Basic Apologetics Courses
Apologetics is being able to give a reasonable defense for the hope that is within you (1 Peter 3:15). The Basic Apologetics Course is designed for those who wish to be better equipped to reach non-believers by giving honest answers to honest questions with gentleness and respect.
Conversational Apologetics
Develop knowledge, tools, and practical skills to confidently articulate, defend, and share your faith as you rely on the power of the Holy Spirit. Featuring a digital study guide and select readings to help you grow.
Keeping the Faith
Keeping The Faith is a unique study plus fellowship experience designed to equip parents, grandparents, and other caring adults for intentional discipleship of their children and teens. The Keeping The Faith: Equipping Families for Effective Discipleship guidebook leads participants through an eight- or nine- month series of readings, group discussions, and family activities, with an emphasis on a vibrant relationship with Jesus, fellowship with other believing families, prayer and Bible study, high-quality books, thoughtful discussion and practical application. The meeting agendas and activities are designed with lots of grace for busy people.
Letters to Malcolm
Letters to Malcolm does not so much comprise an instruction manual on prayer as a brilliant course on prayer appreciation. Just as art or music enrichment classes take you deeper so that you can enjoy and unlock the genre’s riches, so does Letters to Malcolm take you deeper into the mysteries of prayer. As a great poem helps you feel things about life or love that you might have overlooked or barely paid attention to, so Letters to Malcolm will engage you in reflections on the dynamics of prayer to which you may never have paid attention.
Spiritual Mentoring: How to help others grow in their relationship with Christ
Tom Schwanda, Associate professor of Christian Formation and Ministry, provides this training that hopes to assist you to develop and further practice your skills and abilities to mentor others in their relationships. Whether you are experienced or simply curious about mentoring this seminar will offer helpful insights for you to use in your daily Christian life.
C.S. Lewis: His Life, Thoughts and Works
Earl Palmer is an American Presbyterian minister who has published over 20 books. Palmer has served on the boards of Princeton Theological Seminary, New College Berkeley, Whitworth University and Regent College. In this three-part audio series, Earl Palmer explores the life, thought, and works of C.S. Lewis, one of the most influential Christian writers of modern times.
The Screwtape Letters
The Screwtape Letters is a very important book for our times. In our secularized and materialistic society, even Christians have little awareness of the spiritual side of reality. C.S. Lewis’s classic work explores the nature of temptation and evil and resistance to them. First published in February 1942, the story takes the form of a series of letters from a senior demon, Screwtape, to his nephew, Wormwood, a junior tempter.
Communicating the Gospel, C.S. Lewis Style
In this six-part video series, Dr. Jerry Root addresses how C.S. Lewis shared his faith, and offers various applications that build on his ideas. He also shares how he has been able to share Christ with people by using some of Lewis’ concepts. Root explains that he is moved when he realizes that if listeners apply some of these concepts there will be people in heaven forever because of what they do.
The Ufalme Experience
Ufalme is a Swahili word which means Kingdom. In this ten-session guided experience, you’ll learn more about God’s kingdom while exploring the Lord’s Prayer that Jesus taught His disciples. Featuring Kenyan pastors and Bible teachers, original artwork, videos, discussion questions, and an interactive guidebook, this course is designed to help you know and grow in the love of the Heavenly Father and develop a vibrant prayer life.
Master Plan for Discipleship with Dr. Robert Coleman
Dr. Robert Coleman has for many years been recognized as one of the world’s authorities on discipleship and evangelism. He is the author of over 20 books, including The Master Plan of Evangelism, about which Billy Graham said, “Few books have had as great an impact on the cause of world evangelization in our generation…”
Developing Spiritual Discernment with Dr. Gerald McDermott
Gerald McDermott, Professor of Religion at Roanoke College presents this series of talks and discussions that unpacks what many consider to be the best manual on discernment ever penned—Jonathan Edwards’ Religious Affections (1746). You will take away biblically and theologically sound insights that will deepen your own life with God and further equip you to mentor/disciple others.
The Adventure of Joining God in His Work
God is always at work (John 5:17). He is redeeming lost people and restoring his fallen creation, and he invites us in Christ to join him in his work. As a follower of Jesus, you are on God’s redemption and restoration team. In order to respond to this call, you must step out of your ordinary world, over the threshold of your comfort zone, and enter his life-changing adventure. Those who respond to this call are transformed and equipped to bring gifts of His healing to their world.