• This course is designed to give you a reality check. How much can you defend the faith? In this course you will learn the key points to making a good defense but also points through which you can winsomely engage those with a different world view.

  • Author Jerry Bridges says “a catechism is simply a means of instruction by posing a series of questions about God humankind, and answering those questions from the Bible. A catechism is never out-of-date as it teaches us the eternal truths of Scripture.” This class will explore the classic catechisms of the Protestant Church with an emphasis on the Westminster Shorter Catechism and The Baptist Confession of Faith 1689.

  • The Lord God Almighty has chosen to reveal Himself to His people through the Holy Scriptures. The Doctrine of Scripture explores what the church has historically believed about the inspiration, inerrancy, authority, necessity, clarity, and sufficiency of Scripture, as well as the canonicity, preservation, and historical reliability of the biblical documents. This course is designed to address those topics and to help the student recognize Scripture as the only rule for faith and practice.

  • Eschatology is a course designed to help students understand the present in view of the future by establishing a biblical foundation concerning “last things” and exploring historic Christian beliefs on death and resurrection, the second coming of Christ, the Millennium, the final judgment, heaven, hell, and the new earth.

  • Over the next eight sessions, we will explore who God is, His relationship to His creation, and mankind. Our main emphasis will be on discovering God before we try to understand His relationship with the people, He has chosen for Himself. The nature of this exploration will be through the perspective of “covenant” - the overriding feature of God’s relationship to all His creation. Following Calvin, our assumption is to know God, we must know ourselves, and to know ourselves, we must know God.

  • Greek for Bible Study introduces students to the basics of biblical Greek so that they can capably study the Greek New Testament using Logos software.

  • This course is the first in a series of three designed to instruct the student in interpretation of the Old Testament. It is an introduction to biblical Hebrew, the principle language of the Old

    Testament. It is not designed for students to be able to read Scripture in the original languages;

    rather, the goals are that students would become proficient and responsible exegetes of their

    English Bibles by using Logos to analyze the Hebrew text. Students will learn how to comprehend data from the four main kinds of secondary literature: Hebrew grammars and lexicons, commentaries and theological dictionaries.

  • The Hermeneutics course forms the second part of a two-part course on Doctrine of Scripture and Hermeneutics. Major topics to be covered in part two include: (1) a discussion of the major principles and rules of biblical interpretation, (2) how to use tools for effective Bible study, and (3) how to practice the observation, interpretation, and application method of inductive Bible study.

  • The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit and Salvation course will establish a biblical foundation for understanding the person and work of the Holy Spirit in His various facets of soteriology, applications of redemption, the means of grace, and the gifts of the Spirit for the mission of the gospel of God to the world through the church.

  • This course is an introduction to the background, origin, form, and content of the New Testament (NT). It is intended to give students an overview of the history and theology of the New Testament with an aim toward seeing the overarching redemptive theme of Christ and his kingdom throughout its pages.

  • This course is an introduction to the origin, background, content, and form of the Old Testament (OT). It is intended to give students an overview of the history and theology of the Old Testament with an aim toward seeing the overarching redemptive theme of Christ and his kingdom throughout its pages.

  • The course is a basic introduction to the history of the Christian Church from the beginnings of the Protestant Reformation down to the present day. Being survey in nature, the course deals with the history of Christianity in broad strokes, focusing on some crucial periods, peoples, and events in that history. From the survey, we’ll examine what God has done in and through people and events.