Cours en ligne

Rich Nathan

This course will introduce you to the art behind an impactful sermon. Through the course materials you will be challenged and encouraged to prepare a message as well as understand the relevance of teaching others. Discussion will be centered on the creation and delivery techniques utilized when developing both an expository and topical approach to sermon writing in order to reach a contemporary audience. The purpose of this course is to develop an understanding and appreciation for communicating God’s Word of truth. There is an art to being able to preach and teach the theological and spiritual words of Scripture. This course will help you to answer the questions of why and how we go about preaching in a world that is plagued by sin and brokenness. This course will also provide you an opportunity to prepare your own brief sermon and present it to a group of fellow students.

Alexander Venter

This course focuses on “Christian spirituality” and precisely, Jesus’ understanding of it portrayed through the Gospels as “becoming his lifelong apprentice” (disciple). It is a storied, theological, and practical course for spiritual growth. Its aim is to help our students to understand and practice spirituality as Jesus did: to be captivated by him and his spirituality, to walk in his way and become like him, following him in his kingdom. Why Jesus? Because we believe he was both human and divine: he modeled what it means to be truly human in God’s image, and he was God incarnate, revealing God to us. Jesus is indeed The Way to God.

Derek Morphew

This course focuses on the coming of the kingdom by the presence and power of the Holy Spirit, through the distribution and impartation of charismatic gifts, particularly those gifts that enable mission and evangelism. Its purpose is to build faith and expectation in our students, disciples of Jesus, to receive the empowering of the Spirit for witness, leading to a radical obedience to his commission, through revelatory/prophetic gifts, gifts of healing and deliverance, all combining to effect power evangelism. A key step in the equipping process is to lay a strong foundation in Christian identity.

Derek Morphew

This course introduces the student to the theology of the kingdom of God in scripture. Taking recent (latter 20th Century onwards) Jesus Research as its starting point, it covers the growing expectation of the kingdom in Old Testament literature and then examines the coming of the kingdom in the life and ministry of Jesus, particularly in the Synoptic Gospels and Acts. From there it defines the kingdom as enacted, inaugurated eschatology. Having established that definition it then explores the kingdom in the Christian life, particularly through Pauline theology. It also examines the mandate for kingdom ministry today as modeled on the ministry of Jesus. A final section deals with various implications of kingdom theology, in terms of the church, dispensationalism, cessationism, healing, and the place of Israel. It equips our students with a thorough knowledge of the biblical theology of the kingdom of God and how this theology is positioned in relation to other theologies, which it either redefines or opposes.

Bill Jackson

From the very first page of Scripture to the last, one God is at work — pursuing, redeeming, and restoring a world that went deeply wrong. Most of us have heard fragments of this story our entire lives. Very few of us have ever seen the whole thing at once. The Story of the Kingdom changes that. In clear, compelling language, Bill Jackson walks you through the entire arc of the Bible, showing how every covenant, every prophet, every silence, and every promise fits together into a single, breathtaking narrative that is still moving toward its conclusion. And here is what makes this different from any other Bible overview: the story is not finished. We are living in its fifth and final act — and each of us has a part to play. This course will not only help you understand Scripture. It will help you find your place in it.

Quinton Howitt

This course serves as an introduction to biblical theology. We all live out of a story that provides a context for understanding the meaning of history, a story that gives shape and direction to our lives. In this course, our students come to understand that the Bible offers such a story: it is God’s story, the true story of the world. They also learn to articulate a comprehensive biblical worldview by systematically developing the most wide-ranging categories of the Bible’s storyline: creation, sin, and redemption. Emphasis is also given to the believer’s own place within the biblical story and the centrality of the mission.

Rich Nathan

In this course we will show the vital signs, essential principles, and necessary practices of a healthy growing church. Major topics covered will include Biblical models for growing a church; reaching the unchurched; essentials for a growing church; and cultural influences that affect church growth. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to explain and apply the essential principles of church growth to their local context.