleness is seen but also how gentleness becomes exemplified by the cultural desire to see gentleness that offsets stern laws.

• Including The Perspective Of Christian Leadership: A Review Of The JBPL

  The Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership

  This article contains a scholarly review of the articles published in the Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership (JBPL) from 2006-2011. Each article is summarized with a listing of methodologies and leadership theories that the article interacts with. Four recommendations are made for future publications: (1) encourage the use of recognized qualitative research methods rather than a general exegetical approach; (2) encourage the use of inductive data analysis, especially in historical Hebrew and Christian sacred writing, rather than a deductive approach of identifying contemporary approaches in ancient literature; (3) call for papers that seek to add confirmability of theoretical material in modern contexts; and (4) continue to broaden the thematic elements of the journal.

• Benedictine Times: The Flow of Life in the Holy Rule

  Downside Review

  The Holy Rule of Saint Benedict provides the ecclesial leader with a structure for transforming believers over the course of their lives into worshippers who reflect God’s glory. Benedict presented a cyclical regulation of time that produces self-discipline for the purpose of focus upon the works of God in the moment. When the recognition of these God-moments is repeated throughout a lifetime, they produce a spiritually mature disciple with Christ-like attributes. Thus, the Rule perceives time in several dimensions including maturation, chronological, and sacral. Ecclesial leaders who apply these lessons will emphasize the benefits of relearning lessons and will reproduce these experiences in the lives of others with a radically Christ-centered emphasis.

• True Confession: An Interview with Russell Huizing

  Alliance Life

  This interview discusses the use of confession in Protestant church contexts.

• Mentoring Together: A Literature Review of Group Mentoring

  Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning

  Researchers have shown the benefits of mentoring in both personal and professional growth. It would seem that group mentoring would only enhance those benefits. This work represents a literature review of peerreviewed articles and dissertations that contribute to the theory and research of group mentoring. This work reviews the articles that contributed to the development of group mentoring theory as well as relevant research. Four primary types of group mentoring emerge—peer group, one-to-many, many-to-one, and many-to-many. Despite over 20 years of research, significant gaps remain in the research methods, demographic focus, and fields of study. The review concludes with recommendations for future research. - Top Viewed Article - 2012-16

• Editorial: Do We Really Need Another Academic Journal?

  Theology of Leadership Journal

  Introduction to the inaugural issue of the Theology of Leadership Journal.

• Controlled but Not Controlling: Leading with Self-Control

  Palgrave MacMillan

  Contemporary leadership contexts are rife with stress, competitiveness, and demanding expectations. These contexts litter the newsfeed with examples of leaders who have lost control either in their professional or personal lives. Genesis provides the story of Joseph and his inimitable degree of self-control in the presence of those who have forgotten and forsaken him. Out of this study of mastering, curbing, and restraining one’s desires and passions one might wrongly deduce that self-control limits freedom. However, the study of ancient material suggests just the opposite – that it is out of freedom that the most effective self-control is cultivated. This then begins to explain an aspect of the effective leadership characterized by Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, and police officers.

• What is Christmas Really?

  Life and Leisure, NJ

  A seasonal article in a community paper examining the biblical basis and meaning of Christmas. Republished annually since 2004.

• A Trinitarian Leadership Model: Insights from the Apostle Peter

  Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

  The integration of biblical principles with leadership theory has proven a monumental undertaking. Can such principles actually guide Christian leaders even though they are sometimes in tension with current concepts of leadership? It might seem like a difficult balance to achieve. However, by delving into Peter's basic and presuppositional commitments, a clear picture of biblical leadership emerged. Using 1 Peter 5 as the investigative platform, thorough analysis revealed a Trinitarian belief structure underpinning Peter's concept of leadership. Significantly, the transition from simple fisherman to apostle demonstrated a radical transformation in both thought and application of leadership principles. Ultimately, a precise understanding of God's eternal character forms the bridge between theology and leadership theory, offering a glimpse of Trinitarian leadership as a paradigm for future study.

• When Servant Leadership Fails: The Importance of Values

  Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership

• Acknowledging Our Sin: A Protestant Confessional

  Ecumenical Trends

  Protestants disobey James 5:16. With that as a backdrop, this article seeks to identify a path to obey this command that is uniquely Protestant while drawing upon the history of Catholic and Orthodox branches of Christianity. A brief history of confession within the Catholic branch of Christianity is explored up until the Reformation. Then, a Protestant view of confession is discussed. Included are the questions of absolution, whether justified people need confession, and the contemporary Protestant method of accountability as a form of confession. The article continues by sketching a theology of confession that recognizes confession’s role in bringing sin to light, defining sin, highlighting sin’s destructiveness to relationships, and the future hope that is obtained through forgiveness. A Protestant form of confession is recommended with a description of how each step might take form within a Protestant context. Received Honorable Mention (Best Essay: Professional and Special Interest Magazines including Clergy and Religious), 2014.

• In Search of a Healthy Church: A Meta-Ethnographic Study

  Great Commission Research Journal

  After a brief literature review, eight of the primary contemporary church health resources are subjected to a meta-ethnographic study. The resources’ combined twenty-six health indicators are translated through the meta-themes of organizational structure, developing community, church characteristics, and personal characteristics. A discussion and visual synthesis of the translations point to the church literature developing community through organizational structure which in turn cultivates church and personal characteristics. Future research recommendations include expanding the study of church metaphors beyond “body” and identifying metaphor-speciWc characteristics through exegetical study.

• Who's Controlling Locus of Control?: Cross-Cultural LOC Usage

  International Journal of Leadership Studies

  Rotter’s Internal-External Locus of Control scale has been broadly used in both American contexts as well as in other cultures around the world. A review of the research that first transitioned this scale into other cultures shows a number of significant validity and reliability threats. Given that many more recent studies have based their validity and reliability on these earlier studies, it is important to understand the threats that existed so current research can strengthen the validity and reliability of this important scale across other cultures. Recommendations for various forms of validity and reliability are provided.

• Apprentices or Pupils? An Analysis of Teaching in the New Testament

  Evangelical Review of Theology

  This research uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to determine the emphasis of apprentice—based or pupil—based teaching in early Christian follower development. The quantitative analysis bases its results on domain of meaning words that are associated with the Greek word for teaching, didasko. The quantitative results suggested an emphasis towards apprenticeship. The qualitative analysis is based on human coder results. The results also tended to emphasize an apprenticeship model. This shift in meaning has impact on the development of followers and leaders in the church, Christian education, and disciple—making methods.

• Unusual Power: Leading with Gentleness

  Palgrave MacMillan

  While gentleness is not typically on a list of leadership characteristics, we can see from the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday that the concept of a gentle leader has both Old and New Testament roots. This chapter will analyze this type of gentle leadership that is able to flourish in the midst of resistance and injustice while finding leniency in the midst of judgment. The contemporary model of Social Power Base Theory provides a framework for applying these ancient insights to contemporary leaders. It is out of this comparison that not only a more fascinating understanding of biblical gentleness is seen but also how gentleness becomes exemplified by the cultural desire to see gentleness that offsets stern laws.

• Including The Perspective Of Christian Leadership: A Review Of The JBPL

  The Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership

  This article contains a scholarly review of the articles published in the Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership (JBPL) from 2006-2011. Each article is summarized with a listing of methodologies and leadership theories that the article interacts with. Four recommendations are made for future publications: (1) encourage the use of recognized qualitative research methods rather than a general exegetical approach; (2) encourage the use of inductive data analysis, especially in historical Hebrew and Christian sacred writing, rather than a deductive approach of identifying contemporary approaches in ancient literature; (3) call for papers that seek to add confirmability of theoretical material in modern contexts; and (4) continue to broaden the thematic elements of the journal.

