SUMMER BOOK CLUB - starting Wednesday, July 9, 2008

The summer book club this year will be discussing Surprised By Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church by N.T. Wright. All are welcome to join the discussion. Wright reviews the Biblical teaching on our future hope and argues that many Christians have a misplaced emphasis on "going to heaven when we die" rather than the Biblical emphasis on the bodily resurrection of all believers and a new heavens and a new earth. He believes our beliefs about the future have important implications for our Christian walk.

Book club will be held on Wednesdays (beginning July 9^th) from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. in the church fellowship hall for seven weeks. Nancy Berns and David Schweingruber will lead the discussion. Contact them for more information.

During past summers, the club has read Michael Card’s A Sacred Sorrow, Philip Yancey’s The Jesus I Never Knew, Jim Wallis’ Faith Works, J.I. Packer’s Knowing God, C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters, Philip Yancey's book What's So Amazing About Grace? and an overview of the New Testament.

Childcare is provided.