New Castle Presbytery's Commissioned Lay Pastor Training Program

Introduction to Preaching Course

Course Summary

Welcome to New Castle Presbytery's CLP course, Introduction to Preaching. The objective of this course stems from Great Commission of Jesus reported in Matthew 28: "go...and make disciples of all peoples. . .teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you." The objective of this course will therefore be to train candidates for Commissioned Lay ministry to preach the good news about Jesus in a winsome way, motivating those who listen to become his disciples.

Distance learning

In addition to the four monthly face-to-face meetings, students will also be required to participate in the online discussion group, FeedMySheep. At least one assignment per month will be made by the instructor via this group. Students will be required to participate in the online discussion (with their fellow students as well as with the instructor) in response to those assignments.

Syllabus

Check assignments and course calendar here.

Outside Resources

Useful Tools for Bible & Other Religious Study

Most Useful Resource:

Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible. There is a CD version of the IDB coming out, which also will include a 12-volume commentary of The Interpreter’s Bible. You might want to wait for this rather than investing in the IDB paper volumes, which you can find in many church libraries.

Hebrew and Greek aids:

The Interlinear Bible, Hebrew to English

The R.S.V. Interlinear Greek-English New Testament

Recommended study Bibles:

New Jerusalem Bible (liberal Catholic scholarship, translated into English from French)

New Interpreter’s Study Bible (New Revised Standard Version, ecumenical, critical scholarship)

Oxford Annotated Bible (Revised Standard Version; excellent short articles in the back)

The Renouvare Spiritual Formation Bible (New Revised Standard version; intended to help readers with a personal devotional life, using the Bible)

Concordances:

There are such good, fast, free concordances on the Web that I would not recommend your buying a paper concordance. The Web concordance I use is: http://bible.crosswalk.com/. It lets you set your preference for translation.

A treasure trove of free, excellent scholarly articles and even entire books on various religious subjects:

http://www.religion-online.org

Another treasure trove of free e-books, hundreds of thousands that are in the public domain. You can read these on your personal computer, or on your PDA. Check out the “religion” category:

http://www.manybooks.net

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