Spiritually Empowered for Living: Themes From Ephesians - A Vision for Unity transcript

Spiritually Empowered for Living: Themes From Ephesians - A Vision for Unity

Lecture given Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 8:30 AM at Abilene Christian University: "This class brings a textual study of Ephesians, paying particular attention to the role of the Holy Spirit in the life of the church. Paul's vision for the body of Christ, and life lived "in Christ" in first century Ephesians, necessitates rethinking our own calling and cultural context."
Date: February 19, 2002
Creator: York, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Breathing New Life Into Communion - More Than a Funeral transcript

Breathing New Life Into Communion - More Than a Funeral

Lecture given Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 8:30 AM at Abilene Christian University: "Some churches complain that the Lord's Supper has become a ritual, while others see it as a barrier to reaching seekers. There are ways to move the Supper from the periphery to the center of our assemblies and to integrate it with the teaching theme of the day. Come explore the options."
Date: February 19, 2002
Creator: Sandifer, Stephen
System: The Portal to Texas History
Finding Faith, Spirituality and God: A Primer for Daily Living - Finding Spirituality in the Daily Moments of Life transcript

Finding Faith, Spirituality and God: A Primer for Daily Living - Finding Spirituality in the Daily Moments of Life

Lecture given Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 2:00 PM at Abilene Christian University: "This is a practical applications class designed to help you find daily spirituality. It will help the learner develop a godly world-view to live by."
Date: February 19, 2002
Creator: Clark, Peter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Portraits of Restoration Spirituality - Re-discovering Our 19th Century Spiritual Heritage transcript

Portraits of Restoration Spirituality - Re-discovering Our 19th Century Spiritual Heritage

Lecture given Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 9:45 AM at Abilene Christian University: "The Churches of Christ today are hungering for spiritual depth and substance and are searching for it in a wide variety of places. What spiritual resources can we find within our own Restoration heritage? You may be surprised."
Date: February 19, 2002
Creator: Doyle, Derrick
System: The Portal to Texas History
Alive in the Mystery: Finding a God-Centered Life - Hearing God transcript

Alive in the Mystery: Finding a God-Centered Life - Hearing God

Lecture given Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 2:00 PM at Abilene Christian University: "The point of spirituality is relationship with God. Knowing God relationally requires that we listen for His word and live within it. Join us as we search together for a God-oriented life."
Date: February 19, 2002
Creator: Ganus, Debbie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Down to Earth Principles for Heavenly Living - A Study of the Christian Graces in 2 Peter 1:1-12 transcript

Down to Earth Principles for Heavenly Living - A Study of the Christian Graces in 2 Peter 1:1-12

Lecture given Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 9:45 AM at Abilene Christian University: "Is genuine spirituality fact or feeling...neither or both? Is spirutal growth determined by external factors or internal transformation? Is it possible for us to gauge thelevel of our spiritual growth in tangible and practicle ways? Hear Peter's definitive instruction."
Date: February 19, 2002
Creator: McGalliard, Les
System: The Portal to Texas History
Not Against Flesh and Blood: Biblical Perspectives on Spiritual Warfare - Jesus, Paul and Peretti transcript

Not Against Flesh and Blood: Biblical Perspectives on Spiritual Warfare - Jesus, Paul and Peretti

Lecture given Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 8:30 AM at Abilene Christian University: "Ours seems to be a world under seige. We have little trouble believing Paul's statement that "our struggle is not against flesh and blood." But who or what shapes our understanding and practice of spiritual warfare these days? Recovering a healthy, dynamic spirituality will require a healthy and dynamic practice of spiritual warfare."
Date: February 19, 2002
Creator: Johnson, Stephen
System: The Portal to Texas History
Living and Active: The Ancient Book for Postmodern Times - Reclaimed by the (W)hole of Scripture transcript

Living and Active: The Ancient Book for Postmodern Times - Reclaimed by the (W)hole of Scripture

Lecture given Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 2:00 PM at Abilene Christian University: "Renewal in the past has been unleashed by the rediscovery of the Word of God. The answer for the church in postmodern times is a recovery of the voice of God communicated in Scripture."
Date: February 19, 2002
Creator: Cukrowski, Ken; Hamilton, Mark & Thompson, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Christian's Green Thumb: The Essentials of Spiritual Growth - The Nurture of Spiritual Growth transcript

