Lecture given Monday, September 22, 2008, 9:45 AM at Abilene Christian University: "Kent Smith will facilitate conversation with panelist and class attendees to follow up the 8:30am class session."

Lecture given Monday, September 22, 2008, 8:30 AM at Abilene Christian University: "Explore the impact of leadership on the dynamic of decline and growth in the local congregation."

Lecture given Monday, September 22, 2008, 8:30 AM at Abilene Christian University: "Every church desires to join more fully in God's mission. Unfortunately, some of the ways we do church can hamper our call to be the church. Join the conversation as we explore ways to turn our churches loose for ministry."

Lecture given Monday, September 22, 2008, 9:45 AM at Abilene Christian University: "Responsible for educating more than 10,000 college students across three campuses, Nutt confronts the realities of being a Christian woman who is a college vice president...and the realities of being a college vice president who is a Christian woman."

Lecture given Monday, September 22, 2008, 9:45 AM at Abilene Christian University: "How can churches better protect and nurture marriage relationships? This session explores proactive ways to deal with marital crisis and tools that encourage safe boundaries and better connection within marriage."

Lecture given Monday, September 22, 2008, 8:30 AM at Abilene Christian University: "The church's efforts to ameliorate poverty and pursue social justice are often disconnected from its Missional purpose. Do churches struggle to identify the authority to address social problems? We will discuss Missional authority and private troubles."

Lecture given Monday, September 22, 2008, 9:45 AM at Abilene Christian University: "How can Christians respond to a culture marked with scars of isolation? What are the practices and ways of being that lead away from shallow niceties and lead toward the generous landscape of reconciliation?"

Lecture given Monday, September 22, 2008, 9:45 AM at Abilene Christian University: "The Christian community is starved for answers to our questions about sexual orientation. In these sessions we will explore a more Christ-centered response to those who experience same-sex attraction - beginning with a better understanding of this struggle. Going beyond the first chapter of Romans, we'll reaffirm the truth that it is God's love that changes all of us. And we'll discover ways to take that life-changing truth to the world that is desperate for His love."

Lecture given Monday, September 22, 2008, 9:45 AM at Abilene Christian University: "These classes examine how Paul addresses the competing concepts of identity at work within the Jewish and Gentile Christians in Rome, and asks how Paul's vision of Christian identity applies to us today."

Lecture given Monday, September 22, 2008, 9:45 AM at Abilene Christian University: "In a tradition that takes pride in congregational autonomy and volunteer leaders, how do full-time ministers and part-time elders pull together to serve God? This panel of two elders and two ministers from four churches will discuss their real life stories of what does and does not work to develop a leadership relationship in Churches of Christ."

Lecture given Monday, September 22, 2008, 8:30 AM at Abilene Christian University: "This class explores using lectio devina (divine reading) as the foundation for prayer retreat designed to learn to hear God from within. 'Faith comes by hearing the message and the message is heard through the Word of Christ' (Romans 10:17)."

Lecture given Monday, September 22, 2008, 8:30 AM at Abilene Christian University: "These sessions examine two sides of ministry. First, ministers and missionaries experience joys and dangers. Second, we explore the rewards and stresses minister and missionary care providers experience."

Lecture given Monday, September 22, 2008, 3:00 PM at Abilene Christian University

Lecture given Monday, September 22, 2008, 8:30 AM at Abilene Christian University: "At a university connected with the American Restoration, how many students actually think about Stone and Campbell? How many professors? Can they explain how degree requirements, spring mission trips, and chapel programming might be connected to the Restoration heritage? A professor and student panelists explore whether the great convictions (and even the contradictory impulses) of the Stone-Campbell heritage can stimulate our church-related universities in the new century."

Lecture given Monday, September 22, 2008, 8:30 AM at Abilene Christian University: "In Romans 12, Paul urged Roman Christians to present their bodies as living sacrifices and to be transformed by the renewing of their minds. How can Jesus' sisters in the 21st century meet these challenges?"

Lecture given Monday, September 22, 2008, 8:30 AM at Abilene Christian University: "If you have difficulty texting and driving, or you have no idea what "texting" is, this class is for you. This class explores the latest trends impacting today's teenagers and families and examines ministry strategies designed to equip adults and teens to navigate cultural waters together."

Lecture given Monday, September 22, 2008, 8:30 AM at Abilene Christian University: "Children's ideas concerning sex and sexuality develop gradually and are influenced by their environment. Are Christians comfortable with the images media and culture provide? How does our spiritual community protect our children and provide a healthy context to support parents in raising healthy children?"

Lecture given Monday, September 22, 2008, 4:00 PM at Abilene Christian University: "Marshall Keeble (1878-1968) was without question the most influential black preacher in Churches of Christ. But he did not accomplish his great work alone. Keeble had white financial and black spiritual supporters who assisted him in his evangelistic endeavors. This class seeks to tell this complex and compelling story."

Lecture given Monday, September 22, 2008, 9:45 AM at Abilene Christian University: "Paul's letter to the Roman church transcends its temporal and geographic context by speaking to the heart of adolescents in our culture. Romans confronts obstacles that have kept youth from faith and inspires commitment to Christian community."

Lecture given Monday, September 22, 2008, 9:45 AM at Abilene Christian University: "This visual PowerPoint presentation describes the art of iron casting, the soup bowls that will be cast at the casting event, and how donations for these bowls will feed the hungry."

Lecture given Monday, September 22, 2008, 8:30 AM at Abilene Christian University: "Walking daily with God calls us to lead in multiple ways as we interact in the workplace, at home with our spiritual family. How does transcendent leadership give us a way to look at our calling as God's people?"

Lecture given Monday, September 22, 2008, 4:00 PM at Abilene Christian University: "White Christians are often unaware of the ways the social systems in the United States favor 'white' ways of doing things. This class is an introduction to the ways white privilege hinders true racial unity in Christ."

Lecture given Monday, September 22, 2008, 9:45 AM at Abilene Christian University

Lecture given Monday, September 22, 2008, 4:00 PM at Abilene Christian University: "We are at war and the battlefield is our minds! These lessons examine the effects of our thinking on how we live and interact. Special focus will be given to the significant influence of parental thinking and moral reasoning on eventual child behaviors. Practical suggestions from Scripture are offered for jumping tracks to more Christ-like thinking and functioning."