Bill Hull
May 19-22, 2008
Registration Closed

Building the Church by Creating a Discipleship Ethos. It is all too common for leaders to waste their time trying to get people to do what they don't want to do. This malady is often manifested in excessive exhortation, followed by anger and frustration for all parties involved. This is because much of this exhortative effort is focused on people becoming more earnest, trying harder and pumping desire. The better way is to engage people in character transformation, so they become the kind of people who actually desire to do the things Jesus did. This course will begin to rebuild the Gospel from the ground up and to define terms like Grace, Faith, Believe, Disciple, Effort, Works, Discipleship, Disciple Making, uncomplicated Obedience, and Kingdom. The course will begin with a focus on the personal life of the leader, then how to engage others in basic relationships and then move on to leading churches or other groups of people.

Jerry Bridges (Menucha)
June 9-13, 2008
Registration Closed

Grace and Discipline: The Relationship of God's Grace and the Practice of the Spiritual Disciplines in Christian Growth. God’s grace is expressed not only in salvation but also in the Christian life- in forgiving, accepting, enabling, sustaining, equipping and empowering the believer. This course will examine the true meaning of grace, the need for grace (even for believers), the effectiveness of grace in developing Christ like character and the relationship of God’s grace and the believer’s practice of spiritual disciplines in Christian growth. God’s grace will be presented as the basic motivation for both sanctification and Christian service. Thought will be given to creating a grace environment in the local church, and preaching grace-based imperative messages.

Enoch Wan/John Johnson (PTS712)
September 8-12, 2008
Application Deadline for New Students: July 14, 2008
Registration Deadline: July 28, 2008

Research Design and Methodology. This is a core doctoral course in basic research and design and survey of methodologies.  Emphasis is given to determining a project-dissertation, writing and research skills, and developing a proposal.

David Fisher/Bob Krupp (PTS711)
September 15-19, 2008
Application Deadline for New Students: July 21, 2008
Registration Deadline: August 4, 2008

Foundations for Ministry and Mission. This course explores pastoral ministry from a historical and theological perspective. The aim is to give students a solid foundation for doing ministry. The course will look at ministry in the classical tradition, including the early church fathers, the Protestant Reformers and contemporary voices. The course will also examine classical Pastoral Theology, the venerable and nearly lost discipline of biblical and theological reflection on pastoral ministry. A key goal of the course is to enable the students to place their pastoral ministry in a historical-theological context.

Don Carson
October 13-16, 2008
Application Deadline for New Students: August 18, 2008
Registration Deadline: September 1, 2008

Expository Preaching for Experienced Preachers. This course is designed for pastors who have been preaching for some time, and who want to improve their expository skills. After a brief review of the basics of exposition, the course focuses on matters that are sometimes overlooked. These topics vary from the relevance of theological and historical disciplines to preaching, to the manner in which one preaches Christ and the gospel from the whole Bible, to competent cultural exegesis.

Andy Crouch
November 10-13, 2008
Application Deadline for New Students: Sept. 15, 2008
Registration Deadline: September 29, 2008

Cultural Creativity and the Church. At the height of Christendom, the church was a principal sponsor of many forms of cultural creativity: art, science, literature, and laws.
For much of the twentieth century, many Protestants in America withdrew from such cultural activity altogether. As leaders of the next generation of the church, what can we do, in a pluralistic, post- Christendom context, to help our congregations be sources of cultural renewal? We will explore models of cultural change in conversation with sociologists and theologians, with the goal of identifying practical ways that local churches can equip their members to be agents of cultural change rather than simply consumers or critics of culture.

Beverly Hislop
February 2-5, 2009

Don Sunukjian
March 16-19, 2009

Gordon MacDonald
May 11-14, 2009

Dave Hansen (Menucha)
June 8-11, 2009

Tentative Course in the Mid-East
Summer 2009

John Johnson/Enoch Wan (PTS712)
September 14-17, 2009 (Tentative Dates)
Research Design and Methodology

NEW CLASS: Gerry Breshears/Tony Jones
October 12-15, 2009

James White
November 16-19, 2009

Alan Hirsch
February 1-4, 2010

Robert Smith
March 2010 (Dates TBD)

Gary Thomas (Menucha)
June 7-10, 2010 (Tentative Dates)

David Fisher/Bob Krupp (PTS711)
September 6-9, 2010
Foundations for Ministry and Mission

Enoch Wan/John Johnson (PTS712)
September 13-17, 2010 (Tentative Dates)
Research Design and Methodology

Mark Labberton
Fall or Spring 2010 (Dates TBD)