Classes
Each semester The Austin Stone offers a wide spectrum of classes, each one intended to develop a proper view of God, a fuller heart for the Gospel, and the ability to apply both of those things practically in life through Mission.
To register for a class, click on the section info for the class you're interested in. Online payment is required to hold your space in a class. If you don't complete the registration, your spot will not be reserved. Classes are closed to new registrants after their start date.
Our classes fill up fast and we want to hold spots for those who are able to commit. The last day for refunds will be February 2nd.
Don't let course fees prevent you from registering.
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College Men
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Downtown Campus
Su 5:00–6:45pm
6 weeks / Fee: $20
Feb 10 – Mar 17
Robby Moore
College guys only
This class teaches college men how God has designed, redeemed and called men to be the servant leaders of their family, local church and society.
1–2 Hours of Homework per Week
Defending our Hope
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Downtown Campus
Su 7:00–8:30pm
7 weeks / Fee: $30
Feb 10 – Mar 24
Fabienne Harford
Sorry, no guys
As Christians, we should wrestle to understand the deep things of our faith and share all that God has revealed about Himself and His promises. Join us as we reflect on all that God has done for us in the gospel and give reason for the hope that is in us by digging into big questions like: How can a loving God send people to Hell? How could a good God allow suffering?
Week 1: Intro
Week 2: How can we trust the Bible?
Week 3: Redefining the Gospel
Week 4: How could a loving God send people to Hell?
Week 5: How could a good God ordain suffering?
Week 6: Mighty to Save: God's plan for salvation
Week 7: Q&A
*Class fee includes bound and published curriculum
1–2 Hours of Homework per Week
Delighting in God's Word
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St. John Campus
Su 11:00 – 12:45pm
9 weeks / Fee: $20
Feb 10 – Apr 14
Travis Wussow
Rex Hamilton
God has called us to know Him. Growing in your ability to hear from Him through digging into His Word will transform your relationship with Him and your relationships with others. Join us as we learn how to go deeper into the Word of God. This is an intensive lab-style class, and it will require a considerable amount of time outside of class.
5+ hours of homework per week
Dream: What does God want to do with your life?
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Tu 7:00 – 8:30pm
7 weeks / Fee: $20
Feb 12 – Apr 2
Jennie Allen
Sorry, no guys
A study of the life of Joseph- we will build a grid to better understand what we can know about ourselves and God's plan and better follow the Holy Spirit with things we can't know.
No class March 12th for Spring Break.
1–2 Hours of Homework per Week
Families in Community
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Downtown Campus
Su 11:00 – 12:30PM
4 weeks / Fee: $30 per couple
Feb 10 – Mar 3
Mark Adams
Have you ever wondered, "How can I possibly live in community with other Christians when I am already busy with my own family and children?" This class is for the purpose of helping you answer that question and walk through what it looks like to have kids as you live in community with others.
*ONLY ONE PERSON FROM EACH COUPLE NEEDS TO REGISTER.
1–2 hours of Homework per Week
Foster Care and Adoption Training
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Downtown Campus
Su 9:00 – 11:00am
9 weeks / Fee: $20
Feb 10 – Apr 7
Arrow Child and Family Ministries
Please note time change
The Austin Stone is partnering with Arrow Child & Family Ministries to host their foster and foster adoption training at the Austin Stone. This training will certify families, singles or couples to provide respite care for foster families, to become foster parents, and to adopt from the foster care system. It is not necessary to know in advance which particular opportunity families will be pursuing. Training will cover such topics as: communication, abuse/neglect, child development, and grief and loss.
*No class Easter Sunday, March 31st.
2–3 Hours of Homework per Week
Foster Care and Adoption Training - SJ
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St. John Campus
Su 9:00 – 11:00am
8 weeks / Fee: $20
Feb 10 – Apr 7
CFN Training
Please note time change
Caring Family Network is a foster care and licensing agency located at the For the City Center. They are recruiting individuals and families to become foster parents for children who have been removed from their homes due to abuse and neglect. Applicants must be over 21 and complete the required trainings, home inspections, and home study.
*No class March 10th & March 31st.
2–3 Hours of Homework per Week
Foster Care and Adoption Training - West
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West Campus
Su 9:00 – 11:00am
8 weeks / Fee: $20
Feb 10 – Apr 14
Foster in Texas
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In partnership with Austin Stone, Foster In Texas is offering 14 hours of preservice training for families (married or single) who are interested in becoming parents for our children in the foster care system. In this training, you can expect to become an expert and advocate in the foster care system, to learn more about trauma and how it impacts child development, and to learn more about how foster parenting works in day-to-day living.
*No class March 10th and March 31st.
