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About Veritas:

Veritas exists in order to educate the mind with the eternal truths of God's Word and saturate students with the Christian worldview, engage the affections so that students might passionately pursue God, equip the whole person, and encourage God-centered living which leads to life transformation and intentional evangelism. Classes are offered every Sunday starting at 9AM. 

Finding Jesus in the 150 Psalms

Learning Level: Base Camp

Learning Track: Old Testament

Instructor: Dan Smythe

Class Location: Multi-Purpose Room

Course Objectives:
  • To gain an orientation of the 150 Psalms as an inspired collection of individual Psalms into one unified Book by discerning the way in which the Book of Psalms has been intentionally structured sequentially to convey a message to us for our Christian growth.
  • To apply an inductive method of Bible study to selected psalms out of Psalms 1 - 41, which will become the foundation upon which to continue studying further Psalms after the completion of the course
  • To counteract the ‘visual stimuli overload’ of our world by learning - and then engaging - the practice of meditatively praying the Psalms as a lifestyle practice.
  • To gain a grasp on how to use the Psalms to know God better and to pray to him with more variety and intentionality by engaging our ‘God-given-prayer-manual’ that he so graciously placed in the very center of his inspired Bible.
Course Dynamics:

The weekly preparation (approximately 55 minutes) to gain the most form this course will involve:

  1. reading an assigned Psalm (5 minutes).
  2. inductively marking the text of the Psalm-of-the-week with colored symbols as equipped to do with the course textbook and the instructor’s cues (15 minutes).
  3. studying and analyzing the Psalm-of-the-week by employing the inductive study questions from the course textbook to that Psalm (25 minutes).
  4. after the class session, praying that Psalm back to the Lord as equipped to do in the course (10 minutes).
Course Resources:
  • Each participant will be provided a notebook manual containing an outlined copy of Psalms 1 - 75 complete with a customized chiastic memory-device that is unique to each Psalm.
  • Each participant (or family) will need a copy of the Precept Ministries NISS (New Inductive Study Series) book on Psalms - cost $10.

Roman Catholicism, The Holy Spirit, and the Word of God

Learning Track: Base Camp

Instructor: Dr. Tom Juchmes

Class Location: Conference Room

Course Description:

This course will be based on the Canons that were derived from their council of Trent that took place from 1545-1563. The Roman Catholic Church holds to the content of these canons to this day with minor revisions. The purpose of this study is twofold. First, such a study is helpful in properly understanding the content of Calvin’s Institutes. Second, such knowledge is helpful in understanding what Roman Catholics actually believe and how many of these beliefs are not supported by the Bible. Following this we will be studying chapters seven and eight in Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion. The final two sections of chapter seven explain the necessity of the work of the Holy Spirit within the heart of the believer. This function is necessary in order for the follower of Christ to correctly comprehend the content. Chapter eight examines what the Word of God claims of itself, that its content is the very Word of God. 

Course Objectives:
  • Each participant in the class will gain a better understanding of what Roman Catholics officially believe so that the gospel may be better communicated.
  • To heighten one’s awareness that the Bible is literally the Word of God addressed to all people and particularly those who are his children so that they may be functionally equipped to serve him.
  • To equip believers in Christ to better understand and defend the Bible as the very words of God.
  • To explore how the Holy Spirit validates validates and illuminates the truths of the Bible in our hearts and minds.
  • To increase awareness that the Bible’s focus is God reconciling people to him so that they may enjoy and glorify him.