• Benedictine Times: The Flow of Life in the Holy Rule

  Downside Review

  The Holy Rule of Saint Benedict provides the ecclesial leader with a structure for transforming believers over the course of their lives into worshippers who reflect God’s glory. Benedict presented a cyclical regulation of time that produces self-discipline for the purpose of focus upon the works of God in the moment. When the recognition of these God-moments is repeated throughout a lifetime, they produce a spiritually mature disciple with Christ-like attributes. Thus, the Rule perceives time in several dimensions including maturation, chronological, and sacral. Ecclesial leaders who apply these lessons will emphasize the benefits of relearning lessons and will reproduce these experiences in the lives of others with a radically Christ-centered emphasis.

• True Confession: An Interview with Russell Huizing

  Alliance Life

  This interview discusses the use of confession in Protestant church contexts.

• Mentoring Together: A Literature Review of Group Mentoring

  Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning

  Researchers have shown the benefits of mentoring in both personal and professional growth. It would seem that group mentoring would only enhance those benefits. This work represents a literature review of peerreviewed articles and dissertations that contribute to the theory and research of group mentoring. This work reviews the articles that contributed to the development of group mentoring theory as well as relevant research. Four primary types of group mentoring emerge—peer group, one-to-many, many-to-one, and many-to-many. Despite over 20 years of research, significant gaps remain in the research methods, demographic focus, and fields of study. The review concludes with recommendations for future research. - Top Viewed Article - 2012-16

• Editorial: Do We Really Need Another Academic Journal?

  Theology of Leadership Journal

  Introduction to the inaugural issue of the Theology of Leadership Journal.

• Beyond Shamrocks and Snakes: St. Patrick's Cross-Cultural Leadership

  Evangelical Journal

  Guiding the reader past the myths of St. Patrick, this research provides a qualitative assessment of his accepted writings within the context of the Ireland of his day. An overview of the political, theological, and ecclesiological assists in placing St. Patrick’s life within a historical context. Using two of his writings, Confession and The Epistle to the Soldiers of Coroticus, a thematic analysis detected four meta-themes: (a) God’s revelation to St. Patrick through written words, speech, and grace, (b) St. Patrick’s response to God’s revelation through faith and worship, (c) God’s response to the sinful deeds of His enemies with judgment, and (d) St. Patrick’s transformation shown through humility and integrity. These meta-themes provide a model for modern cross-cultural ecclesial leaders to follow. Specifically, the success of the effective cross-cultural ecclesial leader will be dependent upon the source of motivation, the response to that motivation, and the willingness to allow adaption.

• Controlled but Not Controlling: Leading with Self-Control

  Palgrave MacMillan

  Contemporary leadership contexts are rife with stress, competitiveness, and demanding expectations. These contexts litter the newsfeed with examples of leaders who have lost control either in their professional or personal lives. Genesis provides the story of Joseph and his inimitable degree of self-control in the presence of those who have forgotten and forsaken him. Out of this study of mastering, curbing, and restraining one’s desires and passions one might wrongly deduce that self-control limits freedom. However, the study of ancient material suggests just the opposite – that it is out of freedom that the most effective self-control is cultivated. This then begins to explain an aspect of the effective leadership characterized by Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, and police officers.

• What is Christmas Really?

  Life and Leisure, NJ

  A seasonal article in a community paper examining the biblical basis and meaning of Christmas. Republished annually since 2004.

• A Trinitarian Leadership Model: Insights from the Apostle Peter

  Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

  The integration of biblical principles with leadership theory has proven a monumental undertaking. Can such principles actually guide Christian leaders even though they are sometimes in tension with current concepts of leadership? It might seem like a difficult balance to achieve. However, by delving into Peter's basic and presuppositional commitments, a clear picture of biblical leadership emerged. Using 1 Peter 5 as the investigative platform, thorough analysis revealed a Trinitarian belief structure underpinning Peter's concept of leadership. Significantly, the transition from simple fisherman to apostle demonstrated a radical transformation in both thought and application of leadership principles. Ultimately, a precise understanding of God's eternal character forms the bridge between theology and leadership theory, offering a glimpse of Trinitarian leadership as a paradigm for future study.

• When Servant Leadership Fails: The Importance of Values

  Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership

• Acknowledging Our Sin: A Protestant Confessional

  Ecumenical Trends

  Protestants disobey James 5:16. With that as a backdrop, this article seeks to identify a path to obey this command that is uniquely Protestant while drawing upon the history of Catholic and Orthodox branches of Christianity. A brief history of confession within the Catholic branch of Christianity is explored up until the Reformation. Then, a Protestant view of confession is discussed. Included are the questions of absolution, whether justified people need confession, and the contemporary Protestant method of accountability as a form of confession. The article continues by sketching a theology of confession that recognizes confession’s role in bringing sin to light, defining sin, highlighting sin’s destructiveness to relationships, and the future hope that is obtained through forgiveness. A Protestant form of confession is recommended with a description of how each step might take form within a Protestant context. Received Honorable Mention (Best Essay: Professional and Special Interest Magazines including Clergy and Religious), 2014.

• In Search of a Healthy Church: A Meta-Ethnographic Study

  Great Commission Research Journal

  After a brief literature review, eight of the primary contemporary church health resources are subjected to a meta-ethnographic study. The resources’ combined twenty-six health indicators are translated through the meta-themes of organizational structure, developing community, church characteristics, and personal characteristics. A discussion and visual synthesis of the translations point to the church literature developing community through organizational structure which in turn cultivates church and personal characteristics. Future research recommendations include expanding the study of church metaphors beyond “body” and identifying metaphor-speciWc characteristics through exegetical study.

• Who's Controlling Locus of Control?: Cross-Cultural LOC Usage

  International Journal of Leadership Studies

  Rotter’s Internal-External Locus of Control scale has been broadly used in both American contexts as well as in other cultures around the world. A review of the research that first transitioned this scale into other cultures shows a number of significant validity and reliability threats. Given that many more recent studies have based their validity and reliability on these earlier studies, it is important to understand the threats that existed so current research can strengthen the validity and reliability of this important scale across other cultures. Recommendations for various forms of validity and reliability are provided.

• Apprentices or Pupils? An Analysis of Teaching in the New Testament

  Evangelical Review of Theology

  This research uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to determine the emphasis of apprentice—based or pupil—based teaching in early Christian follower development. The quantitative analysis bases its results on domain of meaning words that are associated with the Greek word for teaching, didasko. The quantitative results suggested an emphasis towards apprenticeship. The qualitative analysis is based on human coder results. The results also tended to emphasize an apprenticeship model. This shift in meaning has impact on the development of followers and leaders in the church, Christian education, and disciple—making methods.

• Unusual Power: Leading with Gentleness

  Palgrave MacMillan

  While gentleness is not typically on a list of leadership characteristics, we can see from the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday that the concept of a gentle leader has both Old and New Testament roots. This chapter will analyze this type of gentle leadership that is able to flourish in the midst of resistance and injustice while finding leniency in the midst of judgment. The contemporary model of Social Power Base Theory provides a framework for applying these ancient insights to contemporary leaders. It is out of this comparison that not only a more fascinating understanding of biblical gentleness is seen but also how gentleness becomes exemplified by the cultural desire to see gentleness that offsets stern laws.

• Including The Perspective Of Christian Leadership: A Review Of The JBPL

  The Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership

  This article contains a scholarly review of the articles published in the Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership (JBPL) from 2006-2011. Each article is summarized with a listing of methodologies and leadership theories that the article interacts with. Four recommendations are made for future publications: (1) encourage the use of recognized qualitative research methods rather than a general exegetical approach; (2) encourage the use of inductive data analysis, especially in historical Hebrew and Christian sacred writing, rather than a deductive approach of identifying contemporary approaches in ancient literature; (3) call for papers that seek to add confirmability of theoretical material in modern contexts; and (4) continue to broaden the thematic elements of the journal.

