Student Scholarship: Recent submissions
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Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Ministry to Members of First Baptist Church, Montreal During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Tyndale University, 2023-03)In its nearly two-hundred-year existence in the city, First Baptist Church has seen the best and worst of life in Montreal. Still, the current congregation shows no signs of giving up our corporate goal to be "A House of ... -
Developing a Method for Growing in Intimacy with the Triune God Through Knowing, Being and Doing
(Tyndale University, 2023-02)In this Research Portfolio, the author develops a method for growing in intimacy with God, through faith in Jesus Christ, empowered by the Spirit using the metaphor of a fruit bearing tree. The method is developed in three ... -
A Collaborative Model to Increase Confidence for Preaching in Young Adults at Rosthern Seventh-day Adventist Church, Saskatchewan
(Tyndale University, 2023-03)This portfolio aimed to develop a collaborative model with six young adults of the Rosthern Seventh-day Adventist Church, Saskatchewan, to increase their confidence for preaching. A three-phase process was required to train ... -
Assessing the Impact of Morning and Evening Prayer on the Spiritual Formation of the Wardens within the Parish of St. James and Christ Church
(Tyndale University, 2023-02)This action research project focused primarily on the spiritual and devotional aspects of the Anglican liturgy and its impact, or lack thereof. The project's participants were the Wardens (who in collaboration with the ... -
Social Media Usage, Narcissism, and Romantic Relationship Quality: A Correlational Analysis
(Tyndale University, 2023-04)Research has shown an increase in narcissism in the general population over time (Twenge & Campbell, 2009). One reason for this phenomenon is due to social media and its features such as likes, comments, and follows that ... -
The Relationship between Parenting Style and a Child’s Emotional Intelligence
(Tyndale University, 2023-03)The relationship between a parents’ parenting style, a child’s emotional intelligence scores, and whether or not the child grew up in a household with two parents was measured in a sample of undergraduate students at Tyndale ... -
Three Dimensions of Spiritual Formation: Grow Deep, Grow High, Grow Wide
(Tyndale University, 2022-09)In this research portfolio, the author articulates spiritual formation using a model that involves three dimensions, Grow Deep, Grow High, Grow Wide. This will be explored through three avenues. The first is a spiritual ... -
Estrangement, Resettlement & Community: A Qualitative Study of Post-2019 HK Diasporic Young Adults at a Chinese Canadian Church
(Tyndale University, 2023-04)Many Hong Kong citizens have emigrated from Hong Kong (HK) to countries such as Canada after the 2019 political unrests. The HK diaspora have their own narratives in leaving their communities to settle in a foreign country. ... -
The Importance of Hearing God in the Spiritual Formation of Chinese Christians of Immigrant Background
(Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2018-01)Christian spiritual formation is a process of being conformed to the image of Christ. A Christlike Christian will be a convincing witness for Christ. The focus of this portfolio is to help Chinese immigrant Christians in ... -
Communal Discernment in Organizational Planning: Interweaving, Inclusive and Incarnational Approaches to Missional Direction-Setting in Christian Churches and Organizations
(Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2012-02)This research project explores and illuminates ways that practices of communal discernment can be interwoven with organizational planning processes to help a church or organization gain greater clarity around missional ... -
Encountering God's Healing through Holistic Spiritual Formation
(Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2019-03)This portfolio begins by way of a spiritual autobiography to explore how the Lord has introduced me to different kinds of beauty, in an effort to bring about transformative beauty in my own life. These include the beauty ... -
Transformation Happens at the Margins: Shaping Beatitudinal Character of Volunteers By Embracing Excluded, Marginalized, Inconvenient Others at Drop-In Centres
(Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2015-04)Jesus said "you cannot serve two masters." Yet, in the Western, Middle-Class Church (marked by syncretism) the world's ways (which exclude "inconvenient others") conflict with Jesus' ways (of embracing them). Consequentially, ... -
An Action-Research Project Investigating what Helps and Hinders Students Connected to Power to Change to Share the Gospel with Others
(Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2017-09)The purpose of this action-research was to identify factors that helped and hindered sharing the gospel by post-secondary Christian students in contact with Power to Change. Barrier and facilitating factors were identified ... -
John Wesley's Doctrine of Prevenient Grace & Its Import for Christian Missions
(Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2009-05)This thesis is an examination of John Wesley's doctrine of prevenient grace. In this work, the following question has been addressed: What did John Wesley think prevenient grace was and did, and what contribution does this ... -
A Model for Fostering Relational Growth by Using Appreciative Inquiry at New Life Adventist Church in Oshawa, Ontario
(Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2018-03)This project introduced the Appreciative Inquiry process to the New Life Seventh-day Adventist Church in Oshawa for the purpose of fostering positive change towards increased loving relationships with one another. The ... -
Emotional Intelligence and Relationship Quality
(Tyndale University, 2020)This paper explores the relationship between friendship quality and emotional intelligence. Specifically, self- and other-focused emotional intelligence was investigated. Emotional intelligence is a term which encompasses ... -
The Impact of Emotional Intelligence and Culture on Emotion Recognition in Music
(Tyndale University, 2020)Do culture and emotional intelligence have an impact on emotion-recognition abilities in music? I hypothesized that people from one culture would more accurately recognize the emotions in instrumental music from their ... -
Faith and Works: A Study of Martin Luther's and John Calvin's Understanding of James 2:14-26
(Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2006-04)It is fundamental for Christians to know that salvation is by grace through faith and not through works, even as good works certainly have a part to play in the Christian life and should be expected in everyone who has ... -
Using Appreciative Inquiry and Focused Sermons to Move Congregational Members of Cedarview Church in Paris Ontario to Develop Friendships with Non-Christian Neighbours
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Practical Enhancements to Willow Creek’s Spiritual Continuum: Prayer, Mentoring, Small Groups, and the Cross
(Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2017-08)This project explores in three parts the connection between mentoring, growth in personal prayer practices, and spiritual growth. The first part looks at how mentoring and personal prayer practices influenced my personal ...