Christ Presbyterian Church

John David Geib: "From Brat to Beatific: Stages on the Spiritual Journey - Session I"

A close look at the analogy made in the Christian Scriptures between the stages of human development and possible spiritual development. Stages such as new born, infant, adolescent, young adulthood and maturity are used by the apostles to describe analogically similar stages of spiritual development.

Tony Campolo: Red Letter Christianity

Dr. Tony Campolo preaches the sermon at Christ Presbyterian Church on September 30, 2012.

Dr. Tony Campolo - The Church in the City

Dr. Tony Compolo speaks on how to reach out to the community in the urban city. Find Dr. Campolo on the web at http://www.tonycampolo.org/. The video: The podcast:

II. Pastor David de Vries - Future Story

Discussion of Future Story at Christ Presbyterian Church and the inclusion of "Daily Grace" in our lives and Spiritual Gifts. Testimony of Terry Bate to deep spiritual value of daily reading and reflection on the scripture for the week. Know your spiritual story: "Go into all the world . . ." We are storytellers. What is your story?

Pastor David de Vries - Future Story: Daily Grace

Discussion of Future Story at Christ Presbyterian Church and the inclusion of "Daily Grace" in our lives.

Geib: The Dawn of Beyond Blessed Grace - Week VI

Venus and Jesus: A god-Designed Mythic Message for 2012? 1. Venus is cited as an analogy to Jesus or analogous to a Jesus-truth at Revelation 2:28, 22:16, 2 Pet. 1:19, alluding to Num. 24:17. 2. Google Venus and discover all you can about the role of Venus in 2012. 3. Try to synthesize the two realms of Scripture and Science about the role of Venus in 2012.

Geib: The Dawn of Beyond Blessed Grace - Week V

Paradoxes of The First and Second Man 1. Romans 5 and 1Corinthians 15 as many times a seems right, but add Luke 1-2. 2. Paradox, J.D. Geib (Note: Due to technical difficulties, there is a problem with the sound for the first five minutes or so of the class.)

Geib: The Dawn of Beyond Blessed Grace - Week IV

Paradoxes of the First and Second Man 1. Romans 5 and  Corinthians 15 as many times as seems right. 2. Paradox, J.D. Geib.

Geib: The Dawn of Beyond Blessed Grace - Week III

Grace and Beyond Blessed Grace 1. Read Romans 1-5 as many times as seems right.

Geib: The Dawn of Beyond Blessed Grace - Week II

"Myth Became Fact" from Paul, Tolkien and Lewis 1. Paul in Athens, Acts 17:16-34 2. "Myth became Fact", C.S. Lewis, in God in The Dock, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_in_the_Dock. 3. "On Farie Tales", J.R.R. Tolkien, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Fairy-Stories. Dr. John David Geib - The Logos Institute

Geib: The Dawn of Beyond Blessed Grace - Week I

A Journey from the Mythic Eleusian Mysteries and Plato's Cave To Jesus' Message about Wheat to The Greeks Voluntary Readings 1. John 12:20-33 2. After class, Google Eleusian Mysteries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elesinian_Mysteries or read about them. 3. Try to synthesize this Greco material with John 12:20-33. Dr. John David Geib - The Logos Institute

“Father, Forgive: Moonlight Sonata” - Andrew Hubsch Week V

"Early this Christmas morning, here under these ruins, in the lovely little stone chapel built 600 years ago, we began the day with our Christmas communion, worshiping the Christ, as joyfully as ever before. What we want to tell the world is this: that with Christ born again in our hearts today, we are trying, hard as it may be, to banish all thoughts of revenge. We are going to try to make a kinder, simpler, a more Christ-Child-like sort of world in the days beyond this strife." Provost R.T. Howard

“Father, Forgive: Our Bright Star is Cast” - Andrew Hubsch Week IV

“While my brother worked at his musical setting, I paced back and forth on the front porch, repeating the lines over and over to myself, going through all the agony and ecstasy of creating. As I worked through the opening and middle lines of the last stanza, I could not keep back the tears, and made no effort to do so. I was experiencing the transports of the poet’s ecstasy. Feverish ecstasy was followed by that contentment — that sense of serene joy — which makes artistic creation the most complete of all human experiences. When I had out the last stanza down on paper, I at once recognized the Kiplingesque touch in the two longer lines; but I knew that in the stanza the American Negro was, historically and spiritually, immanent; and I decided to let it stand as written.”