• Benedictine Times: The Flow of Life in the Holy Rule

  Downside Review

  The Holy Rule of Saint Benedict provides the ecclesial leader with a structure for transforming believers over the course of their lives into worshippers who reflect God’s glory. Benedict presented a cyclical regulation of time that produces self-discipline for the purpose of focus upon the works of God in the moment. When the recognition of these God-moments is repeated throughout a lifetime, they produce a spiritually mature disciple with Christ-like attributes. Thus, the Rule perceives time in several dimensions including maturation, chronological, and sacral. Ecclesial leaders who apply these lessons will emphasize the benefits of relearning lessons and will reproduce these experiences in the lives of others with a radically Christ-centered emphasis.

• True Confession: An Interview with Russell Huizing

  Alliance Life

  This interview discusses the use of confession in Protestant church contexts.

• Mentoring Together: A Literature Review of Group Mentoring

  Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning

  Researchers have shown the benefits of mentoring in both personal and professional growth. It would seem that group mentoring would only enhance those benefits. This work represents a literature review of peerreviewed articles and dissertations that contribute to the theory and research of group mentoring. This work reviews the articles that contributed to the development of group mentoring theory as well as relevant research. Four primary types of group mentoring emerge—peer group, one-to-many, many-to-one, and many-to-many. Despite over 20 years of research, significant gaps remain in the research methods, demographic focus, and fields of study. The review concludes with recommendations for future research. - Top Viewed Article - 2012-16

• Editorial: Do We Really Need Another Academic Journal?

  Theology of Leadership Journal

  Introduction to the inaugural issue of the Theology of Leadership Journal.

• Beyond Shamrocks and Snakes: St. Patrick's Cross-Cultural Leadership

  Evangelical Journal

  Guiding the reader past the myths of St. Patrick, this research provides a qualitative assessment of his accepted writings within the context of the Ireland of his day. An overview of the political, theological, and ecclesiological assists in placing St. Patrick’s life within a historical context. Using two of his writings, Confession and The Epistle to the Soldiers of Coroticus, a thematic analysis detected four meta-themes: (a) God’s revelation to St. Patrick through written words, speech, and grace, (b) St. Patrick’s response to God’s revelation through faith and worship, (c) God’s response to the sinful deeds of His enemies with judgment, and (d) St. Patrick’s transformation shown through humility and integrity. These meta-themes provide a model for modern cross-cultural ecclesial leaders to follow. Specifically, the success of the effective cross-cultural ecclesial leader will be dependent upon the source of motivation, the response to that motivation, and the willingness to allow adaption.

• Finding Boundless Creativity Within the Boundaries of Authority: A Creational Leadership Model

  Scandinavian Journal for Leadership & Theology

  Using both a religious and secular example, this article seeks to understand the intersection between authority and creativity in leadership. A hermeneutic of semantic theory guided the analysis of the early chapters of Genesis, supporting the use of these two attributes in effective leadership. By allowing the world to be very good and yet not perfect, God offers humanity the potential to use authority and creativity in a way that reflects His own character. The prohibition that God establishes enhances rather than hinders humanity’s potential for authority and creativity by framing a context for these at- tributes to grow. Additionally, the contemporary leadership analysis suggests the importance of under- standing how authority, power, creativity, and freedom are associated with both leadership and followership. Here, again, the literature suggests that a boundary marking authority is needed for the fullest expression of creativity to occur. The question naturally arises as to what occurs when there are varying levels of authority and creativity in an organizational context. These varying levels result in the development of a model of leadership that seeks to understand the dimensions of Order and Freedom in four typologies measuring the degree of authority and creativity in organizational contexts and recommends a greater balance between authority and creativity for both leadership and followership.

• Controlled but Not Controlling: Leading with Self-Control

  Palgrave MacMillan

  Contemporary leadership contexts are rife with stress, competitiveness, and demanding expectations. These contexts litter the newsfeed with examples of leaders who have lost control either in their professional or personal lives. Genesis provides the story of Joseph and his inimitable degree of self-control in the presence of those who have forgotten and forsaken him. Out of this study of mastering, curbing, and restraining one’s desires and passions one might wrongly deduce that self-control limits freedom. However, the study of ancient material suggests just the opposite – that it is out of freedom that the most effective self-control is cultivated. This then begins to explain an aspect of the effective leadership characterized by Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, and police officers.

• What is Christmas Really?

  Life and Leisure, NJ

  A seasonal article in a community paper examining the biblical basis and meaning of Christmas. Republished annually since 2004.

• A Trinitarian Leadership Model: Insights from the Apostle Peter

  Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

  The integration of biblical principles with leadership theory has proven a monumental undertaking. Can such principles actually guide Christian leaders even though they are sometimes in tension with current concepts of leadership? It might seem like a difficult balance to achieve. However, by delving into Peter's basic and presuppositional commitments, a clear picture of biblical leadership emerged. Using 1 Peter 5 as the investigative platform, thorough analysis revealed a Trinitarian belief structure underpinning Peter's concept of leadership. Significantly, the transition from simple fisherman to apostle demonstrated a radical transformation in both thought and application of leadership principles. Ultimately, a precise understanding of God's eternal character forms the bridge between theology and leadership theory, offering a glimpse of Trinitarian leadership as a paradigm for future study.

• When Servant Leadership Fails: The Importance of Values

  Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership

• Acknowledging Our Sin: A Protestant Confessional

  Ecumenical Trends

  Protestants disobey James 5:16. With that as a backdrop, this article seeks to identify a path to obey this command that is uniquely Protestant while drawing upon the history of Catholic and Orthodox branches of Christianity. A brief history of confession within the Catholic branch of Christianity is explored up until the Reformation. Then, a Protestant view of confession is discussed. Included are the questions of absolution, whether justified people need confession, and the contemporary Protestant method of accountability as a form of confession. The article continues by sketching a theology of confession that recognizes confession’s role in bringing sin to light, defining sin, highlighting sin’s destructiveness to relationships, and the future hope that is obtained through forgiveness. A Protestant form of confession is recommended with a description of how each step might take form within a Protestant context. Received Honorable Mention (Best Essay: Professional and Special Interest Magazines including Clergy and Religious), 2014.

• In Search of a Healthy Church: A Meta-Ethnographic Study

  Great Commission Research Journal

  After a brief literature review, eight of the primary contemporary church health resources are subjected to a meta-ethnographic study. The resources’ combined twenty-six health indicators are translated through the meta-themes of organizational structure, developing community, church characteristics, and personal characteristics. A discussion and visual synthesis of the translations point to the church literature developing community through organizational structure which in turn cultivates church and personal characteristics. Future research recommendations include expanding the study of church metaphors beyond “body” and identifying metaphor-speciWc characteristics through exegetical study.

• Who's Controlling Locus of Control?: Cross-Cultural LOC Usage

  International Journal of Leadership Studies

  Rotter’s Internal-External Locus of Control scale has been broadly used in both American contexts as well as in other cultures around the world. A review of the research that first transitioned this scale into other cultures shows a number of significant validity and reliability threats. Given that many more recent studies have based their validity and reliability on these earlier studies, it is important to understand the threats that existed so current research can strengthen the validity and reliability of this important scale across other cultures. Recommendations for various forms of validity and reliability are provided.

• Apprentices or Pupils? An Analysis of Teaching in the New Testament

  Evangelical Review of Theology

  This research uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to determine the emphasis of apprentice—based or pupil—based teaching in early Christian follower development. The quantitative analysis bases its results on domain of meaning words that are associated with the Greek word for teaching, didasko. The quantitative results suggested an emphasis towards apprenticeship. The qualitative analysis is based on human coder results. The results also tended to emphasize an apprenticeship model. This shift in meaning has impact on the development of followers and leaders in the church, Christian education, and disciple—making methods.

