Thursdays:  Beginning on September 20, 2007

"Young Adult Power Hour"

6:00 - 6:30 – Eat, Meet and Greet
6:30 - 7:30 – Bible Study in the Sanctuary
7:30 - 8:00 – Question/Answer

Topics Will Include: 

•  Finding Your Purpose 
•  Relationships 101 
•  Looking for love in all the wrong places 
•  Handling Your Sexuality 
•  Managing Stress 
•  Your Money & God 
•  Staying Saved on a Difficult Job

Wednesdays:  6:30 pm

"Being God's Man..."  How satisfied are you with your life?

Men are finding it tougher than ever to be content with what they have. They compare themselves with others and continually come up short. The soul-gnawing result is discouragement and disappointment.

Lasting contentment comes only from a transformation of your mind, emotions, and will. It also takes a personal encounter with the God who can make you content.

In Being God’s Man by Finding Contentment, you will track this struggle for a new identity through various biblical passages. Like Jacob, you will not be fully settled and content until you lay to rest your past and take up a new identity in Christ. Jacob became a new creature, a man on a mission for the Lord. His struggle was over. He knew why he was here and what he had to do. His life took on purpose and meaning that transcended the striving. Yours can, too.

Special Features:
·Practical studies facilitate personal encounters with God and other men
·Questions encourage genuine reflection and help build godly convictions
·“Real Life” case studies show how the truths you discover have worked out in other men’s lives
·“Standing Strong” section gives you the opportunity to form and express your action steps with God and your group

Stay tuned for class dates and times.

Breakout Churches is the Christian church version of Jim Collins' Good to Great. Ranier serves as the Dean of the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Church Growth at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is also the president of Church Central (www.churchcentral.com). 

 Ranier and his research team attempted to do research on 50,000 churches and were specifically looking for churches that had plateaued or been in a period of decline for several years but then began to grow rapidly under the same pastor. His opening line in the book is: "It is a sin to be good if God has called us to be great." (15). The book challenges the reader not to be satisfied with the status quo. Ranier defines his criteria in looking for Breakout Churches and like Collins in his research, compares the Breakout Churches with a set of comparison churches in order to find the differences. He weaves stories of the thirteen pastors he considers Breakout Church leaders throughout the book.

Stay tuned for class dates and times.

"If you don't like the way your life is going, redesign it. Redeem the years you lost. Restore your vision, revive your passion for living, and reclaim what was dormant inside of you. I cannot give you the dream but I can give you the tools to reach the dreams you have inside. I have seen what successful people do over and over again. I want to show you how to Reposition Yourself so you can do it, too. I have learned that minor adjustments make a big difference." -- T.D. Jakes

Please click on the book for more information and to download excerpts.

In his latest book, Reposition Yourself, bestselling author T.D. Jakes shares insights that will help readers adjust to the many changes that life brings. This is a shrill wake-up call to take charge of your life now. Not only does it confront areas where subtle passivity or even poor choices may have stifled the reader's creativity, but it also instructs how to manage change and maximize life now. Using wisdom collected from his more than thirty years of counseling and working with everyday and high-profile people, Jakes covers financial, relational, and spiritual creativity and shows how adapting to transitional moments in your life is the path to an enriched existence filled with contentment at every stage.

Reposition Yourself offers reality-based plans for those seeking to make the years ahead even more productive. Jakes accepts the inevitability of change, teaching how to embrace and expect it rather than fear it. Mixing both sacred and secular insights, he shares a unique blend of practical and pragmatic steps coupled with the sage wisdom of Scripture for which he is noted.