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The Great Ends of the Church
Joseph D. Small
More Theology for Presbyterians
Donald K. McKim
Great Prayer of Thanksgiving
David Gambrell
Creation
William P. Brown
Following Jesus Today:
Challenges and Opportunities
Paul Detterman with Stephen Franklin,
Raymond Hylton, James Kim, Randy Lovejoy,and Donna Marsh
The Church and Social Issues
Jennifer R. Ayres
The Spirituality of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
John P. Burgess
Donald K. McKim
Session 1. Advent Hope
Session 2. Advent Peace
Session 3. Advent Joy
Session 4. Advent Love
Session 5. Christmas Savior
Session 6. Epiphany Light
Illuminating Lent
Donald K. McKim
Session 1. Introducing Lent
Session 2. Upward: What We Do for God—Glorify God
Session 3. Inward: What Goes Does in Us—Communion with God
Session 4. Downward: What God Gives to Us—Providential Provisions
Session 5. Forward: Where God Leads Us—Discipleship
Session 6. Onward: What God Will Do—Resurrection Hope
Ronald Cole-Turner
Session 1. Faith Seeking Understanding... Through Science
Session 2. Cosmos
Session 3. The Story of Life
Session 4. Human Beings
Session 5. Brain and Mind
Session 6. Technology and the Future
Gary Neal Hansen
Session 1. Our Comfort, Then Our Misery (Q. 1–11)
Session 2. Our Deliverance, Part 1: Christ and Faith (Q. 12–21)
Session 3. Our Deliverance, Part 2: What Faith Believes (Q. 22–58)
Session 5. Our Gratitude, Part 1: Living God's Good Will (Q: 86–115)
Session 6. Our Gratitude, Part 2: The Life of Prayer (Q. 116–129)
A BRIEF STATEMENT OF FAITH
Donald K. McKim
Session 1. A New Confession for a New Denomination
Session 2. Trusting in the One Triune God
Session 3. Trusting in Jesus Christ
Session 4. Trusting in God
Session 5. Trusting in the Holy Spirit
Session 6. Being Presbyterian
CHURCH HISTORY: THOSE WHO SHAPED THE CHRISTIAN FAITH
Gary Neal Hansen
Session 1. The Early Church : Forbidden, Permitted, and Defined
Session 2. The Middle Ages I: Preserving, Expanding, and Flourishing
Session 3. The Middle Ages II: Discipleship, Scholarship, and Leadership
Session 4. The Reformation: Lutheran, Reformed, and Radical
Session 5. The Modern Period: Rationalism, Pietism, and Global Expansion
Session 6. The Twentieth Century: And Now for Something Completely Different
ENOUGH: GOD'S BLESSING IN ABUNDANCE
Laura Mendenhall
Session 1. We Don't Have Enough
Session 2. Becoming Unbound from Fears of Not Enough
Session 3. Enough to Make a Difference
Session 4. Enough for Transformational Giving
Session 5. Enough Is Good for the Body
Session 6. How Much Is Enough to Leave Our Children?
FAITH AND SCIENCE
Ronald Cole-Turner
Session 1. Faith Seeking Understanding . . . Through Science
Session 2. Cosmos
Session 3. The Story of Life
Session 4. Human Beings
Session 5. Brain and Mind
Session 6. Technology and the Future
INTO ALL THE WORLD
Donald J. Dawson / Jennifer A. Haddox
Session 1. Understanding God's Plan
Session 2. Realizing It's All about Jesus
Session 3. Discovering Our Global Witness
Session 4. Connecting with God's Strategy
Session 5. Learning from the Global Church
Session 6. Embracing Our Missional Vocation
JOHN CALVIN: FOUNDER OF THE REFORMED TRADITION
John R. Walchenbach
Session 1. Why John Calvin?
Session 2. How Do We Know God?
Session 3. What Did Jesus Come to Do?
Session 4. Election and Predestination
Session 5. Calvin’s Understanding of the Church
Session 6. Understanding the Sacraments
RE-MEMBERING BAPTISM
Ronald P. Byars
Session 1. Remember Your Baptism
Session 2. Through the Waters
Session 3. Death and Resurrection
Session 4. He Will Baptize with the Holy Spirit
Session 5. “You did not choose me but I chose you”
Session 6. Initiation into the Church
RECOGNIZING GOD’S GRACE
Louis B. Weeks
Session 1. The Bible Teaches about God’s Grace
Session 2. Grace through Christian History
Session 3. Reformed Understanding of Grace
Session 4. Gracious Lives of Others
Session 5. Practicing God’s Grace
Session 6. God’s Amazing Grace
SEEKING SOCIAL JUSTICE
Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty
Session 1. A Christian Challenge to Current Social and Economic Problems
Session 2. A Reminder of the Not-So-Distant Past
Session 3. A Social Trinity for a Social Creed
Session 4. Hearing “the Voices of People Long Silenced”
Session 5. Voicing Concerns in Harmony
Session 6. Living with Authenticity, Integrity, and Faith
STEWARDSHIP OF CREATION
Henry G. Brinton
Session 1. Creation Care
Session 2. Caring for the Environment and Caring for People
Session 3. Being Green at Home
Session 4. Being Green at Church
Session 5. Being Green in the World
Session 6. Reconciling Humans and Creation
THE CHURCH AND POLITICS
David True
Session 1. The Bible and Politics
Session 2. Reformed Politics
Session 3. Politics American Style
Session 4. The Recovery of a Moral Politics
Session 5. Political Responsibility and Christian Wisdom
Session 6. Transformative Politics: Healing Our Democracy
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CHRISTIAN LIVING IN GOD’S SPLENDOR
Kendra G. Hotz and Matthew T. Mathews
Session 1. Seeking Beauty in the Christian Life
Session 2. Christian Life Is Affectional
Session 3. Christian Life Is Communal
Session 4. Christian Life Is Incarnational
Session 5. Christian Life Is Cruciform
Session 6. Christian Life Is Vocational
DISCIPLESHIP: THE WAY OF JESUS
John P. Burgess
Session 1. Discipleship as the Way of Jesus Christ
Session 2. The Call to Discipleship
Session 3. The Problem of Discipleship
Session 4. Discipleship as Identity in Christ
Session 5. Pathways of Discipleship
Session 6. The Fruits of Discipleship
EXPLORING THE "BOOK OF CONFESSIONS"
Jack Rogers
Session 1. The Nature and Function of Confessions
Session 2. The Ancient Creeds: Who Is God?