• Unusual Power: Leading with Gentleness

  Palgrave MacMillan

  While gentleness is not typically on a list of leadership characteristics, we can see from the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday that the concept of a gentle leader has both Old and New Testament roots. This chapter will analyze this type of gentle leadership that is able to flourish in the midst of resistance and injustice while finding leniency in the midst of judgment. The contemporary model of Social Power Base Theory provides a framework for applying these ancient insights to contemporary leaders. It is out of this comparison that not only a more fascinating understanding of biblical gentleness is seen but also how gentleness becomes exemplified by the cultural desire to see gentleness that offsets stern laws.

• Including The Perspective Of Christian Leadership: A Review Of The JBPL

  The Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership

  This article contains a scholarly review of the articles published in the Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership (JBPL) from 2006-2011. Each article is summarized with a listing of methodologies and leadership theories that the article interacts with. Four recommendations are made for future publications: (1) encourage the use of recognized qualitative research methods rather than a general exegetical approach; (2) encourage the use of inductive data analysis, especially in historical Hebrew and Christian sacred writing, rather than a deductive approach of identifying contemporary approaches in ancient literature; (3) call for papers that seek to add confirmability of theoretical material in modern contexts; and (4) continue to broaden the thematic elements of the journal.

• Benedictine Times: The Flow of Life in the Holy Rule

  Downside Review

  The Holy Rule of Saint Benedict provides the ecclesial leader with a structure for transforming believers over the course of their lives into worshippers who reflect God’s glory. Benedict presented a cyclical regulation of time that produces self-discipline for the purpose of focus upon the works of God in the moment. When the recognition of these God-moments is repeated throughout a lifetime, they produce a spiritually mature disciple with Christ-like attributes. Thus, the Rule perceives time in several dimensions including maturation, chronological, and sacral. Ecclesial leaders who apply these lessons will emphasize the benefits of relearning lessons and will reproduce these experiences in the lives of others with a radically Christ-centered emphasis.

• True Confession: An Interview with Russell Huizing

  Alliance Life

  This interview discusses the use of confession in Protestant church contexts.

• Mentoring Together: A Literature Review of Group Mentoring

  Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning

  Researchers have shown the benefits of mentoring in both personal and professional growth. It would seem that group mentoring would only enhance those benefits. This work represents a literature review of peerreviewed articles and dissertations that contribute to the theory and research of group mentoring. This work reviews the articles that contributed to the development of group mentoring theory as well as relevant research. Four primary types of group mentoring emerge—peer group, one-to-many, many-to-one, and many-to-many. Despite over 20 years of research, significant gaps remain in the research methods, demographic focus, and fields of study. The review concludes with recommendations for future research. - Top Viewed Article - 2012-16

• Editorial: Do We Really Need Another Academic Journal?

  Theology of Leadership Journal

  Introduction to the inaugural issue of the Theology of Leadership Journal.

• Beyond Shamrocks and Snakes: St. Patrick's Cross-Cultural Leadership

  Evangelical Journal

  Guiding the reader past the myths of St. Patrick, this research provides a qualitative assessment of his accepted writings within the context of the Ireland of his day. An overview of the political, theological, and ecclesiological assists in placing St. Patrick’s life within a historical context. Using two of his writings, Confession and The Epistle to the Soldiers of Coroticus, a thematic analysis detected four meta-themes: (a) God’s revelation to St. Patrick through written words, speech, and grace, (b) St. Patrick’s response to God’s revelation through faith and worship, (c) God’s response to the sinful deeds of His enemies with judgment, and (d) St. Patrick’s transformation shown through humility and integrity. These meta-themes provide a model for modern cross-cultural ecclesial leaders to follow. Specifically, the success of the effective cross-cultural ecclesial leader will be dependent upon the source of motivation, the response to that motivation, and the willingness to allow adaption.

• Finding Boundless Creativity Within the Boundaries of Authority: A Creational Leadership Model

  Scandinavian Journal for Leadership & Theology

  Using both a religious and secular example, this article seeks to understand the intersection between authority and creativity in leadership. A hermeneutic of semantic theory guided the analysis of the early chapters of Genesis, supporting the use of these two attributes in effective leadership. By allowing the world to be very good and yet not perfect, God offers humanity the potential to use authority and creativity in a way that reflects His own character. The prohibition that God establishes enhances rather than hinders humanity’s potential for authority and creativity by framing a context for these at- tributes to grow. Additionally, the contemporary leadership analysis suggests the importance of under- standing how authority, power, creativity, and freedom are associated with both leadership and followership. Here, again, the literature suggests that a boundary marking authority is needed for the fullest expression of creativity to occur. The question naturally arises as to what occurs when there are varying levels of authority and creativity in an organizational context. These varying levels result in the development of a model of leadership that seeks to understand the dimensions of Order and Freedom in four typologies measuring the degree of authority and creativity in organizational contexts and recommends a greater balance between authority and creativity for both leadership and followership.

• Grounded Dependability: Leading with Faithfulness

  Palgrave MacMillan

  An implicit requirement of successful organization outcomes is the faithfulness of both leaders and followers. David’s faithfulness to the faithless king Saul becomes a helpful biblical example. This chapter will analyze a biblical understanding of faithfulness and its application to organizational leadership. This analysis will show faithfulness to be not only a characteristic of God but also an expression of one’s standing with God, with others, and with one’s own adherence to the beliefs that govern their life. From the covenant of the Old Testament to the authenticity of Greek understanding to the endurance under suffering of the New Testament, this characteristic has several important applications to contemporary organizations. These applications are applied to a contemporary example of funeral directors.

• Controlled but Not Controlling: Leading with Self-Control

  Palgrave MacMillan

  Contemporary leadership contexts are rife with stress, competitiveness, and demanding expectations. These contexts litter the newsfeed with examples of leaders who have lost control either in their professional or personal lives. Genesis provides the story of Joseph and his inimitable degree of self-control in the presence of those who have forgotten and forsaken him. Out of this study of mastering, curbing, and restraining one’s desires and passions one might wrongly deduce that self-control limits freedom. However, the study of ancient material suggests just the opposite – that it is out of freedom that the most effective self-control is cultivated. This then begins to explain an aspect of the effective leadership characterized by Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, and police officers.

• What is Christmas Really?

  Life and Leisure, NJ

  A seasonal article in a community paper examining the biblical basis and meaning of Christmas. Republished annually since 2004.

• A Trinitarian Leadership Model: Insights from the Apostle Peter

  Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

  The integration of biblical principles with leadership theory has proven a monumental undertaking. Can such principles actually guide Christian leaders even though they are sometimes in tension with current concepts of leadership? It might seem like a difficult balance to achieve. However, by delving into Peter's basic and presuppositional commitments, a clear picture of biblical leadership emerged. Using 1 Peter 5 as the investigative platform, thorough analysis revealed a Trinitarian belief structure underpinning Peter's concept of leadership. Significantly, the transition from simple fisherman to apostle demonstrated a radical transformation in both thought and application of leadership principles. Ultimately, a precise understanding of God's eternal character forms the bridge between theology and leadership theory, offering a glimpse of Trinitarian leadership as a paradigm for future study.

