Classes Offered September 2009
Return to the Garden: Embracing God's Design for Sexuality
Instructor: Debbie Livingston
Class Description: Daily we're confronted with messages that say "Sex sizzles, sex outside of marriage is okay, everybody's doing it, nobody will ever know!" How's a woman to live? From the beginning of time, our sexuality and distinctiveness has been front and center with God. We are designer goods, designed by God, no less! And when it comes to purity and sexuality, God has much to say to us. This six week session by popular Christian author, Kay Arthur, will help married women make appropriate commitments to God and to their husbands and single women accomplish God's purpose for them in their singleness. This class will provide a safe time and place to talk about this deeply personal subject. Don't be shy or embarrassed to come- this is God's timely lessons for women, whether married, divorced, widowed, single, mother or daughter. (6 weeks)
Classroom: 58 - Class Times: Wednesdays 6:00 pm, begins September 16th
Revolutionary Parenting – By George Barna
Instructor: Doug and Debbie Miller
Class Description: The Revolution is underway, but in this new era, how can parents make a lasting impact in the spiritual lives of their children? To find the answer, George Barna researched the lives of thriving adult Christians and discovered the essential steps their parents took to shape their spiritual lives in childhood. He also learned surprising truths about which popular parenting tactics just aren't working. Revolutionary Parenting goes beyond youth group and Sunday school and shows parents how to instill in their children a vibrant commitment to Christ.
Classroom: 73 - Class Times: Sundays 4:30 pm, begins September 13th
Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University
Instructor: Dan Case
Class Description: Financial Peace University is a 13 week program that encourages positive behavior with accountability and support. Personal finance is 80% behavior and only 20% head knowledge.
• Teaches financial responsibility with easy ‘baby steps’.
• Helps eliminate debt using the Debt Snowball method
• Offers accountability and continued support with life-time membership
• Trains participants to spend every dollar on paper with the zero-based budget planner
• Empowers people struggling with financial hardships by establishing a plan to take control of their finances. (13 weeks) There is a fee of $90 for materials for this class.
Classroom: 50 - Class Times: Wednesdays 6:00 – 8:00 pm, limit 10 couples, begins September 16th
The Way of the Master –Evangelism Training Course
Instructor: Ken Weiler
Class Description: Based on the award-winning TV series "The Way of the Master," this course is designed to equip believers in a group setting to simply and confidently share the gospel with family, friends, and strangers. This video based class will cover the basics of how to share your faith Biblically, like Jesus did, as well as topics such as “what is the Gospel”, true and false conversion, how to witness to family members, and how to use Gospel tracts. Every Christian must equip themselves to share their faith. This class will show you how to do that by following the Way of the Master, Jesus Christ. Learn to share your faith the way that Jesus did. Think of that person you love and do this for them. Are you ready? We'll do it together. Let's get started. Even if you have already taken this course in the past, consider taking it again to refresh your skills. (9 weeks)
Classroom: 74 - Class Times: Sundays 3:00 – 4:30 pm, begins September 13th
(This time slot is designed to allow you to take this class at 3:00 and another class at 4:30 pm)
The Truth Project
Instructor: Stan Perovich
Class Description: In a recent study, the Barna Research Group revealed a stunning statistic that continues to reverberate throughout the evangelical world. Only 9 percent of professing Christians have a biblical worldview. Because of this, today's believers live very similarly to non-believers. A personal sense of significance is rarely experienced, we spend our money and time on things that fail to satisfy and we begin to wonder what life's ultimate purpose really is. We are, in short, losing our bearings as a people and a nation. This study is the starting point for looking at life from a biblical perspective. Each lesson discusses in great detail the relevance and importance of living the Christian worldview in daily life. (12 weeks)
Classroom: 206 - Class Times: Wednesdays 6:15 pm, begins September 16th
The Holiness of God – by RC Sproul
Instructor: Jake Taggart
Class Description: This is perhaps the most important class we are offering this semester. Deemed a modern classic, The Holiness of God stands as Dr. R.C. Sproul’s theological masterwork, and has been likened to CS Lewis’s Mere Christianity in terms of its generational significance. Through biblical exposition and practical illustration, The Holiness of God study will impress upon participants the biblical picture of God's all-consuming holiness and why it is so foundational to God-centered, God-honoring theology and Christian living. Upon completing this study of the fundamental understanding of “who God is”, participants will then be equipped to take the follow-up study offered the next semester called A Shattered Image, which examines “who man is”. (7 weeks)
Classroom: 204 - Class Times: Wednesdays 6:15 pm, begins September 16th
The Authority of Scripture
Instructor: Mike Miller
Class Description: The Bible --we hear it preached from our pulpit, we study it in our Sunday school in Friendship Bible Studies, we gather together in homes to study it and in Master's classes at Concord. We hold it as our authority. What makes it unique? How and why did God give us his amazing testimony? This study will build your faith in our Lord's word so that you can "hold fast the word of life” (5 weeks)
Classroom: 71 - Class Times: Sundays 4:30 pm, begins September 13th
Sharing Your Faith with Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Instructor: Tim Martinie
Class Description: This class will teach you how to share in love and the Do's and Don'ts when sharing your faith with a member of the LDS or (Mormon) faith. (6 weeks)
Classroom: 75 - Class Times: Sundays 4:30 pm, begins October 18 (after “The Authority of Scripture” class (above) completes. Consider taking both classes!)
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
Instructor: Bruce Morrison
Class Description: This video-based class will explore how John C. Maxwell has combined insights learned from his thirty-plus years of leadership successes and mistakes with observations from the worlds of business, politics, sports, religion, and military conflict to distill this vast arena experience into a handful of life-changing principles you can apply to your everyday life. We will discover why Henry Ford nearly sent his own company into bankruptcy; why Coca-Cola’s stock held strong even when its CEO suddenly died; how an unknown pastor in a developing country grew the size of his church from 700 to 14,000 people in seven years; and why The Law of the Lid is the most important leadership principle you will ever learn. All of these issues and many others are explained in The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. These laws (or principles) govern your personal and organizational life. If you are a leader of others in the workplace, a volunteer leader in church, or in your own family – This class is for you!
Classroom: 74 - Class Times: Sundays 4:30 – 5:45 pm, begins September 13th
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