Course Offerings - Spring 2: 2025

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Instructor: Jacob Stump

Course Description: This course covers the basic fundamentals of preaching, focusing on the techniques and principles that allow the student to master any sermon style. It answers the what and why of preaching, looks at the process of sermon preparation and delivery, and gives practical advice to aid the student in being successful in this divine collaboration between man and God.

Required Book(s): 

•  We Preach

Instructor:  Dwight Chandler

Course Description:  In this course, students will gain an understanding of personal evangelism from a biblical perspective. Foundational areas to be covered include purpose, spiritual preparation, personal style, relationships, communication, and mobilization.

Required Book(s): 

• Becoming a Contagious Christian

• Becoming a Contagious Christian: Six Sessions on Communicating Your Faith in a Style That Fits You (Participant's Guide)

Instructor: Brian Kinsey

Course Description: In this course, the student will grasp a basic understanding of Biblical stewardship and overall life management. The student will analyze key management skills and ethical behavior that sustains ministry success.

Required Book(s): 

• I Choose to Win: How to Get Unstuck, on Track, and Enjoy Abundant Life
• Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer (Sanders Spiritual Growth Series)

Instructor: Dr. Napoleon Burt

Course Description:  In this course, students survey the history of Israel and an analysis of each book of the Old Testament in the light of this background. Stress is on theology, applicability, structure, genre, and general content.

Required Book(s): 

•  Into His Presence, Volume 1: Encountering the God of the Patriarchs
• Into His Presence, Volume 2: Encountering the God of the Prophets
• Old Testament Survey

Instructor:  Todd Nance

Course Description:  In this course, students will gain an understanding of the historical and cultural settings of the New Testament. Students will start in the Gospels, Acts with a special emphasis on the Epistles and the Book of Revelation. The highlights of the New Testament.

Required Book(s): 

• A Popular Survey of the New Testament

Facilitator: Dr. Robert Mitchell

 NTCC is pleased to offer this course in partnership with North American Missions (NAM). 

Course Description:   This course interactively presents students with the biblical imperative to establish new churches. The course explores the methods of the early Pentecostal movement to evangelize by planting churches, as well as presenting a modern paradigm of church planting by examining the experiences of modern church planters.

Required Book(s): 

• A Light to the Nations: The Missional Church and the Biblical Story
• Discovering Church Planting: An Introduction to the Whats, Whys, and Hows of Global Church Planting

Instructor: Dr. Carl McLaughlin 

Course Description:  In this course the student will explore the biblical meaning of the pastoral role as defined in scripture. The course emphasis will focus on the character and the competence of the pastor and pastoral leadership in the Apostolic church historically and in today’s context. Special attention will be given to the way in which Paul instructed Timothy and Titus to handle false doctrine, to the basic teaching on church order and leadership responsibilities, and to the application of the apostle’s teaching to contemporary situations.

Required Book(s):

• The Pastoral Epistles: A Commentary on I and II Timothy and Titus