ADULT DISCIPLESHIP CLASSES
A wide variety of adult discipleship classes and Bible studies are offered in various places and formats throughout the week. Scroll through the options below to find the class that's right for you.
More Resources for Adults:
Wednesday Night Discipleship Classes
6-7 PM, beginning AUGUST 12
A CO-ED STUDY
THE MIRACLES OF JESUS
FACILITATOR: FRANK WILKERSON
LOCATION: EDUCATION CENTER (ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE MAIN CHURCH BUILDING), ROOM EC13
Everyone loves a "miracle"! They are also called "signs and wonders". All miracles serve an important purpose. These supernatural events involve superhuman forces specifically associated with God's messengers and are not merely strange happenings, coincidences, sensational events or natural anomalies. The miracles of Jesus happened just as they were described in the Scripture.
A CO-ED STUDY
THE BODY TEACHES THE SOUL, BY JUSTIN WHITMEL EARLY
FACILITATORS: JOHN AND MANDI CALL
LOCATION: TBD
How can we preach a gospel of peace, yet still find our bodies wracked by anxiety? How do we call our bodies temples of the Holy Spirit, yet regard eating, exercise, or sleep as inherently "unspiritual" activities? How is it that modern Christians who claim God made their bodies have come to care so little about them?
Justin Whitmel Earley is intimately familiar with the consequences of ignoring the body. As a young lawyer, Earley collapsed into anxiety and insomnia that nearly ruined his life. In his journey back to mental and spiritual health, he realized that the healthy and unhealthy habits shaping his life weren't physical or spiritual; they were physical and spiritual.
The Body Teaches the Soul is a practical guide to the union of body and spirit in our overall health. In these pages, you will:
Earley is not a health guru telling you how to get in shape; he is the ordinary Christian's guide to rediscovering the extraordinary gift of the body and the spiritual life that flows from it. Join this journey of wonder and well-being to reconnect with your whole self and repattern your whole life in the image of the God who made you and loves you as you are--body and soul.
A WOMEN'S STUDY
SERMON NOTES
FacilitatorS: TARA HUGHES & CAROL LIVELY
LOCATION: FELLOWSHIP HALL CLASSROOM WING, ROOM FH22
Do you ever feel like you leave a Sunday service and the message that stirred your heart is quick to leave your mind as "real life" begins again?
Or do you ever have a desire to take what you have heard and go deeper?
Sermon Notes is the place for you!
As believers in Christ, we don't want our faith to be limited to Sunday services. Our goal should be to take the message that we have heard and allow it to grow and shape us beyond the sanctuary and into our daily lives. In Sermon Notes, you will join other women whose desire is to take the truths shared in the sermon from the previous Sunday and apply them in real and personal ways. Through intentional questions and discussion, you will dive deeper into God's word, growing in the study and application of His will for us.
All you need to bring to this class is yourself, your sermon notes, and your Bible!
A MEN'S STUDY (CONT'D FROM LAST SEMESTER)
ROMANS 1-7 FOR YOU, BY TIM KELLER
FACILITATORS: Brett & CHAD Minter
LOCATION: FELLOWSHIP HALL CLASSROOM WING, ROOM FH23
Join Dr. Timothy Keller as he opens up the first half of the book of Romans in this applied commentary.
This uniquely flexible curriculum, edited from the study by Timothy Keller takes you through the first seven chapters of Romans, showing how the gospel message of righteousness received by faith changes our perspective of God, our lives, and our eternity.
Additional Bible Studies
Offered throughout the week
A CO-ED STUDY
THINGS TO COME
FACILITAROR: BARBARA LESLIE
STARTING SEPTEMBER 8TH
MONDAY NIGHTS FROM 6:30PM - 8:30PM
The Bible devotes considerable space to the events that were prophetic when they were written, and the events that are yet to be fulfilled. These events outline God’s redemptive plan for His people and the earth, as well as the final judgment and victory over evil. The heart of this class is for Christ followers to make a careful study of these events, and to have a better understanding of the things of God.
A MEN'S STUDY
be dynamic: aCTS 1-12 BY WARREN W. WIERSBE
FACILITATOR: TIM PRATER
monday MORNINGS AT 8:00 AM
location: Education Center
"The ministry of the Holy Spirit is not a luxury; it is an absolute necessity," writes celebrated author and respected pastor Warren Wiersbe. In his first of two books covering Acts, Be Dynamic focuses on Peter's ministry, mostly in Israel and centered in Jerusalem. Through explaining Luke's record of the Gospel's advancement and church expansion, Wiersbe opens the door to understanding the work of the church today. Using hard-hitting quotes from recognized names like St. Augustine and John Bunyan, Wiersbe proves himself as a well-read author and gifted writer. The depth of his study is astounding, yet the accessibility of his text for every age group is evident as well. He proves what Luke intended-for Acts to be interpreted not as the apostles' glorious acts, but as the life-changing acts of the Holy Spirit. The same Spirit lives in believers today, the same God calls followers to expand His church, and the same basic problems still arise within the church, but the same power available then is still available now to change the nations.
a WOMEN'S study
THE AMAZING COLLECTION: OTHER LETTERS AND REVELATION
FACILITATOR: bETTY JEAN CARTER
TUESDAY MORNINGS AT 9:30 AM
location: EDUCATION CENTER, ROOM EC13
Other Letters (Hebrews, James, First Peter, Second Peter, First John, Second John, and Third John) were written over a period of approximately fifty years. The book of James was the earliest, penned between AD 46 and 49, and Revelation was the last to be recorded; it was written by the apostle John in AD 95 or 96. Most of these letters were written after the apostle Paul’s death, and they carried on the Christian epistolary tradition. In contrast to many of Paul’s writings, the General Epistles were written during the years of heavy Roman persecution of the Christian population. The content of some of these letters reflects this increasingly hostile environment. In addition, the spread and strength of false teachings was much greater than it was during the years that Paul wrote. This challenge to Christianity is also very evident in the content and tone of these last nine books of the New Testament. Of course, there could be no better capstone to the New Testament — and, in fact, to the entire Bible — than the book of Revelation. In it, God records His last words about the final days and the ultimate victory of His Son, the Lamb of God and the Lion of Judah.
