Prerequisite: MIN110
This course is a philosophical study of the Christian faith as it is related to secular humanism with emphasis on the deity of Christ, the incarnation, substitutionary death, and physical resurrection. Attention will be given to practical, everyday application.

Prerequisite: BIB110
This course is a study of the biography and teachings of Jesus Christ as distinctly presented in each of the Gospels, focusing on the theological and practical teachings of Jesus.

Prerequisite: BIB110

This course is an exegetical exposition of the book of Romans, with special attention given to the major themes of the book and aspects of practical Christianity.

Prerequisite: BIB105
This course is an analysis of the second section of the canon known as the “historical books:” Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 & 2 Samuel, 1 & 2 Kings, 1 & 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther.

Prerequisite: BIB105
This course is a study of poetry in the Old Testament with special emphasis on Psalms, Proverbs, and Song of Solomon.

Prerequisite: BIB105
This course is an inductive study of the messages and messengers of one or more of the major prophetic books of the Old Testament: Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel.

Prerequisite: BIB110
This course is an analytical study of the letters of James, Peter, John, and Jude, with special emphasis given to the historical background, structure, and distinctive teachings of each book.

Prerequisites: BIB10 and BIB110
This course is a study of the apocalyptic literature of the Old Testament and the New Testament and the nature of apocalyptic literature. Special emphasis given to the apocalyptic literature of Daniel and Revelation.

Prerequisite: BIB150
This course is an advanced study of the principles of inductive Bible study with a focus on asking and answering interpretative questions of the Biblical text and on the application of the truths gained in Bible study in the preparation of sermons or lessons.

Prerequisite: THE212 and THE301
How has God used theologians throughout history to form and refine Christianity, and why does this theology still matter today? This course will introduce you to the writing of some of the significant theologians who have shaped Christian belief from the time of Jesus until now.

This course covers the fundamentals of leading ministry with children in the local church context.

This course focuses on leading children and children’s leaders into a deeper understanding of worship, including music, the creative arts, prayer, worship response stations, and leading children in the ways of Pentecostal/charismatic worship styles.

This course focuses on sociological, psychological, and spiritual developmental theories that help inform ministering to children and youth.

This course focuses on pedagogy: how children learn and how to effectively teach the Bible and theology to young people.

This course will explore the fundamentals of Christian camp and retreat ministry. Students will learn the foundational principles that undergird Christian camp ministry best practices. This includes the themes of relationship-building, unplugging, faith-focused formational experiences, learning through outdoor activities, and topics around physical, social, and spiritual safety.

This course will explore the emerging topic of intergenerational ministry. Students will learn what it means for a congregation to think and act in ways that bring various age groups together in worship, learning, and outreach. This includes themes of reciprocity in community, understanding generational differences and similarities, and creativity in thinking and living intergenerationally in the life of the congregation.

This course focuses on developing teams, volunteers, and children in leadership and developing the self as a leader in children’s ministry.

This course will explore the basic skills of ministering to children in pastoral care contexts. This includes prayer counseling, hospital visits, baptism preparation, funerals, and other specialized pastoral care needs.

This course will explore how ministry leaders can best serve children and youth with disabilities. Students will learn about the various experiences of young people with physical, neurological, and other disabilities and how to design children’s church environments that provide inclusivity, accessibility, and growth for young people with disabilities.

Prerequisite: PSY202

This course helps students become knowledgeable about the inner conflicts and insecurities faced by those being counseled. It teaches the different aspects of physiology, theology, and sin to help establish the connections needed to counsel individuals.

This course considers the dynamics of marriage and family relationships from a systems perspective. It emphasizes the Christian counseling perspective in understanding family and other systems theories, the structure and function of marriage, various aspects of the marital relationship and family systems, and models of family and systemic interventions.

