Dating, Courtship, and Matchmaking

Mini-Courses:

Serving the Lord with a great attitude brings blessing to yourself and others. If you are looking to thrive in friendship, courtship, marriage, ministry, business, and about everything else a great or positive attitude goes a long way. 

Finding the love of your life is challenging. Dating again after failure and divorce are challenging. Active Christians and Ministers are called to discern dating issues whether for themselves or to encourage and coach others. This course will address many of the issues that connect to dating discernment. 

Finding the love of your life is challenging. Dating again after failure and divorce are challenging. Active Christians and Ministers are called to discern dating issues whether for themselves or to encourage and coach others. This course will address many of the issues that connect to dating discernment. 

Serving the Lord with a great attitude brings blessing to yourself and others. If you are looking to thrive in friendship, courtship, marriage, ministry, business, and about everything else a great or positive attitude goes a long way. 

Clutter, Clutter, Clutter. The soul is confronted with sinful clutter every day. This course is about the care of the soul with special attention paid to what needs to be decluttered. Professor Henry Reyenga invites you to a place where anthropology and practical spiritual growth meet. 

Are you looking for more tools to serve Christians who struggle with sexual sins? Are you looking for ways for you to be sanctified by the Holy Spirit in your sexual desires? This mini-course will look overcoming sexual sins from a creation, fall redemption Biblical approach. 

Forgiveness is a powerful topic. From receiving God's forgiveness to giving and receiving forgiveness from others, it is life-changing. This mini-course can be impactful in every area of ministry. How will this course strengthen your knowledge and practice of forgiveness?

Fear. Fear seems to be everywhere! This course looks at the common fears in our world and points to Jesus Christ and his work for victory over fear! This mini-course could be used to inspire a Bible study in your church or community of influence.

This mini-course explores how to build people up. This course will help you love your neighbor, whether that neighbor is in your family, friendship pool, work, church, or community. 

Do you want more discernment skills? This mini-course teaches you the essential skill needed to be a more discerning person. This is a healthy skill for your soul. 

Skill Courses:

How do Christians find their life-long marriage match? This course brings the Biblical worldview to the practical need of matching couples who share a walk with Christ. Professor Kristina Lynn has spent over twenty years developing a matchmaking ministry approach. This one-credit specialization ministry class is designed for those interested in pursuing matchmaking as part of their ministry. 

Pre-Marriage Counseling Skills is a course led by Steve Elzinga with some real-life examples from Abby and Mitchell Dominiak. As a branch of life coaching, students will learn how to come alongside engaged-to-be-married couples and coach them through life before marriage. 

Have you been asked to officiate a wedding?  This Christian Wedding Officiant Skills class is a one-credit class that gives you the skills needed to officiate a wedding. Included in the training are some teachings about the meaning of marriage from the Christian worldview perspective. 


Full Courses:

This course discusses "people intelligence" for life and ministry. This class will help you identify common principles for effective communication and how to improve your effectiveness. This course also will help you minister to people better as you learn to hear what they are really saying. This course is designed for you to learn how to express your love in ways that people will understand


This course focuses on helping people to manage unchecked behaviors that lead to poor judgment, acting out, self-destructive behaviors, and feeling out of control. Instead, attitudes and behaviors can be cultivated that are conducive to long-term success and peace of mind.


This advanced class presents key building blocks of a thriving marriage, offers insights for strengthening one's own marriage, develops the ability to offer pre-marriage preparation for couples, and cultivates skills for marriage counseling.


Sexual intimacy is a God-given gift connected to marriage and procreation. This course discusses many vital aspects of sexuality within a Christian Worldview approach, in order to equip Christians and ministers to grow in their personal lives and in their ministry impact. 


Last modified: Friday, February 10, 2023, 1:00 PM