SPRING 2008 COURSE SCHEDULE

To register, contact Melissa at

mkennedy@stlukescathedral.org,

or

complete the registration form online

or

call 407.849.0680

 

Be sure to provide the following information:

-Name -Daytime number - Email address

-Course you’re registering for

-Names and ages of children if childcare is needed

-RSVP for Wednesday dinners

 

 

Be Still….Learning the Basics of Contemplative Prayer

 

In our hectic lives, we need to learn to be still and take time to reconnect with God. This 5 week class will help you learn about and experience the peace and power of contemplative prayer which will transform your heart and renew your spirit, enabling you to hear God’s voice amidst the noise of every day life. Our time together will include DVD messages from Max Lucado, Richard Foster, Beth Moore, Dallas Willard and others giving their perspectives and personal thoughts about these important practices. Facilitated by Deacon Carolyn Petersen.

·         Books available at Book Store

·         Wednesdays, 7:00 p.m.

 

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Beth Moore Women’s Bible Study: “Stepping Up: A Journey Through the Psalms of Ascent”

 

This is a 7 week detailed study of

Psalms 120–134.  Just as a song or poem can express feelings of fear, doubt, hope, and joy, these 15 Psalms model how study participants can voice their own petitions and praises to our God, who is always available and ready to hear us. We will explore the background of each psalm and psalmist, the majority of which were written by David.  

·         Books available at Lifeway.com for $12.95

·         Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

 

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Beginning Spanish

 

This no-cost 10 week course is for beginners with little or no prior formal instruction in the language. Along with basic grammar and pronunciation, the emphasis will be in developing conversational skills.

·         Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.

 

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Crown Ministries

 

This 10 week course will give you the chance to get to know Christ more intimately, learn true financial freedom through God’s principles, and learn to manage your money and help to fund the Great Commission. This is an in-depth study of what Scripture teaches about money and possessions. Graduates have confirmed that marriages are being strengthened, and individuals are finding their way out of debt. They are becoming consistent savers, generous givers and prudent consumers. Most importantly, people are entering into a closer relationship with Jesus Christ as they learn to apply His Word. To register for the class or for more information contact Chip or Holly Vanture, (407) 240-7115 or hvanture@cfl.rr.com.

 

·         $45 for individuals and $55 for couples.

·         Wednesdays, 6:45 p.m. - 8:50 p.m.

 

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Practical Christian Living

 

This is a course used in groups around the city that meet in the workplace, through Priority Associates (part of Campus Crusade for Christ) and will help you grow in your love for God and for others through Bible study, sharing and prayer. It provides an environment where you will be able to grow spiritually and learn how to live the Christian life by God’s power, how to develop your personal devotional life, and how to love others as God intended. You will interact with class members and there will be assignments applying what you have learned.

 

·         $10 per individual

·         Wednesdays, 7:00 p.m.

 

Quiet Strength by Tony Dungy: Men’s Bible Study

 

“It’s never been harder to be a man...or more confusing. That’s because no one is quite sure how to do it.” Join Dean Clark  for this class which takes you on “...a seven week journey to becoming a genuine man of God.”

 

·         Books available at Book Store

·         Wednesdays, 7:00 p.m.

 

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Spiritual Gifts Workshop

 

This one day course features an in-depth emphasis on the Biblical background and meaning of the gifts and a segment on “The Gospel of the Holy Spirit.” We will use the Haugk Spiritual Gifts Inventory for identifying spiritual gifts. If you have already taken Spiritual Gifts, there are new materials for you to consider, and you may benefit to see how your Spiritual Gifts Profile has evolved.

 

·         $10 for materials

·         Date and time to be announced

 

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Finding Your Story With God

 

This 14 week course is based on the book, To Be Told (Know your story, Shape your future) By Dan Allender, PhD. Everyone wants clearer guidance from God on what to do with their future. Through reading and discussing this book, one can learn to listen to the stories of their lives and begin to identify the themes that God has written there. To grow in faith and purpose we must look at both our hope and our heartache. By reading and discussing this book the hope is to see how God has worked in our lives through the brokenness and the joy. By better understanding our stories so far we can then begin to coauthor the rest of our stories with God.

 

·         Books available at Book Store

·         Wednesdays, 7:00 p.m.

 

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Vice and Virtue In An Age Of Moral Confusion  

 

“Excellence, then, being of two kinds, intellectual and moral, intellectual excellence in the main owes both its birth and its growth to teaching, while moral excellence comes about as a result of habit . . . excellences we get by first exercising them... men become builders by building and lyre-players by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.” , Nicomachean Ethics. In this 9 week course, led by Dr. Sandy Seay, we will examine “vice and virtue in an age of moral confusion” and, as our text, we will use Steering Through Chaos, by Dr. Os Guiness.  This book approaches various questions of morals and ethics from the standpoint of the classic Seven Deadly Sins, and presents arguments from the great thinkers of antiquity and onward.  We will have a 9 week course. The first week will be an introduction followed by a discussion of one Deadly Sin per week, with the final week reserved for observation and reflection on the material.

 

·         Books available at Book Store

·         Wednesdays, 7:00 p.m.

 

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Walking the Mourner’s Path

 

This is an 8 week Christ-centered support group for Christians who have experienced the death of a loved one. It is meant especially for those who have gotten past the first three to six months of loss  and are now trying to return to “normal” life orthose still grieving after loss after 20 years. The group commits to an eight week closed-session format, under the guidance of two facilitators. During the sessions they learn about the natural grief process and share their personal grief stories. At the end of the eight weeks they join in a Eucharistic celebration remembering their loved one and expressing their hope for the future centered in Jesus.

·         Cost to be announced

·         Date and time to be announced

 

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