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West Side Presbyterian Church
Seattle,
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Adult Ministry > Sunday AM Forum
Adult Forum
All are welcome to join in. Classes are held on Sundays from 9:40 -
10:40am
(between worship services).
(Click here for list of
Sunday School staff, teachers, helpers and class locations for 2 yr olds through
high school.)
Winter Quarter Classes
9:40 WINTER QUARTER ADULT CLASSES
begins
January 8, 2012
- ESSENTIALS OF MARRIAGE
Bryan and Janet Jones
See your marriage through God’s eyes! This Focus on the Family video series is hosted by popular counselor and author Dr. Greg Smalley, and features a number of top marriage mentors such as John Trent, Les and Leslie Parrott, Gary and Barb Rosberg, Juli Slatterly, Archibald Hart, Gary Thomas and others. The first six-week series, sub-titled Who Did You Really Marry? reveals how even opposites can get along, communicate, and resolve differences, and explains the five “love languages” that bring couples closer. The second series, Handle with Care, spells out strategies for dealing with the biggest threats couples face today–including anger, depression, intimacy and financial battles.
- GOD AND SCIENCE
Ron Rice, Ryan Avery, and Pat Nealson
Utilizing videos by Reasons to Believe and astrophysicist Hugh Ross, this class will explore whether the latest scientific evidence supports the Christian worldview and the Bible as God’s revelation to humanity. Stephen Hawking in a “Brief History of Time” questioned the need for all the other galaxies in the universe, and the New Atheists question how a personal loving God could exist when the universe is so messed up and there is so much pain and suffering. Dr. Ross answers in Why the Universe Is the Way It Is, “For God so loved the world that He created 50 billion trillion stars plus a hundred times more stuff so that we could have one ‘pale blue dot’ on which to live and enjoy life.” Come and learn why the universe is so vast, why it took to so long to bring humans on the scene, why God allows decay and death to be part of it, and why God let one man and one woman ruin everything.
- WHY PRESBYTERIAN?
Bryan Burton
More so than ever people are asking the question “Why Presbyterian?”, especially evangelicals within the PCUSA like us at West Side. So over the six Sundays from January 8 to February 12 we will explore the answers to this question. We will seek to understand the history, theology, worship, mission and polity of the Presbyterian Church USA from its humble beginnings in Switzerland, Scotland, England, and the colonies of what became the USA to its global presence today.
Handouts:
January 8 - Intro to Presbyterianism and A Brief History
January 15 & 22 - What Do Presbyterians Believe and Why? #1
January 29 - What Makes our Worship Presbyterian?
- WHY JESUS CHRIST?
Bryan Burton
Beginning February 19, the class will seek to renew the meaning of Jesus Christ for those who already know Him and have placed their faith in Him as well as those who are seeking and/or may have questions about who Jesus really is and why He matters. Jesus Christ remains one of the most engaging figures in human history and is the central reality for the billions of people who call themselves Christian. During Lent, when the ancient church sought to instruct new converts in Christianity and prepare all Christian people to celebrate Easter well, we will focus our attention on who Jesus Christ is, was and will be by focusing on His person and His work as well as His teaching and its meaning for us today.
View 2011 class list