tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37969214787229062882012-02-16T03:07:17.728-07:00This blog provides a schedule and summary of adult Christian education classes at St. Aidan's Episcopal Church.Kay Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04934192982403604783noreply@blogger.comBlogger371100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796921478722906288.post-11804769917455398432011-12-16T15:57:00.000-07:002011-12-16T15:57:55.129-07:00

Please join us after the 10:30am service as Prof. Doug Burger leads us in a discussion of Lewis's important work. It involves a bus ride to heaven with some fairly reluctant passengers. See you there.

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9:15 am Bible Study No Bible Study During Advent Hungry for Bible Study? Here are your opportunities: Wednesday 7am Eucharist Every Week! We are reading II Samuel Join us for the service followed by toast and coffee Men's Bible Study: Second Saturdays, 7:30 am Next Bible Study: Dec. 10  After the 10:30am Service   Images of Icons: Their History and Their Meaning

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Adult Formation This Sunday 9:15 am Bible Study Romans 14-16: God's Welcome, Our Response After 10:30am Service Forgiven and Forgiving Forgiveness Builds the Future, pp 57-73 Save the Date! Advent Quiet Day December 10, 2011 Little Church in the Pines For more info, contact M. Kay at kaycook@saintaidans.org

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 9:15am Romans 9-11: God Chooses All Who Call on God’s Name. After 10:30am service:  Forgiven & Forgiving: Some Practical Problems.

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9:15am:  Bible Study: Romans After 10:30 service: Forgiveness: Some Practical Problems Join us?

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 9:15 am: Romans 5-6 Freed From the Consequences of Sin After 10:30 am: Forgiven & Forgiving: Forgiving Others: Opportunity or Demand? Please click on the tabs above to see what we're discussing at 9:15am and after the 10:30 am service. Join us!

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 9:15 am: Romans 1-4 After 10:30 am: Forgiven & Forgiving: Self Forgiveness Please click on the tabs above to see what we're discuss at 9:15am and after the 10:30 am service. Join us!

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Companions on the Road: Reflection, Connection, Direction Guest Preacher and Presenter Alliee DeArmond Please join us as we wrap up our Walking in the Light weekend with a forum led by Alliee DeArmond, our weekend presenter and founder and owner of The Word Shop, a bookstore in Aptos, CA.

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Forgiving and Forgiven A Discussion Series based on the Book by Dr. L. William Countryman And Grounded in Scripture and God’s Love For Us Yes, we talk about forgiveness a lot in our church. We ask for forgiveness each Sunday. But for this series, let’s really talk about forgiveness.  Forgiveness starts with self-forgiveness. As Countryman has said, if you have

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9:15am Bible Study:   The Book of Romans We Begin Sept 11 No Bible experience?  Already know the Bible by heart?  Just want to make some friends? This adult education opportunity is for you! Take a Refreshing Plunge into the Bible When we Study Romans. Journey inside the pages of scripture and you’ll meet a personal God who enters individual lives and begins a creative work from the

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Before. during, and after our summer study of Romans 8, St. Aidan's Parishioners were recorded reading passages from this important and inspiring chapter.  When you listen, you'll agree--Romans 8 IS Great.

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My Peace I Leave You, My Peace I Give to You Writing Your Spiritual Last Will and Testament Jesus’s Last Will and Testament      John 15-18 are Jesus’s Last Will and Testament to his disciples.       My peace I leave to you, My peace I give to you.                                  John 14: 27 Workshop I —What spiritual legacy to you want to leave to those who love you?—How do you express to

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This Sunday, the 26, we will have our annual service of the Blessing of the Animals. For our adult education time together, we will look at Animal-Related resolutions from the Episcopal Church, including developing a liturgy for the loss of a companion animal. These resolutions will be available as handouts. We will also look at some liturgies and prayers for animals and have a discussion, ask

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Here is a summary of our discussion in Adult Ed on Sept 12. What does it mean? To live with sacred purpose? To be blessed, and to be among the blessed, among things, literally, that have been blessed? What does it mean to us? What are we seeking?Blessing: consecrating for sacred purposeOrBeing a channel for a sense of God’s love and grace, eg, blessing some person.Orblessing - benediction: a

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Fall Christian Education Series St. Aidan's ClassroomSundays, 9:15 amHow can we live more fully into the sacredness of our Christianity? How can we find the sacred in all that we do in our lives: in our profession, in our daily activities, in our planning for the future, in our families? How is our very living on this earth a sacrament in itself, or how can we work toward making it one? And

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April 11: Playing “52 Card Pick Up” with Our Ministries “We are called to be a school of redemption, a concert of testimony. God is calling us to let our boat be shaken. It is time for us to let go of those things that are not working .” Based on the sermon of February 7. . Our gospel was Luke 5: 1-11: God calls Peter to be a fisher of people. M. Mary Kate said that she had a dream that at our

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Straight Talk About the ChurchAdult Christian FormationClassroom: 9:15 amA Response to M. Mary Kate’s Sermons in the Month of February, 2010M. Mary Kate announced a series of sermons in February entitled “Straight Talk About the Church.” At that time, she said that we would have a chance to respond to and discuss those sermons in the future. And now that opportunity is upon us. Please join us for

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We will begin this Sunday with the handout from last Sunday. On March 14, we discussed the quotation that Troyanne sent. Her question was about the term "redemption," and what it means. What, in other words, does it mean to be redeemed, and how are we redeemed through our suffering? I'm not sure we came up with satisfactory answers, although we did spend time discussing the passage (see post for

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For March 14, I want to pick up where we left off last Sunday--and that was with the question of how? We agreed that words alone will not help us (as we read the scripture in which Jesus tells us not to worry about tomorrow because today has troubles of its own). One person mentioned prayer and community, and then I made a suggestion about group spiritual direction. Troyanne has posted an

