Connect UNIVERSITY
Connect University is a fantastic opportunity for all of us to grow deeper in our faith and improve our overall well-being. Classes will be held Wednesdays at 6:30 PM. Invite your friends, family, and neighbors, and check out our class options below.
WEDNESDAYS AT 6:30PM
CLASSES BEGINNING AUGUST 27
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Emotionally Healthy Leadership
Led by Pastor Scott Moore
Becoming a Better Leader Starts with a Transformed Inner Life
Do you feel too overwhelmed to enjoy life, unable to sort out the demands on your time? Are you doing your best work as a leader, yet not making an impact? Have you ever felt stuck, powerless to change your environment?
In The Emotionally Healthy Leader, bestselling author Peter Scazzero shows leaders how to develop a deep, inner life with Christ, examining its profound implications for surviving stress, planning and decision making, building teams, creating healthy culture, influencing others, and much more.
Going beyond simply offering a quick fix or new technique, The Emotionally Healthy Leader gets to the core, beneath-the-surface issues of uniquely Christian leadership. This book is more than just a book you will read; it is a resource you will come back to over and over again.
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Rethinking Holiness
Led by Doug Dawson
Holiness is experiencing a renaissance both within and beyond the church today. Based on years of conversations with students, this approachable theological introduction to the Christian doctrine of holiness challenges the commonly held idea that holiness is primarily a moral category. The author explains that holiness is grounded not in ethics but in the basic nature of God; it is essentially and exclusively a divine property. The book highlights the Bible's necessary and corrective role in defining holiness and shows how individual holiness is grounded in the community that is the church catholic.
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Perfectly Imperfect: Character Sketches from the Old Testament
Led by Jim Styers
How can someone be perfectly imperfect? Isn't that a contradiction? The Bible is filled with stories of people with all kinds of flaws and imperfections. The astounding thing is what happens when God changes their lives.Perfectly Imperfect is about people whose true-to-life stories are found in the Old Testament. They are like us in many ways--confused, tempted, and often afraid. They are flawed, real people, but then God enters their lives and everything changes.Through the examples of Abraham, Moses, Rahab, and many others, we learn how God works with us. We discover something about the way God transforms us from what we are into what we can be. In these sometimes tragic and broken lives, we get a glimpse of how God renews us and remakes us into people who are perfectly imperfect.
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How Christians Grow (ESL)
Led by Elizabeth Conrad
How Christians Grow is an easy-to-understand course in discipleship written in simple English, specifically designed for people learning English as a second language. Students will learn how they can grow in their faith through: Bible Study, Prayer, Tithing, Service, Witnessing, Obedience, Fellowship, Worship, and more! How Christians Grow also includes teaching resources, such as: Word lists at the end of each chapter with vocabulary words defined, Fill-in-the-blank exercises for students in each chapter, Answers to questions, and additional scripture references.