How Does the New Testament Define and Describe Grace?

The Nature and Origin of Unclean Spirits in the New Testament: A Deeper Reading of the Original Text

This course explores what the original Greek terminology (πνεῦμα ἀκάθαρτον) and Second Temple cosmology reveal about unclean spirits as distinct agents within a richer spiritual ecology. Rather than collapsing all demonic beings into a single 'fallen angel' category, we recover the biblical text's more nuanced understanding of spiritual opposition, personal agency, and cosmic conflict. Each chapter is anchored in primary passages, enriched by historical context and theological insight, revealing that the original text teaches something more profound than inherited tradition alone suggests.

5 chapters

Baptism in the New Testament: Incorporation into Christ and God's Covenant Community

A five-chapter study exploring how baptism in the New Testament incorporates believers into Christ and God's covenant community, transforming the whole person into resurrection life. This course moves from Jesus's own baptism as the foundational pattern, through the early church's practice and theology, to Paul's vision of baptism as death-and-resurrection union with Christ, and finally to baptism's role in both individual transformation and corporate belonging. Each chapter is anchored in primary biblical texts and enriched by historical, cultural, and theological insight.

5 chapters

Unclean Spirits in the New Testament: A Deeper Biblical Cosmology

This course explores what unclean spirits truly are according to New Testament texts, moving beyond simplified notions of 'demons' to recover a richer biblical understanding of spiritual bondage and liberation. Through close reading of primary passages—from Jesus's first encounter with an unclean spirit to Paul's cosmic framework of spiritual warfare—we discover that the original texts reveal a more integrated, relational, and systemic spirituality than tradition often teaches. The biblical cosmology includes not only personal possession but also structural spiritual forces, not only contamination but also restoration of embodied wholeness. By grounding each chapter in canonical texts and enriching them with historical, linguistic, and theological insights, we will see that Scripture's teaching on unclean spirits is deeper, more comprehensive, and more liberating than we may have realized.

5 chapters

What Does Scripture Teach About Money? A Covenantal Vision Beyond Personal Virtue

This six-chapter course recovers the Bible's richest teaching on money as a covenantal and structural force, not merely a tool for individual moral performance. Beginning with the foundational text that distinguishes the love of money from money itself, the course traces how Hebrew economic law embedded justice into community structures, how Jesus named money as a rival power (mammon), and how apostolic practice revealed economics as a cosmic realignment. Each chapter starts with primary Scripture and shows how cultural, historical, and theological context deepens—not replaces—what the text already says. Learners will discover that biblical money teaching is far more concerned with concrete justice NOW in covenant community than with afterlife reward, and that wealth functions as a theological force requiring both personal AND corporate transformation. This is enrichment and recovery: the biblical text proves richer than inherited tradition suggested.

6 chapters

What Does the Bible Reveal About Anger as a Relational Response?

A five-chapter biblical exploration of anger as neither inherently sinful nor a mere emotion to suppress, but a morally complex relational response. This course traces how Scripture distinguishes between destructive and righteous anger, reveals anger and love coexisting in God's character, and shows how Christ's incarnation reframes human anger within redemptive justice. Learners will discover that the biblical text on anger is far richer than common tradition suggests—anger itself is morally neutral; the object, motive, and expression determine its ethical weight.

5 chapters

What Does the Bible Say About Tithing? A Covenant-Based System Revealed

This course traces the biblical teaching on tithes from Abraham through the early church, uncovering how tithing functioned not as a simple percentage but as a multifaceted covenant practice tied to priestly support, festival celebration, and care for the poor. We discover that the original text reveals something richer than the simplified 10% rule: a system rooted in relationship with God and community care. The course culminates in understanding how Jesus and the apostles transformed this practice into grace-motivated voluntary generosity, enriching rather than abandoning the principle of faithful giving.

5 chapters