Prerequisite: PSY202

This course explores the scientific study of how the thoughts, feelings, and actions of a person are influenced by personal interactions, experiences, and social situations. It also examines counseling religiously and culturally diverse populations through a psychological and Christian lens. It emphasizes the need for counselors to understand the multiplicity of culture and change their counseling technique accordingly. Topics include the self, beliefs, attitudes, individual and group behavior, and relationships.

Prerequisite: PSY202

This course will provide training to help students develop skills to deal with the issues of trauma, death, grief, and loss. It examines the Biblical view of trauma, grief, death, and dying. It offers a cognitive and pragmatic investigation of the skills necessary to address a wide variety of crisis counseling situations.

Prerequisite: PSY202

This course will investigate a Biblical and practical understanding of conflict. It analyzes the conflict cycle and styles of conflict management and intervention strategies to help students comprehend how to use conflict for positive change.

This class introduces the major schools of counseling and psychotherapy. It investigates the topics of theoretical orientation to the field of psychotherapy, the underlying theory and assumptions of each approach, and instruction on how to use and interpret the psychological tests frequently used to facilitate counseling and psychotherapy.

Prerequisite: PSY202

This course explores the scientific study of how the thoughts, feelings, and actions of a person are influenced by personal interactions, experiences, and social situations. It also examines counseling religiously and culturally diverse populations through a psychological and Christian lens. It emphasizes the need for counselors to understand the multiplicity of culture and change their counseling technique accordingly. Topics include the self, beliefs, attitudes, individual and group behavior, and relationships.

Prerequisite: PSY202

An introductory course that focuses on the development of people from childhood to senior adulthood. Emphasis will be placed on the psychological and developmental issues that occur in the physical, cognitive, and social domains of each age group (childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood, and senior adulthood).

Prerequisite: PSY202

This course reviews the basic concepts and principles of the major theories of personality. It also assesses the scientific worth and validity of these theories and includes case studies that show how they apply to the treatment of psychological disorders. Detailed descriptions of healthy and unhealthy personality types will be stressed. Students will be challenged to evaluate their personality as it relates to the theory being presented.

Prerequisite: MAT115

This course investigates descriptive and inferential statistics and introduces multiple techniques for statistical analysis. It explores formulas for presenting and evaluating data in accordance with generally accepted protocols for statistical analysis.

Prerequisite: PSY354

This course introduces the foundations of research methodology, design, and analysis. It explores and evaluates the basic principles of qualitative and quantitative research. This curriculum focuses on understanding the results of statistical analysis as it applies to research.

This class introduces the major schools of counseling and psychotherapy. It investigates the topics of theoretical orientation to the field of psychotherapy, the underlying theory and assumptions of each approach, and instruction on how to use and interpret the psychological tests frequently used to facilitate counseling and psychotherapy.

This course entails a study of the diagnosis, causes, treatment, and prevention of psychological disorders. Problems with the reliability and validity of the American Psychiatric Association system for diagnosing psychological disorders will be discussed, and various alternative systems will be introduced.

This course is designed to equip students with an overview of various major world religions. This course seeks to stir a passion for communicating Christ more effectively and demonstrate the value of building bridges with people of other religions.

This course will explore God’s missionary nature as revealed in His Word and lived out through His people. In doing so, this course will examine the overarching redemptive narrative of Scripture, the role of the local church as sender, the current state of world evangelization, and the missionary task as carried out by those who are sent. 

*This course includes a mission trip/travel component.

Beginning with the New Testament Church, this course evaluates movements and leaders throughout missions history, providing a rubric and guide for present and future missionary endeavors. Special consideration focuses on the history of Assemblies of God and Pentecostal missions.

This course is a study of the motive, objective, call, qualifications, and opportunities for missionaries today, with particular attention to the practical issues of personal, spiritual, and administrative preparation for missionary service.

This course is an examination of the Biblical and theological basis for urban missions and Biblical perspectives on urban issues such as poverty, leadership, and globalization.

Prerequisite: MIN240

This course addresses the theological and strategic issues related to personal and indigenous church leadership development from a Pentecostal perspective, with special attention to spiritual formation, moral issues, social/organizational structures in a missional context, and cross-cultural church planting movements.

