APPENDICES
Three keep-handy pages: getting set up, staying safe, and leading the study.
Getting Set Up & How Certification Works
The free toolkit (ESV access, your portfolio, an optional AI sparring partner) and exactly what it takes to earn the Level 1 certificate
Everything the course requires, all of it free: where to read the ESV, how to set up the portfolio folder that becomes your capstone, and how to create the optional free AI assistant used as a sparring partner in the conversation labs — with the house rule that everything it says gets verified. Then the certification path itself: the eight knowledge checks, the Week 4 Checkpoint Exam, the seven projects, the capstone, and the honesty policy for AI use — whether you study solo, in a cohort, or through Canvas.
The Quick Answer Card
Twelve objections you will actually hear, each with a trained two-to-three-sentence answer, one ESV verse, and the week that trains it in depth
The printable one-stop reference for the whole course: from "that's just your truth" and the telephone-game objection to the Quran's denial of the crucifixion, deepfake despair, quantum mysticism, and "Christians are just a voting bloc" — each with a short answer you can say out loud, the Scripture behind it, and a pointer to the week that trains it fully.
The Leader's Guide
Running the course as an eight-meeting certification cohort — the two-hour meeting shape, the checkpoint exam, project grading, hot moments, and the commissioning ceremony
Everything a leader needs to take a group from Week 1 to commissioning: a proven two-hour meeting shape, how to administer the Week 4 Certification Checkpoint (in Canvas or on paper from the question pool), how to grade the projects with their rubrics, how to handle the hard moments a course like this invites — a Muslim guest in the room, a political flare-up — and how to land the final meeting with the capstone, the checklist, and the certificate.
Going Deeper
The road past Level 1 — trusted next resources by topic, keeping a living portfolio, practicing in real venues, and what Level 2 will cover
Level 1 is a beginning, not a destination. This appendix maps the road on: well-established books and free resources matched to each week's topic, how to keep your Defense Portfolio alive after the course, where to practice (hospitality, online, your church), and a preview of Level 2 — more worldviews, the problem of suffering in depth, church-history objections, and training others.