Webinars
If you could sit down and talk with an expert in any field related to ministry, theology, or spiritual formation, what would you ask them? Would you want to ask some questions about how to be an effective communicator as a Sunday School teacher? Maybe you would like to know more about how you can study the Bible. Perhaps you are wondering how you and your local church can begin to address the issues that families are facing in these challenging times. The Discipleship Place is pleased to offer you the opportunity to dialogue with experts in various fields through our conference call format. Every month when we have a conference call, the call will be added to this section of the web site.
To participate in any of our upcoming conference calls, please take note of the 2011 webinar schedule.
Centennial Sunday School Lessons!
The Church of the Nazarene will soon be celebrating 100 years of holiness. As a way of taking part in the celebration CLT is hosting four different centennial Sunday School lessons which you can download for FREE. We have lessons specifically designed for early childhood, elementary, youth, and adults.
The session titles for early childhood are:
Lesson 1: God's Family
Lesson 2: Show God's Love
Lesson 3: Share God's Love
Lesson 4: God's Gift of Grace
The session titles for elementary are:
Lesson 1: The Family of God
Lesson 2: God Sends Help
Lesson 3: Tell The Story
Lesson 4: God's Gift of Grace
The session titles for adults and youth are:
Lesson 1: We Are a Christian People
Lesson 2: We Are a Holiness People
Lesson 3: We Are a Missional People
Lesson 4: The Optimism of Grace
These lessons are available now! You will find these lessons under "Resources" on the left menu bar.
Dr. Randy Cloud
Dr. Randy Cloud currently serves as a professor, for the School of Christian Ministry and Formation at MidAmerica Nazarene University. After graduating from Point Loma College, Randy received an M.Div from Nazarene Theological Seminary in 1982 and his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. Dr. Cloud’s areas of specialties are church history, biblical languages, New Testament, archeology, and philosophy.
Dr. Tom Barnard
Dr. Tom Barnard is a native Californian, born in Glendale, California. He is married to the former Madelyn Newcomer of Phoenix, Arizona. They have two grown children and three grandchildren. Their son, Bruce, pastors in Warwick Valley, New York. Their daughter, Gaylene, sells real estate in the Dallas, Texas area. One granddaughter, Elizabeth, is a recent graduate of Eastern Nazarene College. A second granddaughter, Lyn, is a junior at Texas Christian University. Their grandson is a freshman at Eastern Nazarene College.
Following graduation from high school and a year in college, Tom served in the United States Air Force for four years during the Korean War. After his service in the military, he resumed studies at Pasadena College (now Point Loma Nazarene University) and later at Fuller Theological Seminary in California. Following six years in ministry, Tom accepted a position on the faculty of Bethany Nazarene College (now Southern Nazarene University). He taught in the division of religion and philosophy for sixteen years. For the last ten years of his tenure, he also served as vice president for student affairs.
He completed a second master’s degree (from SNU) and a doctorate at Oklahoma State University in higher education administration. In 1982 he accepted an administrative position at Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Massachusetts, where he served until his retirement in 2001. At Eastern he held three different vice presidential posts: vice president for student development; vice president for institutional advancement; and vice president for church and constituency relations. During his final eleven years at ENC he was responsible for raising over $2-million dollars a year in unrestricted funds for the college from churches, foundations, and alumni and friends of the college.
Both Point Loma Nazarene University and Southern Nazarene University conferred on him the highest honors those institutions grant to their alumni—the Alumni Association Heritage Awards.
He is an avid writer and teacher. He teaches an adult class at Bethany First Church of the Nazarene Church. He also edits two weekly newsletters for persons in Christian leadership roles. His free publication is sent electronically to over two thousand recipients each week. He and his wife, Madelyn, are serious collectors of antiques. Tom restores antique lighting devices, and Madelyn collects all things Christmas. Their home was featured at the 2003 Christmas Tour of Homes sponsored by the Northwest Chamber of Commerce in Oklahoma City.
Phillip Cosby
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Prior to PureHope, Phillip served honorably for twenty-two years in the United States Army before retiring in October 2003. Phillip has shown leadership in activating and empowering multiple communities in Kansas to address the harmful secondary effects associated with sexually oriented businesses (SOBs). He has called for Grand Jury investigations, indictments, criminal obscenity trials and passage of SOB zoning ordinances. He continues to successfully introduce bills and testify before the Kansas legislature in support of bills aimed at creating laws to protect families and confront the dangers of pornography and obscenity. In addition, Phillip has taken an aggressive position against the flood of today’s sexually explicit messages and their deleterious effect on families and children. His bold and straight forward "supply sided" strategy against the sex industry not only raises the conversation in communities about the dangers of pornography but also increases the awareness and ministry within the Church of pornography’s often understated threat. Phillip has a degree in Human Resource Management from Friends University of Wichita, Kansas. His wife, Cathy, is a retired detective with the police department and they have six children and six grandchildren.
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