Partnering together for the Kingdom
I am excited to partner with you in preaching, teaching, and equipping the church across a host of different topics and contexts. My aim is to help you, your church family, academic institution, or group to engage rich theology in ways that are clear, grounded in Scripture, and directly connected to daily discipleship and the church’s mission. My academic specializations are in theology, philosophy, apologetics, and ministry leadership spanning over twenty years of active ministry engagement.
We can work together to shape a single Sunday, a short sermon series, or a evening of training focused around the needs of your church family and ministry leaders. Whether you want to introduce apologetics to your church, address competing cultural worldviews, or take a deep dive into a specific topic or field, I’ll work with you and your leadership to discern the right topic, tone, and format for your context.
Partnership Options
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I am excited to partner with you in preaching, teaching, and equipping your church family! In this option, we can work together to orchestrate a Sunday morning of engagement. This might include:
Preaching as a guest speaker on a provided passage or topic
Preaching a series of sermons focused on your churches needs
Teaching a Sunday morning class/small group in connection with preaching
The focus here is on what we can accomplish for Christ together through Sunday morning worship. If this is of interest to you, we can tailor it to your ministry needs!
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I’m excited to partner conferences, retreats, and academic gatherings to offer biblically grounded, academically rigorous, and pastorally aware presentations and sessions.
My background at the intersection of church and academy allows me to move comfortably between lay and scholarly audiences, always with an eye toward serving the Church.
Examples of this might be:Academic Conferences
College Campuses
Church Retreats
Church Conferences
Christian Camps
We can collaborate on sessions or workshops that support your event’s theme- whether that involves apologetics, cultural engagement, spiritual formation, or leadership. I’m glad to help you think through topic selection, session flow, and Q&A formats so that my contribution fits naturally into the larger event and serves your attendees well.
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I love to design and teach short‑term courses for churches, Christian schools, and ministry training programs that want to go deeper theologically without losing accessibility. These courses invite participants to think hard, love God more, and live more faithfully in light of what they learn.
Formats can range from a one‑day intensive to a multi‑week series, offered in person or online.
A full list of current options are available below.
I am glad to bring a class I’ve already designed to your church context, or together we can build a class around areas such as apologetics and evangelism, doctrine of God, worldview and culture, or practical Christian living and discipleship. I provide structure, content, and guidance, while you provide the local context and community that help the material take root. -
I love coming alongside elder boards and ministry staff teams to offer focused, theologically grounded training that strengthens their unity, discernment, and capacity to shepherd their local church.
These settings create space for leaders to breathe and lean in on practical development while reflecting together on what it means to lead Christ’s people with wisdom and humility.
Together we can design:
A weekend retreat
A half‑day intensive
A short series around specific themes for a set number of monthly connections
We can explore themes spanning leadership and character, engaging difficult cultural questions, the role of doctrine in congregational health, topics geared towards staff theological development, or specific challenges your team is facing. My goal is to serve as an outside voice who listens well, asks good questions, and helps your leaders think and pray together about how to shepherd their church more faithfully.
Connect with Me
If you would like to invite Darrell to speak or teach at your church, school, or organization, please complete the form below. In the subject line, indicate which partnership option you’re most interested in (for example, “Speaking at your Event” or “Elder and Staff Training”), and use the message box to share your initial ideas, dates, and context. This will help us discern together what kind of visit would best serve your people.
Current Portfolio
Category: Apologetics In the Church
Apologetic Disciplemaking
Audience: Pastors, church leaders, volunteers, church members
Format: Workshop / presentation
Description: Shows how apologetics and disciplemaking belong together. Examines how apologetic thinking strengthens evangelism, deepens everyday discipleship, and equips believers to walk with others through doubts and objections.
Integrating Apologetics in the Church
Audience: Pastors, church leaders, volunteers, church members
Format: Workshop / presentation
Description: Explores the need for apologetics in the ordinary life of the local church and offers actionable guidance for weaving apologetic thinking into your church’s DNA as one of the three pillars of the Christian life.
