Pastors Equipping Christians for Their Civil Duties
“I have posted watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will never be silent day or night” (Isa.62:6). God appoints His people to be watchmen on the walls — to guard the city and sound the alarm when the ungodly seek to take over. For the first few centuries of American history, Christian leaders acted as watchmen. In fact, Christians gave birth to America — they colonized the states, they wrote the laws and constitutions, they started the schools and colleges, and they served in leadership in every area of life. However, in the last century or so the watchmen have fallen asleep and the enemy has swarmed into the city. The result has been a gradual decay of society and an increasing assault against God and His truth. To restore the nation, the watchmen must wake up, sound the alarm, and fulfill their duties, especially their civil duties.
Sessions include: 1) Prayer: The Watchmen’s Duty and Foundation of American Liberty. 2) The Biblical Basis for Christians’ Civil Duties. 3) How Christians Can Fulfill Their Civil
Duties. 4) Pastors and the Founding of America. 5) Changes in Our Nation that Should Motivate Us to Run to Win. 6) Ministers: Leaders of a Second American Revolution. 7) How Pastors Can Make Civic Involvement Part of Their Church’s Basic Discipleship.
Instructors: Stephen McDowell, David Barton, and Mark Beliles
Format: 7 DVDs
Credit Hours: 7
This course provides an excellent introduction to a Biblical philosophy of government, law, and politics.
Sessions include:
1. The Ten Commandments: the Fundamental Law of God (2 sessions)
2. Liberty: the Fruit of Biblical Jurisdictional Authority
3. The Fundamental Principles of Christian Nations
4. The Advance of Liberty in History.
5. America’s Providential History.
Instructor:Stephen McDowell
6 one-hour sessions on DVD.
(Course is also available on CD, & Audio tape.)
Course No.: STA01
Choose Credit if you are enrolled in the Biblical Worldview University and you will receive credit towards your Providence Foundation degree.
AUDIT COST $50
Jesus commissioned believers to “make disciples of all nations,” which, according to Bible Commentator Matthew Henry, means to “do your utmost to make the nations Christian nations.” How do we make the nations Christian? How do we build Godly nations? The Bible teaches that if a people obey God’s laws they will have liberty, peace, prosperity, and justice. But we must obey all of God’s laws to experience the abundance of God’s blessing. To the extent we obey in all areas of life, is the extent we will experience the Godly fruit of liberty.
The Founders of America understood this vital truth and attempted to build the nation upon the precepts of God, and though not without fault, their efforts produced the best example of a Christian nation in history. Thus there are many important lessons we can learn from the American Founders as we seek to build Godly nations today.
Sessions:
1.Fulfilling the Cultural Mandate;
2. Seven Ideas that Transformed the World and Made America a Success;
3. How to Disciple the Nations: God’s Purpose for Man, the Family, Church, and Civil Government;
4. Fundamentals Principles of a Christian Nation
Instructor: Stephen McDowell.
Four sessions, 3 on DVD, 1 on CD, with a course manual.
Course No.: BWV01.
Choose Credit if you are enrolled in the Biblical Worldview University and you will receive credit towards your Providence Foundation degree.
CREDIT COST $70
Foundations of Biblical Economics, Business, & the Marketplace
A Christian economy will flow from the heart of man outward. A comparison of the factors of production in a Christian versus a humanistic society reveals why some nations prosper and others are in poverty. The wheel of progress in a Christian economy is presented, showing the components necessary for prosperity, and for dealing with poverty, inflation, unjust taxation, and other economic concerns.
A Biblical economy will have an honest money system. One of the signs of a nation in decay is the condition of its currency and the degree of honesty in its weights and measures. Learn how to establish Biblical money and banking principles in a nation. A Biblical view of business and work is presented in the life of Cyrus McCormick, the inventor of the reaper. This invention was the foundation for the prosperity of many. Work and business are a part of God’s calling through which people can fulfill their divine mission and manifest God’s Kingdom on the earth.
A central message of the Bible is that if we look to God as the source of truth and how to live our lives, and obey what He commanded, it will be well with us, as individuals and as nations. However, if we look to man or the state as the source of how to live, and walk accordingly, we will go backward. This is true for ever area of life, as God’s Word addresses every sphere of life. Joseph Lister became the founder of antiseptic surgery, and saved untold numbers of lives, because he applied Biblical medical principles.
Sessions include:
1. The Economy from a Biblical Perspective
2. Honest Money and Banking
3. Biblical Principles of Business and Work
4. Biblical Medical Principles
5. Principles of Christian Economics.
Instructor: Stephen McDowell.
5 sessions on CD with course manual.
Course No.: MKT01.
Choose Credit if you are enrolled in the Biblical Worldview University and you will receive credit towards your Providence Foundation degree.
Jesus declared we are to occupy until He comes. This is primarily accomplished through our occupation or work. A Christian economy and business will flow from the heart of man outward. God not only gives men the character necessary to prosper and be free, but He also gives principles in the Bible necessary to build growing and prospering businesses and economies (both national and personal).
Sessions include:
1) Biblical Resources for Wealth Creation
2) Biblical Purpose of Work and Business
3) Biblical Principles of Work and Business
4) Applying Biblical Principles in the Marketplace
5) A Strategy for Churches and Workplace Ministers
6) Rendering to Caesar the Things that Are God’s
7) The Economy from a Biblical Perspective
8) Honest Money and Banking
Instructor: Stephen McDowell.
8 sessions on CD with a course manual.
Course No.: MKT02.
Choose Credit if you are enrolled in the Biblical Worldview University and you will receive credit towards your Providence Foundation degree.
