This Week's Topic - Fellowship

Spiritual Discipline:  A spiritual discipline is, when practiced faithfully and regularly, a habit or regular pattern in your life that repeatedly brings you back to God and opens you up to what God is saying to you.   (definition by Dallas Willard)

Each week we have taken different spiritual disciplines and discussed them.  The previous weeks have mostly been about spiritual disciplines that focus on the internal - bible study, prayer, fasting.  Last week and this week we are talking about outward disciplines - service & fellowship. 

Fellowship is a spiritual discipline in that when practiced we become closer to God by building one another up.

 

Spiritual Disciplines - Wrap Up so Far

We have been talking about Spiritual Disciplines for the last few weeks. The disciplines that we have discussed so far are:

Prayer

Bible Study

Fasting

Service

If you would like any of the notes from our classes, please let us know! 

This Sunday 10/12 - Spiritual Disciplines: Prayer

For the next few weeks we are going to be discussing spiritual disciplines.  This week we are going to be talking about prayer.

Sunday's Topic: What is the importance of faith in a believer's life?

Here is a good article for 10/5:

http://www.apologeticspress.org/pdfs/courses_pdf/hsc0201.pdf

This video is for Brooke! - Maintaining a Christian perspective in the classroom

Good video from Ravi Zacharias - Maintaining a Christian perspective in the classroom

Sunday's topic (9/28) - The problem of evil

One of the most common hurdles for coming to Christ is the problem of evil.  People want to know why a good God would let bad things happen.  And why do bad things happen to good people?

Check out these Ravi Zacharias videos, one of the most renowned Christian philosphers:

Addressing the Problem of Evil

Why is there evil in the world?

Sunday's Class - Moral Relativism

This week we are going to tackle moral relativism.  How can we answer people when they say, "what works for you doesn't work for me" or "that is your truth but not mine"? 

It is a tough subject to tackle, so bring your thoughts and ideas to class on how to address this dilemma.  If you have any resources that you would like to share with everyone, please post them!!

Some resources:

Articles:

Christianity and Religious Pluralism

The Myth of Moral Relativism

Morality without God:  Is it possible?

Videos:

What people say about absolute truth

Moral Relativism

Today's Class - Why do we believe the Bible?

Today was a great class!  Thank you all for your input about today's topic, why do we believe the Bible?  Steve and I could tell that you have all thought about/studied this topic before.  We were excited to see how involved you were in the discussion and how much knowledge/wisdom you had to share!

If any of you have any comments about class today, please post a comment!  We will post the new topic in the next couple of days with some articles/references.  And we will also announce when the new college website is up!

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Sunday's Topic - Is the Bible Reliable/True?

One of the foundations of our faith is believing that the Bible is true and the Word of God.   How do we know that it is reliable/true?   We will be discussing this during class this week.  Below are a few articles to check out before Sunday.  Come ready to discuss your ideas/questions/thoughts!

Some of these articles are pretty in-depth, so take in what you can (or have time for) and keep them as a resource for the future!   

Overview:

How do I know Christianity is true?

More in-depth articles:

Are the Biblical Documents Reliable?

Historical Reliability of the Gospels

New Testament:  Can I trust it?

Videos (for those of you who don't like to read)

Reliability of Scripture

Reliability of the Gospels

Why the Bible is True

Today's Class

We had a great class today! Thank you all for being so open! We are really looking forward to a great year with lots of growth and deeper friendships!

We will post next week's topic in the next couple of days.

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We will be posting links to articles/resources related to our Sunday morning discussions. Come back for updates and more information!

~ Steve and Comfort