Course Reviews

This course was truly eye opening. While going through the lessons, I came to realize I held to some, not entirely, dispensationalist views. Also the lessons on Life After Death shed some light as well. I believed that people did not go straight to heaven simply because Jesus told the thief on the cross next to Him, “today you will be with Me in paradise”, and yet He told one of the women who saw Him after His resurrection, “do not cling to Me woman for I haven’t ascended to the Father yet” but I couldn’t explain it. 666 and the Anti-Christ was also eye opening. I strongly recommend this course. Thank you brother Bercot for a great course.

I was extremely impressed with the evidence and testimony of the faith having been fully revealed in the lifespan of the apostles. This is a strong foundation for using a biblical defense in the face of those who claim extrabiblical revelation.

If you are curious at all about what it truly means to live as a “Christian” on a practical level in every day life, these messages will clearly instruct you on this matter. These truths have emboldened me in my walk with Christ

I was brought up to believe many of the tenets of dispensationalism, but a few years ago I decided to study eschatology for myself. When I found things in the Bible that contradicted some of the things I was taught, I shared my findings with others in the church. To my surprise, nobody would even listen, even though I pointed out what the Scriptures plainly said. One person was even hostile towards me. I couldn’t figure out why anyone would be angry just because someone expressed a view different than their own. But this made me curious and caused me to dig even more. I am thankful that my husband has come to believe a lot of the same things I do, and speaks out about them in church every once in a while. So obviously, it has been very refreshing to hear someone speak honestly about this subject. By taking this course I have learned a lot more, and I appreciate all the honest research that was done by David Bercot. I am also thankful for how well he laid it is.

There are many men of old that we can learn true christian greatness from. David does a wonderful job unfolding some of the stories of men that exemplify this greatness.

I am really glad that this course was created to contain all of the miscellaneous messages that do not fit in anywhere else. This course was a great idea!

I do not have an opinion one way or the other regarding whether or not the messages in the course should have quizzes linked to them. Being a place for miscellaneous messages, I can see where the messages in this particular course do not need quizzes.

I found dear brother Bercot’s three very personal messages in this course (i.e. “My Testimony”, “My Continuing Pilgrimage” and “Lessons God Has Taught Me”) to all be very convicting and very challenging! I appreciate all of brother Bercot’s messages, but these three in particular have had a real impact on my life and my pursuit of Jesus Christ and His kingdom.

All of the messages in this course contain excellent and balanced presentations of their respective topics. Three other messages in this course that were especially helpful to me for my obedient love-faith relationship with Jesus Christ are “Jesus and the Father”, “Why God Permits Evil”, and “The Difference Between Spirit and Soul”. I have always had a special interest and appreciation for Old Testament typology, so I really enjoyed the message entitled “Shadows of Christ in the Old Testament” and I hope that many more messages on this topic will be included on this website. And I believe everyone will be really surprised to learn about the real roots of theory of evolution in the message entitled “Greek Philosophy and the Origin of Life”.

I do have two small quibbles with this course, both of which I believe can be easily remedied:

1) Some of the messages in this course do not contain any supplemental documentation on the “Materials” tab for the message. Since this is a “miscellaneous” course, that is okay; although I have gotten spoiled by some of the other courses and I have quickly come to appreciate and enjoy having an outline or a transcript available. There is one message, however, in this course that definitely requires the supplemental material provided by Scroll Publishing to be made available. This is the message entitled “What Did Jesus Look Like?”. Scroll Publishing actually makes two CD’s (or two digital downloads) available for this message, the first being the contents of dear brother Bercot’s spoken message, and the second being a CD (or digital download) of pictures that are referenced by brother Bercot during his speaking. Since brother Bercot refers to these pictures very often in his speaking, this message suffers greatly by not having the pictures available in the “Materials” tab. I am hoping that the 41 pictures that Scroll Publishing includes on the second CD (or in the second digital download) can be placed on the “Materials” tab for this message.

2) The message entitled “Was Jesus the First Feminist” is a two-message set supplied by Scroll Publishing. At first, I assumed that both messages had been combined together into one long message, since the run time of the message is something like one hour and 44 minutes. But when I listened to the message, there is one portion that is repeated over and over several times and this drives up the total run time. So I am wondering if the full contents of both messages are being included, although it seems like that was the intent. Maybe the audio just needs to be edited to fix the portion that is repeated over and over several times.

Again, compiling all of these messages into a “miscellaneous” course was a great idea and I am thankful for the opportunity to listen to all the messages contained in this course.

As mentioned in the last session of the course, it would take a lot more time than what this course contains to cover all of the points of Calvinism thoroughly. With that being said, when considering the amount of time the course contains, I think Kuruvilla did an EXCELLENT job concisely covering the 5 points of Calvinism and giving alternative, in-context, simpler views for the scriptures often used to bolster the case for Calvinism. Great course.