• When Servant Leadership Fails: The Importance of Values

  Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership

• Acknowledging Our Sin: A Protestant Confessional

  Ecumenical Trends

  Protestants disobey James 5:16. With that as a backdrop, this article seeks to identify a path to obey this command that is uniquely Protestant while drawing upon the history of Catholic and Orthodox branches of Christianity. A brief history of confession within the Catholic branch of Christianity is explored up until the Reformation. Then, a Protestant view of confession is discussed. Included are the questions of absolution, whether justified people need confession, and the contemporary Protestant method of accountability as a form of confession. The article continues by sketching a theology of confession that recognizes confession’s role in bringing sin to light, defining sin, highlighting sin’s destructiveness to relationships, and the future hope that is obtained through forgiveness. A Protestant form of confession is recommended with a description of how each step might take form within a Protestant context. Received Honorable Mention (Best Essay: Professional and Special Interest Magazines including Clergy and Religious), 2014.

• In Search of a Healthy Church: A Meta-Ethnographic Study

  Great Commission Research Journal

  After a brief literature review, eight of the primary contemporary church health resources are subjected to a meta-ethnographic study. The resources’ combined twenty-six health indicators are translated through the meta-themes of organizational structure, developing community, church characteristics, and personal characteristics. A discussion and visual synthesis of the translations point to the church literature developing community through organizational structure which in turn cultivates church and personal characteristics. Future research recommendations include expanding the study of church metaphors beyond “body” and identifying metaphor-speciWc characteristics through exegetical study.

• Who's Controlling Locus of Control?: Cross-Cultural LOC Usage

  International Journal of Leadership Studies

  Rotter’s Internal-External Locus of Control scale has been broadly used in both American contexts as well as in other cultures around the world. A review of the research that first transitioned this scale into other cultures shows a number of significant validity and reliability threats. Given that many more recent studies have based their validity and reliability on these earlier studies, it is important to understand the threats that existed so current research can strengthen the validity and reliability of this important scale across other cultures. Recommendations for various forms of validity and reliability are provided.

• Apprentices or Pupils? An Analysis of Teaching in the New Testament

  Evangelical Review of Theology

  This research uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to determine the emphasis of apprentice—based or pupil—based teaching in early Christian follower development. The quantitative analysis bases its results on domain of meaning words that are associated with the Greek word for teaching, didasko. The quantitative results suggested an emphasis towards apprenticeship. The qualitative analysis is based on human coder results. The results also tended to emphasize an apprenticeship model. This shift in meaning has impact on the development of followers and leaders in the church, Christian education, and disciple—making methods.

• Unusual Power: Leading with Gentleness

  Palgrave MacMillan

  While gentleness is not typically on a list of leadership characteristics, we can see from the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday that the concept of a gentle leader has both Old and New Testament roots. This chapter will analyze this type of gentle leadership that is able to flourish in the midst of resistance and injustice while finding leniency in the midst of judgment. The contemporary model of Social Power Base Theory provides a framework for applying these ancient insights to contemporary leaders. It is out of this comparison that not only a more fascinating understanding of biblical gentleness is seen but also how gentleness becomes exemplified by the cultural desire to see gentleness that offsets stern laws.

• Including The Perspective Of Christian Leadership: A Review Of The JBPL

  The Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership

  This article contains a scholarly review of the articles published in the Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership (JBPL) from 2006-2011. Each article is summarized with a listing of methodologies and leadership theories that the article interacts with. Four recommendations are made for future publications: (1) encourage the use of recognized qualitative research methods rather than a general exegetical approach; (2) encourage the use of inductive data analysis, especially in historical Hebrew and Christian sacred writing, rather than a deductive approach of identifying contemporary approaches in ancient literature; (3) call for papers that seek to add confirmability of theoretical material in modern contexts; and (4) continue to broaden the thematic elements of the journal.

• Benedictine Times: The Flow of Life in the Holy Rule

  Downside Review

  The Holy Rule of Saint Benedict provides the ecclesial leader with a structure for transforming believers over the course of their lives into worshippers who reflect God’s glory. Benedict presented a cyclical regulation of time that produces self-discipline for the purpose of focus upon the works of God in the moment. When the recognition of these God-moments is repeated throughout a lifetime, they produce a spiritually mature disciple with Christ-like attributes. Thus, the Rule perceives time in several dimensions including maturation, chronological, and sacral. Ecclesial leaders who apply these lessons will emphasize the benefits of relearning lessons and will reproduce these experiences in the lives of others with a radically Christ-centered emphasis.

• True Confession: An Interview with Russell Huizing

  Alliance Life

  This interview discusses the use of confession in Protestant church contexts.

• Mentoring Together: A Literature Review of Group Mentoring

  Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning

  Researchers have shown the benefits of mentoring in both personal and professional growth. It would seem that group mentoring would only enhance those benefits. This work represents a literature review of peerreviewed articles and dissertations that contribute to the theory and research of group mentoring. This work reviews the articles that contributed to the development of group mentoring theory as well as relevant research. Four primary types of group mentoring emerge—peer group, one-to-many, many-to-one, and many-to-many. Despite over 20 years of research, significant gaps remain in the research methods, demographic focus, and fields of study. The review concludes with recommendations for future research. - Top Viewed Article - 2012-16

• Editorial: Do We Really Need Another Academic Journal?

  Theology of Leadership Journal

  Introduction to the inaugural issue of the Theology of Leadership Journal.

• Beyond Shamrocks and Snakes: St. Patrick's Cross-Cultural Leadership

  Evangelical Journal

  Guiding the reader past the myths of St. Patrick, this research provides a qualitative assessment of his accepted writings within the context of the Ireland of his day. An overview of the political, theological, and ecclesiological assists in placing St. Patrick’s life within a historical context. Using two of his writings, Confession and The Epistle to the Soldiers of Coroticus, a thematic analysis detected four meta-themes: (a) God’s revelation to St. Patrick through written words, speech, and grace, (b) St. Patrick’s response to God’s revelation through faith and worship, (c) God’s response to the sinful deeds of His enemies with judgment, and (d) St. Patrick’s transformation shown through humility and integrity. These meta-themes provide a model for modern cross-cultural ecclesial leaders to follow. Specifically, the success of the effective cross-cultural ecclesial leader will be dependent upon the source of motivation, the response to that motivation, and the willingness to allow adaption.

• Finding Boundless Creativity Within the Boundaries of Authority: A Creational Leadership Model

  Scandinavian Journal for Leadership & Theology

  Using both a religious and secular example, this article seeks to understand the intersection between authority and creativity in leadership. A hermeneutic of semantic theory guided the analysis of the early chapters of Genesis, supporting the use of these two attributes in effective leadership. By allowing the world to be very good and yet not perfect, God offers humanity the potential to use authority and creativity in a way that reflects His own character. The prohibition that God establishes enhances rather than hinders humanity’s potential for authority and creativity by framing a context for these at- tributes to grow. Additionally, the contemporary leadership analysis suggests the importance of under- standing how authority, power, creativity, and freedom are associated with both leadership and followership. Here, again, the literature suggests that a boundary marking authority is needed for the fullest expression of creativity to occur. The question naturally arises as to what occurs when there are varying levels of authority and creativity in an organizational context. These varying levels result in the development of a model of leadership that seeks to understand the dimensions of Order and Freedom in four typologies measuring the degree of authority and creativity in organizational contexts and recommends a greater balance between authority and creativity for both leadership and followership.

• Grounded Dependability: Leading with Faithfulness

  Palgrave MacMillan

  An implicit requirement of successful organization outcomes is the faithfulness of both leaders and followers. David’s faithfulness to the faithless king Saul becomes a helpful biblical example. This chapter will analyze a biblical understanding of faithfulness and its application to organizational leadership. This analysis will show faithfulness to be not only a characteristic of God but also an expression of one’s standing with God, with others, and with one’s own adherence to the beliefs that govern their life. From the covenant of the Old Testament to the authenticity of Greek understanding to the endurance under suffering of the New Testament, this characteristic has several important applications to contemporary organizations. These applications are applied to a contemporary example of funeral directors.

