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Lecture given Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 1:30 PM at Abilene Christian University.

Lecture given Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 8:30 AM at Abilene Christian University: "This class for ACU graduate and undergraduate ministry students addresses five turnings of theology in a postmodern world. Brian will explore theology, atonement, eschatology, scripture, and God."

Lecture given Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 9:45 AM at Abilene Christian University: "Are Christians identifiable by our financial dealings? Does God care about my personal financial discipline? Or my church's finances? A short discussion on biblical financial principles."

Lecture given Tuesday, September 23, 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 Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 8:30 AM at Abilene Christian University: "An opportunity to meet with the editor and other staff members of the "Christian Chronicle" to provide input and ask questions regarding coverage."

Lecture given Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 4:00 PM at Abilene Christian University: "History is replete with examples of well-meaning Christians doing more damage than good. Jesus accused Jewish evangelists of making their own converts children of hell (Matthew 23:15). How do we, with the Lord's help, keep from making the same mistake?"

Lecture given Tuesday, September 23, 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 Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 4:00 PM at Abilene Christian University: "This class discusses some of the greatest challenges facing the church in the 21st century and what it takes to make the greatest impact on our communities and churches."

Lecture given Tuesday, September 23, 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 Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 9:45 AM at Abilene Christian University: "We are driven by tastes, interests and values. Our Christian activism, or lack thereof, is determined by what we have a taste for, and interest in and what we value. These tastes, interests and values are determined by parental, social and religious environments."

Lecture given Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 4:00 PM at Abilene Christian University: "Would you like to live with continuous contact with your missionaries and their work? Could you stretch your missions budget dollar? Find out how your missions program can expand, become more personal and more immediate."

Lecture given Tuesday, September 23, 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 Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 11:00 AM at Abilene Christian University

Lecture given Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 4:00 PM at Abilene Christian University: "Religious music touches on two explosive areas: 1) memories of music learned in our youth and 2) religious change. Throughout the 2,000 years of Christianity, change has always caused problems and music was often at the top of the hit list."

Lecture given Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 8:30 AM at Abilene Christian University: "We are God's children, but do we act like it? One mother's experience with adoption reminds us of our true identity in Christ."

Lecture given Tuesday, September 23, 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 Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 4:00 PM at Abilene Christian University: "Come be challenged and encouraged by stories of ministry among homeless youth from the Dry Bones ministry in Denver, Colorado. Hear how the disturbed have begun to find comfort, the comfortable have been shaken from their comfort and everyone's faith has been forever changed. A new Christianism is alive on the streets of Denver."

Lecture given Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 9:45 AM at Abilene Christian University: "Sources for Bible lessons for the deaf. Utilization of visual technology and suggestions for the use of it in teaching the deaf."

Lecture given Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 4:00 PM at Abilene Christian University: "These sessions introduce Gentry's book (with L. Sjoberg), "Mothers, Monsters, Whores" (2007), a critique of how politically violent women are portrayed. These portrayals remove agency from women and Christians need to explore how this perpetuates injustice."

Lecture given Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 8:30 AM at Abilene Christian University: "What exactly are we teaching our students through mission trips? Do they return from Mexico with more than just Montezuma's Revenge? And, most important, are we missing the call of the Gospel and the mandate for social justice in our own backyard?"

Lecture given Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 9:45 AM at Abilene Christian University: "Randolph is the first chaplain to the institute at MIT. This class will discuss why the institute made the decision to have a chaplain and the theology of presence that undergirds the role of chaplain in a secular university."

Lecture given Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 9:45 AM at Abilene Christian University: "A panel will reflect on what keeps them in ministry and the moments that made them want to quit."

Lecture given Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 1:30 PM at Abilene Christian University: "How should we understand the nature of faith? How can we make the claim that Jesus is 'God with us' in a postmodern culture? This presentation makes a positive case for basic Christian affirmations that are central to orthodox faith."