This January the Fredericksburg Prayer Furnace launches the College of Sacred Scripture. The vision of College of Sacred Scripture is to establish a theological community of learning centered in the knowledge of Christ and Him crucified in the experiential context of night and day prayer. To that end, the CSS will offer nine different two-hour-a-week courses this Spring. Each course is $75 and will count for three credits for degree programs that will be implemented as the College grows. Each course may require term papers and/or oral presentations. The following are the course offerings beginning on January 25th and ending on May 7th:
1. The Beginning and End of All Things: Genesis 1-3
1. The Beginning and End of All Things: Genesis 1-3
Mark Kazmier
Time: Mondays, 10 AM to 12 PM
In the beginning, before our beginning, there was God. We all start “in the middle,” but we must meditate upon our beginnings and reality before our beginning if we are to have any revelation about the days to come. In the first three chapters of the Torah, God has revealed the mystery of our beginnings and the mystery of the end, His eternal purposes to sum up all things in heaven and in earth in the Person of Christ. This course is a look at the foundations of the Christian faith through the exposition of the first three chapters of Genesis.
2. Song of Solomon
4. Sozo: Supernatural Ministry
5. Acts of the Apostles
6. Deep Unto Deep: Biblical Foundations of Day and Night Prayer
7. Celebrate Ephesians Part I
8. Introduction to the End Times - CLASS FULL
David Bradshaw3. Studies in Christology
Time: Mondays 3 PM to 5 PM
Nothing empowers the human heart like the revelation of God's affection for us. Though this love is seen throughout the Bible, the Song of Songs unveils this divine romance unlike any other book. Song of Songs is an eight-chapter love song. According the scriptures, human romance is a reflection of Christ and his church. This course will examine Song of Solomon verse by verse in light of Jesus’ love for his bride. Every believer is on a pilgrimage into the depths of Jesus Christ. This Song serves as a guide to unbridled love for the Son of God which is the highest purpose for which were created.
Randy Martinez
Time: Tuesdays 8 AM to 10 AM
God's revelation and interaction with all of creation is expressed in the person of His Son. This course is designed to cause students to fall more deeply in love with the Man Jesus. Presently, the church is consumed with many things other than Jesus, but this is about to change. The Father is orchestrating a plan at the end of the age that will clearly show the glory of his Son. His glory must be seen! His excellencies must be displayed! God is raising up a church in this hour that will know his Son and love him with all their heart. This course will focus on the Person of Christ in his incarnation, life and ministry, death, resurrection, ascension, and second coming.
4. Sozo: Supernatural Ministry
Ronnette Cooper
Time: Tuesdays 7 PM to 9 PM
Sozo is the Greek word that is most fully translated “saved, healed and delivered or to be made whole.” In this course we will study the supernatural means (prophecy, healing, deliverance, dreams and interpretations) in which the Lord often brings forth “sozo” into an individual's life. Sozo will provide biblical teaching as well as “hands-on” training in walking in the supernatural ministry of the Holy Spirit.
5. Acts of the Apostles
Scott Bradshaw
Time: Wednesdays 9 AM to 11 AM
The Acts of the Apostles is a detailed narrative account of the founding and expansion of the Church of Jesus Christ, fulfilling the promise that the Kingdom of God would break into this age between the first and second coming of Jesus, specifically through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the ministry of His Church in His power. Hence it would be proper to describe this amazing narrative as the “acts of the Holy Spirit through the apostles.” The book of Acts lays the foundation for much of the theology of the New Testament, including Christology, Pneumatology, Ecclesiology, Missiology, Eschatology, and Soteriology. It also records the explosion of the Gospel into the nations and the power of it to transform lives, cities, and cultures. As such, this book challenges the body of Christ to rediscover and express true biblical apostolic Christianity in our own day.
6. Deep Unto Deep: Biblical Foundations of Day and Night Prayer
David Bradshaw
Time: Wednesdays 7 to 9 PM
Charles Finney, in his Revival Lectures, speaks of a “travail that births souls.” This course will focus upon ushering in revival through prayer. With the Church as a “sending out” community, it is important that our future leaders understand the urgency of the hour and the great need for a people of prayer to emerge. This course will also focus on biblical foundations of prayer and intimacy with Christ. Students will receive a high vision of life with Christ as well as the practical tools to go deep with God and impact the nations through intercession.
7. Celebrate Ephesians Part I
Bowie Curry
Time: Thursdays 8 AM to 10 AM
Celebrate Ephesians! In this first of a two-part course we will be focusing on the first three chapters of Ephesians. Clearly, the Apostle Paul was having a profound encounter with the Lord when he wrote the Epistle to the Ephesians. Chapter one beings with a profound eulogy extolling the riches of our inheritance in Christ and concludes the chapter with the first of two Apostolic Prayers. We will be studying the book in the same spirit of worship and prayer. We will examine the great doctrines of election, predestination, adoption, redemption, the Father’s ultimate purpose to unite all things in Christ and the sealing of the Holy Spirit. We will consider the depths of depravity from which His grace lifted us. We will trace the mystery of the Church, the merging of the Jew and Gentile into a “new man in Christ.” Finally, we will study the magnificent apostolic prayer for divine enablement to live a life pleasing to God.
8. Introduction to the End Times - CLASS FULL
Randy Martinez
Time: Thursdays 7 PM to 9 PM
There are over 150 chapters in the Bible that describe the glorious events surrounding the end-times and the purposes of God in the consummation of human history. This time period is a central theme in the teachings of Christ and the Apostles. These events, defined as the “Day of the Lord,” will simultaneously be wonderful for believers and terrible for the earth. The great question of that hour is presented by the prophet Joel and later echoed by John: “who can endure?”
This course is an introduction in biblical foundations of eschatology (the study of the end-times). We will be covering the events accompanying the second coming of Jesus and the establishment of His millennial kingdom. The study of the end-times prepares us to cooperate with Jesus in the days ahead, gives us strength to stand in the face of great shakings, and provides understanding that will lead many to righteousness as we enter into that hour. Truly we should, as the apostle Peter exhorts, “place all of our hope on the grace that will be revealed” at the coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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