The Christian's Green Thumb: The Essentials of Spiritual Growth - The Nurture of Spiritual Growth

Lecture given Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 8:30 AM at Abilene Christian University: "Agriculturists and horticulturists often boast of their mystical green thumb, which helps them produce bountiful harvests of fruits, vegetables and flowers. These sessions will explore ways that the Christian can develop a "green thumb" as he or she seeks to fulfill that all-important mandate to grow spiritually."
Date: February 19, 2002
Creator: Barclay, Richard
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Leadership Adventure - Leading Without Seeming To transcript

The Leadership Adventure - Leading Without Seeming To

Lecture given Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 9:45 AM at Abilene Christian University: "Why be limited to what secular sources tell us about leadership? Let's see what Jesus meant when he said of the world's leadership style, "It shall not be so among you" - Matthew 20:26"
Date: February 19, 2002
Creator: Oglesby, Robert, Sr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Honoring the Marriage Covenant - The Church's Response to the Rise in Cohabitations? transcript

Honoring the Marriage Covenant - The Church's Response to the Rise in Cohabitations?

Lecture given Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 8:30 AM at Abilene Christian University: "As more young people choose to live together before marriage, and more single people choose cohabitation over marriage, how can the church respond faithfully and redemptively?"
Date: February 19, 2002
Creator: Soper, Matthew
System: The Portal to Texas History
Racial Discrimination: Problems and Solutions - How Did We Get Here? transcript

Racial Discrimination: Problems and Solutions - How Did We Get Here?

Lecture given Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 2:00 PM at Abilene Christian University: "Racial discrimination remains a significant social and spiritual problem. This series of classes interweaves the stories of four families, racism, resilience, faith and how the Church should be an agent of change."
Date: February 19, 2002
Creator: Hinson, Waymon
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Spirituality of the Stone-Campbell Movement - Disciple Spirituality Between the Wars transcript

The Spirituality of the Stone-Campbell Movement - Disciple Spirituality Between the Wars

Lecture given Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 8:30 AM at Abilene Christian University: "Dr. William Paulsell of Lexington, KY, is author of "Disciples at Prayer" and one of the leading scholars of spirituality in the Stone-Campbell Movement. In three fascinating lectures, Paulsell will examine the roots and development of what we have thought it means to be spiritual in a movement that has often been primarily identified by its rationality."
Date: February 19, 2002
Creator: Paulsell, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
In Pursuit of the Bible's Mysterious God: Recovering Spirituality to Know the Living God - Why O Lord?: Biblical Believers Face God's Mystery transcript

In Pursuit of the Bible's Mysterious God: Recovering Spirituality to Know the Living God - Why O Lord?: Biblical Believers Face God's Mystery

Lecture given Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 2:00 PM at Abilene Christian University: "These classes will explore the biblical passages that reveal the mystery of God and/or spiritual paths to knowing that mysterious God. Old Testament passages and Old Testament spirituality will be emphasized, but New Testament material also will be included."
Date: February 19, 2002
Creator: Plunket, Rodney
System: The Portal to Texas History
When God Seems Absent - The Story of Esther transcript

When God Seems Absent - The Story of Esther

Lecture given Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 9:45 AM at Abilene Christian University: "Is God really with us in any way that matters when we can't see any miracles in life? Is God with us in times of tragedy? Since miracles have always been rather rare, even in biblical times, how does God act in our world when axe heads don't float, the blind stay blind, and the lame still need wheelchairs? By looking at the lives of Ruth and Esther we will see God's sovereignty working behind the scenes from the peasant's shack to the palace suite and find parallels in contemporary life."
Date: February 19, 2002
Creator: Bouchelle, Dan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Men's Fellowship Dinner transcript

Men's Fellowship Dinner

Lecture given Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 5:00 PM at Abilene Christian University
Date: February 19, 2002
Creator: Durham, Ken
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Artist as Priest and Prophet - Messages: The Voice Crying in the Wilderness transcript

