Title: Meaning?
May 9
Teacher: Charlie McMahan
Key Scripture: Ecclesiastes 12

Summary: Stephen Jay Gould, one of the world’s leading atheists, once said, “We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures…We may year for a higher answer for existence but none exists.” Is this true or is it not? And if it is, what meaning is there to life?
The Weekend in a Word or Two: Meaning

Title: Science?

May 2

Teacher: Erik Fleming

Key Scripture: Psalm 131

Summary: Does science have all the answers to life? Does science contradict faith? Albert Einstein said, “You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.”

The Weekend in a Word or Two: Science and faith

Title: Contradictions?
April 25
Teacher: Charlie McMahan
Key Scripture: Psalm 14
Summary: Is atheism logically consistent? Or is theism logically consistent?
The Weekend in a Word or Two: Contradictions

Title: Morality?

April 18

Teacher: Charlie McMahan

Key Scripture: Isaiah 5:20-21

Summary: Is there falsehood? If there is there has to be truth. Is there good? If there is there has to be evil. Is there happiness? If there is there has to be misery. Is there that which is ennobling? If there is there has to be that which demeans. Why are we as a culture so confused?

The Weekend in a Word or Two: Morality

Title: Pain?

April 11

Teacher: Laura Buffington

Key Scripture: Romans 5:1-5

Summary: Our generation struggles with the issue of pain and suffering more than any in history. How could a good God, a just God, a loving God allow such misery, pain and anguish to exist?

The Weekend in a Word or Two: Pain

Title: Hope?

April 4

Teacher: Charlie McMahan

Key Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:1-21

Summary: You cannot live without hope. But what if you go beyond having hope to being a source of hope?

The Weekend in a Word or Two: Hope

Title: Human?

March 28

Teacher: Laura Buffington

Key Scripture: Genesis 1:26

Summary: Is humanity simply a machine that responds mechanically to stimuli? Or are human beings made in the image of God, with an intrinsic dignity that is beyond the animal?

The Weekend in a Word or Two: God’s image

Title: Evil?
March 21
Teacher: Levi Crowley
Key Scripture: Ephesians 6:12-16
Summary: Aleksandr Solzenitsyn said, “It is considered awkward to use seriously such words as ‘good’ and ‘evil’…But if we are deprived of these concepts, what will be left? We will decline to the status of animals.”
The Weekend in a Word or Two: Evil and good

Title: Truth?

March 14

Teacher: Ryan Massey

Key Scripture: John 8:32

Summary: We are all seeking to discover what is true about God and life. As we do we must remember that truth is discovered, not invented.

The Weekend in a Word or Two: What is truth?

Title: Reality?

March 7

Teacher: Levi Crowley

Key Scripture: Genesis 1:1

Summary: “In the beginning, God…” More consequences for life follow the question of God’s existence than any other.

The Weekend in a Word or Two: What is reality?