2–3 Hours of Homework per Week
Foundations of Teaching
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Downtown Campus
Su 9:00am – 10:45am
8 weeks / Fee: $20
Feb 10 – Apr 7
Mike Kolesar
This class is for those who are interested in developing their ability to communicate and articulate what God has taught them. Whether it is teaching a class, facilitating a small group, or having a conversation, we have all been called and commissioned to teach. We will walk through the biblical principles of teaching and then provide an avenue for preparing and presenting a short conversational teaching time.
3–4 Hours of Homework per Week
God of Moses
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Downtown Campus
Su 5:00 – 6:45pm
7 weeks / Fee: $20
Feb 10 – Mar 24
Travis Wussow
Alex Toney
"For the Lord your God is a Consuming Fire..." (Deut. 4:24).
When He freed His people from Egypt, God appeared to them as both the great Pillar of Fire and the small Burning Bush. If you want to witness both His fearsomeness and His closeness, His holiness and His mercy, then come and study His dealings with Moses — the man with whom God spoke face to face.
1–2 Hours of Homework per Week
God, Gospel, Mission
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Downtown Campus
Su 11:00–12:45pm
7 weeks / Fee: $30
Feb 10 – Mar 24
Larry Cotton
Kevin Peck
The fact that God finds His ultimate satisfaction in Himself and not in us is the greatest news in all the world. This truth has tremendous implications to our understanding of the gospel and missions. This class will study how the nature of God’s happiness is designed for our ultimate joy and compels us to take His Name to the nations.
*Class fee includes additional materials.
Week 1: Intro
Week 2: The Source of God's Joy
Week 3: The Source of Our Joy
Week 4: What is the Gospel
Week 5: Battling Unbelief through Faith
Week 6: The Purpose of Missions
Week 7: Gospel Proclamation through Word and Deed
1–2 Hours of Homework per Week
God, Gospel, Mission (SJ)
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St. John Campus
Su 5:00–6:45PM
7 weeks / Fee: $30
Feb 10 – Mar 24
Various Teachers
The fact that God finds His ultimate satisfaction in Himself and not in us is the greatest news in all the world. This truth has tremendous implications to our understanding of the gospel and missions. This class will study how the nature of God’s happiness is designed for our ultimate joy and compels us to take His Name to the nations.
*Class fee includes additional materials.
Week 1: Intro
Week 2: The Source of God's Joy
Week 3: The Source of Our Joy
Week 4: What is the Gospel
Week 5: Battling Unbelief through Faith
Week 6: The Purpose of Missions
Week 7: Gospel Proclamation through Word and Deed
1–2 Hours of Homework per Week
God, Gospel, Mission (West)
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West Campus
Su 11:00–12:45pm
7 weeks / Fee: $30
Feb 10 – Mar 24
Andrew Schulz
John Manning
The fact that God finds His ultimate satisfaction in Himself and not in us is the greatest news in all the world. This truth has tremendous implications to our understanding of the gospel and missions. This class will study how the nature of God’s happiness is designed for our ultimate joy and compels us to take His Name to the nations.
*Class fee includes additional materials.
Week 1: Intro
Week 2: The Source of God's Joy
Week 3: The Source of Our Joy
Week 4: What is the Gospel
Week 5: Battling Unbelief through Faith
Week 6: The Purpose of Missions
Week 7: Gospel Proclamation through Word and Deed
1–2 Hours of Homework per Week
Gospel Counseling: Applied
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Downtown Campus
Su 9:00 – 11:45am
7 weeks / Fee: $20
Feb 10 – Mar 24
Jason Kovacs
Val Vance
This course will address how God uses us as His instruments of change in the life of others. We will look specifically at how the gospel addresses such issues as anxiety, depression, addictions, lust, and anger. Learners will begin to interact with case studies and be given practical tools to be used in caring for others.
1–2 Hours of Homework per Week
Gospel Counseling: Foundations
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St. John Campus
Su 7:00 – 8:30pm
7 weeks / Fee: $20
Feb 10 – Mar 24
Jason Kovacs
Val Vance
One of the most important things that informs the way that we counsel ourselves and others is what we believe about God. We have been given the gift of the Word so that we can better know God and have a lens through which to see the rest of life and all its circumstances. This class will walk through various topics within the Bible including creation, the fall of man, the gospel, future grace, suffering and community to understand how each of these matters and affects our everyday life. There is no pre-requisite for this class and it is the entry point for anyone that desires to serve within the Gospel Counseling ministry.
Suggested additional reading (not required): How People Change
1–2 Hours of Homework per Week
Gospel Transformation
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Downtown Campus
Su 11:00 – 12:45pm
6 weeks / Fee: $20
Feb 17 – Mar 24
Steve Teng
Please note date change
Learn continual renewal. Gospel Transformation is a class focusing on what matters most – our ongoing need for the transforming power of the gospel. Gospel Transformation addresses every area of your life and goes straight to the heart, exploring such issues as: justification, repentance, forgiveness, compassion, and much more.