“Father, Forgive: Of Human Bondage Into the Lions’ Den” - Andrew Hubsch Week III

Abraham Lincoln “We are indeed going through a fiery trial. In the very responsible position in which I happen to be placed, being a humble instrument in the hands of our Heavenly Father, as I am, to work out His great purposes, I have desired that all my acts may be according to His will, and that it might be so I have sought His aid; but if, after endeavoring to do my best in the light which He affords me, I find my efforts fail, I must believe that for some purpose unknown to me He wills it otherwise. If I had had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way, this war would have been ended before this; but we find it still continues, and we must believe that He permits it for some wise purpose of His own, mysterious and unknown  to us; and though with our limited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.” — October 26, 1862

“Father, Forgive: Of Human Bondage Into the Lions’ Den” - Andrew Hubsch Week II

George Fox / William Edmundson: early Quakers ask, “Why then the Negroe?” Francis Daniel Pastorius / Gerhard Hendricks / Abraham Op den Graeff / Dirck Op den Graeff: in 1688, four Deutsch émigrés proclaim equality under God William Wilberforce: Britain’s pioneering abolitionist Invisible Children - KONY 2012 campaign: across the Internet comes a global appeal against injustice “We are against the traffick of men Body: Is there any that would be done or handled at this manner, to be sold or made a slave for all the time of his life? Most Negers are brought hither against their will & consent; many of them are stolen. Now, tho’ they are black, we cannot conceive there is more liberty to have them slaves, as it is to have other white ones. That we shall do to all men, like as we will be done our selves; making no difference of what generation, descent, or Colour they are. Here is liberty of Conscience, wch is right & reasonable; here ought to be likewise liberty of ye body, except of evildoers. But to bring men hither, or to rob and sell them against their will, we stand against. In Europe there are many oppressed for Conscience sake; and here there are those oppressed wch are of a black Colour.”

"Father, Forgive: Into the Lions' Den" - Andrew Hubsch Week I

Ho Feng-Shan: the Confucian Lutheran procures deliverance for all whom ask. Hugh Grimes, Fred Collard: the Anglican clerics disobey Canterbury to offer salvation to Jews. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: the shepherd risks life and limb to save his Augsburg flock, gone astray. Rufus M. Jones, D. Robert Yarnall, George Walton: the Quaker emissaries pray for a miracle inside the Gestapo's Berlin lair.

“The Bible as Literature and History” Week Four - Dr. Keith S. Lloyd

Dr. Keith S. Lloyd, Phd., a Kent State University professor of English leads the class in a discussion of the Bible as Literature and history.

“The Bible as Literature and History” Week Three - Dr. Keith S. Lloyd

Dr. Keith S. Lloyd, Phd., a Kent State University professor of English leads the class in a discussion of the Bible as Literature and history.

"The Bible as Literature and History" Week Two - Dr. Keith S. Lloyd

Dr. Keith S. Lloyd, Phd., a Kent State University professor of English leads the class in a discussion of the Bible as Literature and history.

“Knowing the Will of God” Week 4 - Dr. Greg Linville

This is the fourth of a four week series of classes on "Knowing the Will of God" taught by Dr. Greg Linville.

“Knowing the Will of God” Week 3 - Dr. Greg Linville

This is the Third of a four week series of classes on "Knowing the Will of God" taught by Dr. Greg Linville.

"Knowing the Will of God" Week 2 - Dr. Greg Linville

This is the second of a four week series of classes on "Knowing the Will of God" taught by Dr. Greg Linville.

"Knowing the Will of God" Week 1 - Dr. Greg Linville

This is the first of a four week series of classes on "Knowing the Will of God" taught by Dr. Greg Linville.