NEW BOOK STUDY - starting Sunday, June 21, 2009

Would you like to learn more about prayer? Join us in reading and discussing Philip Yancey's Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? Starting June 21 we will meet Sundays at 6 p.m. by the fireplace in the fellowship hall to talk about prayer. Philip Yancey shares that he has had many questions about prayer, including: "Why pray? Is God listening? Why should God care about me? If God knows everything, what's the point of prayer? Why do answers to prayer seem so inconsistent, even capricious? Does prayer change God or change me?" The book is available from Amazon or can be ordered from local bookstores. Childcare will be available upon request. Even if you cannot make each Sunday evening gathering, come when you can. Contact Nancy Berns or David Schweingruber for more information.

We just finished our study of Scot McKnight's The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible. McKnight challenges Christians to read the Bible not as a puzzle or a law book, but as a "Story that we're summoned to enter and to carry forward to our day."

During past summers, the club has read N.T. Wright’s Surprised By Hope, 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.