• Identifying Leaders: The African Eunuch as a Model of Christian Leadership

  Neotestamentica

  Luke’s account of the African eunuch in Acts 8:26–40 provides for the modern reader a glimpse into how the early church recognised its leaders. Using socio-rhetorical criticism, the ideological texture of the passage is studied, distinguishing principles within the text similar to the modern theoretical concepts of organisational identity and leadership identification. Drawn from the ideology of Luke are recommendations on using identity as indication of leadership development.

• Controlled but Not Controlling: Leading with Self-Control

  Palgrave MacMillan

  Contemporary leadership contexts are rife with stress, competitiveness, and demanding expectations. These contexts litter the newsfeed with examples of leaders who have lost control either in their professional or personal lives. Genesis provides the story of Joseph and his inimitable degree of self-control in the presence of those who have forgotten and forsaken him. Out of this study of mastering, curbing, and restraining one’s desires and passions one might wrongly deduce that self-control limits freedom. However, the study of ancient material suggests just the opposite – that it is out of freedom that the most effective self-control is cultivated. This then begins to explain an aspect of the effective leadership characterized by Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, and police officers.

• What is Christmas Really?

  Life and Leisure, NJ

  A seasonal article in a community paper examining the biblical basis and meaning of Christmas. Republished annually since 2004.

• A Trinitarian Leadership Model: Insights from the Apostle Peter

  Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

  The integration of biblical principles with leadership theory has proven a monumental undertaking. Can such principles actually guide Christian leaders even though they are sometimes in tension with current concepts of leadership? It might seem like a difficult balance to achieve. However, by delving into Peter's basic and presuppositional commitments, a clear picture of biblical leadership emerged. Using 1 Peter 5 as the investigative platform, thorough analysis revealed a Trinitarian belief structure underpinning Peter's concept of leadership. Significantly, the transition from simple fisherman to apostle demonstrated a radical transformation in both thought and application of leadership principles. Ultimately, a precise understanding of God's eternal character forms the bridge between theology and leadership theory, offering a glimpse of Trinitarian leadership as a paradigm for future study.

• When Servant Leadership Fails: The Importance of Values

  Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership

• Acknowledging Our Sin: A Protestant Confessional

  Ecumenical Trends

  Protestants disobey James 5:16. With that as a backdrop, this article seeks to identify a path to obey this command that is uniquely Protestant while drawing upon the history of Catholic and Orthodox branches of Christianity. A brief history of confession within the Catholic branch of Christianity is explored up until the Reformation. Then, a Protestant view of confession is discussed. Included are the questions of absolution, whether justified people need confession, and the contemporary Protestant method of accountability as a form of confession. The article continues by sketching a theology of confession that recognizes confession’s role in bringing sin to light, defining sin, highlighting sin’s destructiveness to relationships, and the future hope that is obtained through forgiveness. A Protestant form of confession is recommended with a description of how each step might take form within a Protestant context. Received Honorable Mention (Best Essay: Professional and Special Interest Magazines including Clergy and Religious), 2014.

• In Search of a Healthy Church: A Meta-Ethnographic Study

  Great Commission Research Journal

  After a brief literature review, eight of the primary contemporary church health resources are subjected to a meta-ethnographic study. The resources’ combined twenty-six health indicators are translated through the meta-themes of organizational structure, developing community, church characteristics, and personal characteristics. A discussion and visual synthesis of the translations point to the church literature developing community through organizational structure which in turn cultivates church and personal characteristics. Future research recommendations include expanding the study of church metaphors beyond “body” and identifying metaphor-speciWc characteristics through exegetical study.

• Who's Controlling Locus of Control?: Cross-Cultural LOC Usage

  International Journal of Leadership Studies

  Rotter’s Internal-External Locus of Control scale has been broadly used in both American contexts as well as in other cultures around the world. A review of the research that first transitioned this scale into other cultures shows a number of significant validity and reliability threats. Given that many more recent studies have based their validity and reliability on these earlier studies, it is important to understand the threats that existed so current research can strengthen the validity and reliability of this important scale across other cultures. Recommendations for various forms of validity and reliability are provided.

• Apprentices or Pupils? An Analysis of Teaching in the New Testament

  Evangelical Review of Theology

  This research uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to determine the emphasis of apprentice—based or pupil—based teaching in early Christian follower development. The quantitative analysis bases its results on domain of meaning words that are associated with the Greek word for teaching, didasko. The quantitative results suggested an emphasis towards apprenticeship. The qualitative analysis is based on human coder results. The results also tended to emphasize an apprenticeship model. This shift in meaning has impact on the development of followers and leaders in the church, Christian education, and disciple—making methods.

• Unusual Power: Leading with Gentleness

  Palgrave MacMillan

  While gentleness is not typically on a list of leadership characteristics, we can see from the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday that the concept of a gentle leader has both Old and New Testament roots. This chapter will analyze this type of gentle leadership that is able to flourish in the midst of resistance and injustice while finding leniency in the midst of judgment. The contemporary model of Social Power Base Theory provides a framework for applying these ancient insights to contemporary leaders. It is out of this comparison that not only a more fascinating understanding of biblical gentleness is seen but also how gentleness becomes exemplified by the cultural desire to see gentleness that offsets stern laws.

• Including The Perspective Of Christian Leadership: A Review Of The JBPL

  The Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership

  This article contains a scholarly review of the articles published in the Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership (JBPL) from 2006-2011. Each article is summarized with a listing of methodologies and leadership theories that the article interacts with. Four recommendations are made for future publications: (1) encourage the use of recognized qualitative research methods rather than a general exegetical approach; (2) encourage the use of inductive data analysis, especially in historical Hebrew and Christian sacred writing, rather than a deductive approach of identifying contemporary approaches in ancient literature; (3) call for papers that seek to add confirmability of theoretical material in modern contexts; and (4) continue to broaden the thematic elements of the journal.

• Benedictine Times: The Flow of Life in the Holy Rule

  Downside Review

  The Holy Rule of Saint Benedict provides the ecclesial leader with a structure for transforming believers over the course of their lives into worshippers who reflect God’s glory. Benedict presented a cyclical regulation of time that produces self-discipline for the purpose of focus upon the works of God in the moment. When the recognition of these God-moments is repeated throughout a lifetime, they produce a spiritually mature disciple with Christ-like attributes. Thus, the Rule perceives time in several dimensions including maturation, chronological, and sacral. Ecclesial leaders who apply these lessons will emphasize the benefits of relearning lessons and will reproduce these experiences in the lives of others with a radically Christ-centered emphasis.

• True Confession: An Interview with Russell Huizing

  Alliance Life

  This interview discusses the use of confession in Protestant church contexts.

• Mentoring Together: A Literature Review of Group Mentoring

  Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning

  Researchers have shown the benefits of mentoring in both personal and professional growth. It would seem that group mentoring would only enhance those benefits. This work represents a literature review of peerreviewed articles and dissertations that contribute to the theory and research of group mentoring. This work reviews the articles that contributed to the development of group mentoring theory as well as relevant research. Four primary types of group mentoring emerge—peer group, one-to-many, many-to-one, and many-to-many. Despite over 20 years of research, significant gaps remain in the research methods, demographic focus, and fields of study. The review concludes with recommendations for future research. - Top Viewed Article - 2012-16

• Editorial: Do We Really Need Another Academic Journal?

  Theology of Leadership Journal

  Introduction to the inaugural issue of the Theology of Leadership Journal.

