Basic Bible Doctrine covers the doctrines of Revelation, God, Man, and Sin. The reason we know anything about God is because He has revealed Himself to us. So, we start with a discussion of Revelation and then move to the knowledge that we have of God. One thing we know about God is that He made Man, in His image. Unfortunately, Man disobeyed God, and Sin came into the world. This course expands upon this brief story as it presents important and basic truths about these major themes. Application of these truths is not neglected—it is actually emphasized. The primary emphasis in the course will be on “Biblical Theology”. The course is designed to explore the underlying theological themes that are woven all through the Bible’s grand narrative.

This course is an introductory classroom experience dealing with the call to preach; the spiritual formation of the preacher; picture preaching; sermon preparation resources; the creation of sermon introductions, bodies and conclusions; the techniques of public communication for our time. The course is designed to enable the student to construct an expository sermon based upon the skills of exegesis. In addition, students will gain experience explaining, proving, and applying a biblical passage and delivering a biblical sermon without notes.

This course will survey Christian history from the pre-Christian Jewish and Greco-Roman background through the early Roman, medieval, and Reformation eras, and up to the present. It will examine the theological, social, historical, intellectual, cultural, political, and popular influences upon the development of early Christianity through the establishment of the imperial Christian church. The course will simply help students to examine key figures, events, and themes stretching from Pentecost to the Present. It is an exploration of how the Gospel creates opportunities and faces challenges in every era of human history.

The course provides a comprehensive and practical introduction to the practice of evangelism, particularly in and through the local church. The course focuses on the nature of congregational life and how it impacts the type of outreach and missional texture it promotes. It will train students to be thoughtful and passionate evangelists and to understand and use biblical principles and methods of church outreach. The course is a thorough study of public and personal evangelism built on the New Testament mission of the church. Evangelistic preaching, apologetic methods, revivalism, discipleship, personal soul winning, and follow-up are addressed. The student will be exposed to various models of church evangelism. Emphasis is placed on having a deep desire to reach the lost for Christ. Personal, relational and corporate (organic) evangelism and motivating the laity for ministry will be considered. The course is designed to prepare pastors and church leaders in fostering the evangelistic outreach of individuals and of the congregation as a whole.

Christology is the study of the person of Christ. It has been the centerpiece of theological reflection in the Christian tradition, from the earliest times to the present day. The course will take students through an in-depth study of Christ in an attempt to understand His person, nature, teachings and work. The study of Christ brings students face-to-face with the most important event in history as individuals unpack the Bible’s teachings on Jesus. Students will be stimulated intellectually and spiritually as they visit the decisions reached by the early church councils and explore the questions raised since then. Christology is a wonderful journey that reinforces the firm foundation of the faith and helps the church be equipped to share that faith with a lost world.

This is an introductory course on the bible that in an easy-to-follow format presents all the important themes of the entire bible and ties both Old and New Testaments into one story. The course gives a basic background of each book of the Bible. For each book of the Bible, the author, date of writing, purpose of writing, key verses, and a brief summary will be given. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to understand the Bible better. The course will also encourage students to study the Bible in a more in-depth manner.

The course will explore the identity and mission of the Holy Spirit. Students will learn how to have an in-depth examination of the biblical, patristic, and modern understandings of the person and work of the Holy Spirit, with special focus on developments since the modern Pentecostal revival, and current attempts in constructive pneumatology. Attention will be given to the relationship between the doctrines of the Holy Spirit and Trinitarian theology, and to the implications of this study for ministry in the church and personal spirituality. The basic purpose of the course is to assist the student in deepening both the understanding of the person and work of the Holy Spirit, and the personal experience of the presence and power of the Spirit in ministry and the devotional life.

This course is designed to provide the student with a broad introduction to Genesis‐Deuteronomy as the foundation of the teachings of the Old Testament. It explores the content, major themes and theology of the Pentateuch with special attention to its relationship to the rest of the Bible. After studying the content and the themes of the five books, the students will launch on a project of exploring the reverberations of Pentateuch’s messages in the book of Psalms. The course will conclude with a brief survey of how the Pentateuch is read in the New Testament.

This course will provide a study of the transmission and the translation of the Scriptures as well as the principles and procedures of their interpretation and application. It introduces the student to the fundamental categories of the theory of interpretation. In keeping with the historical trajectory of hermeneutics, the scope of this course expands beyond questions about the rules for textual/biblical interpretation, towards the question of the nature of meaning and understanding as such. The lecturer will give a description and an explanation of various hermeneutical emphases: on the world behind the text (history, authorial intention, and allegory), the world in the text (structuralism, narrative theory, poetics), and the world in front of the text (reader-response, community response, deconstruction, liberationist, and feminist, queer, postcolonial). The student will have to do a substantial amount of rather difficult reading in preparation for each class. Class time will be taken up with explaining difficult concepts and answering questions that arise from the reading. Diligence at reading, attention in class, and willingness to ask the right questions are the conditions for obtaining a good grade in this course.

A course designed to introduce the student to the biblical, theological, historical, and practical bases for Christian missions. There will be a thorough treatment of both Old and New Testament texts that reveal our God as a “Missionary God.” Special attention is given to contemporary issues in missions as well as current ways to do missions.

An overview of the role of the pastor in relation to the organization and management of the local church. Special attention will be given to the various aspects of local church finances. The course applies a problem-solving approach to the subjects of management, administration, supervision, organization, leadership, church government, finance, and legal issues relevant to ministers and lay leaders. The course also answers such theoretical and practical questions by examining the administrative process, including goal setting, organization, delegation, human relations, group dynamics, supervision, and management training. Though administration principles are universal, the course focuses on Christian organizations, particularly the local church. The course is designed to help students become more effective church managers in both theory and practice.

This course is designed to teach Christians how they can effectively disciple others by using the truths of God’s Word to lead people into a proper and holy relationship with the Lord. This course is built upon the foundational pre-supposition that God’s Word is the highest and sole authority on the human soul (i.e: mind, heart, the whole person). The course includes an overview of current trends in counselling theory and practice and the role of counselling in public, private and church settings. The approach to soul care that will be taught relies upon the sufficiency of Scripture and is centered in the gospel. The class will present a basic counselling methodology that will be applied to common counselling situations, to include: biblical peacemaking, anger, fear, worry, and depression. This course will also seek to examine and expose the basic errors of secular psychology and why it is that Christians should not attempt to “integrate” secular psychological views with the Bible.

Basic Bible Doctrine covers the doctrines of Revelation, God, Man, and Sin. The reason we know anything about God is because He has revealed Himself to us. So, we start with a discussion of Revelation and then move to the knowledge that we have of God. One thing we know about God is that He made Man, in His image. Unfortunately, Man disobeyed God, and Sin came into the world. This course expands upon this brief story as it presents important and basic truths about these major themes. Application of these truths is not neglected—it is actually emphasized. The primary emphasis in the course will be on “Biblical Theology”. The course is designed to explore the underlying theological themes that are woven all through the Bible’s grand narrative.