Course Listing

100 Level Courses: Open to Public

·         101 – Introduction to the Bible: Understanding the Basics of God’s Word This one-week course will survey biblical history as well as the general organization of God’s Word.

·         102 – Introduction to the Old Testament: This three-week course will take a deeper look at the books of the Old Testament during the first week and the major characters of the Old Testament during the second week. The third week will connect the Old Testament to the New Testament.

·         103 – Introduction to the New Testament:  This two-week course will take a deeper look at the books of the New Testament and the times in which they were written during the first week and the major characters of the new Testament during the second week. [Reading: Handout]

·         104 – Reading the Bible for All It’s Worth I: Studying as a Scholar

·         105 – Reading the Bible for All It’s Worth II: Studying as a Saint

200 Level Courses: For Christians Only

·         201 – Introduction to Spiritual Growth and Discipleship

·         202 – Introduction to Christian Prayer  This is a two-week course that serves as an introduction to the spiritual discipline of prayer. [NOTE: Serves as prerequisite course to 206 – 208 courses]

·         203 – The Prayer Life of Jesus This two-week survey course of the gospels will uncover the prayer principles of Jesus’ life and teachings.

·         204 – Prayer in the Old Testament This survey course will consider prayer principles found in the Old Testament.

·         205 – Prayer in the New Testament  This survey course will consider prayer principles found in the non-gospel books of the New Testament.

·         206 – Prayer and the Silence of God  This one week course considers the roadblocks and impediments to prayer Christians often overlook in their prayer life. The course will also address how the will of God is the overriding value of believer’s prayer life. [Involves 45 minute lecture/30 minute prayer time]

·         207 – Prayer and Fasting for the Purposes of Godliness This three week course will consider the biblical teaching for fasting, how fasting when properly done deepens spiritual maturity. [Involves two separate twenty-four hour fasts]

·         208 – Standing in the Gap: The Ministry of Intercessory Prayer This one week course surveys the theological principles of intercessory prayer as well as teaches practical ways to be involved in this kind of prayer. [1 hour lecture/45 minute prayer time]

300 Level Courses

·         301 – Spiritual Leadership in the Family: How Men Lead Their Families

·         302 – The Family Devotional Life: Faith Formation Through the Stages of Life

·         303 – The Prayer Life of Wives and Mothers: Interceding for Husbands and Children

·         304 – Praying for Children

·         305 – Orientation, Disorientation Then Reorientation: Prayer and the Psalms This two-week course will look deeply into the Psalms and an established pattern of God reorienting the human heart to Himself. [Involves Scripture memorization and writing of a psalm]

·         306 – Praying for Missionaries

400 Level Courses

·         401 – Models of Spirituality I: Learning About the Great Lives of Faith This course considers the great men and women of faith through the first 1,000 years of the church. [Reading: Handouts]

·         402 – Models of Spirituality II: Learning About the Great Lives of Faith  This course considers the great men and women of faith through the second millennia of the church’s existence. [Readings: Handouts]

·         403 – Readings: “Prayer” by Philip Yancey This five week course will meet at a location TBA to discuss Yancey’s book on Prayer. Each session will consider and discuss a section from the book. [Reading: “Prayer” by Philip Yancey]

·         404 – The Life of George Mueller  George Mueller, the father of the modern orphanage, attempted to prove the existence of God through his prayer life and ONLY through his prayer life. This two week class will attempt to discover the lessons of prayer through the example of Mueller. [Reading: “Delighted by God” by Roger Steer]