Christian Education Classes

 

Sunday School @ 10:30 a.m.

March 7, 2010: Today, the Sunday School classes learned about Jesus’ miracle of feeding 5,000 hungry people (John 6:1–14). They learned that in His love, God promises to care for all our physical and spiritual needs and gives us the greatest treasure—His Son and the gifts of forgiveness, life, and salvation. As a family, talk about the many ways that God has provided for both your physical and spiritual needs. In the catechism, look at the explanation to the First Article of the Apostles’ Creed.

March 14, 2010: The key point of today’s Sunday School lesson was that, in our sin, we are lost from God and doomed to die, but God, in His love, sought and found us and keeps us with Him forever. The Bible story was about Jesus seeking the lost as recorded by St. Luke (Luke 15). In your family discussions, talk about how God keeps us through the work of the Holy Spirit in the Word and the Sacraments. In the catechism, review the explanation to the Third Article of the Apostles’ Creed. How does this fit with the Bible story?

March 21, 2010: In today’s Sunday School lesson the children learned how in faith, a sinful woman lovingly anointed Jesus’ feet. They also learned how in faith we grasp God’s free mercy, receive the forgiveness of sins, and respond with acts of love and praise. As a family, consider ways that you might respond to God’s mercy. Ask your children what sins God will forgive (all of them!), and in your catechism review, look at the section about the Confession of Sins.

March 28, 2010: The key point of Sunday School today was that Jesus is our Passover Lamb, who with His very body and blood grants us forgiveness, life, and salvation. The children learned about the Last Supper, the Lord’s Supper (Luke 22:1–23). In your family discussions, talk about the benefits and blessings that we receive in the Lord’s Supper. Talk about and remind the children that such benefits are theirs through their Baptism, in Holy Absolution (the forgiveness of God spoken by the Pastor), and through God’s Word, which is preached and taught to them. In the catechism, review the Lord’s Supper.

 

 

Sunday Morning Adult Bible Class

Revelation for Lent - 10:30 a.m.

We are studing the letters to the seven churches in Revelation 2 and 3.

 

Monday Morning Adult Bible Class

Class will resume on Monday, April 19, 2010

 

Youth Bible Class - Sunday Mornings

 

We meet at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday morning. On the second Sunday of each month we take the class on the road. We will meet at McDonalds or Subway as we study our lessons. Friends are always welcome to join us.

 

Confirmation Classes - 6, 7 and 8 Grades

Class:  Wednesdays @ 6:00 p.m.

6th and 7th Grade: Memory Work and 2009-2010 Schedule

8th Grade: 2009-2010 Schedule and Memory Work

 

 

Wednesday Bible Class

Class will resume after Easter. We have a group that is attending the Dea Sea Lectures at Concordia University in St. Paul, MN.

 

Dead Sea Scroll Lectures

”The Archaeology of Khirbet Qumran” by Dr. Mark Schuler

Concordia, St. Paul, St. Paul, MN (Concordia's Graebner Memorial Chapel)

Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 7:30 p.m.

Cost: Free

Dr. Mark Schuler, professor of theology and Greek at Concordia, delves into the place where the first Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. About one mile west of the Dead Sea and nine miles south of Jericho is Khirbet Qumran, ruins and a cemetery located on a low plateau between the rock cliff and the plain; the first scrolls were discovered in a cave half a mile north of this site. Was G. Lankester Harding correct when he wrote in 1952, "It would appear, then, that the people who lived at Khirbet Qumran deposited the scrolls in the cave, probably about A.D. 70"? Are the ruins a monastic site of the community written about in the Scrolls? If so, what does archaeology tell us about the community and its relation to the Scrolls?

If you are interested in attending, contact Mark Bauer. A group from the church will be leaving ~6:00 p.m. from Mt. Moriah on March 18.