Teaching Ministry
There are many educational opportunities at ERC including Bible education on Sunday morning. Sunday School is grade K-12 and adults. The K-9 class are currently using material from Great Commission Publication. The high school just completed a study on the gospel of John. These are some of the educational offerings currently and from the recent past that were offered to the adults:
- CURRENT CLASSES: A Study of Psalm 119. This class will use their Bibles as we go through Psalm 119 stanza by stanza. The class is taught by Chris Nyland and will be completed at the end of May.
- "Sex, Bible, and Culture." Our culture makes lots of statements about sexuality. Are they the right statements? Most of the time they are not. Sexual sin is rampant in culture; sadly, it can be in the church, too. Yet the Bible says a lot on the subject. Who are we listening to? Culture or the Bible? We are using R. Albert Mohler's book, Desire and Deceit: The Real Cost of the New Sexual Tolerance, to help direct our discussion. Class is taught by Pastor Rich Hamlin.
- PAST ADULT CLASSES:
- "Living a Holy Life in a Unholy World.." A study of First Peter with a focus that Peter places on holiness as he writes to encourage his readers, who were facing persecution for their faith, to stand firm (1 Peter 5:12). The class used John Piper's book, The Hidden Smile of God: The Fruit of Affliction in the Lives of John Bunyan, William Cowper, and David Brainerd, as a supplementary to studying First Peter. The class is taught by Chris Nyland and was completed in January 2012.
- This apologetics class took a further look at the area of apologetics, particularly classical apologetics (build upon the class in 2009). The class used the book, Defending Your Faith, by R.C. Sproul as well as additional resources and case studies. The class was taught by Jeff McInnis and was completed in May of 2011.
- Studied the book of Ruth with Faithful God: An Exposition of the Book of Ruth by Sinclair Ferguson. Class was taught by Chris Nyland and was completed in December 2010.
- Studied the book of Judges. Class was taught by Chris Nyland and was completed in June 2010.
- Class looked at the area of Apologetics using case studies and Richard Pratt's book Every Thought Captive: A Study Manual for the Defense of Christian Truth. Class was taught by Jeff Jeff McInnis and was completed in December 2009.
- Studied the book of Psalms using Tremper Longman's book, How to Read the Psalms for support was completed in June 2009 was taught by Chris Nyland..
- The film series called "Foundations, An Overview of Systematic Theology" a sixty week course by Dr. R. C. Sproul. was taught by Jim Howard and was completed in May 2008.
- "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.
