Teaching Ministries

There are many educational opportunities at ERC including Bible education on Sunday morning. These are some of the educational offerings currently and from the recent past.

• The adult SS class is currently viewing a film series called "Foundations, An Overview of Systematic Theology" a sixty week course by Dr. R. C. Sproul. The class will go through May 2008.

  On January 7, 1855 the minister of New Park Street Chapel, Southwark, opened his morning sermon as follows:

  "It has been said by someone that 'the proper study of mankind is man'. I will not oppose the idea, but I believe it is equally true that the proper study of God's elect is God; the proper study of a Christian is the Godhead. The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God, is the name, the nature, the person, the work, the doings, and the existence of the great God whom he calls his Father---I know nothing which can so comfort the soul; so calm the swelling billows of sorrow and grief; so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead. It is to that subject that I invite you this morning..."

  These words spoken over a century ago by C.H. Spurgeon (at that time, incredibly, only twenty years old) were true then, and they are true now. They make a fitting preface to a series of studies on the nature and character of God as found in Sacred Scripture.

• "20 Controversies That Almost Killed a Church" taught by Roland Robinson
• Addictions: Finding Hope in the Power of the Gospel taught by Pastor Rich Hamlin.
• "My Father's World" taught by Roland Robinson
• "Apologetics: Defending the Truth" taught by Pastor Rich Hamlin.
• Mortifying Sin: The Enemy Within taught by Paster Rich Hamlin. The link takes you to the handouts and allows you to print the handout that you seem to have misplaced.
• Essential Truths of the Christian Faith taught by Roland Robinson.
• The text used in a class on church history was Trial and Triumph, Stories From Church History by Richard M. Hannula. The class handouts, Historical Highlights of the Christian Church, are still very useful both as a timeline of church history, and a summary of the signifance of some really big words that theologians sometimes use.