The Artist as Priest and Prophet - Messages: The Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Lecture given Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 2:00 PM at Abilene Christian University: "The church cultivates believing souls by answering compelling questions, while the artist cultivates seeing souls by raising compelling images. Is there a conflict - an identity - in the believing artist's dual relationship with the Kingdom and the "world?" How can she be true to her work and be true to the community of faith?"
Date: February 19, 2002
Creator: Beaubeaux, Carmen
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elders and Spirituality - The Shepherd as a Spiritual Leader transcript

Elders and Spirituality - The Shepherd as a Spiritual Leader

Lecture given Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 8:30 AM at Abilene Christian University: "There is no more demanding role in the church than the service of an elder. Servant leadership requires spiritual depth. This class examines the spiritual qualities necessary for church leadership."
Date: February 19, 2002
Creator: Fair, Ian A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Quest for Peace - Suffering and Knowing God transcript

The Quest for Peace - Suffering and Knowing God

Lecture given Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 9:45 AM at Abilene Christian University: "In a world turned upside down by sexual molestation, violent death and crippling disease, Judy tells how she found the peace of God and how she keeps it alive in her heart. Her peace is found by applying biblical principals and perspectives from various motivational/inspirational authors."
Date: February 19, 2002
Creator: Glover, Judith
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hungering For God: Classical Spiritual Theology Through Old Testament Eyes - Indirect Contemplation of God: Psalms... transcript

Hungering For God: Classical Spiritual Theology Through Old Testament Eyes - Indirect Contemplation of God: Psalms...

Lecture given Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 9:45 AM at Abilene Christian University: "Early classical theologians commonly described the spiritual life in the terms of the "threefold way," a journey both satisfying and stimulating one's hunger for God. This class will consider Old Testament texts that illuminate these three movements and how they might nourish the spiritual cravings of Christians today."
Date: February 19, 2002
Creator: Green, Jennifer
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transcending Segregated Religion - With a Servant's Heart transcript

Transcending Segregated Religion - With a Servant's Heart

Lecture given Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 9:45 AM at Abilene Christian University: "The most segregated time in America is the Sunday worship hour. What will it take to break down walls of segregation that divide God's people? It will require nothing less than the power of God's Spirit expressed in worship and serving."
Date: February 19, 2002
Creator: Rollinson, Harold
System: The Portal to Texas History
Things Unseen: Three Key Questions for Churches of Christ in the New Millennium - Life: Can Churches of Christ Become Functionally Trinitarian? transcript

Things Unseen: Three Key Questions for Churches of Christ in the New Millennium - Life: Can Churches of Christ Become Functionally Trinitarian?

Lecture given Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 8:30 AM at Abilene Christian University: "As the modern world recedes, Churches of Christ are finding their distinctive message and theology, which was rooted firmly in that world, less immediately convincing and more obviously deficient in the new cultural era we are entering. But this situation provides an opportunity to reclaim Christian truth that was compromised or even lost under the pressures and temptations of modernity. Three key questions focus this challenge for the church's heritage, life together and present message."
Date: February 19, 2002
Creator: Allen, Leonard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Children Should Be Seen and Heard: Nurturing the Spirituality of Children - Let the Little Children Come: Why? transcript

Children Should Be Seen and Heard: Nurturing the Spirituality of Children - Let the Little Children Come: Why?

Lecture given Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 9:45 AM at Abilene Christian University: "When Jesus said, "Let the little children come to Me," He wasn't just inviting them to Sunday school; He was affirming their place in His Kingdom, His church. Growing a new generation of faith-filled Christians requires a commitment to rich communal practices that enable children to learn the language of faith, participate in the life of God's people and receive their lives as a celebration of the believing community."
Date: February 19, 2002
Creator: Neilson, Shelley
System: The Portal to Texas History
Prayer: Laying It on the Line with God - The Barometer of Faith transcript

Prayer: Laying It on the Line with God - The Barometer of Faith

Lecture given Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 9:45 AM at Abilene Christian University: "Elder, freelance writer and former missionary Charlie Walton shares his personal quest for deeper communication with God. His unique view of the rist involved in honest prayer has never failed to spark reflection and may change the way you talk with and listen to God."
Date: February 19, 2002
Creator: Walton, Charlie
System: The Portal to Texas History