Prerequisite: THE212 and THE301

Contextual theology and the process of contextualization relate to the knowledge of God, an unchanging God who reveals himself uniquely within specific contexts. God assures authentic knowledge of Himself through His action in missio Dei. Guided by the Holy Spirit, God’s missionary people communicate Gospel truth in an ever-changing world. This course explores the ways in which culture intersects with and informs the task of theology and examines both the theoretical and practical aspects of contextualization as related to Biblical interpretations, theology, missiology, and leadership development. Contextualization is reviewed and evaluated in terms of its bearing on the communication of the Gospel, the varied expressions of the Christian faith, and its spread in various cultural settings.

Prerequisite: MIS302

This course takes a Pentecostal approach to the unique challenges and opportunities facing missionaries today. Spirit-empowered missiological thinking, grounded in Biblical truth, is applied to diverse contemporary missions issues to assist the church and the missionary to communicate Christ to the world.

A practical ministry project that provides mentored ministry experience through a cross-cultural missionary experience in another national context, integrating cross-cultural ministry, learning, leadership, and spiritual development in a practical ministry setting. 

*This course includes a mission trip/travel component.

This course covers a broad overview of basic ministry implications in digital space, including anthropology, community development, and digital ecclesiology. This will include an exploration of digital environments as destinations of missional engagement.

This course explores how culture is formed online and the cosmology of digital environments. It introduces digital cultures and UdPGs (e.g., gamer and fandom cultures, etc.). Students will learn practices for digital exegesis.

This course examines the urgent need to cultivate digitally hospitable Christians and explores how hospitality functions in digital evangelism and discipleship. Students will learn skills for discipling others into rhythms of digital hospitality.

This course examines opportunities for evangelism in the digital age and models of discipleship in online spaces with online tools.

This course explores emerging issues in digital ministry, including Web 3.0, livestreaming and digital churches, data stewardship, and integrity. Students will learn skills for using digital technology.

This course explores AI as an emerging field, considering issues of ethics and anthropology, as well as implications for ministry. Students will learn strategies for AI usage in ministry settings.

This course applies principles of digital ministry to digitally specific considerations in church planting. This includes launching digital-only and digital-first churches, digital church planting in restrictive contexts, building launch teams with internet tech, and launching online campuses.

This course lays a foundation for being a Gospel-centered leader, creating a Gospel-centered culture, having good theology on suffering, and creating Biblical literacy and Gospel fluency in leaders and students. 

This course contributes to forming a philosophy of ministry where students view all of life as discipleship and understand a definition of discipleship. Students learn to leverage all ministry environments for discipleship, develop a culture of disciples making other disciples, and the role of the Gospel in discipleship.

This course helps students be savvy about technology and social media, how to address mental and emotional health matters for adolescents, leading in a post-truth world, and knowing how to exegete culture and use God’s truth to address it. 

This course helps train youth leaders to understand their part in a larger church-wide discipleship strategy by being a team player, supporting the vision of another, and working with other ministries. This course trains students to equip parents to be disciple-makers.

This course trains students to understand and be able to teach on the basic building blocks of a Biblical worldview: there is a righteous Creator to whom we are accountable, the designer is the definer, God’s plan for human flourishing and freedom, what is means to be an image bearer, the Fall, the ongoing results of the Fall, God’s redemptive plan from beginning to end, the person and work of Jesus, the Lordship of Jesus, the mission of God, and the end of the story.

This course provides students with the necessary administrative skills for youth ministry, including implementing and sustaining effective systems, necessary steps for recruiting and on-ramping new youth leaders, communicating with parents, planning out a preaching calendar, planning out an event calendar, and budget management.

Prerequisite: BIB110

This course examines the application of the principles of inductive Bible study in the development of Biblical expository messages, both for sermons and teaching. Also includes a study of the theology, theory, and practice of preaching and teaching, with emphasis on expository preaching, as well as classroom methods for teaching. 

