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FALL 2010

SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASSES
9:40 am - 10:40 am

BIBLE ADVENTURES CLASS     
Led by Class Members         
Room 100             
Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time
The class will read and discuss the book by Marcus Borg, Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time
. Christian worship is a response to a worshiper's image of Jesus, and all images of Jesus fall short of his reality--in the same way that all biographies and portraits fail to depict a whole person. In his book, New Testament scholar Marcus Borg attempts to understand how popular images of Jesus connect Christians to their Savior or may isolate them from him. Borg writes about his own evolving ideas of who Jesus was, considers the scholarly and popular religious evolution of Jesus' public image, and investigates with special care the effects of Historical Jesus research on contemporary images of Jesus.

DISCOVERY CLASS
Led by Joelle & Rich Dunham     
Room 214

Surprised By Hope
"If you died tonight, do you know where you would go?" Christians for many years have been asking this question. As award-winning author N. T. Wright points out however, the answer isn't heaven. In Surprised by Hope, Wright, one of today's premier Bible scholars, asserts that Christianity's most distinctive idea is bodily resurrection. He provides a magisterial defense for a literal resurrection of Jesus and shows how this became the cornerstone for the Christian community's hope in the bodily resurrection of all people at the end of the age. Wright then explores our expectation of "new heavens and a new earth," revealing what happens to the dead until then and what will happen with the "second coming" of Jesus.

FRIENDSHIP CLASS
Led by Jeani Goodwin  
Room 216              

The History of Christian Theology
This course begins in antiquity with a brief look at the Roots of Religion which explores some of the religious expressions of earliest humankind, even as far back as the Neanderthal.  Presented through the eyes of an archaeologist, the course will explore the deities of the Acropolis, the stone heads of Easter Island, the lost city of Machu Picchu, and the gods and pyramids at Teotihuacan. With a firm background of understanding humankind’s need to worship the Other, the course will then deal with the History of Christian Theology.  Some of the topics covered will be:  What did the early Christians believe?  How did Christianity become separate from Judaism?  How did different forms of Christian beliefs and denominations develop, and how are these beliefs both different and similar?  What is Reformation theology?  The course will conclude with Protestantism after modernity. The course will consist of lecture and DVD supplementation
with discussion.

 

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ROAD LESS TRAVELLED CLASS     
Led by Jo Carol Nesset-Sale     
Room 218     

Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality
This class will read and discuss the book by Barbara Bradley Hagerty, in which the prize-winning journalist explores questions such as ”Is spiritual experience real? Or is it a delusion?”; “When we pray, what happens?” Examining the
discoveries that science is making about how and why we believe, Hagerty reaches beyond what we think we know to understand whether the ineffable place beyond this world can be rationally –even scientifically–explained.

SIMPLY CHRISTIAN CLASS           
Led by Abby Brink    
Room 208    
The Jesus I Never Knew
This class will read and discuss the book The Jesus I Never Knew
by Philip Yancey. Critically acclaimed as the most significant Christian book of the last ten years, it was selected for the prestigious Gold Medallion Christian Book of the Year Award in 1996. Yancey peels away popular stereotypes to present a brilliant and challenging portrait of Christ - his teaching, his miracles, his death and resurrection, and ultimately, who he was and why he came. This study guide helps readers press beyond the traditional picture to uncover a Jesus who is brilliant, creative, challenging, fearless, compassionate, unpredictable, and ultimately satisfying.

SOLA SCRIPTURA CLASS       
Led by Class Member      
Fellowship Hall  
The Harmony of the Gospels
This class will continue its study of the Harmony of the Gospels
, with the verses of the four gospels presented side by side in chronological order.

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