Session 3. The Reformation Confessions: What Is the Church (Part 1)
Session 4. The Reformation Confessions: What is the Church (Part 2)
Session 5. Twentieth-Century Declarations: What Is the Church's Mission in the World?
Session 6. Carrying Our Mission into the Twenty-First Century
FAITH, HOPE, LOVE, AND WITNESS
Paul K. Hooker
Session 1. Core Theological Affirmations
Session 2. The Foundations of Presbyterian Polity
Session 3. The Form of Government: The Congregation and Its Members
Session 4. The Form of Government: Ordered Ministry
Session 5. The Form of Government: The Councils of the Church
Session 6. The Form of Government: The Church and Its Relationships
ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY
Mitali Perkins
Session 1. Worship One God
Session 2. Honor Isa (Peace Be upon Him)
Session 3. Revere the Holy Book
Session 4. Accept the Prophet
Session 5. Practice the Five Pillars
Session 6. Live as Holy People
LOOKING AT THE CROSS
James D. Miller
Session 1. The Crux of the Matter
Session 2. The Cross as Necessary?
Session 3. Accessing the Presence of God
Session 4. Picturing the Atonement
Session 5. The Cross in the Tradition of the Reformers
Session 6. The Invitation to Live into the Way of the Cross
READING THE BIBLE FOR UNDERSTANDING
James E. Davison
Session 1. Do You Understand What You are Reading?
Session 2. Texts and Translations
Session 3. Interpreting Narrative Passages
Session 4. Interpreting the Gospels
Session 5. Interpreting Poetry and Wisdom Literature
Session 6. Interpreting Letters
SEEING JESUS IN JOHN’S GOSPEL
Susan Hylen
Session 1. Tabernacle
Session 2. Giver of Living Water
Session 3. Bread of Life
Session 4. Good Shepherd
Session 5. Resurrection and Life
Session 6. Passover Offering
Seven Days to Glory
Blair R. Monie
Session 1. Monday: Robbers in the Narthex
Session 2. Tuesday: By What Authority?
Session 3. Thursday: A Day Called Holy
Session 4. God’s Friday
Session 5. The Silence of Saturday
Session 6. Sunday: The Day of Resurrection
Temptation in the Desert
M. Craig Barnes
Session 1. The Familiar Voice of Judgment
Session 2. The Surprise of Being Beloved
Session 3. The Temptation to Be Full
Session 4. The Temptation to Be Certain
Session 5. The Temptation to Make a Deal with the Devil
Session 6. Letting the Angels Care for You
THE CONFESSION OF BELHAR
Cynthia Holder Rich
Session 1. Belhar History and Being a Confessional Church
Session 2. Article 1: A Trinitarian and Ecclesiological Confession
Session 3. Article 2: Unity
Session 4. Article 3: Reconciliation
Session 5. Article 4: Justice
Session 6. Article 5: Benediction and the Role of Confessions
THE LORD’S PRAYER
Thomas W. Gillespie
Session 1. “Hallowed be thy name”
Session 2. “Thy kingdom come”
Session 3. “Thy will be done”
Session 4. “Give us this day our daily bread”
Session 5. “Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors”
Session 6. “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil”
THEOLOGY FOR PRESBYTERIANS
Donald K. McKim
Session 1. The Bible for Presbyterians
Session 2. God for Presbyterians
Session 3. Jesus Christ for Presbyterians
Session 4. The Holy Spirit for Presbyterians
Session 5. The Church for Presbyterians
Session 6. The Future for Presbyterians
WORSHIP AS EVANGELISM
LindaJo H. McKim
Session 1. Who Is Seeking and What Are They Looking For?
Session 2. Worship as Proclamation of the Good News
Session 3. Word and Sacrament
Session 4. Music, Music, Music
Session 5. That’s Entertainment?
Session 6. Contemporary Trends
THE PROPHETS STILL SPEAK
Patricia K. Tull
Session 1. Prophetic Calls
Session 2. Amos and Micah: Calling for Social Justice
Session 3. Isaiah of Jerusalem: Calling for Righteous Leaders
Session 4. Hosea and Jeremiah: Calling for Single-Minded Devotion
Session 5. Ezekiel and "Second" Isaiah: Calling for Chastened Hope
Session 6. "Third" Isaiah and Jonah: Calling Forth a Broader Vision
WISDOM FROM THE EARLY CHURCH
Rebecca Harden Weaver and Mary Charlotte Elia
Session 1. Forming the Christian Bible
Session 2. Decoding the Story
Session 3. Developing a Doctrine of God
Session 4. Confessing Christ
Session 5. Building the Church
Session 6. Shaping the Christian Life
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