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View from the Loft

by Rachel Brown, Associate Pastor

Upcoming Sunday school Discussions

April 2011

“Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.” – 1 Thessalonians 5:11

Book Recommendation:  Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith by Rob Bell

In Velvet Elvis, Rev. Rob Bell, the pastor of Mars Hill Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan and graduate of Fuller Seminary, challenges us to consider God beyond the picture someone else painted for us in order to find an authentic understanding of the Christian faith. God is alive. Faith is alive. Velvet Elvis helps us to find or rediscover faith. And even if it doesn’t, it encourages us to keep looking. 

Adult Sunday School May 1st - June 5th, 2011:

Rev. Rob Bell is a graduate of Fuller Seminary and pastor at Mars Hill church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. From 2001-2009 Rev. Bell filmed 24 short videos in a DVD series called NOOMA used for teaching aides during Sunday morning worship services, Bible Studies and Outreach.  During the Adult Sunday School hour from May 1st - June 5th Pastor Rachel will be teaching from six pre-selected videos to be shown along with teaching from the Bible, small group, prayer,  and discussion.

• May 1st :  Corner: We work hard to succeed but still feel empty.
• May 8th:  She: A look at the image of the feminine God.
• May 15th: Bullhorn:  God loves everyone, so Christians should too!
• May 22nd: Store:  Jesus and Anger
• May 29th: Lump: There is nothing you could ever do to make God love you less.
• June 5th:  Flame:  God created love and wants us to feel it all in the way it’s meant to be felt.

Websites:  www.nooma.com, www.robbell.com