Browsing Dissertations and Research Portfolios by Subject "Spiritual life"
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Being Transformed to Help Others Transform: Exploring Spiritual Formation and the Life-Changing Power of Lectio Divina
(Tyndale University, 2023-11)This Research Portfolio explores the theme “Being Transformed to Help Others Transform: Exploring Spiritual Formation and The Life-Changing Power of Lectio Divina.” It encompasses the knowledge of God, self-awareness, and ... -
Building Resilience in Korean Canadian Leaders at Non-Profit Organizations in Toronto
(Tyndale University, 2023-01)This Research Portfolio was written to complete my Doctor of Ministry (DMin) program at Tyndale University in Toronto, Ontario. It describes how I changed from an agnostic to a Christian and from a worldly leader to a ... -
Developing Mutual Spiritual Intimacy Among the Leaders of Walking on the Water Ministries Through the Use of Ruth Haley Barton's Book Pursuing God's Will Together
(Tyndale University, 2020-06)This research project used Ruth Haley Barton's book Pursuing God's Will Together, as a tool to develop mutual spiritual intimacy among the leaders of Walking on the Water Ministries. Sessions were completed with the ... -
A Didactic Approach to Spiritual Formation: Integrating Spiritual Practices to the Seminary Curriculum of the Diaspora of Chinese Students in Panama, Central America
(Tyndale University, 2022-03)An awareness of God’s presence and a capacity to hear Him are two important elements to cultivate an intimate relationship with God for spiritual growth. This research portfolio seeks to answer the question: Will prayer ... -
A Formational Process to Help Ministry Leaders Engage in Inner Work
(Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2013-04)Engagement in inner work is important for ministry leaders because there is relationship between the development of the inner person and the exercise of leadership in the public arena. This research project facilitates the ... -
Grace Leads to Joy: Spiritual Formation and the Examen
(Tyndale University, 2021-02)The purpose of this portfolio was to study how best to lead church congregants in Christian spiritual discernment toward spiritual formation. This portfolio begins with the author’s spiritual autobiography and with that ... -
Implementing the Appreciative Inquiry Approach to Revitalize the Church of Pentecost Canada
(Tyndale University, 2020-09)The Church of Pentecost Canada is an ethnic Pentecostal denomination with roots from Ghana. Over the last thirty years she has grown numerically, spiritually and geographically across Canada. However, the church is confronted ... -
An Integrative Model of Spiritual Formation: Incorporating Practices from Christian Spirituality and Psychotherapy
(Tyndale University, 2020-06)This portfolio presents an integrative approach to Christian spiritual formation that refutes the dualism of the modern era. This dualism, which has dominated the western world for approximately three hundred years, places ... -
Intentionality in the Practice of Spiritual Disciplines: A Case Study
(Tyndale University, 2023-02)In this research portfolio, the author will answer the following questions: What place should spiritual disciplines have in the life of a Christian and how does the Christian need to be intentional in the practice of them? ... -
The Knowledge of God and the Knowledge of Self: Exploring Spiritual Formation Via Discernment and the MBTI®
(Tyndale University, 2020-08)In this Research Portfolio, the author explores spiritual formation through growing in the knowledge of God and in the knowledge of God and in the knowledge of self. The specific avenue for exploring growing in the knowledge ... -
Listening to God: the Key to Spiritual Formation for Salvationists and All People
(Tyndale University, 2023-02)Having a relationship with God implies communication with Him. How do we communicate with God? How do we know what He is saying? Through the process of writing her spiritual autobiography during the COVID-19 pandemic, the ... -
Practicing Community: Postures and Practices for Spiritual Formation
(Tyndale University, 2023-12)This Research Portfolio explores the ministry of spiritual formation through the development of Practicing Communities (PCs) in Christian congregations. Aspects of individualism in my personal life and spiritual communities ... -
A Psychospiritual Approach to Christian Spiritual Formation
(Tyndale University, 2023-02)This research portfolio presents an integrated psychospiritual approach to Christian spiritual formation. It arose from the author’s reflection on her own spiritual journey, from her professional experience as a psychotherapist, ... -
The Sanctified Journey : Labyrinths and Gospel Contemplation in a Wesleyan Context
(Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2019-11)Spiritual formation is the process of following Jesus and how we become like him. Although some view this process as a linear experience, the pattern of a labyrinth is another way to describe this spiritual journey. The ... -
Transformation: How God's Ongoing Work Through Preaching Can Impact a Congregation
(Tyndale University, 2020-03)This portfolio describes the way that God's transforming work in the life of a preacher can impact a congregation. It focuses specifically on a preacher's life, context, and congregation and God's work in each of these ...