**NOTE: This class was recorded on a conference microphone. We apologize for the audio quality.**

Join a community wide book study group of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sack’s Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence. Come explore the implications of the book of Genesis as set forth by a Jewish Rabbi! Rabbi Sacks offers a radical rereading of many of the Bible’s seminal stories of sibling rivalry: Cain and Abel, Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau, Joseph and his brothers, Rachel and Leah. 

The study is led by Pastor Pete Grassow and Father Larry Ort.

Connect with First United Methodist Brookings!

You can contribute to the mission and ministry of First United Methodist Brookings online! Donate at: https://bit.ly/Give2FUMC

Music used under CCLI # 936719, Streaming # CSPL040227 .

**NOTE: This class was recorded on a conference microphone. We apologize for the audio quality.**

Join a community wide book study group of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sack’s Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence. Come explore the implications of the book of Genesis as set forth by a Jewish Rabbi! Rabbi Sacks offers a radical rereading of many of the Bible’s seminal stories of sibling rivalry: Cain and Abel, Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau, Joseph and his brothers, Rachel and Leah. 

The study is led by Pastor Pete Grassow and Father Larry Ort.

Connect with First United Methodist Brookings!

You can contribute to the mission and ministry of First United Methodist Brookings online! Donate at: https://bit.ly/Give2FUMC

Music used under CCLI # 936719, Streaming # CSPL040227 .

**NOTE: This class was recorded on a conference microphone. We apologize for the audio quality.**

Join a community wide book study group of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sack’s Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence. Come explore the implications of the book of Genesis as set forth by a Jewish Rabbi! Rabbi Sacks offers a radical rereading of many of the Bible’s seminal stories of sibling rivalry: Cain and Abel, Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau, Joseph and his brothers, Rachel and Leah. 

The study is led by Pastor Pete Grassow and Father Larry Ort.

Connect with First United Methodist Brookings!

You can contribute to the mission and ministry of First United Methodist Brookings online! Donate at: https://bit.ly/Give2FUMC

Music used under CCLI # 936719, Streaming # CSPL040227 .

**NOTE: This class was recorded on a conference microphone. We apologize for the audio quality.**

Join a community wide book study group of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sack’s Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence. Come explore the implications of the book of Genesis as set forth by a Jewish Rabbi! Rabbi Sacks offers a radical rereading of many of the Bible’s seminal stories of sibling rivalry: Cain and Abel, Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau, Joseph and his brothers, Rachel and Leah. 

The study is led by Pastor Pete Grassow and Father Larry Ort.

Connect with First United Methodist Brookings!

You can contribute to the mission and ministry of First United Methodist Brookings online! Donate at: https://bit.ly/Give2FUMC

Music used under CCLI # 936719, Streaming # CSPL040227 .

**NOTE: This class was recorded on a conference microphone. We apologize for the audio quality.**

Join a community wide book study group of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sack’s Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence. Come explore the implications of the book of Genesis as set forth by a Jewish Rabbi! Rabbi Sacks offers a radical rereading of many of the Bible’s seminal stories of sibling rivalry: Cain and Abel, Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau, Joseph and his brothers, Rachel and Leah. 

The study is led by Pastor Pete Grassow and Father Larry Ort.

Connect with First United Methodist Brookings!

You can contribute to the mission and ministry of First United Methodist Brookings online! Donate at: https://bit.ly/Give2FUMC

Music used under CCLI # 936719, Streaming # CSPL040227 .

**NOTE: This class was recorded on a conference microphone. We apologize for the audio quality.**

Join a community wide book study group of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sack’s Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence. Come explore the implications of the book of Genesis as set forth by a Jewish Rabbi! Rabbi Sacks offers a radical rereading of many of the Bible’s seminal stories of sibling rivalry: Cain and Abel, Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau, Joseph and his brothers, Rachel and Leah. 

The study is led by Pastor Pete Grassow and Father Larry Ort.

Connect with First United Methodist Brookings!

You can contribute to the mission and ministry of First United Methodist Brookings online! Donate at: https://bit.ly/Give2FUMC

Music used under CCLI # 936719, Streaming # CSPL040227 .

**NOTE: This class was recorded on a conference microphone. We apologize for the audio quality.**

Join a community wide book study group of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sack’s Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence. Come explore the implications of the book of Genesis as set forth by a Jewish Rabbi! Rabbi Sacks offers a radical rereading of many of the Bible’s seminal stories of sibling rivalry: Cain and Abel, Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau, Joseph and his brothers, Rachel and Leah. 

The study is led by Pastor Pete Grassow and Father Larry Ort.

Connect with First United Methodist Brookings!

You can contribute to the mission and ministry of First United Methodist Brookings online! Donate at: https://bit.ly/Give2FUMC

Music used under CCLI # 936719, Streaming # CSPL040227 .

Join a community wide book study group of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sack’s Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence. Come explore the implications of the book of Genesis as set forth by a Jewish Rabbi! Rabbi Sacks offers a radical rereading of many of the Bible’s seminal stories of sibling rivalry: Cain and Abel, Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau, Joseph and his brothers, Rachel and Leah. 

The study is led by Pastor Pete Grassow and Father Larry Ort.

Connect with First United Methodist Brookings!

You can contribute to the mission and ministry of First United Methodist Brookings online! Donate at: https://bit.ly/Give2FUMC

Music used under CCLI # 936719, Streaming # CSPL040227 .

This teaching series deals with the issues of life and death. When it comes to death (and life) we have a choice: we can either allow our dying to creep up unnoticed until we fade away, or we can live life with purpose, and choose to die well. I have entitled this series Dying on Purpose, in the hope that this series will help us to think about death – and living life well.

This series will evoke differences of opinion. Not all Christians see these issues in the same way. These differences are the result of varying experiences in life, the way in which the Bible is read, and strongly held opinions. Our Methodist tradition has always made space for differences of opinion. Methodist founder, Rev John Wesley, urged tolerance of different opinions. He wrote: “Right opinion is at best but a slender part of religion…and frequently is not a part of religion at all”. I hope this series will teach us all how to “live and let live”.

Connect with First United Methodist Brookings!

You can contribute to the mission and ministry of First United Methodist Brookings online! Donate at: http://bit.ly/3kU1evN

Music used under CCLI # 936719, Streaming # CSPL040227 .

This teaching series deals with the issues of life and death. When it comes to death (and life) we have a choice: we can either allow our dying to creep up unnoticed until we fade away, or we can live life with purpose, and choose to die well. I have entitled this series Dying on Purpose, in the hope that this series will help us to think about death – and living life well.

This series will evoke differences of opinion. Not all Christians see these issues in the same way. These differences are the result of varying experiences in life, the way in which the Bible is read, and strongly held opinions. Our Methodist tradition has always made space for differences of opinion. Methodist founder, Rev John Wesley, urged tolerance of different opinions. He wrote: “Right opinion is at best but a slender part of religion…and frequently is not a part of religion at all”. I hope this series will teach us all how to “live and let live”.

Connect with First United Methodist Brookings!

You can contribute to the mission and ministry of First United Methodist Brookings online! Donate at: http://bit.ly/3kU1evN

Music used under CCLI # 936719, Streaming # CSPL040227 .