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I am posting Anne Doyle's comment on this summary page of our session on March 7.  During our time together, we talked about ways that we emerge from agony into acceptance. I mentioned my friends whose son died las September. While I had offered to go see them then, they declined, saying: "We can't see anyone now. We will let you know when, if ever, that will change. I understood completely, even

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Here are the scripture readings we discussed on Sunday, as we looked at Christ's own agony in the Garden of Gethsemane. We discussed the meaning of the word agony--agonia, which in the Greek relates to a physical preparation for a coming event. For example, athletes before the Olympics exercised agonia in preparation for the athletic event the next day. How does this meaning of the word relate to

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This Sunday, Feb 14, we will move from the 1928 prayer that formed our series on carnal lusts to a look at Romans 12, Paul's statements about what it means to be one in the body of Christ. For the past three sessions, we have explored  what blocks us from this oneness, and this Sunday, we will look at, specifically, Romans 12: 5-8: Romans 12: 5-8  NRSV 5so we, who are many, are one body in Christ

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God punishes us best by giving us too much of what we want most.  J. Swift      Sunday's interesting discussion centered first on lust and then on greed, challenging and uncomfortable topics in our lives. We thought about lust in the ways it separates sex from love and how it manifests a certain giving into temptation that leads us to the immediate  fulfillment of bodily desires, such that the

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These interesting quotations are the source of Carol's research on carnal lust, especially gluttony,  according to prominent church leaders and theologians. “The scholastics take the lust of the flesh to mean [only] carnal lust. . . . I do not deny that the lust of the flesh includes carnal lust. But it takes in more. It takes in all the corrupt desires with which the believers are more or less

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     We began this provocative session by recalling the "Seven Deadlies" as expanded upon by Thomas Aquinas and Pope Gregory the Great (there are deadly sins outlined as early as the 4th century; Proverbs and Galations both outline "bad" behavior). Here's the list: gluttony, lust, greed, envy, avarice, sloth, pride. We also determined the characteristics of "venial sins," which can be forgiven

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Join us Jan 10 at 9:15 am as we explore the above provocative topic, focusing on the prayer from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer: Grant us the true circumcision of the spirit; that our hearts and all our members, being mortified from all worldly and carnal lusts, we may in all things obey thy blessed will (105). I will begin that session with a general discussion about the nature of resolutions,

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Lamentations 1: 1-5 Jeremiah 32: 23-27 This posting summarizes both the teaching series and the Advent quiet hour reflections on lamentations and on praying amidst chaos and destruction. We began by reading the first five verses of Lamentations, which begins: How lonely sits the city that once was full of people! How like a widow she has become, she that was great among the nations! She that was

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2 Samuel 7: 18-29 David's prayer begins: Then King David went in and sat before the Lord, and said, “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far? We discussed this prayer to God--not really dialogue, as we pointed out--looking at its pattern: of exuberant thanks, deference and humility, and ending with David's insistence that God fulfill his covenant with God's

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Hannah's prayer of thanksgiving for the birth of her child is a prayer for all of Israel and its future. Here is the NRSV of 1 Samuel 2: 1-10 We read this prayer aloud, each of us reading about 4 lines. The first two lines are: "My heart exults in the LORD   My strength is exalted in my God." We immediately saw the parallel and perhaps the source of the "Magnificat," Mary's prayer of

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On Advent I, November 30, we looked at Moses' bold prayers: Exodus 32: 11-13  But Moses implored the Lord his God, and said, ‘O Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians say, “It was with evil intent that he brought them out to kill them in the mountains, and to consume

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Praying Boldly: The Great Prayers of the Old Testament Advent Teaching Series on Sundays & Advent Meditation Hour on Mondays November 29 – December 21, 2009  “Prayer is a daring act,” says Walter Brueggeman.  As we read the great prayers of the Old Testament—those of Moses, Hannah, David, and Jeremiah—we will look at these prayers as daring dialogues (not monologues) with God that declare

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Notes for the Nov. 22 session will be published during the following week.

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      We actually continued our discussion of Narnia as we worked into a discussion of Tolkien and Lewis and The Lord of the Rings. We also continued to talk about the functions of fantasy.  Doug noted that Tolkien said the fantasy speaks to our heart's desire. By reading fantasy, we can see what people were yearning for during a certain era. In The Rings we see a yearning for being connected to

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     In this session, we continued talking about how fantasy can make the familiar unfamiliar and can therefore reveal to us certain truths that we have not seen before.  Specifically, looking at "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe," we looked at Aslan, Mr. Tumnus, and the White Witch. We also discussed the nature of evil seen here and in Dante. Here are some specifics: When Christ is

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Our November series on Christian fantasy began with a general discussion of how fantasy works to enliven and enrich a world whose symbols have become overly-familiar and therefore do not resonate with us, do not speak to our imaginative faculties that enable us to connect spiritually with God's creation. Doug Burger, our leader, mentioned Peter Beagle's The Last Unicorn and read a passage in

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Dear St. Aidan's Members: Check this blog for our latest Sunday morning Christian Education series. You will find a schedule of upcoming classes as well as summaries of past classes. You are invited to catch up with what we've been teaching and add comments or questions to our summaries of past teaching series. If you've missed a class, you can catch up here. If you can't attend the Sunday series

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Christian Formation in November 9:15 am Classrooms A & B Presented by Douglas Burger, Professor Emeritus, CU Department of English How can fantasy stories, ironically, give us a sharper sense of reality – including the amazing Realities of God? For four Sundays in November we will explore answers to this question. By looking at a range of fantastic narratives, but primarily C.S. Lewis’

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