Activities & Events Calendar
Join us for a monthly in-depth study of the Bible in a friendly small group setting. You’ll find us meeting at Seventh Church Houston in our lovely Sunday School on the first Thursday of each month. Everyone is welcome to attend!
A different topic is explored by the group each month, focusing on finding meaning and direction using the Bible as our guide.
Join us for a monthly in-depth study of the Bible in a friendly small group setting. You’ll find us meeting at Seventh Church Houston in our lovely Sunday School on the first Thursday of each month. Everyone is welcome to attend!
A different topic is explored by the group each month, focusing on finding meaning and direction using the Bible as our guide.
Join us for a monthly in-depth study of the Bible in a friendly small group setting. You’ll find us meeting at Seventh Church Houston in our lovely Sunday School on the first Thursday of each month. Everyone is welcome to attend!
A different topic is explored by the group each month, focusing on finding meaning and direction using the Bible as our guide.
Join us for a monthly in-depth study of the Bible in a friendly small group setting. You’ll find us meeting at Seventh Church Houston in our lovely Sunday School on the first Thursday of each month. Everyone is welcome to attend!
A different topic is explored by the group each month, focusing on finding meaning and direction using the Bible as our guide.
Join us for a monthly in-depth study of the Bible in a friendly small group setting. You’ll find us meeting at Seventh Church Houston in our lovely Sunday School on the first Thursday of each month. Everyone is welcome to attend!
A different topic is explored by the group each month, focusing on finding meaning and direction using the Bible as our guide.
Join us for a monthly in-depth study of the Bible in a friendly small group setting. You’ll find us meeting at Seventh Church Houston in our lovely Sunday School on the first Thursday of each month. Everyone is welcome to attend!
A different topic is explored by the group each month, focusing on finding meaning and direction using the Bible as our guide.
Join us for a monthly in-depth study of the Bible in a friendly small group setting. You’ll find us meeting at Seventh Church Houston in our lovely Sunday School on the first Thursday of each month. Everyone is welcome to attend!
A different topic is explored by the group each month, focusing on finding meaning and direction using the Bible as our guide.
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Austin is hosting the Winter 2018 Interactive Bible and Spiritual Life Program on February 9 and 10 with Richard Davenport and Barry Huff.
As in the past, these programs from BSL have proved to be very inspiring and have drawn people from all over Texas and beyond.
Presented by:
- Richard Davenport: Master of Divinity, Doctor of Ministry ABD Chaplain, LtCol, USAF (ret); Former Dean of Students at Principia College; Executive Director, Bible & Spiritual Life Community
- Barry Huff: Ph.D. in Biblical Studies; Religion & Philosophy Department Chair and Assistant Professor of Religion at Principia College; 2013 Principia College Teacher of the Year
This workshop will include deep dives into the Bible and the very best of contemporary scholarship and application of its biblical spirituality to the changes and challenges of our times. These will be reinforced by Spirit-filled songs from the heart that support transformative Bible study in compassionate community.
Saturday morning will examine how the inspired Word functions throughout the Bible as a “sufficient guide” for countering and correcting more narrow, judgmental, and harsh passages, transforming thought and action, healing prejudice, cherishing the “other,” and proclaiming God’s infinite embrace. The implications for how and with whom we practice compassionate community are immense.
Lunch onsite, will include table discussions of questions from the morning session with rotating groups so as to facilitate your own integration of the workshop themes to your own experience. Questions arising will be addressed in the first half hour of the afternoon session.
Saturday afternoon will offer fresh biblical perspectives on creation that inspire our prayers and care for ourselves, our communities, and our environment. These are very helpful to our own demonstration of wellness and our greater effectiveness in joining the societal and generational conversations of today (and tomorrow) on spirituality, ethics, and religion.
Register: Website: www.bibleandspirituallife.org/bibleprograms
Note: the website has information for both the Austin event and an event at the Willows in CA. Make sure to choose “Austin, Texas” when registering.
*You do not need to purchase a lunch for the Austin event.*
A potluck lunch is being coordinated.
Please contact Barbara Houston with questions.
Phone: 512-633-9766 Email: houstonlovesaustin@gmail.com
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Presented by Don Feldheim, author of Principles of Expressive Reading
⇒ Visit the Event Website for all the details ⇐
This unique seminar will benefit any student of Christian ScienceReaders (former, current and future), the general membership, regular church attendees,and senior Sunday School students.
You’ll receive tools that will help you:
- deepen your scholarly understanding
- elevate scholarly understanding to heartfelt understanding
- gain the freedom to express the spirit of the word with heartfelt fervor
You’ll also learn about the reading standards set by Mary Baker Eddy and the Holy Bible, and get ideas about how our Bible Lessons can help us become better healers and ensure the prosperity of our church.
We’ll explore:
- Some of the more serious barriers that animal magnetism attempts to impose on our understanding of God’s Word, and on our reading from our platforms.
- The standards of effective reading—straight from the Hoy Bible and from our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy.
- How to set God’s word free from the pages on which it was written.
Both silent and oral readers will receive expressive reading “Tools for Understanding” that will help us:
- Improve a scholarly understanding of the text, and elevate that scholarly understanding to a more spiritual dimension of heartfelt understanding of God’s word.
- Identify clues writers have left—clues that reveal important insights into God’s inspiration.
- Pay special attention to the nuances created by the writers choice of words and the structure of their writing.
- Gain a clearer and deeper understanding of the heart and soul of the writer’s work.
We’ll also receive expressive reading “Tools for Delivery” that will help us:
- Use all our God-given communication tools to the best of our abilities.
- Deliver inspired messages with the same depth of feeling and richness of expression with which the writer might have actually spoken the words.
- Eliminate self-consciousness and learn how to “get yourself out of the way.”
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Join us for a monthly in-depth study of the Bible in a friendly small group setting. You’ll find us meeting at Seventh Church Houston in our lovely Sunday School on the first Thursday of each month. Everyone is welcome to attend!
A different topic is explored by the group each month, focusing on finding meaning and direction using the Bible as our guide.
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