Teacher: Dave Shirley
Credits: 2

Christian Living is a unique course designed to introduce the student to the committed Christian life and all of its practical aspects. Attention will be given understanding and applying the Bible, prayer and fasting, growing in grace, marriage and relationships, and special topics related to life.

Teacher: Joe Holden
Credits: 2

The course will consist of an examination and evaluation of the religion of Islam. Emphasis will be given to understanding its development, theology, and worldview by comparing it to core Christian doctrines with a view to developing a skillful evangelistic approach to sharing the gospel. In addition, attention will be given to understanding the resurgence and growth of Islam in the 20th century, archeology, and developing practical approaches in communication across cultural lines.

Teacher: Joe Holden
Credits: 2

This course will explore the special nature and unique character of the Bible. Emphasis will be placed on enabling the student to understand the process God used to reveal the Scriptures and pass down the 66 books of the Bible to us in their present form. Topics such as Bible and culture, prolegomena, theme, inspiration, canonization, transmission, translation, paleography, perspectives, archaeology, and historical reliability of the Bible will be addressed.

Teacher: Bob Hoekstra
Credits: 2

Counseling God's Way will be a biblical study of the nature of counseling. Emphasis will be given to biblical passages pertaining to counseling, what counseling is, who is to do counseling, how to be equipped for counseling, major aspects of counseling, and significant warnings to Christians concerning secular counseling methods.

Teacher: Don Wheeler
Credits: 2

The purpose of this course is to increase the student's knowledge of the Word of God regarding His creative acts and the subsequent affects of the Curse and the worldwide Flood in the days of Noah. The student's faith in the inerrancy and truth of the biblical account of the events recorded in Genesis chapters 1-11 will be strengthened. The fact that the theory of evolution is not science but, rather, a belief system opposed to the one true God, and that the Bible's account of a six 24-hour-day Creation a little over 6,000 years ago, followed by a worldwide Flood, explains the evidence that we find around us today far better than the billions of years beliefs of the theory of evolution, and various Christian views that compromise God's authoritative Word with fallen man's theories will be clearly demonstrated.

Teacher: Bob Hoekstra
Credits: 2 

Growing in Grace is a unique course designed to familiarize the student with the biblical understanding of "Grace." Attention will be given to the relationships between grace, the Old and New Covenants, and the believer, with an emphasis on what these means for the believer. This study will consist of careful analysis of selected portions of the Old and New Testaments with corresponding exposition.

Teacher: Dave Shirley
Credits: 2 

The History of Redemption is a fast-moving special survey from Genesis to Revelation emphasizing the relationships between significant sections of Scripture, unified by the theme of redemption, in order to discover the "blueprint" of God for human history. Our main objective is to discover the unity of the Bible as it presents God's plan of salvation for mankind. A further objective is to review the general content of the books of the Bible for the purpose of integration and identifying thematic relationships. As the Christian begins to observe how God has worked in this world to provide salvation for man, appreciation for God and His Word will grow. We will approach our study from two points of view. First, through what God has done and accomplishing in history. Second, what God has spoken or revealed in terms of Scripture.

Teacher: Jasmine Alnutt
Credits: 2 

This course will explore the lives of various Christian missionary “Greats,” particularly those of the “Great Century of Missions,” the 1800s. During each lecture we will be studying a different individual in order to take an in-depth look at their lives and their ministries; we will thus be able to draw out practical life lessons and develop a deeper perspective of ministry on the mission field. There are two main goals in this course: 1) to strengthen your walk with Jesus Christ by studying those who simply surrendered to and obeyed God 2) to grow in your knowledge of these missionary lives so that you will be able to encourage and share with others what you have learned.

Teacher: Jasmine Alnutt
Credits: 2 

This course will look at a variety of women throughout history, regarding who they were, what they did, and how the Lord used them. We will also be taking a look at how we can learn from their examples, personally apply the lessons they learned, and be exhorted by their testimony. Because this is a history course, we will be looking at women in relation to five specific eras of Christian history: the Early Church Era (67-410 AD), the Middle Ages (410-1517 AD), the Reformation/Great Awakening (1517-1792 AD), the Missionary Movement (1793-1900 AD), the Modern Church (1900's).

Teacher: Joe Holden
Credits: 2 

The course will consist of an introduction to the origin, history, philosophy, theology, and practices of the major non-Christian religions of the world such as Vedic religion, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, Taoism, Confucianism, Secular Humanism, and the New Age Movement. Special emphasis will be given to each religion's comparison to Christianity and Christian evangelistic techniques.