This ecumenical conference… gathers worshipers from across Canada, the US, and beyond  brings together people from a variety of roles in worship and leadership, including pastors, worship planners and leaders, musicians, scholars, students, worship bands and teams, organists, visual artists, preachers, chaplains, missionaries, liturgists, council and session leaders, and more  encourages leaders in churches and …
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Performance and Teaching The NBSI Academy for Biblical Storytelling (ABS) provides you with support and training in both the performance and teaching of biblical stories. ABS encourages you to find your individual style as well as appreciate the stories in the form they’ve been “traditioned” to us. The ultimate goal is to send you out …
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Unlock Your Preaching Potential: Ready to swap panic for power in your preaching? What you’ll learn Nervous about preaching a sermon? Don’t be! Our on-demand course “You’ve Been Asked to Preach: Now What?” is designed to take your sermon crafting from petrifying to inspiring. By the end of this course, you will have a fully …
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What you’ll learn In a world filled with competing stories, “Storied Faith: Listening to God Through Story” offers a transformative solution, guiding you on a journey of self-discovery to connect your unique narrative with God’s grand story. This unique course seeks to foster cultural sensitivity, adaptability, and the transformative power of storytelling for ministry entrepreneurs …
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This course is a survey of the person and work of Jesus Christ. It explores the Christian traditions and some authors of Christology, Trinitarian theology and soteriology, enabling students to become familiar with ancient and contemporary questions related to the identity of Jesus and the significance of his life and ministry for justice and the …
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While faith in Jesus Christ has never come easily, there are certain features of modern—and now purportedly “postmodern”—societies that seem to make Christian faith and discipleship particularly perplexing. These features are commonly discussed under the heading of “secularization,” a term which points to the fact that traditional Christian understanding and institutions have grown progressively less …
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Modernity and postmodernity have posed various challenges to the Christian Church, and one of these has been the burgeoning of new critical methods and perspectives with respect to biblical interpretation. This course aims to examine the assumptions, history, and variety of these methods; to probe the coherence and value of their perspectives; to trace the …
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This course introduces students to the art of biblical exegesis and interpretation. It is designed to help students gain confidence in text analysis, become self-critically aware of the challenges and opportunities of reading the Bible in modern contexts, and consider the ongoing relevance of Scripture for the Christian life while remaining open to the work …
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Do we have a festival for you! We are thrilled to present to you ….drum roll please…….our 2024 online festival of biblical telling: Sustained by the Story: Biblical Telling for Times Like These. Mark the dates:   Feb 2-4, 2024 This year, we are asking: Why is it so important to have a Story – a sacred Story – …
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This course is both for the student preacher and the experienced preacher. Preaching is an integral part of the Anglican tradition. This course builds on previous training in homiletics but is appropriate for preachers with extensive or limited experience. Throughout the course, the spirituality of preaching will be stressed especially for preachers involved in bivocational …
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