We live in an age of Tinder, Bruce Jenner, same-sex marriage, and hook-ups. Not to mention older challenges: divorce, cohabitation, and pornography. How has God’s re-creation of us in His image called us to a mind and life distinct in this corrupt world? Join us as we begin a new journey!
September 19/20: Friendship with God.
Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. (James 4:4 ESV)
September 26/27: The Body and Soul, One Whole.
And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. (Mark 9:43 ESV)
October 3/4: Marriage as Hard Work. (Special Guest Preacher: Rev. Dr. Gilbert Meilaender)
But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ (Mark 10:6 ESV)
October 5: Special Presentation: Tradition and Revision in Sexual Ethics
Learning from Christian tradition how to think about ourselves as sexual beings, we can better understand the distortions of our culture.
Rev. Dr. Gilbert Meilaender
Date: Monday, October 5
Time: 6:30 PM
Location:
St. John’s Lutheran Church
E5221 Church Rd.
Algoma, WI 54201
Gilbert Meilaender is the Richard and Phyllis Duesenberg Chair in Theological Ethics at Valparaiso University and the Paul Ramsey Fellow at the Center for Ethics and Culture at Notre Dame University. One of the nation’s preeminent bioethicists, Professor Meilaender has written extensively on the body, human identity, and the meaning of emerging technologies. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and, before coming to Valparaiso in 1996, taught at the University of Virginia (1976–78) and at Oberlin College (1978–96). Professor Meilaender is a Fellow of the Hastings Center and was a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics from 2002 to 2008.
October 10/11: Is Singleness Really Single?
The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord. (1 Corinthians 7:32 ESV)
October 17/18: Ribs and Fibs: Manhood and Womanhood in a Bruce Jenner World.
Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” (Genesis 2:23 ESV)
October 24/25: Bonding and Babies, Decency and the Divine: A Biblical Perspective on Sex.
Worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water. (Revelation 14:7 ESV)
October 31/November 1: We, Not They: Homosexuality and the Repentant Life of All Christians.
Our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. (1 John 1:3 ESV)
November 7/8: On Square Circles: What Should Christians Make of Same Sex Marriage?
We must obey God rather than men. (Acts 5:29 ESV)
November 14/15: It’s Not the End of the World: Wise Living in Confusing Times.
And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above. (Daniel 12:3 ESV)
November 21/22: A Refuge in the Wasteland: Healing Those Wounded by the Sexual Revolution.
Have mercy on those who doubt; save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh. (Jude 1:22-23)
St. John’s Lutheran Church
E5221 Church Rd.
Algoma, WI 54201
www.stjohnsalgoma.org
Services:
4:00 PM Saturday
9:00 AM Sunday
St. Peter’s Lutheran Church
322 W. Main St.
Forestville, WI 54213
www.saintpetersforestville.org
Service:
10:30 AM Sunday