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Bay Area Academy of Responsible Preaching Winter Quarter Virtual Courses
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The Bay Area Academy of Responsible Preaching invites you to join them for their Winter Quarter Virtual Courses!
Preaching on Liberation
With Dr. Alvin C. Bernstine
BAARP Instructor & Academic Dean
Course begins Monday, December 2 • 5:30 PM
This course explores the intersection of liberation theology and homiletics, focusing on the role of preaching in promoting social justice, liberation, and equity. Students will examine the primary themes of liberation theology, as well as its biblical antecedents.
Preaching that Reaches the Next Generation
With Dr. Ovester Armstrong, Jr.
Course begins Tuesday, January 21 • 6:30 PM
This course is designed with modern times, current events, and the present situation of our world in view. Students will come to understand how to develop sermons and preach with various tools that attract believers of the 21st Century.
Registration $20; $150 fee per class. Learn more and register by contacting Dr. Alvin Bernstine at
Spring 2025 Courses at the Leadership Institute at Allen Temple and Bay Area Academy of Responsible Preaching
Are you ready to elevate your ministry and leadership?
The Leadership Institute at Allen
Temple invites you to enroll in the Christian Ministry Program and the Bay Area Academy of Responsible Preaching this spring!
A deeper understanding of Christian Ministry A rich exploration of Black TheologyPractical strategies for Goal-Oriented Leadership Learn from and interact with some of the nation’s top professors
Spring 2025 Courses at the Bay Area Academy of Responsible Preaching
Take Your Preaching to the Next Level!
join us for our Spring courses! Theology of PreachingCelebration of Preaching📅 Class Start Dates: February 25 and April 1
Learn from esteemed instructors Dr. E.L. Branch and Dr. Tanisha Sparks as they equip you to deliver impactful, spirit-filled messages.
Questions? Contact our recruiter, Rev. Marcus Van Hook: (510) 544-3362 or (707) 334-2750
Don’t miss this opportunity to grow in your ministry and preaching craft!
2024 Leadership Institute Weekend - Friday October 25 & Saturday, October 26
Preaching Out of Season: Preaching Right When Things Are Wrong
Friday, October 25 & Saturday, October 26, 2024
“Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season" (2 Timothy 4:2) calls for a seasonal consciousness in preaching, recognizing that God’s truth must be spoken not only when it is convenient or well-received, but also in times of resistance and struggle. To preach out of season means to deliver God’s message even when it’s unwelcome, challenging the status quo, or when the world seems most against it. This is a call to remain faithful, offering hope and conviction in moments when the truth feels most out of place yet most needed.
The above text weighs heavy the responsibility of the preacher to preach responsibly regardless of the season. There should be a seasonal consciousness to our preaching. We don’t preach the same thing, or the same way all the time. Just as there are noted and radical changes in our weather patterns, there are notedradical changes in our world.
Everything has shifted! From our most basic human relations to the complex patterns of social, political, economic, educational, judicial and religious systems. Like the inarguable climate change, everything seems to be going wrong. Yet, we have a responsibility to preach right, even when things are so painfully wrong.
Preaching right demands that we adjust out sermonic lens and messages to the season in which we now live.The Bay Area Academy of Responsible Preaching, seeks to raise our seasonal consciousness, so that we can responsibly preach when things are wrong.
Read more: 2024 Leadership Institute Weekend - Friday October 25 & Saturday, October 26