Education
DMin, Union University
MDiv, Singapore Baptist Theological Seminary
BTh, Singapore Bible College
Ministry Experience
Pastoral Ministry in the following areas:
– Discipleship
– Youth
– Youth adult
– Middle aged
– Counselling
– Christian Education
– Cell Group
– Evangelism and Membership
– Missions
– Christian Education
Dissertation
“Developing Disciples in Grace Baptist Church’s Mandarin-Speaking Congregation.” DMin dissertation. Union University. 2018.
Publications
Books
Biblical Aramaic for Biblical Interpreters: A Parallel Hebrew-Aramaic Handbook (Wilmore, KY: GlossaHouse, 2021).
- World Mission: Theology, Strategy, and Current Issues. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2019. (Lead editor)
- Mission: A Lifelong Calling. Singapore: Baptist Theological Seminary, 2019. (Co-editor)
- Modality and the Biblical Hebrew Infinitive Absolute, Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 71. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2010.
Articles
“旧约神学与普世宣教。” 《宣教情 ∙ 上帝心——21世纪宣教的挑战和契机》浸信会神学院30周年纪念文集（2019）：35-79。
- “Breaking through the Language Barrier in Global Theological Education.” Didaktikos 3.1 (2019): 14-17.
- “Sing to the LORD a New Song (in Chinese)! An L2 Songwriting Experience at the Intersection of Faith and Scholarship,” Artistic Theologian 7 (2019): 61-87.
- “Biblical Hebrew in Chinese: Fostering the Rethinking of Teaching Method through Language Defamiliarization.” Hebrew Higher Education 19 (2017): 103-119.
- “Must Biblical and Systematic Theology Remain Apart? Reflection on Paul van Imschoot.” Journal for the Evangelical Study of the Old Testament 5.1 (2016): 1-26.
- “Old Testament Preaching from the Lectionary: Challenge, Case Study, and Reflection.” The Expository Times 124 (2013): 582-589.
- “But Ruth Clung to Her: Textual Constraints on Ambiguity in Ruth 1:14.” Tyndale Bulletin 63 (2012): 179-197.
- “Passive Paradox: Demoted Agent Promotion in Biblical Hebrew.” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 124 (2012): 89-97.
- “The Paronomastic Infinitive Construction as a Modality-Focusing Device: Evidence from Qatal Verbs.” Zeitschrift für Althebraistik 21-24 (2008-2011): 9-30.
- “An Evaluation of Psalm 119 as Constrained Writing.” Hebrew Studies 50 (2009): 121-135.
Book Chapters
“Scripture and Worship,” in Dei Verbum: The Bible in Church and Society (Singapore: Ethos Institute for Public Christianity, 2020), 45-60.
- “Old Testament Theology and World Mission,” in World Mission: Theology, Strategy, and Current Issues. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2019, 3-31.
- “Baptism as Integral Component of World Mission Strategy,” in World Mission, 149-175. (Co-authored with John D. Massey)
- “Language and World Mission,” in World Mission, 207-238.
- “Rethinking Biblical Hebrew Instruction,” in The Unfolding of Your Words Gives Light: Studies on Biblical Hebrew in Honor of George L. Klein (University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns, 2018), 235-258.
- “‘Hate the Sin, Love the Sinner?’: Chaplain Ministry to Homosexual Service Members and their Families.” In Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Homosexuality, Chaplaincy, and the Modern Military. Edited by John D. Laing and Page Matthew Brooks. Eugene: Resource Publications, 2013, 160-181.
Articles in Reference Works
- “International Mission Board” and “North American Mission Board.” In The Essential Handbook of Denominations and Ministries. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2017, 320-321, 347.
- “Van Imschoot, Paul.” (German) In Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon 37. Nordhausen: Bautz, (2016): cols. 1383-1386.
- “Mood and Modality: Biblical Hebrew.” In Geoffrey Khan, ed., Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, 4 vols. Leiden: Brill, 2013, 2:687-690.
Ministry Aids and Articles
- “The Prayer of an Exegete,” Intégrité 19/1 (2020): 81.
- “Old Testament Themes in the Book of Ruth.” Biblical Illustrator 43/2 (2016): 52-55.
