Faculty Work

Faculty published books, featured podcasts & episodes, external ministry and non-profit affiliations, and more can be found here to support further study and extracurricular involvement.

Podcasts and Blogs

No Small Endeavor

Exploring what it means to live a good life. What does it mean to live a good life? What is true happiness? What are the habits, practices, and dispositions that contribute to authentic human flourishing? No Small Endeavor examines these questions with host Lee C. Camp. You'll hear from best-selling authors, philosophers, scientists, artists, psychologists, theologians and even the occasional politician—courageous, impassioned people taking seriously the question of how to live a good life. Striving for a good life is No Small Endeavor, and we’re here with you on the road.

John Mark Hicks

Read blogs, watch classes, review academic publications and more from Lipscomb's own Dr. John Mark Hicks. Dr. Hicks has an extensive ministry and teaching career including teaching in over 40 states and 20 countries. Additionally, Dr. Hicks has contributed to over 40 books. Read more about Dr. Hicks and his work at his website/blog.

Books

Poured Out

After centuries of neglect, there is a renewed interest in the Holy Spirit. Many are beginning to realize that the Spirit is not a junior member of the Trinity, tame and shy. Poured Out explains why the church limited the Spirit for so long and how you can come to know the Spirit better and more fully.

Flesh Made Word: The Protestant Interpretation Problem and an Embodied Hermeneutic

This book delineates the individualist “interpretation problem” that has long beset Protestant biblical interpretation and engages theological resources that could serve to move beyond it.

Living as the Community of God: Moses Speaks to the Church in Deuteronomy

Faith. Mission. Justice. Righteousness. Blessing. Life. This book will show you how Moses' words to Israel in Deuteronomy continue to provide vital guidance in these and other matters for the people of God today.

Around the Bible in 80 Days: The Story of God from Creation to New Creation

Scripture shares a basic story, from God's first creative act in the beginning to its final scene―the renewal of all creation as a new heaven and earth. Around the Bible in 80 Days offers you an accessible guide to the Bible's high points that can enrich your faith and help you better understand God's overall redemptive story.

In the Great Stream: Imagining Churches of Christ in the Christian Tradition

All throughout the modern period, there has been a steady campaign for people to "think for themselves" without tradition's distorting restraint. As a result, many Christians now blindly sip a watered-down faith, marketed as "no creed but the Bible." In the Great Stream will show you what the Great Tradition is, and how it can be our ally providing weight, ballast, and bearings to all those who seek to live out-and to hand on-the faith.

Practical Wisdom for Youth Group Parents: Partnering with Your Youth Minister

A Youth group is not only about your teenager. Youth ministry, done well, includes and impacts the entire family. Practical Wisdom for Parents is not a book about how to make your teens sit down and have a family devotional. Instead, this book will help you and your teen thrive and flourish during these important years.

The Grace of Troublesome Questions: Vocation, Restoration, and Race

A compelling story of how one man, in light of his Christian faith, questioned the exclusivist claims of church, nation, and race. In The Grace of Troublesome Questions, Richard Hughes shares his life-long quest to make sense of three exclusivist narratives.

Enter the Water, Come to the Table: Baptism and Lord's Supper in the Bible's Story of New Creation

As evangelicals and other Christians continue the renewal and deepening of their practice of the sacraments, Enter the Water, Come to the Table provides an accessible study. It explores the meaning and practice of baptism and the Lord's supper through the lens of the biblical story's movement from creation to new creation.

Broken but Beautiful: Why Church is Still Worth It

If we love Jesus, we have to eventually ask what Jesus loves. Surprising to me at times, Jesus loves the church, despite her brokenness. If we learn to see what Jesus sees, we'll discover a powerful, often untapped means towards human flourishing. No other social group offers what the church offers. Yes, the church is broken, but there's more. She's beautiful.

Finding Your Way: A Guide to Seminary Life and Beyond

Your time in seminary can be a period of great blessing and adventure, on the one hand, but also a time of great confusion and doubt, on the other. How do you navigate the challenges, questions, and even frustrations of seminary life? Finding Your Way was written to help you with these questions and perhaps with others that you didn't even know you had.

Women Serving God: My Journey in Understanding Their Story in the Bible

Does God invite women to fully participate in all the assemblies of God?Among churches of Christ, the voices of women are typically silent and excluded from visible leadership in assemblies gathered for prayer and praise. In this book, John Mark Hicks tells the story of his own journey to understand how women have served God throughout the unfolding drama of Scripture.

The Basics of Christian Belief: Bible, Theology, and Life's Big Questions

This reader-friendly yet robust introduction to the Christian faith explores the essentials of Christianity and the impact they have on life, worldview, and witness. Written in an accessible and engaging voice for college-age readers, the book connects the biblical plotline, the Apostles' Creed, the comparative distinctiveness of Christianity, and life's big questions.

Scandalous Witness: A Little Political Manifesto for Christians

Camp’s robust vision exposes modern parodies of faith—the American concept of “Christian values,” for one—and challenges Christians to rethink who they are and how they participate in the modern world. Authentic gospel truth is a scandal to the American myth, he argues, and we are called to be scandalous witnesses.

Ministries & Non-Profit Organizations

As One Christian Diversity Staffing | Nashville

Flourishing Leaders

Flourish exists for the healing, formation, and well-being of Christian leaders. Our focus is upon the place where spiritual formation and human well-being meet. Spiritual formation and human well-being are interconnected and multi-dimensional, involving every aspect of human life: our bodies, minds, relationships, work, recreation, money, and environments. Our aim is to assist you and the leaders you care about in living well. Toward this end, we provide three main services: retreats, formational cohorts, and personal care.

Founder & Director:
Dr. Kris Miller

Flourishing Leaders

Natchez Trace Church of Christ, Nashville, TN

The Natchez Trace Church of Christ began on May 1st, 1894. We exist to love God with all our hearts, souls, minds, and strength, and to love our neighbors here in Nashville as ourselves (Matt 22:35-40).

We are committed to following the teachings of Jesus as the way to life, serving our community and sharing the life we have found in Christ, and we enjoy having fun and fellowship along the way.

Preaching Minister:
Dr. Phillip Camp

Natchez Trace Church of Christ

Pure Heart Vision

All Saints Church of Christ

LifeandLeadership Consulting

LifeandLeadership Consulting provides training, consulting and coaching for church leaders all over the country specializing in elder/minister team building, missional strategy, managing complex congregational issues, and interim ministry, and has served a few hundred churches and organizations over the past twenty-plus years. The two websites, LifeandLeadership.com and DISC PersonalitySource.com, also feature over 1,500 pages of resources for church leaders.

Founder:
Dr. Carlus Gupton

LifeandLeadership Consulting