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What’s the best online course you’ve ever taken?

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I’ve taken many online courses over the years. It’s hard to choose which is best, but if I’m to make a quick decision, I’d say Angela Yu’s 100 Days of Code: The Complete Python Pro Bootcamp. She’s great. She almost feels like a friend too when you watch her courses on Udemy:

For those of you who don’t have much money, Udemy courses frequently go on sale. For example, you might see a course costing 79.99 euro, but it’ll be down to 11.99 every couple of weeks. So be careful that you don’t pay the full price 😀. But if you have plenty of money, feel free to pay 79.99. They deserve it, especially Angela Yu. It’s a real joy to take her courses, though they are challenging – but I don’t mind leaving some unfinished. I still learn the basics.

I like to write about music and Christianity on my blog. So what can I say about that? Well I did most of the following course for guitar playing:
All-in-one Guitar Course, Fingerstyle Guitar, Blues Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar & Fingerpicking Guitarra by Erich Andreas, and I did a course on Apple’s Logic Pro on LinkedIn Learning.

What about Christianity? I do remember getting a free N.T. Wright course on The Lord’s Prayer – but for Christian resources, I prefer to just watch people on youTube or listen to talks or Audiobooks. Audible has some great Christian audiobooks. They often offer a month free or few months at a low price. And when you subscribe, you have access to a range of books, apart from the ones that you buy. And there are quite a few good Christian books accessible. You also get some scholarly liberal ones that we evangelicals dislike 😀. But none of these are likely to cause me to doubt the Bible. If I find any difficulties with the Bible, I can find plenty of scholarly evangelicals to address them – or I can wait until I get to heaven and see what puzzles I want to ask about – but that’ll hardly be a priorty in heaven. I’m not going to lose my faith because someone like Bart Erhman questions the Bible.

Some scholars have been dismissing the Bible for centuries. Some Christians work hard to oppose them. Others just ignore them. You don’t need to understand everything about a car to enjoy driving – and you don’t need to understand everything about the background to the Bible to enjoy it. A key consideratrion for me is how Jesus accepted and often quoted the Old Testament. And He gave the task of writing the New Testament to His apostles. So, I accept it all. If I’m told in heaven that Jonah wasn’t really swallowed by a fish, that’ll be fine. But I’ll accept it in the meantime. If someone told me a story about someone being swallowed by a fish that came from a source other than the Bible, I probably wouldn’t believe it. But I would believe a story about someone swallowing a fish 😀.

Anyway, I often mention Wayne Grudem’s free lectures on Systematic theology. He believes and loves the Bible. I found these back around 2007. I also have his Systematic Theology book and the audio format from Audible. But the free lectures were given in a church, and it’s fun to listen to the questions and answers too.

I forgot to mention the Christianity Explored course – we often offered that in church. And it was freely available online during the lockdown. Maybe it’s still free.

And for an overview of the Bible, here’s two popular resources – I’ll just post two sample videos – but each series covers the whole Bible:

So what YouTube videos will I add to close (I always add a few) – maybe I’ll find some about learning or teaching 😀: