Vita Education Th.D. (NT), Central Baptist Seminary (MN), 1998 Dissertation: "Temporal Deixis of the Greek Verb in the Gospel of Mark in Light of Verbal Aspect" Th.M., Detroit Baptist Seminary, 1980 M.Div., Baptist Bible School of Theology (PA), 1978 B.R.E., Baptist Bible College, 1974

Ministry

• 12 years pastoral ministry
  Fellowship Baptist Church, Glen Mills, PA, 1978-79
  Calvary Baptist Church, Ecorse, MI, 1980-82
  The Country Church, Caro, MI, 1982-90
• Instructor in Bible, theology, and biblical languages, Calvary Bible College, Kansas City, MO, 1990-93
• Assistant Professor, NT and theology, Calvary Theological  Seminary, Kansas City, MO, 1993-96
• Adjunct Professor of NT, Central Baptist Seminary, Minneapolis, MN, 1994-95.
• Associate Professor of NT, Baptist Bible Seminary, Clarks Summit, PA, 1996-.
• Courses taught at the MDiv level include the first three semesters of Greek (in a 3 year curriculum), NT textual criticism, and survey of Greek literature (non-NT koine reading). At the PhD level: intertextuality (= use of OT in NT), NT biblical theology, advanced Greek grammar, and NT textual criticism.

Publications

Books

La Biblia en Nuestro Idioma. Lima, Peru, SA, Seminario Teologico Bautista, 2004. (One portion of the lecture series noted below.)

Temporal Deixis of the Greek Verb in the Gospel of Mark with Reference to Verbal Aspect. Studies in Biblical Greek, v. 10. Edited by D. A. Carson. New York: Peter Lang, 2000.  See the page devoted to this book.

The English Bible. Kansas City: Calvary Theological Seminary, 1993.

Contemporary Dispensationalism. Kansas City: Calvary Theological Seminary, 1992.

The Expositor's Toolbox. Co-edited with James Raiford. Kansas City: Calvary Theological Seminary, 1992.

Books in Process

A Koine Greek Reader (New Testament, Septuagint, Apostolic Fathers, Creeds), in negotiation with a publisher as of '05.

Another vol. on the Gospel of Mark that is not yet ready for announcement, but hopefully will be soon.

Lectureships

"The English Bible." Calvary Bible College (Kansas City) lecture series, 2/16 17/1993.

The Clearwater Lectures, Central Baptist Seminary of Virginia Beach, VA, "Twisted Text? The NT's Uses of the OT," Oct. 14, 2002.

La Biblia en Nuestro Idioma. Seminario Teologico Bautista, Lima, Peru, SA, Oct. 2004.

Articles in Works Edited by Others

"Adapting Technology to Teach Koine Greek." In Studying the Greek New Testament: Papers from the SBL Greek Language and Linguistics Section. Edited by S. E. Porter and M. B. O'Donnell. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, forthcoming 2005.

"Dispensationalism." In Encyclopedia of the Great Plains. Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2004.

The Dictionary of Premillennial Theology, contributor. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1997. (Articles: "new covenant, theology of"; "new covenant, dispensational views of"; and "people of God.")

Journal Articles

"Polity and the Elder Issue." Grace Theological Journal 9 (1988) 257-78.

"The New Covenant and the Church." BibliothecaSacra 152 (1995): 290-305, 431-56 (2 part series).

"The Semantic Range of νῦν in the Gospels as Related to Temporal Deixis." Trinity Journal 16 ns (1995): 187-217.

"The Use of εὐθύς ('immediately') in Mark." Journal of Ministry and Theology 1.1 (1997): 90-121. (An earlier version is online.)

"Review Article: Mari Olsen, A Semantic and Pragmatic Model of Lexical and Grammatical Aspect. Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics. New York: Garland, 1997." Journal of Ministry and Theology 2.1 (1998): 110?20.

