We were richly fed at yesterday’s Graduation Celebration when Jeremy McQuoid, Senior Pastor at Deeside Christian Fellowship in Aberdeen, brought us a challenging message from Exodus 4:18-11. Enjoy it and share it.

This module is a study of Paul the apostle’s ‘settled canon’ as, towards the end of his life and ministry he hands on the flaming torch of the Gospel to his trusted co-workers Timothy and Titus, and through them seeks to correct the leadership in Ephesus and the believers in Crete respectively. Throughout these units we shall – primarily, though not exclusively – study The ‘Pastoral’ Letters with the help of only one commentary: The Bible.

The aim of this module is to:

• Demonstrate – on the principle that ‘the Bible is its own best commentary’ – the possibility and the absolute necessity of illuminating part of Scripture – in this case the Pastoral Letters – by means of “all Scripture” (Luke 24:27; 2 Timothy 3:16)
• Discover why Paul’s “dungeon flamed with light” – even on death row!

The course is held over 10 Tuesday mornings, from 11.00 – 1.00, starting on 26th September.

There are two ways to get involved:

• You can audit the course – simply taking part, enjoying the teaching and online fellowship, and benefitting from lots of notes and materials
• you can submit assessments – completing an assignment for marking and gaining EBC study credits

You can download a Module Description: here

Please note that fees must be paid at least one term in advance. Registration is essential and can be done here.

If you have any questions or want more information, please email info@edinburghbiblecollege.co.uk

Course Tutor:

Rev David Andrew is the Editor of Sword, an evangelical magazine which seeks to ‘restore the confidence of God’s people in the Word of God and the God of the Word’. He maintains that “…if God has put it on His page, we need to do something with it. There is no redundant Scripture. Only a whole Bible provides the whole truth.” A decade in editorial journalism with multinational engineering companies gradually fused with Christian ministry as David’s two pastoral charges, one Congregational, one independent, led him to accept the invitation to join Dr Clifford Hill in Bedford as Managing Editor of what was then Prophecy Today magazine. In 2003, David followed Cliff as Editor and, upon moving back to Scotland in 2004 to support an elderly mother, subsequently re-branded the magazine as Sword to reflect a perceived need to combat growing apostasy and encourage in the church a high view of God’s Word – a significant direction change from the previous focus on the ‘state of the nation’. David and his wife Agnes are members of Bellshill Baptist Church and live in Lanarkshire. Frequent preaching and conference speaking enable him to keep the magazine ‘earthed’ in the wider Christian community. They have two daughters, one married and three grandchildren. He holds an honours degree in theology from Edinburgh and a distinction level qualification in English Language teaching from St Andrews. Family life and music easily account for any leisure time.

Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones once wrote:

There is no doubt but that 99% of our troubles as Christians is that we are ignorant of God.  We spend so much time feeling our own pulse, taking our own spiritual temperature, considering our moods, our states, and fears.   Oh, if we had but had some conception of Him, the inconceivable glory of God.

We couldn’t agree more and so our study in ‘Theology Proper’ – The Doctrine of God – is one of the keystones of our curriculum.

Join us on 10 Tuesday afternoons, from 2–4, through the autumn for a mind-stirring, heart-warming, soul-nourishing study of the biblical teaching on the doctrine of God, focussing on his being, attributes and the Trinity. We’ll seek to answer the question posed by another great preacher and Bible teacher:

Who is God?  Who is this One who reveals himself in Scripture, in the person of Jesus Christ and through the Holy Spirit?

James Montgomery Boice

There are two ways to get involved:

• You can audit the course – simply taking part, enjoying the teaching and online fellowship, and benefitting from lots of notes and materials
• you can submit assessments – completing an assignment for marking and gaining EBC study credits

Please note that fees must be paid at least one term in advance. Registration is essential and can be done here.

You can download a Module Description: here

If you have any questions or want more information, please email info@edinburghbiblecollege.co.uk

Course Tutor:

John Brand was born to missionary parents in India and trusted Christ for salvation while at boarding school there at the age of 11.  He later trained at the Bible Training Institute in Glasgow, and then, for 12 years, pastored two independent evangelical churches, one in the inner city of London and then one in Liverpool, during some of which time he also served on the UK Council of Africa Inland Mission International (AIM). In 1993 he took on the role of AIM’s Director for Scotland, becoming Director for UK and Europe in 1999. During his 8 years in this position he exercised a Bible teaching ministry throughout UK and Europe and made regular visits to many of AIM’s fields of service in Africa where he was involved in ministering to missionaries and nationals. After some years on the staff of The Faith Mission Bible College in Edinburgh, John, in partnership with several church leaders, established Edinburgh Bible College. Married to Caroline and with two grown up sons and two grand-daughters, John contributes book reviews and articles to Christian publications, and is author of three books – A Concise Chronology of the Bible, The Bible as it Happened and Mission Matters, which has also been published in Romanian. John recently stood down as Pastor of Grace Community Church in Broxburn and in the little spare time he has he enjoys reading, walking and family history research.

