St Andrew Presbyterian Church, Boulder, CO

A Congregation for Peace and Justice

Adult Life Issues Class, Winter 2010

Sunday, 9:30-10:20 a.m.

Community Room 28A (3rd floor at the east end of the Education Wing; elevator accessible)

Child care is provided during this time in our nursery.

STARTING JANUARY 3, 2010, "Exploring and Understanding the Presbyterian Book of Order" Understand how this church tradition makes decisions and discerns the will of God. Taught by multiple teachers from within and outside St. Andrew Church. Runs through January and February, 2010.

There will be no Life Issues class on December 27, 2009. The Class “Exploring and Understanding the Presbyterian Book of Order” is an exploration of the second part of the Constitution of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., The Book of Order. Copies of The Book of Order for 2009/2011 will be available at the first class for $9 each. If you have an older copy, that will suffice. Be sure to bring it with you; it might be interesting to note some of the recent changes. Class topics this month:

  • Jan. 3 – “The Great Ends of the Church”   introduced by Ted Floyd

  • Jan. 10 – “Presbyterians and Holy Scripture”   Ted Floyd

  • Jan. 17 – “The Question of Conscience”   Barbara Pickett and Ted Floyd

  • Jan. 24 – “Worship in Presbyterian Churches”   Ted Floyd

  • Jan. 31 –  “Session, Synods, and Such”   Ted Floyd


Bible Video Class

Sunday, 9:30-10:20 a.m.

Facilitators: Lew Sowell and Gerry Reeve

In the Parlor (east end upper level of Education wing)

Video presentations with discussion:

Jan 11   Constantine (from The History Channel, program with Noel Lenski)

Jan 18   The Age of Constantine, with author Noel Lenski

Jan 25   The first of a 24 week series, The Old Testament, presented by Dr. Amy Jill Levine (Professor of New Testament at Vanderbilt Divinity School, expert in feminist Biblical criticism, humorist, and Orthodox Jew)

January 25       In the Beginning

February 1       Adam and Eve

February 15    Murder, Flood, Dispersion

February 22    Abraham, Sarah and Hagar

March 1           Isaac

March 8          The Jacob Saga

March 15         Folklore Analysis and Type Scenes

March 22         Moses and Exodus

March 29         The God of Israel

April 5             Covenant and Law, Part 1

April 19           Covenant and Law, Part 2

April 26           The “Conquest”

May 3             The Book of Judges, Part 1

May 10           The Book of Judges, Part 2

May 17            Samuel and Saul

Sept. 20             King David

Sept. 27           From King Solomon to Preclassical Prophecy

October 4        The Prophets and the Fall of the North

October 11      The Southern Kingdom

October 18       Babylonian Exile

October 25       Restoration and Theocracy

November 1     Wisdom Literature

November 8     Life in the Diaspora

November 15   Apocalyptic Literature

This class with video material featuring Dr. Amy-Jill Levine continues into 2010. Check back for more titles.




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