The School of Biblical Learning (SBL) is committed to providing men and women with extensive knowledge gained by intensive study of the Word of God. All are encouraged to enroll, whether they are preparing for full-time service or whether they are seeking to gain a richer knowledge of God and His design. Learn more about how to apply on the Admissions page.
SBL offers Bachelors degrees in the concentrations of Biblical Leadership, Biblical Languages, and Bible Translation. Each program is designed to develop in each student a facility with the tools necessary for accurate interpretation and application of the Scriptures. Students not seeking college credit may enroll in courses at a reduced auditing rate.
SBL offers both Masters and Doctoral degrees in the concentrations of Biblical Leadership, Biblical Languages, and Bible Translation. Each program is designed to develop in each student a facility with the tools necessary for accurate interpretation and application of the Scriptures. Students not seeking graduate credit may enroll in courses at a reduced auditing rate.
All individuals who want to increase their understanding of God and His design are encouraged to enroll in courses, whether or not they are seeking a degree. For more information, please use the form below.
The folders below contain video recordings of SBL courses. Articles and other resources related to these courses are also available and may be found on the Resources page.
The content of all SRA teaching and materials are derived from intensive analytical study of God’s original Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic texts, and incorporate, as appropriate, a correlation of other ancient language text. The primary texts of SRA associates are indicated below.
Authorized (KJV) Version, with comparison and assessment of other translations
Massoretic Ben Hkayyim Text, with comparison and assessment of other ancient Hebrew and Aramaic texts and codices
Scrivener’s 1894 Textus Receptus, with comparison and assessment of other ancient Greek texts and translations
SRA recognizes the design of God for all believers to be ever-increasing in the knowledge of Him and His design. Thus, all who shepherd other believers, whether formally or informally, must maintain themselves in a constant, intensive seeking of that same knowledge. Those whom He has gifted to shepherd have been entrusted to be leading His sheep into new pastures of fresh green grass and clear safe waters where the sheep eat and drink for themselves and where each one matures into the Master’s design for its health and reproduction.
Many world vocations require leaders to continually develop their knowledge in their field, but, in the realm of shepherding God’s sheep, the “busyness” of “ministry” seems to prevent shepherds from pursuing the knowledge so desperately needed by their flocks. The Master designed His flocks to be always moving to fresh, new pastures, but the lack of continued, intensive learning by His shepherds has left most of them not knowing the location of the next pasture or how to lead his flock into it.
SRA seeks to help all the shepherds of God’s flocks to develop in the full knowledge of Him and His design by providing them with learning in areas where they need to refresh or develop. This teaching may be done by providing trustworthy teaching materials or by formal teaching in churches and other meeting locations, or by brief, easily-accessed videos on the internet, or by face-to-face, live interaction on the internet. However the teaching is done, it will be designed to enhance every shepherd’s abilities to more effectively lead every sheep of the flock.
The SRA School of Biblical Learning (SBL) is the primary teaching aspect of SRA ministry. All SBL teaching and activities focus upon developing the knowledge of God, not as a series of difficult-to-correlate “characteristics” or “facts” about God, but as a growing, comprehensive understanding of His entire being as He revealed Himself from the first words of Genesis to the last in Revelation. SBL seeks to develop in every learner the fullness of his or her ability to accurately correlate every aspect of every point of the Creator’s revelation to every other point of that revelation and to all of life.
Students may attend selected classes at the Virginia Beach main campus, but most will attend live online classes via the internet. Class recordings are available on the SBL or TBBCS websites, or on other digital media.