Keystone Institute
Training Disciples to Make Disciples who Make Disciples.
We want to saturate our homes, schools, businesses, & neighborhoods with Gospel-Shaped Disciple Makers. These courses & seminars are designed not simply to help believers grow in faith and maturity but to equip believers as disciple-making disciples. Keystone Institute includes Intentional Weekly Courses and Intensive One-Day Seminars. Watch the video to learn more.
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Loving Our Foreign Neighbors
Are you curious about people from a different culture or faith background than you? Lancaster County is home to thousands of immigrants and refugees from cultures and faith backgrounds that are not traditionally Christian. Do you know how to engage with them in a loving Christ-centered way? This course will especially equip you to befriend neighbors from the world’s second largest religion. It will also teach you how to find ways to discuss the truth about Jesus in love and with grace.
Oct-Dec 2024
This Christian Life
For a vibrant and obedient faith, the veteran as well as the new Christian needs to repeatedly drink at the fountain of Christian life basics. Covering worldviews and how they shape us, forgiveness, the gospel, the mission, the Scriptures, prayer, etc., join Jeff and let the Word and the Spirit refresh and reignite your faith.
Taught by Jeff Neely // Mar-May 2024
God’s Matchless and Perfect Gift to You
Explore how the Holy Spirit can go from being little more than a bullet point in your creed to God’s supernatural gift to change you, empower you to witness, equip you to serve others, and sanctify you to obey Him.
Taught by Josh Bare // Jan-Feb 2024
Jesus from Infant to King: New Testament Panorama
This course is a survey of the New Testament: the four gospel accounts of Jesus’ life, ministry, death & resurrection, Acts & the church’s early history, Paul’s letters & other apostles, and John’s Apocalypse (Revelation).
Taught by Bryan Lefever // Sept-Dec 2023
Changed by Means of Grace
Do you struggle to keep daily time with God a priority? Has your daily worship been dry? Are you getting to know God better, and is it leading you to worship Him? Would you describe your prayer times as fervent?
Regardless of your answers, come join us for this course as we explore different spiritual practices and disciplines as means of grace like Bible study, memorization, meditation, journaling, fasting, worship, solitude, and prayer.
Taught by Charlie Walter // Sept-Oct 2023
Your Money Matters to God
Learn how being Jesus’ disciple not only changes what we do with our money, but how we think about it. Although this includes 10 steps to move you forward, the focus is less on wealth-building tactics and more on a establishing a Christ-exalting financial trajectory.
Taught by Josh Bare // April-May 2023
Old Testament Panorama: Exodus through Malachi
Your journey through most of the Old Testament will be anchored by the early Promise God made to the patriarchs like Abraham, Isaac & Jacob (Genesis 12:1-3), and the Covenant He gave their descendants at Mt. Sinai (Exodus 20-Leviticus 27).
Taught by Dr. James Hoffmeier // Part I: Aug-Oct 2022; Part II: Feb-April 2023
God’s Love For the World
What is “Mission”? Is it any good deed that a Christian does? What do your children know about God’s heart for the world? In addition to learning how every believer can participate in mission, you’ll hear about God’s heart for the world missionaries serving in the Middle East, in Lancaster, and from Keystone’s Lebanon Team when they return in February.
Taught by Keith Rohrer // Jan-Feb 2023
Staying Intact When Life’s Coming Apart
If God is good, why do we suffer? Should we pray for deliverance or just learn to endure? Is contentment possible while suffering? Explore the answers to some of life's most difficult questions in this new course beginning November 6th.
Taught by Jeff Neely // Nov-Dec 2022
Lifechanging Bible: Hearing from God
All other Keystone Institute courses assume the Bible. This one wrestles with questions about its value and purpose leveled at it by critics as well as sympathetic readers.
Taught by Al Iezzi // Nov-Dec 2022