Free Online Biblical Training Courses

Over the last few months I have been interacting with hundreds of Christians in Africa through Facebook. What has become clear is that there is a real thirst to get further training in theology in order to be more effective in ministry. While Theology on the Web can support such training by providing free access to thousands of theological articles, commentaries and other books – it is an online library – and therefore does not offer any courses that visitors can follow.

In response to these requests for biblical training courses I have been searching the Internet for suitable material. After looking at their material carefully I have decided to recommend BiblicalTraining.org to my visitors. This non-profit organisation is headed by Dr Bill Mounce and offers free access to a superb collection of courses taught by world-class theologians, which can be downloaded and shared with others. The courses are divided into three levels:

1. Foundations: Classes that are appropriate for all followers of Jesus. When you begin, they do not assume you know anything about the Bible, and they will teach you basic Bible content and beliefs.
2. Academy: The university-level classes will take you deeper than Foundations but not assume you want to be taking graduate-level classes
3. Institute: These seminary-level classes can fully prepare you with the biblical and theological training you need to be an informed leader in your church

Institute Level Courses

Here is a list of BiblicalTraining.org’s current Institute and other related courses:

• Pastoral Care and Leadership – Dr. John Johnson
• Old Testament Survey – Dr. Douglas Stuart
• New Testament Survey – Gospels – Dr. Robert Stein
• New Testament Survey – Acts to Revelation – Dr. Robert Stein
• Biblical Hermeneutics – Dr. Robert Stein
• Old Testament Theology – Dr. Paul House
• Biblical Theology – Dr. Greg Beale
• Systematic Theology I – Dr. Bruce Ware
• Systematic Theology II – Dr. Bruce Ware
• Worship – Dr. Gary Parrett
• Spiritual Life of the Leader – Dr. Stephen Martyn
• Psalms – Dr. Bruce Waltke
• Proverbs – Dr. Bruce Waltke
• Greek Tools for Bible Study – Dr. Bill Mounce
• Biblical Greek – Dr. Bill Mounce
• Textual Criticism – Dr. Daniel Wallace
• New Testament Introduction – Dr. Ben Witherington
• Life of Christ – Dr. Darrell Bock
• New Testament Survey: Acts-Revelation – Dr. Thomas Schreiner
• Introduction to the New Testament: Gospel and Acts – Dr. Craig Blomberg
• Introduction to the New Testament: Romans to Revelation – Dr. Craig Blomberg
• Acts – Dr. Craig Keener
• Romans – Dr. Douglas Moo
• Galatians – Dr. Douglas Moo
• Pastoral Epistles – Dr. Bill Mounce
• Hebrews – Dr. George Guthrie
• Revelation – Dr. Robert Mulholland
• New Testament Theology – Dr. Frank Thielman
• Principles of Effective Leadership – Dr. John Johnson
• Theology of Ministry – Dr. John Johnson
• World Mission of the Church – Dr. Timothy Tennent
• Introduction to Buddhism – Dr. Timothy Tennent
• Introduction to Hinduism – Dr. Timothy Tennent
• Introduction to Islam – Dr. Timothy Tennent
• Christian Apologetics – Dr. Ronald Nash
• History of Philosophy and Christian Thought – Dr. Ronald Nash
• Christian Ethics – Dr. Ronald Nash
• Advanced Worldview Analysis – Dr. Ronald Nash
• C.S. Lewis: His Theology and Philosophy – Dr. Michael L. Peterson
• Church History I – Dr. Gerald Bray
• Church History II – Dr. Gerald Bray
• Martin Luther – Dr. Gordon Isaac
• Theology of World Missions – Dr. Peter Kuzmič
• Introduction to Wesleyan Theology – Dr. Steve Seamands
• Theology and Practice of Evangelism – Dr. Robert Tuttle, Jr.
• Educational Ministry of the Church – Dr. Gary Parrett
• Preaching – Dr. Bryan Chapell

I am currently greatly enjoying working my way through Craig Keener’s course on Acts, distilled from his recent 4,000 page commentary on that book. The BiblicalTraining.org site requires you to register in order to download the courses, but is completely free. I will shortly be adding direct links to relevant courses on my websites.

Do you know of any good Bible training courses? Feel free to share them in the comments.