Adult Education and Ministries

"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach  and admonish one another with wisdom."  Col 3:16

2011 Topics

What follows are sample topics for the 2010-2011 adult education program.



1. The Gospel According to John (This will be the main bible study book for one of the quarters)

2. Christian Faith’s Encounter with World Religions.

3. Islam: What every Christian should know.

4. What is the Emerging Church?

5. The Corinthian correspondence.

6. Hymns through the centuries.

7. Postmodernism and Christian Faith.

8. Christian Faith and Mental Health.

9. Difficult Conversations: How to talk when the stakes are high.

10. The Gospel According the Wal-Mart __A review of Best selling Christian books.

11. Issues in Biomedical ethics.

12. The art of living confrontation: Working with difficult people.

13. The Healthy Congregation __A family systems approach.

14. What’s Changing in LaGrange?

15. How to be a Welcoming Church.

16. Church meetings that matter: Energizing the committee meeting.

17. Tools for Bible Study.

18. How the Bible came to be?

19. Apoplectics: “The Case for Christ”

20. Celtic Spirituality: An Introduction.

21. The Peril and Promise of Midlife.

22. Interfaith Marriage.

23. The open Congregation: Churches that can learn and change.

24. What only Mainline Protestantism can give.

25. Connecting Faith and Daily Life.

26. Coaching in Spiritual Leadership.

27. Cultivating a Praying Congregation.

28. Prayer: Does it make a difference?

29. The American Teenager today.

30. Is Jesus the only Savior?

31. Chastity Revisited: Is the Christian vision of sexual ethics really dead?

32. Why men hate going to Church?

33. “Fatigue in America: Are we Dangerously tired?”

34. Apologetics: Defending the Faith today.

35. Faith Speaks to Depression, Anxiety and addiction

36. Singing the Lord’s Song: The Best of Today’s Christian music for home and car.

37. The Rule of Benedict today.

38. The Life of Martin Luther.

39. Celtic Christianity.

40. The Soul of leadership.

41. Stages of Faith

42. Becoming a Missional Church

43. Theology of Handel’s Messiah

44. Ten Commandments for today.

45. Leaving Church—Christianity outside the Church

46. What’s Amazing about Grace?

47. The Angry Christian.

48. What Christians Believe About the Bible?

49. Conversions—Stories of Famous People Coming to Faith

50. Depression and Anxiety

51. The Literature of Rabbi Harold Kushner

52. Contemporary Christian Music—a Listening Class

53. Renovation of the Heart—How God Changes People from the Inside Out

54. Will Our Children Have Faith—Christian Parenting

55.  Beating Burnout in Congregations

56. Becoming a Barnabas--Learning the Art of Christian Encouragement

57. Tell It Like It Is--Reclaiming the Practice of Testimony

58. Your Brain Goes to Church--Neuroscience and Congregational Life

59. A Praying Congregation: The Art of Teaching Spiritual Practice

60. Wisdom of Pixar--Christian principles in Pixar movies

61. Christianity Beyond Belief

62. ChurchNext--What the Church must do now

63. The Dangerous Act of Worship

64. Deep Church

65. The Folly of Prayer

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