Anatomy of the Apologist in the (c)hurch
Audience: Scholarly community, undergraduate/graduate students, pastors/leaders, volunteers
Format: Workshop, plenary address, or church presentation
Description: Considers what it means for apologetics to be developed and prioritized within the church, drawing on a pivotal article by systematic theologian Graham Cole. Emphasizes the importance of a biblically grounded apologetic that is attentive to the church’s immediate context and mission.
Integrating Apologetics into Christian Ministry
Audience: Pastors, church leaders, volunteers
Format: Workshop / presentation
Description: A focused version of “Integrating Apologetics in the Church,” this session emphasizes embedding apologetic reflection into a church’s existing ministries—preaching, small groups, NextGen, outreach, etc—rather than treating apologetics as a separate, specialist niche.
The Church and Competing Worldviews
Audience: Pastors, church leaders, volunteers, church members
Format: Workshop / presentation
Description: Reflects on the Great Commission in a thoroughly pluralistic culture. Presents practical ways to analyze and engage competing worldviews so that barriers between people and the gospel are wisely identified and lovingly addressed.
Equipped: Living and Learning the Adventure of Christianity
Audience: Pastors, church leaders, volunteers, church members
Format: 8‑week church class series / workshop
Description: An 8‑week journey into the adventure of daily submission to Christ, structured around the three pillars of the Christian way: apologetics, evangelism, and discipleship. Participants are invited to see all three as vital to presenting their bodies as living sacrifices, holy and acceptable to God (Romans 12:1–2), and to discover practical ways to live this out in their local context.
These presentations (except “Equipped”) can stand alone or be combined as a multi‑session church conference on apologetics and the local church.
Peering Through the Veil of the Brave New World: Transhumanism as Worldview by Default
Audience: Scholarly community, undergraduate/graduate students, pastors/leaders, volunteers
Format: Workshop, plenary address, or church presentation
Description: Draws on multiple data sources to sketch a portrait of the contemporary American mind and traces a line from that portrait to the core commitments of the transhumanist worldview. Helps listeners recognize transhumanist assumptions that increasingly function as the “default settings” of our culture.
Category: Transhumanism and Culture
The Consequence of Ideas: Transhuman Freedom and the Return to Church
Audience: Scholarly community, undergraduate/graduate students, pastors/leaders, volunteers
Format: Workshop, plenary address, or church presentation
Description: Examines recent data indicating a surge of interest and renewed commitment to Christianity and sets it in conversation with earlier research on the modern American mind. Celebrates encouraging trends while offering cautions for disciplemaking in light of enduring transhuman‑shaped assumptions.
Functionally Transhuman: Navigating Morphological Freedom Through the Church for the Family
Audience: Scholarly community, undergraduate/graduate students, pastors/leaders, volunteers
Format: Workshop, plenary address, or church presentation
Description: Updates and advances prior findings by showing the stability of the current American mindset and highlighting “morphological freedom” as a central transhumanist belief. Explores how churches and families can thoughtfully engage this freedom‑focused vision of the body and self.
Introduction to Philosophy I
Audience: Pastors, church leaders, volunteers, church members
Format: 8-Week church class series / workshop
Description: Introduces the discipline of philosophy as the “handmaiden of theology.” We will explore the value and limits of philosophical thought, how it impacts the way we engage theology, along with how it has developed throughout western history leading to the current day. Churches and groups can choose between a historical or thematic survey.
Historical Approach: This class surveys Ancient and Medieval Philosophical thought
Thematic Approach: This class surveys three questions: Who are we? Why is there something rather than nothing? Does God exist?
Category: Theology, Philosophy, and Apologetics
Introduction to Philosophy II
Audience: Pastors, church leaders, volunteers, church members
Format: 8-Week church class series / workshop
Description: Continues exploring discipline of philosophy as the “handmaiden of theology,” its value and limits, and impact on theology. Churches and groups can choose between a historical or thematic survey.
Historical Approach: This class surveys Modern and Contemporary Philosophical thought
Thematic Approach: This class surveys three questions: Are we free? How do we know things? What should we do with ourselves?
