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"Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and
with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be
upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit
at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates."
We offer various options for adult Bible study outside of our normal Sunday School hour:
Men's Fraternity
Winning at Work & Home: Tuesdays at 6:00 am
for 90 minutes, resuming February 3, 2009. This study focuses on the two
areas that are central to a man's life: career and family. It will begin
to build the walls of manhood through study dealing with a man's chief
responsibilities. It explores how a man can enjoy and engage his work
and how he can relate to a woman in a whole new way.
Men, join us at any time to participate in the video & discussion following!
Visit the Men's Fraternity Study Page
for the title of all 16 lessons and more information on Men's Fraternity.
Women's Bible Studies
Our Bible study group is open to all ladies who have a hunger to learn more
about God and His Word, and wish to spend time in fellowship with other
women who are like-minded. You do not have to be a member of our church to join us.
Childcare is available during the morning sessions at an affordable cost to those that may need it.
"Esther - It's Tough Being a Woman!"
Tuesday evenings at 7:00 pm, beginning January 13, 2009.
Wednesday mornings at 9:00 am, beginning January 14, 2009.
"An in-depth and very personal examination of this great story of threat and
deliverance. She peels back the layers of history and shows how very contemporary
and applicable the story of Esther is to our lives. If you've ever felt inadequate,
threatened, or pushed into situations that seemed overpowering, this is the study
for you. Just as it was tough being a woman in Esther's day, it's tough today.
This portion of God's Word contains treasures to aid us in our hurried, harried,
and pressured lives."
Childcare is available at the Wednesday morning study.
Book Club
We meet once each month to discuss a Christian book that the group has read.
Next Meeting: January 8th, at 7:00 pm. "Levi's Will"
"In 1943, 19-year-old Will Mullet flees his pacifist Amish community of
Apple Creek, Ohio, leaving behind a pregnant girl and a rigid, God-fearing home
to find a new life. He enlists in the military, marries a southern belle and
tries to erase every trace of his past. But he can't completely disengage from
his roots, and nor, he belatedly discovers, does he want to. Levi, Will's father,
is slow to accept the prodigal son. Decades pass, and as Will's life and
relationship with his own children unfolds, "he begins to see that every
man's failure dips its roots into the previous generation and drops
its seeds into the next." Cramer shifts eras and narrative styles from chapter
to chapter, sometimes following Will's life in the 1940s as a young single man,
sometimes chronicling other decades leading up to and including the 1980s.
Readers may be challenged by such time jumps, as well as the novel's multiple
settings (Florida, Ohio, Europe) and numerous characters. Although it lacks
some of the passion of his previous novel, Bad Ground, this quiet follow-up
powerfully portrays the relationships between fathers and their children, the
bitterness of rejection and the redeeming power of friendship, faith and
forgiveness." —Publisher's Weekly
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