On-going Book & Bible Studies
New participants welcome!
(Listed in order of class starting dates)
Thursday Afternoon Book Study/
Fellowship for Women
Leader: Phyllis Bybee and Sylvia Forbes, St. Luke’s Members
Meets: Thursdays, 1-2:30PM, Parlor
Enjoy this mid-day opportunity to gather for conversation on topics of interest and concern.
George Vickery Men’s Discussion Group
Leader: Group Members
Meets: Wednesdays, 8AM, Shapiro’s
Discuss current events or the latest book of interest you have read!
Kent Millard’s Book Study
Leader: Dr. Kent Millard, St. Luke’s Lead Pastor
Meets: Wednesdays, 10-11:30AM, Spiritual Life Center
Join this group for a time of prayer and fellowship as well as the sharing of insights from the reading of books on various topics. Book selections will be announced in the bulletin.
Sunrise Book Study
Leaders: Ruth Morrison, St. Luke’s Member
& Betty Brandt, Director, Spiritual Life Center
Meets:Wednesdays, 6:30-8AM, Parlor
Start your day with friends, prayer, and a good book that stimulates discussion and personal enrichment.
Women’s Literature Group
Leaders: Members of the group
Meets: 2nd & 4th Tuesdays, 9:30-11:30AM, E100
Contact: Kim Bakle, 915-1669 or kbakle@insightbb.com.
An exciting book study open to women of all ages.Childcare
provided for those with young children.
Conversation Cafe
Leaders: Rev.Marion Miller, St.Luke’s Associate Pastor and
Barbara Birdwell, St.Luke’s Member
Meets: Wednesdays, Jan. 9-May 21, 9:30-11AM, E105
Books available in the Oasis Bookstore.
Feb. 20-March 12
A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah
This gripping story by a children's-rights advocate
recounts his experiences as a boy growing up in Sierra
Leone in the 1990s, during one of the most brutal and violent civil wars in recent history. Beah, a boy equally thrilled by causing mischief as by memorizing passages from Shakespeare and dance moves from hip-hop videos, was a typical precocious 12-year-old. But rebel forces destroyed his childhood innocence when they hit his village, driving him to leave his home and travel the arid
deserts and jungles of Africa.Anger and hate slowly faded away, and readers see the first glimmers of Beah's work as an advocate. This story is told in a conversational and accessible style.
March 26–April 30
The Transforming Power of Grace, by Thomas Oden
Thomas Oden, author of a three-volume systematic theology, here focuses on a careful examination of the doctrine of grace. Once again, he follows the method of presenting what he understands to be the ecumenical consensus of the church as particularly expressed in Scripture, the patristic writers, the medieval consensus, and classical Reformation theology. While he introduces this study as a contribution to Christian spiritual development,
he is quite clear that it is not the experience of
grace with which he is concerned but the description of God's grace in its manifold forms as presented in classical
theology.
