What Is Podcast Seminary?
Podcast Seminary offers audio-based biblical and theological courses where learners listen alone at their own pace or study with others in an exciting online learning community. Podcast Seminary features guided interactive discussion forums on weekly course content and helpful digital resources in a members-only online community. Podcast Seminary is ideal for growing and mature Christians, Bible teachers, and ministry leaders wanting to be equipped with a more comprehensive and systematic approach to developing their biblical knowledge and deepening their theological understanding.
Overview
Podcast Seminary provides substantial spiritual food to Christians hungry for God’s Word. It is a fun and meaningful learning experience designed to help you build a more comprehensive knowledge of the Bible and Christian Theology. It is meant to quickly broaden your awareness and deepen your understanding of a wide range of Christian subjects. This is done by exposing you to condensed versions of content typically covered in full-time seminary degree programs.
Podcast Seminary educates, edifies, equips, and encourages Christian learners, regardless of their level of educational training or spiritual maturity. Podcast Seminary fosters an environment of inquiry and discovery. It is thought-provoking but non-threatening. It’s academic but accessible. It’s fun but not frivolous. It’s non-accredited but achievement-based.
Curriculum
In the New Testament Book of Acts, the Apostle Paul spoke of the importance of his teaching “the whole counsel of God” (Acts 20:27). In doing so, Paul was communicating the absolute importance of teachers helping disciples become fully informed about divine truth and the Word of God. One of the great challenges within today’s Christian churches is the growing problem of biblical illiteracy. Similar to that is the related issue of many Christian’s general ignorance of the biblical worldview.
What does this mean, and why does it matter? This means that many Christians are not fully equipped when it comes to knowing the Word of God and, as a result, the Will of God (Romans 12:2). The result is that believers often live without the confidence, courage, and convictions they need to be “more than conquerors” as the Bible promises we can become (Romans 8:31-39). Ultimately, this problem leads to less-fulfilled lives, avoidable mistakes, and a lack of spiritual legacy by many believers. Podcast Seminary is built to address these common problems in discipleship.
Podcast Seminary curriculum provides comprehensive, systematic, and on-going training that covers both the breadth and depth of Christian truth. Podcast Seminary covers a broad area of curriculum comprised of nine key areas. These areas represent the areas of knowledge that comprise a Christian worldview. When a person understands these areas, he or she is able to live with more spiritual power, with increased confidence, and with greater joy.
As you take your first course in one of the following nine areas, you’ll begin to understand how important it is to develop thought structures, theological perspectives, and familiarity with the many areas of truth. Before long, you’ll begin to have a working knowledge of all the key areas important to understanding how life works. We encourage you to continue to build your mind through the content and learning available through Podcast Seminary. Below are nine areas all Christians should study for more comprehensive discipleship.
Program Options
Though all believers should become informed and should grow their knowledge of scripture, we all learn in different ways. People who want to study need to have options in how that content is delivered. Some students want to study alone. Others want to study in groups. Some want to go at their own pace. Still others want to have an organized program that provides some accountability to help them stick with their learning goals. Podcast Seminary understands this need. We believe that if people are given the opportunity to learn valuable scriptural content in a way that accommodates their personal situations, they will respond by equipping themselves. Below you will learn about the two program options that exist in Podcast Seminary. Each has a radically diverse approach. Find the one that will best your need and get started today.
Option 1
The “Student” Program
Everyone loves to learn. In fact, we need to learn. But sometimes we want to do it on our own. Study can be a wonderful group experience, but it can also be a life-changing personal experience. There is something about listening to God’s Truth and allowing it to penetrate our souls in private moments with God. That is the goal of the Seminary “Student” Program. Look below to learn more.
Option 2
The “Scholar” Program
The Student Program is valuable, but the “Scholar” Program offers a different type of excitement and engagement. The opportunity to engage other learners with comments and ideas about the deep things of God is life-changing. Knowing that others, like you, are committed to getting informed and being transformed makes a difference in our commitment to the program. The membership area, course resources, and having a chance each month to talk to the professor who wrote the course in order to ask questions. Look below to learn more.
Trimester Schedule for Courses
Trimesters divide the calendar year into three identical periods of time. Trimesters are unlike “semester” schedules. In semesters, classes are not offered during January’s Winter Break and June through August’s Summer Break. That would result in 25% of the year without Bible and Theology classes being offered. Podcast Seminary “trimesters” allow Seminary Podcast students and scholars to study year-round, alone or with others. So you get to decide which months of the year you want to study and how much you want to study. Imagine taking one class per month, with new classes offered every month, or soon you will be able to take multiple classes per month, with new courses beginning every month. Start anytime– just catch up with the other students or wait until the next classes begin at the first of the month.
