About Us
ChristianCourses.com: A Service of RBC Ministries
Publishers of Our Daily Bread
ChristianCourses.com was initially founded as a division of Christian University GlobalNet® (CUGN). CUGN was created in February 1998 as a major collaborative partnership among the colleges, universities, and seminaries of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU). CUGN later was restructured as a separate 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation to focus on its mission of reaching learners worldwide with affordable and accessible Christian worldview learning opportunities. CUGN was one of the first faith-based online learning providers offering interactive CD-ROM/DVD-ROM courses and Web-based courses. CUGN became a subsidiary of RBC Ministries, publishers of
Our Daily Bread, in October 2002, and began operating under the brand, ChristianCourses.com (CC).
CC develops and delivers asynchronous (on demand) online learning courses and other digital resources for para-church ministries, churches, and individuals connected to the evangelical Christian faith. We contract with the most gifted teachers, authors, and scholars in various disciplines, capture their teaching in digital video (our database) and add interactivity. We then offer it to learners over a variety of delivery systems, including the Internet, CD-ROM, and DVD-ROM.
Our member ministries are committed to the integration of biblical faith, scholarship, and service. CC ministry members develop courses targeting the needs of their respective constituencies. Recognized master teachers author the courses using their own material. The result is an excellent combination of content, lecture, and guidance, with the interactive control of the individual learner. This allows learners of a wide range of educational and socio-economic levels to benefit from the best communicators in their respective fields.
Our student enrollment continues to expand, with over 25,000 new enrollments per year.
Please see the testimonials and endorsements for additional comments and feedback on our courses.
As an organization seeking to respond to the forces of change affecting Christian life-long learning worldwide, CC strives to:
- Ensure a Christ-centered presence in emerging technologies
- Pioneer new initiatives in online learning with Christian organizations seeking to serve the church worldwide
- Provide media-rich, master teacher material to learners of all ages, abilities, and socio-economic levels
Under God's hand, our mission is to provide affordable and accessible Christian worldview online learning opportunities to learners worldwide.
Our vision is broad in scope, yet simple in definition: Christ-centered learning, anytime from anywhere.
We value the privacy of our Web site visitors. Thus, we have created this
privacy statement in order to disclose information gathering and dissemination practices for our online learning center.
In line with the historic orthodoxy of the Apostles’ and Nicene Creeds and our own 1938 founding statement of faith, we see the following life-changing implications for what we do and how we teach:
- Because we believe the Bible is the God-breathed, self-revelation of our Creator, we want its message to be the foundation of our lives, so that our thoughts and actions reflect His highest purposes.
- Because we believe in the tri-unity of our God, we want our relationships to reflect the oneness of truth and love we see in Him.
- Because we believe human nature has been deeply flawed by inherited and personal wrongs, we want to always remember that our greatest need is for the mercy and grace of God.
- Because we believe Jesus died in our place and rose from the dead to live His life through anyone who will trust Him, we want to spend the rest of our lives letting others see that what He has done for us, He can do for them.
- Because we believe Jesus Christ is our Savior, Teacher, and Lord, we want the attitudes He shows toward His friends and enemies to be our attitudes as well.
- Because we believe Jesus sent His Holy Spirit to be with us, and in us, we want to live with the courage and character that comes from Him.
- Because we believe in one Church, of which Jesus Christ is the Head, we want to identify with all who believe in Jesus regardless of gender, age, race, or class.
- Because we believe Christ makes His people ambassadors to all nations, we want to be faithful to His words, rather than to our own ideas, and to do so by the strength He provides, rather than by trusting in our own ingenuity or efforts.
- Because we believe in the promised return of Christ, we want to live every day of our life in a way that reflects hope rather than despair.
- Because we believe we all will give an account of ourselves to God, we want to correct those who are accountable to us with loving conviction rather than self-righteous condemnation.
- Because we believe we are caretakers of our Father’s world, we want to be faithful stewards of the spiritual, material, and natural resources that have been entrusted to us, for the good of our neighbor, and for the glory of our Creator.
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