1–2 Hours of Homework per Week
Missional Business 3.3
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Downtown Campus
Su 11:00 – 12:45pm
7 weeks / Fee: $20
Feb 10 – Mar 24
Tom Jordan
The purpose of this class is to equip and encourage business leaders to be on mission with their business practices and to honor God in all areas of their lives. How do you lead in business as a follower of Christ? How should the gospel impact the way you hire, pay employees, and seek profit for the company? This class will look at the gospel principles behind godly business practices and focus heavily on practical application.
Each semester the Missional Business class will include new material as well as on-going content. Please feel free to re-visit the class, even if you have taken it before.
A missional community exists for those wanting to go deeper in this area and be equipped. It is called Missional Business Launchpad and is designed for members to spend 6 to 8 months in an 'incubator' of sorts and then launch out to start their own community focused on the business area. Content will be a blend of Alan Hirsch's 'Forgotten Ways', C12 curriculum and Acton MBA material
2–3 Hours of Homework per Week
Nearly/Newly Married Life
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Downtown Campus
Su 9:00–10:45am
8 weeks / Fee: $45 per couple
Feb 10 – Apr 14
Jon & Morgan Norris
Brian & Karen Riley
Couples engaged or married < 3 yrs
For couples who are engaged or have been married up to three years. Spend time with others in this important life stage and learn principles of a Godly marriage, while discussing practical issues that we face when two become one. Participants are required to participate in a mid-week group during the class (you'll be able to select nights that work with your schedule when you sign up). If you are engaged and completing Pre-Marital Counseling, please take this class after finishing counseling.
*ONLY ONE PERSON FROM EACH COUPLE NEEDS TO REGISTER.
No class on March 10th & March 31st.
1 hour of Homework per Week + missional community
Old Testament Survey: The Journey
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Downtown Campus
Su 7:00 – 8:30pm
6 weeks / Fee: $20
Feb 10 – Mar 17
Halim Suh
James Paquette
This class will cover the Historical Books of the Old Testament: twelve books starting from Joshua through Esther. We will see God’s enduring Goodness as He leads His people in possessing the promised land, His enduring Fatherhood as He disciplines them through their captivity in foreign lands and His enduring Faithfulness as He restores them back into their own land.
1–2 Hours of Homework per Week
Old Testament Survey: The Pursuit of Wisdom
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Downtown Campus
Su 11:00 – 12:45pm
6 weeks / Fee: $20
Feb 10 – Mar 17
Halim Suh
Ryan King
What is Wisdom and how should we pursue it? Join us as we study the wisdom books of the Old Testament together.
Charles Spurgeon writes:
"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom."
J. I. Packer writes:
"Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it. Wisdom is, in fact, the practical side of moral goodness. As such, it is found in its fulness only in God. He alone is naturally and entirely and invariable wise."
We encourage you to jump in with any of our Old Testament Survey classes. They do not have to be completed in order.
1–2 Hours of Homework per Week
Physical Fitness & the Glory of God
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Downtown Campus
Su 5:00–6:30pm
5 weeks / Fee: $20
Feb 10 – Mar 10
Chris Allman
Shawn Martinez
Our physical bodies are a gift from God and the measure to which we take care of them can be an indication of our spiritual health as well as our enslavement to sin. The purpose of this class is to help broaden your perspective on how to value health and fitness. Why do we take care of our bodies? Why don’t we? Why should we?
This class will provide a biblical perspective on potential struggles with self-image, emotional eating, lack of motivation, and ambition for fitness. In addition, you will receive guidance on cardiovascular exercise, resistance training, nutrition, and flexibility. The first half of this class will be educational and the second half will be an actual workout.
This class is appropriate from the low-active individual to the athlete. The workouts will be modified and progressed appropriately.
1–2 Hours of Homework per Week
Prepare: Adoption & Foster Care
Downtown Campus
Su 11:00 – 12:30pm
6 weeks / Fee: $20
Feb 17 – Apr 7
Various teachers
Please note date change
We have designed this class to equip the church with the realities of caring for the orphan through adoption and foster care. Through out the 6 weeks we will explore God's heart for the orphan and how to discern the call to adopt or foster. We will discuss the realities of adopting/fostering and healthy expectations. We will look had the unique history of children from hard places, attachment issues, and parenting strategies. In addition we will discuss funding your adoption and what it looks like to "wait-well".
If you are seriously considering adopting / fostering, or are already in the process, this class is designed with you in mind!
*We wil be taking March 10th off for spring break and March 31st off for Easter.
1–2 Hours of Homework per Week
Satisfied
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Downtown Campus
Su 5:00–6:45pm
6 weeks / Fee: $20
Feb 10 – Mar 17
Fabienne Harford
Sorry, no guys
Each of us has deep desires knitted into the fabric of our being. We're desperate to be known and loved, successful and respected. Those desires in themselves aren't the problem, it's what we do with them. Join us as we wrestle together to figure out what it would look like to have our desires satisfied in God alone.