Tuition
DigitalDiscipler is delighted to offer a tremendous number of complimentary resources. Our intention is to bless people with significant discipleship opportunities throughout this website. People can benefit from our many blog posts, ministry-related portfolios, and novel digital devotional opportunities. They provide rich opportunities for expanding your thinking and for deepening your commitment.
Though the resources just mentioned are valuable, DigitalDiscipler believes people need even more substantial biblical and theological content than those. For us to become all God intended us to be, we must devote ourselves to consistent study, challenging accountability, and quality teaching. Indeed, the Apostle Paul said this very thing in 1 Timothy 4:13: “Until I arrive, give your full concentration to the public reading of Scripture, to exhorting, and to teaching.”
Our desire to take that command seriously led to the creation of Podcast Seminary. And though we call this resource “Podcast Seminary,” that isn’t meant to imply that it provides the length and depth of a graduate degree in theology. But it is designed using the same motif as one finds in Christian higher education. Podcast Seminary’s content, like seminary education, is comprehensive, systematic, and progressively challenging. And our desire is to offer a ‘seminary-like experience’ to Podcast Seminary Students and Scholars through the following courses. Check below for tuition rates.
Program 1:
Podcast “Student” Tuition
Program 2:
Podcast “Scholar” Tuition
Program 3:
TEAM
Program 4:
TEACHER
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Curriculum Being Produced
Legend
Below are abbreviation codes for the nine categories of Podcast Seminary curriculum and a listing of the four training levels of our curriculum. The nine categories organize our curriculum into type or theme. Under each category are some 10 different courses that are under development. The four training levels represent four levels of complexity within the curriculum. This doesn’t necessarily mean that all 400 level courses are more intellectually-challenging than all 300 levels, or that all 300 level courses are more challenging than all 200 level courses, and so on. While “sometimes” upper-level numbering implies more difficult content, more often it is organized that way by categorical necessity. Namely, that the Podcat Seminary curriculum is built “precept by precept” (Isa 28:10). Some foundational concepts or themes necessarily precede other concepts because of the nature of that knowledge. And were it to be organized differently, certain assumptions or background knowledge would not be in place and cause additional confusion to the learner. This happens in Bible teaching all the time, and we are working diligently to avoid such confusion. Indeed, a great number of current theological and hermeneutical (interpretive Bible) errors are the cause of believers being exposed to certain content prematurely.
| Categories | Training Levels |
| Each course falls into one of nine content categories. Each of these is abbreviated using a four letter designation and a course number. When a person has a working knowledge in each of these areas, he or she begins to be in possession of what the Apostle Paul called the “Whole Counsel of God” (Acts 20:27), which is an important goal for all Christians seeking to develop renewed minds (Romans 12:1-2) | Each course is numbered in sequence from lower to higher. Lower numbers are more foundational content and higher numbers are more sophisticated content. The scriptures talk about the importance of developing our thinking categorically and comprehensively—which is what “precept upon precept, and line upon line” (Isa 28:10) means. Those concepts guide our curriculum design process. |
| Abbreviations | Levels |
| FOUN: Foundations Courses FORM: Formation Courses MINS: Ministry Courses APOL: Apologetics Courses BIBL: Bible Courses THEO: Theology Courses LEAD: Leadership Courses CHRL: Christian Living Courses ELEC: Elective Courses |
LEVEL 1: Seeker and New Christian LEVEL 2: Introductory Discipleship LEVEL 3: Intermediate Discipleship LEVEL 4: Advanced Discipleship |
Complete Curriculum Listing
Foundations Courses
| Course | Title | Level 1-4 |
| FOUN 110 FOUN 115 FOUN 230 FOUN 235 FOUN 320 FOUN 325 FOUN 440 FOUN 445 FOUN 450 FOUN 455 |