• Beyond Shamrocks and Snakes: St. Patrick's Cross-Cultural Leadership

  Evangelical Journal

  Guiding the reader past the myths of St. Patrick, this research provides a qualitative assessment of his accepted writings within the context of the Ireland of his day. An overview of the political, theological, and ecclesiological assists in placing St. Patrick’s life within a historical context. Using two of his writings, Confession and The Epistle to the Soldiers of Coroticus, a thematic analysis detected four meta-themes: (a) God’s revelation to St. Patrick through written words, speech, and grace, (b) St. Patrick’s response to God’s revelation through faith and worship, (c) God’s response to the sinful deeds of His enemies with judgment, and (d) St. Patrick’s transformation shown through humility and integrity. These meta-themes provide a model for modern cross-cultural ecclesial leaders to follow. Specifically, the success of the effective cross-cultural ecclesial leader will be dependent upon the source of motivation, the response to that motivation, and the willingness to allow adaption.

• Finding Boundless Creativity Within the Boundaries of Authority: A Creational Leadership Model

  Scandinavian Journal for Leadership & Theology

  Using both a religious and secular example, this article seeks to understand the intersection between authority and creativity in leadership. A hermeneutic of semantic theory guided the analysis of the early chapters of Genesis, supporting the use of these two attributes in effective leadership. By allowing the world to be very good and yet not perfect, God offers humanity the potential to use authority and creativity in a way that reflects His own character. The prohibition that God establishes enhances rather than hinders humanity’s potential for authority and creativity by framing a context for these at- tributes to grow. Additionally, the contemporary leadership analysis suggests the importance of under- standing how authority, power, creativity, and freedom are associated with both leadership and followership. Here, again, the literature suggests that a boundary marking authority is needed for the fullest expression of creativity to occur. The question naturally arises as to what occurs when there are varying levels of authority and creativity in an organizational context. These varying levels result in the development of a model of leadership that seeks to understand the dimensions of Order and Freedom in four typologies measuring the degree of authority and creativity in organizational contexts and recommends a greater balance between authority and creativity for both leadership and followership.

• Grounded Dependability: Leading with Faithfulness

  Palgrave MacMillan

  An implicit requirement of successful organization outcomes is the faithfulness of both leaders and followers. David’s faithfulness to the faithless king Saul becomes a helpful biblical example. This chapter will analyze a biblical understanding of faithfulness and its application to organizational leadership. This analysis will show faithfulness to be not only a characteristic of God but also an expression of one’s standing with God, with others, and with one’s own adherence to the beliefs that govern their life. From the covenant of the Old Testament to the authenticity of Greek understanding to the endurance under suffering of the New Testament, this characteristic has several important applications to contemporary organizations. These applications are applied to a contemporary example of funeral directors.

• Identifying Leaders: The African Eunuch as a Model of Christian Leadership

  Neotestamentica

  Luke’s account of the African eunuch in Acts 8:26–40 provides for the modern reader a glimpse into how the early church recognised its leaders. Using socio-rhetorical criticism, the ideological texture of the passage is studied, distinguishing principles within the text similar to the modern theoretical concepts of organisational identity and leadership identification. Drawn from the ideology of Luke are recommendations on using identity as indication of leadership development.

• Infidelity! Finding Faithfulness in Grace and Engager

  Ethics: The Old Testament, The New Testament, and Contemporary Application

  This chapter uses an expository exegesis to examine the value of faithfulness through the ethics of graciousness and engager. Hosea’s behavior exhibits the value of faithfulness expressed through his engager with God and graciousness towards Gomer, who, in turn, hopefully, will engager with Hosea. As indicated in the text, this is reflective of God’s relationship with His people. Engager is defined as partnering together to accomplish shared values. It is more than loyalty and more than commitment; it is a purposeful pursuit even in the darkness. Thus, to become faithful, one must embrace the ethics of engager and graciousness. However, the paradox of engager and graciousness with God is that the values gravitating around are not some Platonic form that is outside of God – the values of God are the character of God Himself. Therefore, with the example of faithfulness, it is God’s faithfulness that is being gravitated around by those who engager with Him and are gracious to others. Ultimately, then, God is the image of ethics and values.

• Controlled but Not Controlling: Leading with Self-Control

  Palgrave MacMillan

  Contemporary leadership contexts are rife with stress, competitiveness, and demanding expectations. These contexts litter the newsfeed with examples of leaders who have lost control either in their professional or personal lives. Genesis provides the story of Joseph and his inimitable degree of self-control in the presence of those who have forgotten and forsaken him. Out of this study of mastering, curbing, and restraining one’s desires and passions one might wrongly deduce that self-control limits freedom. However, the study of ancient material suggests just the opposite – that it is out of freedom that the most effective self-control is cultivated. This then begins to explain an aspect of the effective leadership characterized by Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, and police officers.

• What is Christmas Really?

  Life and Leisure, NJ

  A seasonal article in a community paper examining the biblical basis and meaning of Christmas. Republished annually since 2004.

• A Trinitarian Leadership Model: Insights from the Apostle Peter

  Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

  The integration of biblical principles with leadership theory has proven a monumental undertaking. Can such principles actually guide Christian leaders even though they are sometimes in tension with current concepts of leadership? It might seem like a difficult balance to achieve. However, by delving into Peter's basic and presuppositional commitments, a clear picture of biblical leadership emerged. Using 1 Peter 5 as the investigative platform, thorough analysis revealed a Trinitarian belief structure underpinning Peter's concept of leadership. Significantly, the transition from simple fisherman to apostle demonstrated a radical transformation in both thought and application of leadership principles. Ultimately, a precise understanding of God's eternal character forms the bridge between theology and leadership theory, offering a glimpse of Trinitarian leadership as a paradigm for future study.

• When Servant Leadership Fails: The Importance of Values

  Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership

• Acknowledging Our Sin: A Protestant Confessional

  Ecumenical Trends

  Protestants disobey James 5:16. With that as a backdrop, this article seeks to identify a path to obey this command that is uniquely Protestant while drawing upon the history of Catholic and Orthodox branches of Christianity. A brief history of confession within the Catholic branch of Christianity is explored up until the Reformation. Then, a Protestant view of confession is discussed. Included are the questions of absolution, whether justified people need confession, and the contemporary Protestant method of accountability as a form of confession. The article continues by sketching a theology of confession that recognizes confession’s role in bringing sin to light, defining sin, highlighting sin’s destructiveness to relationships, and the future hope that is obtained through forgiveness. A Protestant form of confession is recommended with a description of how each step might take form within a Protestant context. Received Honorable Mention (Best Essay: Professional and Special Interest Magazines including Clergy and Religious), 2014.

• In Search of a Healthy Church: A Meta-Ethnographic Study

  Great Commission Research Journal

  After a brief literature review, eight of the primary contemporary church health resources are subjected to a meta-ethnographic study. The resources’ combined twenty-six health indicators are translated through the meta-themes of organizational structure, developing community, church characteristics, and personal characteristics. A discussion and visual synthesis of the translations point to the church literature developing community through organizational structure which in turn cultivates church and personal characteristics. Future research recommendations include expanding the study of church metaphors beyond “body” and identifying metaphor-speciWc characteristics through exegetical study.

• Who's Controlling Locus of Control?: Cross-Cultural LOC Usage

  International Journal of Leadership Studies

  Rotter’s Internal-External Locus of Control scale has been broadly used in both American contexts as well as in other cultures around the world. A review of the research that first transitioned this scale into other cultures shows a number of significant validity and reliability threats. Given that many more recent studies have based their validity and reliability on these earlier studies, it is important to understand the threats that existed so current research can strengthen the validity and reliability of this important scale across other cultures. Recommendations for various forms of validity and reliability are provided.

