
Equip Course Archive - Cornerstone Church of Ames
Podcast by Cornerstone Church of Ames. This podcast provides past recordings from Equipping Ministry events including semesterly Equip Weekends and monthly Crash Courses.
Episodes
76 episodes
Crash Course: Can I Really Trust the Bible?
In a world where truth is constantly called into question, we’ve been asking this question of the Bible’s reliability, trustworthiness and authority for thousands of years. This crash course will explore why understanding the Bible’s nature is ...
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1:49:19

Equip Weekend 2025: How Should I Think About Gender? (Main Session 4)
How Should I Think About Gender?: This session addresses the huge cultural shifts about how we think of gender identity, and the need to come back to forgotten foundations of what the Bible says about being made in God's image as...
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1:07:12

Equip Weekend 2025: How Should I Think About My Body? (Main Session 3)
How Should I Think About My Body?: This session explores the gospel of Jesus and the way it provides a unique and healthy way for us to think about our own bodies as being made by God and for him. Taught by Sam Allberry.T...
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Equip Weekend 2025: How Should I Think About Marriage and Singleness? (Main Session 2)
How Should I Think About Marriage and Singleness?: This session discusses the fresh light that the gospel sheds on the meaning of both marriage and singleness, affirming both as good gifts when used in service of God's purposes. ...
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Equip Weekend 2025: How Should I Think About Sex? (Main Session 1)
How Should I Think About Sex?: This session looks at why God even cares about things like this, and why it's good news that he does. Taught by Sam Allberry.This session is a part of Equip Weekend: Gender & Sexuality (...
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Crash Course: Hard Sayings of Jesus
Let’s be honest: Sometimes Jesus says things are just downright confusing, a this course will delve into some of the challenging and often misunderstood sayings of Jesus. Participants will gain tools for interpreting tough biblical texts, addre...
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1:51:03

Crash Course: Theology of Diversity
This crash course explores what the Bible says about diversity and how the church can cultivate a rich, all-encompassing theology of diversity that reflects God’s heart for all people. We’ll go beyond just race and ethnicity to examine how aspe...
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Crash Course: Help! I Can't Stop Scrolling on Social Media
This crash course dives into the addictive nature of social media and how it’s designed to keep us hooked. Participants will learn how to identify harmful habits, build healthier practices, and find ways to use social media with purpose, so you...
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2:04:01

Equip Weekend 2024: Which Battles Are Worth Fighting? (Lessons From the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy) (Main Session 4)
Which Battles are Worth Fighting?: This session discusses lessons from the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy. A great need in the church today is theological triage: which issues are worth fighting over? Going back 100 years i...
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1:11:57

Equip Weekend 2024: Overcoming Anxiety (How the Puritans Can Help) (Main Session 3)
Overcoming Anxiety: This session discusses how the Puritans can help with anxiety, one of the most acute and prevalent modern struggles. We have resources in our theological traditions that can speak to this struggle, as the Puri...
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1:10:21

Equip Weekend 2024: Tales of Martyrs (Faithful Courage From Forgotten Stories) (Main Session 2)
Tales of Martyrs: This session discusses faithful courage from forgotten stories-- inspiring and often neglected stories of faithfulness amidst suffering in church history. Special focus will be given to how Christians responded ...
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Equip Weekend 2024: How to Thrive in a Hostile Culture (Lessons From the Early Church) (Main Session 1)
How to Thrive in a Hostile Culture: This session discusses lessons from the early church-- how the early Christians responded to a hostile and ungodly surrounding culture with neither retreat nor attack. Special attention is give...
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Crash Course: Violence in the Old Testament
This crash course tackles some of the most troublesome texts of violence in the Old Testament so we can better understand how to make sense of God for ourselves and others. Taught by Rudy Hartmann.Other Resources:Crash Cours...
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1:53:29

Crash Course: Parenting Through the Life Stages
From toddlers to teens, parenting takes all sorts of shapes through the years. This crash course will help you understand the nature of each stage of your child’s development, and how this impacts all aspects of your parenting approach for the ...
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1:48:55

Crash Course: Marriage Tune-up
This crash course gives practical tools and biblical insights for you and your spouse to assess your marriage, enhance communication and intimacy, and prioritize one another amidst the busyness of life. Taught by Joel Jorgenson, therapist at Co...
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1:46:01

Crash Course: Strategic Grandparenting
Grandparents play a unique and profoundly influential role in the lives of their grandchildren, but often grandparents themselves don’t understand their enormous potential as spiritual influencers. This crash course is designed to encourage and...
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2:17:48

Crash Course: Life After College
Transitioning to post-college life presents a new stage of life with excitement and challenges. From first jobs and paychecks, to moving (or staying!) and navigating friendships, dating, marriage and singleness, there are many things to anticip...
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2:05:11

Crash Course: Practical Tools for Technology and Your Teen
This crash course provides staggering data and research on how technology affects your child's brain during critical developmental stages, and the practical (and urgently important!) steps you can take as a parent to monitor, filter, and overse...
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1:11:40

Crash Course: Therapists' Perspective on Teens and Mental Health
As anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues increase in frequency and intensity among teens and adolescents, how can you as a parent navigate these challenges and crises with your teenagers? This crash course provides you with ...
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58:48

Crash Course: Principles for Parenting Your Teen
This crash course provides gospel-centered principles to implement with your teens during the often chaotic and challenging years of parenting teenagers. Parents will learn how to seize the countless opportunities to deepen communication, learn...
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58:48

Crash Course: Reconstructing a Deconstructed Faith
This crash course provides an overview of the origins of deconstruction, why people deconstruct, and ways to deconstruct that lead to a healthy reconstruction of the Christian faith rather than deconversion. Taught by Graham Spruill and Alanna ...
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2:08:50

Equip Weekend 2024: Four Challenges Facing the Western Church in America (Main Session 4)
The Challenge of Pseudo-religions: Exploring the rise of the unaffiliated and the various pseudo-religions and intuitional spiritualities people are turning to as traditional religious adherence falls away, along with opportuniti...
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1:05:07

Equip Weekend 2024: Four Challenges Facing the Western Church in America (Main Session 3)
The Challenge of Christian Morality: Exploring the implications of the sexual revolution and societal views of Christian teaching on sex and marriage, along with opportunities to minister in a world of sexual revolution refugees....
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1:08:58

Equip Weekend 2024: Four Challenges Facing the Western Church in America (Main Session 2)
The Challenge of Personalized Faith: Exploring the relegation of religion to morality, and to personal and private expressions of spirituality, along with a challenge to proclaim the gospel as public truth. Taught by Trevin Wax.<...
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Equip Weekend 2024: Four Challenges Facing the Western Church in America (Main Session 1)
The Challenge of a “Be True To Yourself” Culture: Exploring the predominant worldview of our society and how the gospel provides a better vision for humanity. Taught by Trevin Wax.This session is a part of Equip We...
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