Bible Basics Bible Types and Versions Purposes of the Church I Purposes of the Church II Essentials of Christianity I Essentials of Christianity II Christian History I: Early Church Christian History II: Middle Ages Christian History III: Reformation Christian History IV: Post-Reformation |
Level 1 Level 1 Level 2 Level 2 Level 3 Level 3 Level 4 Level 4 Level 4 Level 4 |
Formation Courses
| Course | Title | Level 1-4 |
| FORM 111 FORM 116 FORM 221 FORM 246 FORM 331 FORM 356 FORM 441 FORM 446 FORM 451 FORM 456 |
Introduction to Spiritual Formation Biblical Spiritual Maturity How God Works Understanding God’s Will Forming a Christian Identity The Human Conscience Prayer and Fasting Christian Meditation and Study Corporate Spiritual Disciplines Outward Spiritual Disciplines |
Level 1 Level 1 Level 2 Level 2 Level 3 Level 3 Level 4 Level 4 Level 4 Level 4 |
Ministry Courses
| Course | Title | Level 1-4 |
| MINS 120 MINS 140 MINS 250 MINS 260 MINS 300 MINS 320 MINS 410 MINS 420 MINS 430 MINS 440 |
Introduction to Discipleship Principes of Discipleship Personal Disciplemaking Small Group Ministries Equipping Ministry Ministry Burnout Evangelism and Church Growth Understanding Seminary Education Principles of Team Ministry Marketplace Ministry |
Level 1 Level 1 Level 2 Level 2 Level 3 Level 3 Level 4 Level 4 Level 4 Level 4 |
Apologetics Courses
| Course | Title | Level 1-4 |
| APOL 104 APOL 114 APOL 224 APOL 234 APOL 344 APOL 346 APOL 454 APOL 464 APOL 474 APOL 484 |
Christian Worldview Theodicy: Good and Evil Denominations I: History and Beliefs Denominations II: History and Beliefs Psuedo-Christian Cults Sectarian Groups World Religions I: Hinduism World Religions II: Buddhism World Religions III: Islam World Religions IV: Judaism |
Level 1 Level 1 Level 2 Level 2 Level 3 Level 3 Level 4 Level 4 Level 4 Level 4 |
Bible Courses
| Course | Title | Level 1-4 |
| BIBL 102 BIBL 112 BIBL 222 BIBL 232 BIBL 342 BIBL 346 BIBL 452 BIBL 462 BIBL 472 BIBL 482 |
Old Testament Survey New Testament Survey History of Salvation New Testament I: Gospels Old Testament I: Pentateuch and History New Testament I: Early Church History Old Testament II: Poetry and Prophets New Testament III: Epistles New Testament IV: Revelation Hermeneutics: Bible Study Principles |
Level 1 Level 1 Level 2 Level 2 Level 3 Level 3 Level 4 Level 4 Level 4 Level 4 |
Theology Courses
| Course | Title | Level 1-4 |
| THEO 103 THEO 113 THEO 223 THEO 233 THEO 343 THEO 346 THEO 453 THEO 463 THEO 473 THEO 483 |
Doctrine of the Bible Doctrine of the Church Doctrine of Sin and Salvation Doctrine of Humanity Doctrine of God Doctrine of the Spirit Doctrine of the Word: Jesus Christ Doctrine of Angels Doctrine of Last Things Doctrine of Beginnings |
Level 1 Level 1 Level 2 Level 2 Level 3 Level 3 Level 4 Level 4 Level 4 Level 4 |
Leadership Courses
| Course | Title | Level 1-4 |
| LEAD 100 LEAD 120 LEAD 240 LEAD 250 LEAD 360 LEAD 380 LEAD 400 LEAD 420 LEAD 440 LEAD 450 |
Servant Leadership Foundations of Leadership Public Speaking Platform Speaking and Etiquette Leadership and Technology 360 Degree Leadership Leadership in Christian History Old Testament Leadership Models New Testament Leadership Models Biblical Leadership Requirements |
Level 1 Level 1 Level 2 Level 2 Level 3 Level 3 Level 4 Level 4 Level 4 Level 4 |
Christian Living Courses
| Course | Title | Level 1-4 |
| CHRL 103 CHRL 113 CHRL 223 CHRL 233 CHRL 336 CHRL 343 CHRL 453 CHRL 463 CHRL 473 CHRL 483 |
The Kingdom of God Existence and Meaning Love and Human Intimacy Mercy and Forgiveness Overcoming Sinful Strongholds Developing Spiritual Power Intro to Spiritual Gifts Spiritual Leadership in the Home Biblical Manhood and Womanhood Christian Ethics |
Level 1 Level 1 Level 2 Level 2 Level 3 Level 3 Level 4 Level 4 Level 4 Level 4 |
Elective Courses
| Course | Title | Level 1-4 |
| ELEC 103 ELEC 113 ELEC 223 ELEC 233 ELEC 343 ELEC 346 ELEC 453 ELEC 463 ELEC 473 ELEC 483 |
Views on Hell and the Afterlife Christianity and Civilization Major Theological Schools of Thought Catholocism, Orthodoxy, and Protestantism Philosphy and Christianity Authority, Apocrypha, and Pseudopigrapha Calvinism-Arminianism Debate Human Sexuality Crisis Current Controversies Understanding Postmodernism |
Level 1 Level 1 Level 2 Level 2 Level 3 Level 3 Level 4 Level 4 Level 4 Level 4 |
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