To bring us to the heart of God, we hear from Egyptian immigrant and New Lifer Emil Ibrahim. We'll look at further Biblical Foundations, Perspective from an Immigrant/Refugee, Experiences with ME Friends group, and do Question & Response.

In this first week of class, Pastor Evan helps us think through the need for learning 'how' to read the Bible. For once we know how to read, and what we should be looking for, we can learn to see what the authors were trying to tell us in the first place. Ezra/Nehemiah are a great place to start, as they are either great leaders who build-or horrible leaders who cause divorce and beat the people of Israel. Hermeneutics help us figure out what to look for in their story.

This is the final week of a 5-week Sunday School series on "Philosophy and Christian Thought." We began this session by reviewing the nature of philosophy and its relationship to Christian thought, including the ways that philosophy can be dangerous for the Christian and how it can be beneficial. We then examined the account of the Apostle Paul's interaction with the Stoic and Epicurean philosophers at Mars Hill, recorded in Acts 17. After considering the historical and philosophical background of this passage, we derived some general principles about how Christians should engage with the philosophies and philosophers of our own day based on the example set by Paul in this "case study." We concluded by briefly discussing some resources for further study on the themes of this series.

This is week 4 in a 5-week Sunday School series on "Philosophy and Christian Thought." This week, we discuss competing views of happiness including the subjective view, the eudaimonistic view, and the biblical view. We then consider the currently popular view that people have a right to be happy and surveyed some philosophical and theological reasons to reject it.

This is week 3 in a 5-week Sunday School series on "Philosophy and Christian Thought." This week, we discussed the popular views of moral and religious skepticism, which hold that knowledge of moral and religious truths is not possible. We considered some of the philosophical roots of current moral and religious skepticism, as well as some objections to the views. We concluded by discussing the philosophical and Scriptural support for the view that knowledge of morality and God is possible and, in conversation with C.S. Lewis, we considered the role that emotions might play in helping us to gain such knowledge.

This is week 2 in a 5-week Sunday School series on "Philosophy And Christian Thought."

In our first week, we introduced philosophy as a discipline. We pointed out ways philosophy can be dangerous and beneficial for the Christian.

*Week 1 podcast is unavailable due to technical difficulties.

In week 2, we discussed the nature of knowledge and truth and several popular views of moral and spiritual knowledge. Then, we considered objections to one popular view - moral relativism. Next week, we will continue our discussion on this theme and on the question of happiness.

Bobby Mikulas wraps up this semester of Sunday school with Part 2 of an engaging discussion of how we are to evangelize.

This 1st of 2 weeks of Evangelism Sunday School find us wrestling through the notion of "What is Evangelism-and how am I supposed to go about it?". Bobby Mikulas presents us with the question "If God's love casts out fear, then why would we ever think of evangelizing through fear and shame?". The truth is: We are all invited guests to the table through God's love and grace, and our brokenness is what we all share in common. Let's start on common ground, and evangelize from there.

Glenn Paauw joins us to conclude his month on The Bible: Game Change. We're invited to see the Bible not as a 'Bible Verse-McNuggets', but a banquet feast from God. And on this final week we not only see the story, but as a drama! A drama that we are called to be characters in. A drama that comes alive when we learn to improvise with God and continue the next chapter!

Dr. Todd wraps up his module on coaching us how to minister in a naturally supernatural way. Steven notes that prayer, including prayer for healing, needs to be done in a non-manipulative way that relies on the Father. We also are called to understand our prayers in the context that the gifts are given for the common good.