Introduction to Theology I
Audience: Pastors, church leaders, volunteers, church members
Format: 8-Week church class series / workshop
Description: Introduces the various disciplines of theology (biblical, historical, philosophical, systematic) with a focus on systematic theology as a needed tool that clarifies and harmonizes the orthodox faith. This class will survey an Introduction to theological method, Bibliology, Theology Proper (Doctrine of God), Christology, Pnumatology, and Angelology.
Introduction to Apologetics I
Audience: Pastors, church leaders, volunteers, church members
Format: 8-Week church class series / workshop
Description: Introduces the discipline of Christian apologetics as a necessary part of the Christian life that clarifies, commends, and defends the truth of the gospel in a world of competing belief systems. This class will survey the biblical foundations for apologetics, key definitions and models of “defense,” the relationship between faith and reason, and historical/theological arguments for the Christian Faith.
Note: We can work together to discuss which families of arguments you would like to have introduced in the class and in what order, so as to work within your church’s context.
Introduction to Theology II
Audience: Pastors, church leaders, volunteers, church members
Format: 8-Week church class series / workshop
Description: Continues exploring the discipline of systematic theology and its value towards clarifying and harmonizing the orthodox claims of our Christian faith through a survey of Anthropology, Hamartiology, Soteriology, Ecclesiology, and Eschatology.
Contemporary Issues in Science and Christian Thought I
Audience: Pastors, church leaders, volunteers, church members
Format: 8-Week church class series / workshop
Description: Considers the Western intellectual inheritance that shapes how modern science is defined, practiced, and received in society, with attention to its significance for Christian ministry. This class will survey key topics such as science, scientism, and faith; the history of science and its relationship to the church; cosmology and the age of the universe; fine-tuning and design; evolution and biology; and ecology and climate, while emphasizing careful worldview analysis and biblical reflection.
Introduction to Apologetics II
Audience: Pastors, church leaders, volunteers, church members
Format: 8-Week church class series / workshop
Description: Builds on Introduction to Apologetics I with a focused exploration of apologetics as a disciplined way of thinking and communicating for the sake of Christian witness. This class will continue to survey major types of philosophical and scientific arguments, common objections to the arguments, and practical approaches to engaging questions and doubts within the local church.
Note: We can work together to discuss which families of arguments you would like to have introduced in the class and in what order, so as to work within your church’s context.
Contemporary Issues in Science and Christian Thought II
Audience: Pastors, church leaders, volunteers, church members
Format: 8-Week church class series / workshop
Description: Builds on Contemporary Issues in Science and Christian Thought I with a focused exploration of scientific and technological developments that directly touch human life and identity. This class will survey areas such as bioethics and genetics, technology and the digital age, transhumanism as a cultural worldview, and artificial intelligence and human enhancement, inviting students to assess these issues through a Christian theistic lens and to develop integrative, ministry-oriented responses.
Ministry Leadership and the Local Church I
Audience: Pastors, church leaders
Format: 8-Week church class series / workshop
Description: Introduces the message of 3rd John as a lens for examining Christian leadership, highlighting the contrast between self‑protective “empire‑building” and humble, Christlike service. This class will survey the text of 3rd John, key themes of spiritual authority, hospitality, and partnership in the gospel, and the unhealthy patterns that emerge when leaders center themselves rather than Christ and his people.
Ministry Leadership and the Local Church II
Audience: Pastors, church leaders
Format: 8-Week church class series / workshop
Description: Builds on Ministry Leadership and the Local Church I with a focused exploration of how 3rd John’s vision for leadership can shape the culture and practices of our ministry and church environment. This class will survey practical areas such as elder and staff dynamics, conflict and correction, cultivating a culture of encouragement and accountability, and developing leaders who resist platform‑building in favor of shared, cross‑shaped ministry.
Each set of classes can be combined into one 8 week course if needed.
Connect with Darrell
I would love to partner with you to serve your church or academic institution.If you’re unsure what that might look like but want to start a conversation, reach out and let’s explore it together!