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Welcome to EQUIPPED ACADEMY! We are a training academy, resource, and community to help you impact your world with purpose and meaning. Get prepared to be equipped to live out your faith and thrive in a postmodern-global world. My passion is to equip you to "informatively" impact your community, family, school, place of business and all spheres of influence with the Truth. I look forward to encouraging, equipping, and interacting with you as you embark upon your Equipped Academy Journey. - STEVEN GAROFALO, Founder & President

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MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR: Steven Garofalo M.A. Apologetics

Teacher, entrepreneur, and speaker: Steven has worked with Fortune 500 companies in a business development, recruiting, training and in an advisory role for over two decades. He has spoken at university business schools and delivered Zig Ziglar "Strategies for Success" seminars in major cities throughout the eastern United states before graduating from Southern Evangelical Seminary with a Masters Degree in Apologetics. Steven was ordained on May 18, 2011, authored four books (c-bookstore tab) and is the Host and President of the ReasonForTruth Podcast and Video Channels with over 860 podcast episodes and over 475 video episodes. As an entrepreneur, Steven started SAS Recruiting & Assessment, TriedstoneInc.Com, TriedstonePublishing.Com and ReasonForTruth.Org. Steven combined his corporate, theological and advisory experience to form EquippedAcademy.Com to equip you and your organization to informatively live out your purpose and mission in the marketplace, academy and in life. Steven grew up in the Washington D.C. area and lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with his wife Heather and their three children. Welcome to Equipped Academy.

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What Students Are Saying

Roscoe Blair-Brown, South Africa

High School Rugby Coach

As a youth ministry leader in my local church in South Africa, the online EQUIPPED Course has given me tools to better shape and equip the lives of the next generation. Engaging with Equipped Academy and Steven Garofalo personally has helped me answer questions that I have wrestled with over the years. The course and interactions with Mr. Garofalo combined has equipped me for discussion, debate and evangelism. Thank you!

James Littlejohn

Financial Services

Excellent course. The information provided was impactful. Steven is a great instructor and will teach you how to effectively engage the questions, doubts, and skepticism of unbelievers by responding intellectually and persuasively.

Mike Larson

Father

Equipped Academy for EQUIPPED "BASICS" / used in the TL "Grounding Your Faith" badge is a great course. It assembles everything I have been trying to teach my 8 kids for years in a succinct way. I wish I would have had this resource years ago to effectively teach all my children and help answer their questions and doubts about their Christian faith. Steven Garofalo does an excellent job in engaging the students and equipping them for their future interactions with unbelievers.

Joel Larson

High School Student

Equipped Academy’s Basic Training In Apologetics For Evangelism course is a very interesting and enjoyable course on learning to defend your faith. I didn’t know what to expect before I took this class but afterwards, I was impressed by all the arguments to defending your faith. I now have a stronger faith and arguments to keep it alive when I become challenged as I grow. I wasn’t sure if this class deserved my time but it definitely did and I’m glad I took it. I can’t wait to use the information Steven Garofalo taught me in the future and to not be shaken in my faith.

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Master of Arts in Religion

Steve’s Equipped Basics Online Course, along with the Equipped book, provide a great way to learn the fundamental arguments of Christian apologetics. All believers will benefit from being able to explain and defend their faith. Steve’s conversational style makes the concepts easy to follow, while at the same time packing a wealth of information into manageable portions. He tackles some of the most difficult questions that many people ask, such as, “Can God create evil?” Steve has studied with some of the brightest minds in Christian theology, and it is a blessing to receive the wisdom his course imparts.

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EQUIPPED-Basic Training In Apologetics For Evangelism

EQUIPPED provides Basic Training In Christian Apologetics by answering 10 of the most popular questions relating to God, religion and Christianity. The book had three goals. First, inoculate youth for the secular world they are about to enter. Second, shore up and strengthen the faith of all believers who have been called by God to live out their faith in God through Jesus Christ in a highly secular New Age culture. Third, equip students, young adults, parents, and grandparents with a basic training in Christian apologetics. Why? We must be better able to defend the Christian faith and better equipped to execute the Great Commission (Matthew 28) through sharing our faith.

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ALL ROADS DON'T LEAD TO HEAVEN-Discovering God In The New Age

Forty-six percent of Americans polled by Barna Research believe that the Quran, the Book of Mormon, and the Holy Bible all lead to the same Spiritual Truth. All Roads addresses religious pluralism in a short, concise space. The author takes on the daunting task of defining truth for the layperson and proves that God and Jesus is the Truth, the Life, and the Way—the only way—to Heaven.

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RIGHT FOR YOU, BUT NOT FOR ME-A RESPONSE TO MORAL RELATIVISM

Steven Garofalo clearly explains the moral problem that our culture is facing and provides a road map for us to turn our world right-side-up again! It answers the assertion that morality is relative from many perspectives ranging from the media, to philosophy, to our shift of seeing man as opposed to God as the measure of all things.

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Todos Los Caminos No Conducen Al Cielo_

Descubriendo a Dios en la Nueva Era

SPANISH VERSION/TRANSLATION: "All Roads Don't Lead To Heaven-Discovering God In The New Age

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WORKBOOK for Equipped

The EQUIPPED Workbook has now been digitally grafted into the EQUIPPED "Basics" and "Advanced" Online Courses. The book is designed to be used in conjunction with the EQUIPPED-Basic Training In Apologetics For Evangelism main text and can be used as an aid for better learning with the online Certificate Course. (The cost of the book is the same as the course and digitized book content combined.)

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Equipped Academy BASEBALL CAP! This one size fits all adjustable baseball cap is a stylish cap that looks good in all seasons.

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