“Leviticus used to be the first book that Jewish children studied in the synagogue.   In the modern Church it tends to be the last part of the Bible anyone looks at seriously.” (Gordon Wenham) Similarly, Hebrews doesn’t really connect with many Christians because they don’t understand its Old Testament basis in Leviticus.

In this module, EBC’s Principal, Rev John Brand, will open up each of these books, showing how interconnected they are and how indispensable they are to a right understanding of the atoning work of the Saviour.

There are two ways to get involved:

• You can audit the course – simply taking part, enjoying the teaching and online fellowship, and benefitting from lots of notes and materials
• you can submit assessments – completing an assignment for marking and gaining EBC study credits

Please note that fees must be paid at least one term in advance. Registration is essential and can be done here.

If you have any questions or want more information, please email info@edinburghbiblecollege.co.uk

You can download a Module Description: here

Course Tutor:

John Brand was born to missionary parents in India and trusted Christ for salvation while at boarding school there at the age of 11.  He later trained at the Bible Training Institute in Glasgow, and then, for 12 years, pastored two independent evangelical churches, one in the inner city of London and then one in Liverpool, during some of which time he also served on the UK Council of Africa Inland Mission International (AIM). In 1993 he took on the role of AIM’s Director for Scotland, becoming Director for UK and Europe in 1999. During his 8 years in this position he exercised a Bible teaching ministry throughout UK and Europe and made regular visits to many of AIM’s fields of service in Africa where he was involved in ministering to missionaries and nationals. After some years on the staff of The Faith Mission Bible College in Edinburgh, John, in partnership with several church leaders, established Edinburgh Bible College. Married to Caroline and with two grown up sons and two grand-daughters, John contributes book reviews and articles to Christian publications, and is author of three books – A Concise Chronology of the Bible, The Bible as it Happened and Mission Matters, which has also been published in Romanian. John recently stood down as Pastor of Grace Community Church in Broxburn and in the little spare time he has he enjoys reading, walking and family history research.

Martin Luther said: “There are only 2 days in my diary – today, and THAT day” (i.e. the day of Jesus’ return). There is no shortage of teaching, viewpoints and theories about the return-of-Christ and the end-of-the-world.  This course will major on the biblical certainties, while acknowledging the different views held by genuine believers.

There are two ways to get involved:

• You can audit the course – simply taking part, enjoying the teaching and online fellowship, and benefitting from lots of notes and materials
• you can submit assessments – completing an assignment for marking and gaining EBC study credits

Please note that fees must be paid at least one term in advance. Registration is essential and can be done here.

If you have any questions or want more information, please email info@edinburghbiblecollege.co.uk

You can download a Module Description: here

Lecturer:

Rev David Randall is the minister of Falkirk Free Church, having previously served as pastor of the Bo’ness and Newmilns Church of Scotland congregations. Prior to entering the ministry, David worked in accountancy in the oil industry in Aberdeen. He’s married to Linnea, and they have 4 children. He likes to keep fit by running, and by playing football with his children.

Christian Ethics is a study that answers the question, “What does the whole Bible teach us about which acts, attitudes and personal character traits receive God’s approval, and which do not?”  (Wayne Grudem). And if ever there was a day when Christians needed some clear and robust biblical answers to the issues swirling around us, then it is surely these days in which we live.

God’s word teaches us how to live as God desires. Christian ethics is the application of the gospel in our ongoing lives. In each moment we have a choice to live for God or for self and show our love for God and others by our words, attitudes and actions. We are daily exposed to many competing ideas and value-systems, and when unsure of our foundation can be tempted to embrace the morality of the gods of this age. God’s word and His character are timeless and unchanging and provide a sufficient and reliable foundation on which to address the issues we face and fulfil our responsibility as light and salt of the world.

This module, taught over ten two-hour sessions, will examine a number of contemporary moral and ethical issues on the basis of the solid biblical foundation, enabling participants to critically analyse and evaluate different ethical views, to consider ethical issues which may arise in church and para-church ministries and to formulate appropriate responses. The course will be taught over zoom so, wherever you are in the world, you can access it and take part.

