The subject of this course is “Teaching Tactics”. “Teaching” is the act of instructing another person. Biblical teaching includes imparting knowledge and demonstrating how to apply that knowledge to personal life and ministry. “Tactics” are methods used to achieve a goal, purpose, or objective. In the military, the subject of “tactics” teaches soldiers how to use their weapons to achieve an advantage over the enemy. The same is true in the spiritual world. If we apply God’s methods or “tactics”, we can conquer spiritual enemies which include the world, the flesh and Satan with all his powers. In “Teaching Tactics” you will learn how to use a great spiritual weapon. That weapon is the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God (Ephesians 6:17). You will learn tactics of preaching and teaching God’s Word for the purpose of defeating the enemy.
Archives: Catalog
Ancient Church History
A unique study of the fascinating men and women who lived and died standing for God’s truth in the development of His churches, from the days of Christ to the modern era.
How Should We Interpret The Bible (Hermeneutic)
God is capable of accurately relaying His Word to us in a Way that we can understand. It is crucial that we interpret Properly to determine the intended meaning rather than Forcing ideas into the text
The first humans experienced amnesia of their former animal life: Operating on a higher plane of consciousness once infused with the breath of life, they would transcend the lower plane of animal consciousness on which they had previously operated—though, after the fall, they might be tempted to resort to that lower consciousness.1 So according to this professor, Adam and Eve were animals before God breathed the breath of life into them. At that point, they experienced “amnesia of their former animal life” so that they would no longer remember their animal past.
Nouthetic Counseling
The need for pastoral counseling in the local church appears to be growing rapidly. Yet, few pastors have received adequate training in the field of counseling. In addition, there is a dearth of Scriptural based materials that a pastor may study and use in order to have the basic tools for counseling.
Many of the books written in recent years have little practical value to the average pastor. In fact, some of the proposed methods and techniques are not only inadequate but unbiblical and sometimes dangerous for the counselee. It is a fact of life today that Christians may be affected with all the sinful practices and maladies to which human flesh is heir and that we will retain this potential until the day we are received into glory.
Cognitive Counseling Therapy
Beck was researching depression under the psychoanalytical understanding that depression resulted from anger turned against the self and was examining dream content in order to find this ‘retroflexed anger’. However, what caught his attention was that depressed clients had a pronounced negative bias in their interpretations of themselves leading to strong self-disparagement. He came to believe that systematic errors in logical thinking caused depression. These thoughts were understood to be ‘automatic’, derived from generalizations of past experience.
Counseling and Family Violence
This manuscript is written for those preparing themselves for effective service in ministry or for personal growth and understanding. This material is meant to be used with the companion study guide. The focus is to first present the various facts and figures, and to lay out a plan for intervention with families caught in the web of violence.
Secondly, in the section on victims and victimizers, the dynamics of abuse in various areas is fully detailed. Finally, the section on treatment and recovery details the process of change that most people, perpetrators and victims, can successfully experience with God’s power and good clinical wisdom. It is my hope that the reader will grow as he/she processes through the material.
Counseling Recipes
In the accounts of God’s faithfulness, in so many practical ways, Dr Timothy Tow relates them all to Scripture. He points out that the minister who rightly counsels is himself counseled daily in God’s Word. He states, “I merely point every client to the Counselor of counselors (Isaiah 9:6) even our Savior Jesus Christ, and to His Holy Spirit…” Again Dr Tow states, “As counselor our job is simply to bring our patients to Christ the Living Word. It is He who prescribes to us the treatment or recipe.”
Building Your Church through Counsel and Care
One of the best definitions of a leader is “someone who is willing to take responsibility for someone else.” Lots of people want to absolve themselves of responsibility for anyone but themselves (and some try to dodge even that).
But Christians who’ve heard the call of God know that ministry is about caring for others. “Care” isn’t just an emotion, a warm feeling toward people in general, or affection for a few individuals. No, care implies making sure that basic needs are met. Pastoral care means taking responsibility for the spiritual wellbeing of a group. The “pastoral epistles” is filled with the apostle Paul’s instructions about caring for the flock—details of organization and administration are part of it, but the emphasis is on sound counsel (through personal conversation and through teaching and preaching) and effective care. The purpose: cultivating mature Christian character
Child Abuse
This book deals with the various problems, their ramifications, and the support to our children. It is our responsibility to protect our children from predators. Our children are gifts from the Lord. The disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” “Jesus called a little child unto him and set him in the midst of them, and said, ’verily I say unto you, except ye be converted, and become as a little children, ye shall not enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matt. 18:2–3).
Rev. Gordon has spent time to explain the importance of protecting our children; protecting our children is protecting our society. It is very dangerous and costly not doing so. Our society is suffering because of this chronic problem, which parents and the governments refuse to deal with in the proper way; therefore, we as parents must take up this problem at hand before it reaches to genocide.
The Counselor professional doctorate
How can counselors be therapeutic persons and model awareness and growth for their clients? In thinking about counselors who are therapeutic, I have isolated a cluster of personal qualities and characteristics. I do not expect any therapist to fully exemplify all these traits. Rather, for me the willingness to struggle to become a more therapeutic person is the crucial quality. This list is intended to stimulate you to examine your ideas of what kind of person can make a significant difference in the lives of others. Effective counselors have an identity. They know who they are, what they are capable of becoming, what they want out of life, and what is essential. They respect and appreciate themselves. They can give help and love out of their own sense of self-worth and strength. They are able to recognize and accept their own power. They feel ad equate with others and allow others to feel powerful with them.