• Apprentices or Pupils? An Analysis of Teaching in the New Testament

  Evangelical Review of Theology

  This research uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to determine the emphasis of apprentice—based or pupil—based teaching in early Christian follower development. The quantitative analysis bases its results on domain of meaning words that are associated with the Greek word for teaching, didasko. The quantitative results suggested an emphasis towards apprenticeship. The qualitative analysis is based on human coder results. The results also tended to emphasize an apprenticeship model. This shift in meaning has impact on the development of followers and leaders in the church, Christian education, and disciple—making methods.

• Unusual Power: Leading with Gentleness

  Palgrave MacMillan

  While gentleness is not typically on a list of leadership characteristics, we can see from the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday that the concept of a gentle leader has both Old and New Testament roots. This chapter will analyze this type of gentle leadership that is able to flourish in the midst of resistance and injustice while finding leniency in the midst of judgment. The contemporary model of Social Power Base Theory provides a framework for applying these ancient insights to contemporary leaders. It is out of this comparison that not only a more fascinating understanding of biblical gentleness is seen but also how gentleness becomes exemplified by the cultural desire to see gentleness that offsets stern laws.

• Including The Perspective Of Christian Leadership: A Review Of The JBPL

  The Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership

  This article contains a scholarly review of the articles published in the Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership (JBPL) from 2006-2011. Each article is summarized with a listing of methodologies and leadership theories that the article interacts with. Four recommendations are made for future publications: (1) encourage the use of recognized qualitative research methods rather than a general exegetical approach; (2) encourage the use of inductive data analysis, especially in historical Hebrew and Christian sacred writing, rather than a deductive approach of identifying contemporary approaches in ancient literature; (3) call for papers that seek to add confirmability of theoretical material in modern contexts; and (4) continue to broaden the thematic elements of the journal.

• Benedictine Times: The Flow of Life in the Holy Rule

  Downside Review

  The Holy Rule of Saint Benedict provides the ecclesial leader with a structure for transforming believers over the course of their lives into worshippers who reflect God’s glory. Benedict presented a cyclical regulation of time that produces self-discipline for the purpose of focus upon the works of God in the moment. When the recognition of these God-moments is repeated throughout a lifetime, they produce a spiritually mature disciple with Christ-like attributes. Thus, the Rule perceives time in several dimensions including maturation, chronological, and sacral. Ecclesial leaders who apply these lessons will emphasize the benefits of relearning lessons and will reproduce these experiences in the lives of others with a radically Christ-centered emphasis.

• True Confession: An Interview with Russell Huizing

  Alliance Life

  This interview discusses the use of confession in Protestant church contexts.

• Mentoring Together: A Literature Review of Group Mentoring

  Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning

  Researchers have shown the benefits of mentoring in both personal and professional growth. It would seem that group mentoring would only enhance those benefits. This work represents a literature review of peerreviewed articles and dissertations that contribute to the theory and research of group mentoring. This work reviews the articles that contributed to the development of group mentoring theory as well as relevant research. Four primary types of group mentoring emerge—peer group, one-to-many, many-to-one, and many-to-many. Despite over 20 years of research, significant gaps remain in the research methods, demographic focus, and fields of study. The review concludes with recommendations for future research. - Top Viewed Article - 2012-16

• Editorial: Do We Really Need Another Academic Journal?

  Theology of Leadership Journal

  Introduction to the inaugural issue of the Theology of Leadership Journal.

• Beyond Shamrocks and Snakes: St. Patrick's Cross-Cultural Leadership

  Evangelical Journal

  Guiding the reader past the myths of St. Patrick, this research provides a qualitative assessment of his accepted writings within the context of the Ireland of his day. An overview of the political, theological, and ecclesiological assists in placing St. Patrick’s life within a historical context. Using two of his writings, Confession and The Epistle to the Soldiers of Coroticus, a thematic analysis detected four meta-themes: (a) God’s revelation to St. Patrick through written words, speech, and grace, (b) St. Patrick’s response to God’s revelation through faith and worship, (c) God’s response to the sinful deeds of His enemies with judgment, and (d) St. Patrick’s transformation shown through humility and integrity. These meta-themes provide a model for modern cross-cultural ecclesial leaders to follow. Specifically, the success of the effective cross-cultural ecclesial leader will be dependent upon the source of motivation, the response to that motivation, and the willingness to allow adaption.

• Finding Boundless Creativity Within the Boundaries of Authority: A Creational Leadership Model

  Scandinavian Journal for Leadership & Theology

  Using both a religious and secular example, this article seeks to understand the intersection between authority and creativity in leadership. A hermeneutic of semantic theory guided the analysis of the early chapters of Genesis, supporting the use of these two attributes in effective leadership. By allowing the world to be very good and yet not perfect, God offers humanity the potential to use authority and creativity in a way that reflects His own character. The prohibition that God establishes enhances rather than hinders humanity’s potential for authority and creativity by framing a context for these at- tributes to grow. Additionally, the contemporary leadership analysis suggests the importance of under- standing how authority, power, creativity, and freedom are associated with both leadership and followership. Here, again, the literature suggests that a boundary marking authority is needed for the fullest expression of creativity to occur. The question naturally arises as to what occurs when there are varying levels of authority and creativity in an organizational context. These varying levels result in the development of a model of leadership that seeks to understand the dimensions of Order and Freedom in four typologies measuring the degree of authority and creativity in organizational contexts and recommends a greater balance between authority and creativity for both leadership and followership.

• Grounded Dependability: Leading with Faithfulness

  Palgrave MacMillan

  An implicit requirement of successful organization outcomes is the faithfulness of both leaders and followers. David’s faithfulness to the faithless king Saul becomes a helpful biblical example. This chapter will analyze a biblical understanding of faithfulness and its application to organizational leadership. This analysis will show faithfulness to be not only a characteristic of God but also an expression of one’s standing with God, with others, and with one’s own adherence to the beliefs that govern their life. From the covenant of the Old Testament to the authenticity of Greek understanding to the endurance under suffering of the New Testament, this characteristic has several important applications to contemporary organizations. These applications are applied to a contemporary example of funeral directors.

• Identifying Leaders: The African Eunuch as a Model of Christian Leadership

  Neotestamentica

  Luke’s account of the African eunuch in Acts 8:26–40 provides for the modern reader a glimpse into how the early church recognised its leaders. Using socio-rhetorical criticism, the ideological texture of the passage is studied, distinguishing principles within the text similar to the modern theoretical concepts of organisational identity and leadership identification. Drawn from the ideology of Luke are recommendations on using identity as indication of leadership development.

• Infidelity! Finding Faithfulness in Grace and Engager

  Ethics: The Old Testament, The New Testament, and Contemporary Application

  This chapter uses an expository exegesis to examine the value of faithfulness through the ethics of graciousness and engager. Hosea’s behavior exhibits the value of faithfulness expressed through his engager with God and graciousness towards Gomer, who, in turn, hopefully, will engager with Hosea. As indicated in the text, this is reflective of God’s relationship with His people. Engager is defined as partnering together to accomplish shared values. It is more than loyalty and more than commitment; it is a purposeful pursuit even in the darkness. Thus, to become faithful, one must embrace the ethics of engager and graciousness. However, the paradox of engager and graciousness with God is that the values gravitating around are not some Platonic form that is outside of God – the values of God are the character of God Himself. Therefore, with the example of faithfulness, it is God’s faithfulness that is being gravitated around by those who engager with Him and are gracious to others. Ultimately, then, God is the image of ethics and values.

• Acting on Your Confession

  Before You Quit: Bringing Courage and Perspective When Serving Gets Hard

  Hear out Dr. Huizing's burden to see the church, and the pastor, discover the joy and freedom that comes from confessing outwardly to others, as well as up to God. What does it mean to act out your confession? You will listen in on an honest conversation about why pastors and church leaders are often reluctant to share their struggles with others and the consequences can ultimately be disastrous. We hear about it too often.