There are two ways to get involved:

• You can audit the course – simply taking part, enjoying the teaching and online fellowship, and benefitting from lots of notes and materials
• you can submit assessments – completing an assignment for marking and gaining EBC study credits

If you have any questions or want more information, please email info@edinburghbiblecollege.co.uk

You can download a Module Description: here

Lecturer:

Dr Adele Pilkington, MBBS MSC FFOM MRCGP DDAM DMS BA(HONS)TH MTH

Dates and Details:

(Wednesday mornings from 11.00 – 1.00pm  on zoom)

September 27^th   God’s law – the timeless standard for ethical dilemmas

October 4^th  Ethical implications of alternative worldviews

October 11th   Freedom of expression in an age of social connectivity

October 18^th   The deconstruction of marriage and the family

October 25^th   Finding our true identity in an age of gender confusion

November 1^st   No class

November 8^th   Lost generations – the consequences of liberal abortion

November 15^th   What is a ‘good death’ – sacred and secular responses

November 22^nd  Biotechnology and genetic manipulation

November 29^th ‘Code red for humanity’ – exploring environmental ethics

December 6^th Learning contentment in a materialistic world

Cost and Registration:

The cost for the course is £150 (auditing) or £200 (assessments) and registration and pre-payment are necessary. You can register here.

Course Tutor:

Dr Adele Pilkington is a Consultant Occupational Physician who has worked across the UK, including mission and humanitarian aid organisations. For 17 years she was Executive Editor of the remote learning MSc programme for Occupational Medicine at Manchester University. Her part-time theology studies reflected mission interest and research into mental health and Christian identity. She is a voluntary drugs educator for Hope UK and pro-life groups, part of the PRIME tutor network, anti-trafficking groups and a Board of Reference member for the Scottish Council of Human Bioethics.

Here are some details of another of the modules which we are running this autumn.

Scripture encourages us to

That verse teaches us of the need to rightly handle the word of God; meaning, of course, that it is possible and easy to wrongly handle Scripture. There are basic principles of interpretation that will help keep us from mishandling and misapplying the truths of God’s word, and this foundational, year-long, course will give you the tools and skills you need to be a worker who has no need to be ashamed.

Over 30 Tuesday evenings between the end of September and next June, EBC’s Principal, experienced preacher and teacher John Brand, will guide you through the steps in interpreting Scripture – laying the foundation, observation, interpretation and application and how to see Christ in all of Scripture.

Held over zoom, you don’t even need to leave home to benefit from this course! And because all sessions are recorded, if the live teaching time doesn’t suit you, registered students can access and watch them at a convenient time of their own choosing.

There are two ways to get involved:

• You can audit the course – simply taking part, enjoying the teaching and online fellowship, and benefitting from lots of notes and materials
• you can submit assessments – completing assignments for marking and gaining EBC study credits

The course starts on Monday 26th September 2023 and runs from 7.00 – 9.00pm each Tuesday evening during College term time. Specific dates will be provided.

The cost is:

• auditing option: £150 per term (10 sessions @ £15 per night); £400 for the whole year if paid in advance
• assessments option: £200 per term (10 sessions @ £20 per night); £550 for the whole year if paid in advance

Please note that fees must be paid at least one term in advance. Registration is essential and can be done here.

If you have any questions or want more information, please email info@edinburghbiblecollege.co.uk

You can download a Module Description: here

Course Tutor:

John Brand was born to missionary parents in India and trusted Christ for salvation while at boarding school there at the age of 11.  He later trained at the Bible Training Institute in Glasgow, and then, for 12 years, pastored two Independent Evangelical churches, one in the inner city of London and then one in Liverpool, during some of which time he also served on the UK Council of Africa Inland Mission International (AIM). In 1993 he took on the role of AIM’s Director for Scotland, becoming Director for UK and Europe in 1999. During his 8 years in this position he exercised a Bible teaching ministry throughout UK and Europe and made regular visits to many of AIM’s fields of service in Africa where he was involved in ministering to missionaries and nationals. After some years on the staff of The Faith Mission Bible College in Edinburgh, John, in partnership with several church leaders, established Edinburgh Bible College. Married to Caroline and with two grown up sons and two grand-daughters, John contributes book reviews and articles to Christian publications, and is author of three books – A Concise Chronology of the Bible, The Bible as it Happened and Mission Matters, which has also been published in Romanian. John recently stood down as Pastor of Grace Community Church in Broxburn and in the little spare time he has he enjoys reading, walking and family history research.