Church Membership Class 6: The Task and Activities of the Church

Church Membership Class 6: The Task and Activities of the Church

Unfortunately, new batteries didn't solve the problem...still gave out after about 10 minutes... :-/

Church Membership Class 5: Tasks and Activities of the Church

Unfortunately, the battery on the recorder died and so the whole lesson wasn't recorded...

Economics in Biblical Perspective - Why Do Some People Prosper? (2)

With a nod to Thomas Sowell and his book, "Wealth, Poverty, and Politics"

God and Government 3 - Christians and the Political Order: Accommodation?

There are essentially four views regarding the proper way Christians should think about their interaction with the political order: separation, accommodation, bifurcation, and transformation. In our first lesson, we discussed the principle of separation and showed that it rests on a faulty understanding of Scripture. In this lesson we discuss the principle of accommodation. This could also be called the way of adaptation or compromise. This is a perennial temptation for the people of God, to adapt the faith to the norms of their own culture.

The Electoral College: An Explanation and Defense

This lesson was given during the Pastor's Sunday School class. "The Electoral College is the procedural mechanism which the United States Constitution establishes for filling the office of president. In recent years, it has increasingly become a matter of controversy. Many on the political left are calling for it to be abolished... My objectives today are to (1) explain how the electoral college system works, (2) explain the Framers’ rationale for the system, and (3) defend the system against calls to abolish it..." You can access the lesson PowerPoint here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rkRn4axeAz3bBJtQG3VXP_U7oqmnA2cO/view [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rkRn4axeAz3bBJtQG3VXP_U7oqmnA2cO/view]