"Studies in Hebrews." 6-part series, Journal of Ministry and Theology. Part 1: "The Original Readers of Hebrews," 3.2 (1999): 20-49; Part 2: "The Intentional Structure of Hebrews," 4.2 (fall 2000): 80-105; Part 3: "The Warnings of Hebrews 3-4," 5.1 (spring 2001): 5-27; Part 4: "The Warning of Hebrews 6," 5.2 (fall 2001): 26-48; Part 5: "The Exhortations of Hebrews 10:19-25," 6.1 (spring 2002): 44-62. Part 6: "Trampling the Son of God Under Foot: The Warning of Hebrews 10:26-31," 6.2 (fall 2002): 30-39.

"Realistic or Historical Narrative?" Journal of Ministry and Theology 4.1 (spring 2000): 52-81. (An earlier version is online.)

"Communicating the Text in the Postmodern Ethos of Cyberspace: Cautions Regarding the Technology and the Text." Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal 5 (fall 2000): 45-70.  (An earlier version of this paper is available online in .pdf format.)

Review of Walter Bauer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, rev. & ed. F. W. Danker, 3d ed. (Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2000). Journal of Ministry and Theology 5.1 (spring 2001): 121-23.  Also online with numerous other additional resources related to BDAG.)

"Revisioning the Nature of Biblical Revelation: A Critique of Stanley Grenz's Proposals," The Journal of Ministry and Theology 8 (Spring 2004): 5-36.

"The English Standard Version New Testament: A Review Article," The Journal of Ministry and Theology 8.2 (Fall 2004): 5-56.

"World Ministry: Translation and Training for the Two-Thirds World," The Journal of Ministry and Theology 9.1 (Spring 2005): 72-89.

Academic/Professional Papers Presented

(* = later published or accepted for publication; see above)

"The Semantic Range of νῦν in the Gospels as Related to Temporal Deixis." Evangelical Theological Society, Midwest Regional Meeting, St. Paul, MN, 3/17/95.*

"Preaching Jesus to Skeptics." Faculty Forum, Baptist Bible Seminary, 1997.

The following three papers are sequential revisions of the same work. "Communicating the Text in the Information Age: Issues from Cyberspace." Faculty Forum, Baptist Bible Seminary, 12/11/98. "Communicating the Text in the Postmodern Ethos of Cyberspace: Cautions Regarding the Technology and the Text." Evangelical Theological Society, Eastern Regional Meeting, Evangelical School of Theology, Meyerstown, PA, 3/26/99. "Interpreting the Text in the Postmodern Ethos of Cyberspace: Cautions Regarding the Technology and the Text." Bible Faculty Leadership Summit, Central Baptist Seminary, Minneapolis, 8/5/99.*

"Verbal Aspect in Recent Debate: Objections to Porter's Non-Temporal View of the Verb." Evangelical Theological Society, Eastern Region Annual Meeting, 3/30/01, Philadelphia Biblical University, Langhorne, PA.

"The Pluralistic Predicament." Bible Faculty Leadership Summit, Faith Baptist Bible College and Seminary, 7/26/01.

"May Evangelicals Dispense with Propositional Revelation? A Renewed Assault on an Evangelical Essential." Evangelical Theological Society, Annual Meeting, Colorado Springs, CO, 11/14/01. Also presented at Eastern Regional ETS meeting 3/22/02 at Capital Bible Seminary, Lanham, MD under the title "Revisioning the Nature of Biblical Revelation: A Critique of Stanley Grenz's Proposals," and at the 2002 Bible Faculty Summit, at Pillsbury Baptist Bible College, Owatonna, Minn., 8/2/02.

"Adapting Technology to Teach Koine Greek." Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, 11/18/01.*

"The English Standard Version: A Review Article," BBS Faculty Forum lecture, 3/18/04.*

"World Ministry: The ESV as a Window into Translation and Training for the Two-Thirds World," Bible Faculty Summit, Piedmont Baptist College, Winston-Salem, NC, July 2004.*

Internet and Electronic Publications

Galilee True Type Greek Font, v. 1.0, 2002.

GalileeU True Type Unicode Greek Font, v. 1.0, 2003.

Church Tracks, a church management database designed for new churches and church plant projects (written in FileMaker Pro Developer, v. 7, Windows and Macintosh), 2004.

Memberships

• Evangelical Theological Society
• Society of Biblical Literature (sporadically! I don't renew every year.)

My academic "habitat" (I borrowed a digital camera one weekend during the winter of 1999 ... and I needed to practice!)

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