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Holroyd Ministry Development College

 

Previous Courses' Topics and Material.  Overview notes and resource materials are available for perusal to prospective students and ministers upon request.  The primary emphasis in all our Units is learning in an interactive group environment.  However, due to increasing requests for correspondence on-line material, reworked core material for many of the 35 Units to-date is also available upon request.

#10-2  May 2010

Convenient and Inconvenient Truth - a look at spin in modern reporting, and the need to know context of information before arriving at a valid conclusion.

#10-1  March 2010

Contending for the Faith in an Increasingly Dark Society - dealing with the explosion of practices in Australia that have opened the door to elements of spiritual darkness in unprecedented intensity.

#09-4  Nov 2009

“Sexual Wildfire in Australia - origins, antidotes, building fire-breaks, and ministering to victims of the blaze”.

#09-3  July 2009

Raising the level of Charismatic Activity in Your Local Church and Ministry.

#09-2  April 2009

Christians and the Global Financial Crisis - advice for handling material things safely and wisely.

#09-1  March 2009

"Understanding the Times" - the Place of the Prophetic in the Life of a Minister of the Gospel

#08-4  November 2008

The place of Adversity and Suffering in the life of a committed believer and minister of Christ

#08-3  August 2008

Keeping your eye on the ball - lessons in longevity in ministry; dealing with discouragements, distractions, and success!

#08-2  May 2008

Communications and Ministry - how important is it to learn the skills.

#08-1  March 2008

Carrying Your Cross before you carry your ministry.

Electives - Cross-cultural issues, and Public Speaking (repeat).

#07-4  Nov 2007

Where the Rubber Hits the Road - an intensive in planning and executing a missions' program.

#07-3  Aug 2007

Renewal and Revival - lessons from the Word and History for today.

#07-2  April 2007

Ephesians - sit, walk, stand!  An exegesis of the most popular letter in the NT.

#07-1  Feb 2007

Identifying and releasing the 1 Cor 12 "manifestations of the Spirit".  The issue of the genuine and the counterfeit; the place of the gifts in empowering every believer's grace-gift calling.  

#06-4  Oct 2006

Empowered to witness - a fresh look at the Great Commission - with Jesus' embedded emphasis on healing and deliverance with the proclamation of the good news.  The attitude of a believer - inclusivism vs exclusivism; and the power of our personal testimony.  

#06-3  Aug 2006

Level #1 - True Spiritual Identity in Christ.

Level #2 - Freedom in Christ - Exegeting Galatians

Elective #1 - Computers for Religious Dummies!

#06-2  May 2006

Level #1 - Ministering Freedom through Inner-Healing #2 - healing for the whole man - inner and outer, psyche and spirit.

Level #2 - Leadership Principles - hierarchy vs relational foundations and how it affects what we say, do, and relate in leadership roles

#06-1  Mar 2006

Level #1 - Ministering Freedom through Inner-Healing #1 - healing for the whole man - inner and outer, psyche and spirit.

Level #2 - Developing corporate and personal prophetic anointing - seeing the Church deepen / widen its effectiveness in NT-style ministry

#05-4  Oct  2005

Cross-cultural ministry development - going right where we are!  Ethic, social, generational, and gender aspects - bridging gaps and awareness of the differences

#05-3  Sept 2005

Level #1 - Effective Apologetics - equipping every believer with a sound understanding and testimony.

Level #2 - Ensuring your Church and Personal Ministry is "Sound in Practice".

#05-2 April 2005

Level #1 - Developing an effective Youth Ministry in Your Church

Level #2 - Sound in the Faith - the need for doctrinal soundness in church leadership

#05-1 Feb 2005

Level #1 - Steps to Freedom - following Neil Anderson's teachings on identity and release to sonship

Level #2 - Ancestral Spirits - reserved for another time and/or Third World cultures?  Or equally applicable to Western culture?  Analysis, biblical identification, place of release for new believers from their hold

#04-5  Oct 2004

Level #1 - Deepening our Orderly Foundations to Serve more Effectively

Level #2 - Leadership Principles

#04-4  July 2004

Christian counselling - incorporating it into the many varied types of ministry gifting.

#04-3  May 2004

Christian apologetics 2 - more real answers for real questions from genuine enquirers to hardened skeptics...  Content contributed and coordinated by Les Hansen.

#04-2  March 2004

Developing the Prophetic - principles from the NT, difference between OT and NT, then three weeks of "how to".

#04-1  Feb 2004

Principles to Build Ministry that Lasts.  Stuff that will keep you going—young and old—after others have been offended quit, spat the dummy, or fallen away.

#03-5  Nov 2003

Christian apologetics - real answers for real questions from genuine enquirers to hardened skeptics...  Several lecturers.

#03-4  Sept 2003

Ministering Deliverance - proper cosmology (what's really there), place of truth in deliverance, structures of heavenly powers, doing the stuff.

#03-3  June 2003

Developing Public Speaking Skills - practical observations and tips to improve every believer's ability in public - both in the community and the church.

#03-2  April 2003

Going from Jerusalem, to Judea, to Samaria, and Beyond!  Reaching beyond our own culture (socially and racially and culturally).

#03-1  Feb 2003

Handling the Word of God Correctly - a crash course in 2 Tim 2:15!  The consequences of doing and not doing this....

#02-4  Nov 2002

Developing an effective healing ministry in your church

#02-3  Sept 2002

Corporate anointing - the power of team ministry in church

#02-2  May 2002

Ministering equally at home in the realm of the “seen” (natural), and the “unseen” (spiritual)

#02-1  March 2002

Activating your calling; what makes for an effective ministry, and what makes for an ineffective one

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