Prerequisite: PSY200

This course places emphasis on the development of basic skills in addressing people’s needs for emotional and spiritual healing through (1) basic analysis of people’s needs, (2) the use of the Bible in care and counseling, (3) acquiring skills in interpersonal relationships, and (4) utilizing resources in diagnosis and referral of pastoral care and Christian therapy.

Prerequisite: MIN110
This course is a philosophical study of the Christian faith as it is related to secular humanism with emphasis on the deity of Christ, the incarnation, substitutionary death, and physical resurrection. Attention will be given to practical, everyday application.

Prerequisite: MIN240

This course focuses on the theoretical development and challenges of effective leadership by reviewing the historical development of various leadership theories. This includes leader traits, skills, behaviors, models, and other approaches to leadership.

Prerequisite: MIN270

This course is a study of the laws in various administrative areas affecting clergymen, religious institutions, and churches.

Prerequisite: THE212 and THE301

This course is a study of the Biblical materials as they relate to pastoral ministry. The course includes an overview of the pastor’s call, the church’s call, the pastor’s personal life, general administrative duties, church community, district responsibilities, and Assembly of God polity.

To have a heart of worship and to be a leader of worship requires a lifestyle of daily worship. We can only lead where we have been. This course is designed to deepen the call and guard the passion of personal worship.

This course is a study of the motive, objective, call, and qualifications for leading worship. It is designed to study the many and varied roles of a worship leader with special emphasis placed on the relationship between the worship leader and the lead pastor, other staff members, worship team vocalists/instrumentalists, the creative team, and the congregation.

This course focuses on the training and application to enhance the production of creative worship settings utilizing midi, click tracks, in-ear monitors, music production, recording, and playback software. (Specialized technology required.)

This course is a study of how the arts (dance, drama, graphic/visual arts, media, poetry, spoken word, etc.) inform worship and how engaging with the arts forms worshippers. Drawing from the works of scholars and theologians, a framework for worship arts will be developed based on the belief that all art in worship should be seen as a vehicle for the formation of God’s people in Christ. Students will glean from discussions about the various ways in which the arts powerfully contribute to theological formation through aesthetics, logic, language, metaphor, conversations, and senses. Focus will be given on how the creative worship arts can enhance and impact corporate worship services today.

This course is designed to give practical training in systems and technology to support and enhance the worship environment. Students will gain a basic understanding of audio, lighting, media, video, and streaming components, along with core technologies and issues in copyright laws. (Hybrid course with a one-day in-person seminar for hands-on practice.)

This course is a study of the practical issues involved in planning and facilitating creative corporate worship. Application is made to practical issues of corporate worship, administration, assembling and training a team, rehearsal techniques, worship planning, special services/ordinances of the church, staging, and incorporating creative aspects.

This course is a study of the history of worship and the working of the Holy Spirit from the Old Testament, the Tabernacle, and the early church through the modern period. Emphasis is given to changes in worship practices resulting from the Reformation, the Great Awakenings, revival movements, large evangelistic crusades of the 1940s-1950s, the Jesus Movement, praise and worship movement through to the worship culture of today.

A rudimentary course in conducting techniques for traditional and non-traditional settings. Knowledge and skills areas addressed include basic conducting gestures and patterns, score interpretation, rehearsal management and technique, programming considerations, and insight into navigating vocal and instrumental issues.

This course is an introduction to the rudiments of music and theoretical concepts through practical experience with notation, meter, key signatures, scales, intervals, and chord structures. (No previous music background required.)

Prerequisite: WOR405

This course provides further study of musical rudiments and theoretical concepts, including visual/aural training, musical analysis, transposition, progressions, basic form, and composition methods.

Prerequisite: WOR401 and WOR402

This course is a practical application of harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic principles in worship music. Special attention is given to the Nashville Number System and jazz harmony practices to understand chord construction and progressions as the foundation for crafting charts, compositions, and arrangements for worship services.