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Adult Education

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Bible Studies Gym Bag Bible Current Classes Class Books/Videos

Two excellent free online libraries:
Christian Classics Ethereal Library  website
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy  website

Week One     End of Middle Ages/The Italian Renaissance
Middle Ages
Dante. The Divine Comedy.  NY: Vintage Books, 1950.
Follett, Ken.  Pillars of The Earth,  NY:Signet Classic Books, 2002
Manchester, William. A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance Boston: Back Bay Books, 1993
The Italian Renaissance
King, Ross. Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture, NY: Penguin Books, 2000.
Machiavelli.  The Prince (1513)  NY: Penguin Classics, 2003
della Mirandola, Pico.  Oration On the Dignity of Man (1486) NY: Macmillan Library, 1985.
de Pizan, Christine. The Book of the City of Ladies (1405) London: Penguin Books, 1999
Stone, Irving. The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo NY: New American Library, 1996

Week Two    The Northern Renaissance
Desiderius Erasmus. The Praise of Folly (1511), NY: Penguin Classics, 2003
Thomas a’ Kempis. Imitation of Christ (1418) NY: Vintage Spiritual Classics, 1998
Michel de Montaigne. Essays (1580)
Thomas More. Utopia, (1516)  NY: Penguin Classics, 2003
Shakespeare

Week Three  The Reformation
Bainton, Roland. Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther NY; Signet Classics, 1955
Calvin, John. Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536)
Erikson, Erik. Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History NY: WW Norton, 1962
Luther, Martin. Table Talk (1646)

Movies:
Luther
Elizabeth

Week Four    The Age of Religious Wars

Week Five     The Age of Discovery

Week Six       The Scientific Revolution

Week Seven   The Enlightenment

Week Eight     A Changed Worldview

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This Week in the Life of CUC

Sunday, March 14
8:00, 9:30, & 11:00 am Regular Worship Services
9:30 am Studying the Lord’s Prayer
9:30 am Sunday School, Pre-K-7th
12:30 pm Talk-Back on Sermon Series at 4G's
5:00 pm MS Youth Group
7:00 pm HS Youth Group

Monday, March 15
11:00 am Yoga Class
6:30 pm In the Light
6:30 pm Church Council
6:30 pm VBS Planning

Tuesday, March 16
6:30 pm Stephens Ministers

Wednesday, March 17
9:30 am Bible Study
12:00 pm Lent Concert and Soup with Sarah Rex
1:00 pm Women’s Bible Study
4:15 pm Children’s Choir
6:15 pm Band Rehearsal
6:30 pm Chancel Chimes
7:30 pm Sounds of Grace

Friday, March 19
6:00 pm Leprechaun Party

Saturday, March 20
7:00 pm Hope for Haiti Concert at St James

Next Sunday, March 21
8:00, 9:30, & 11:00 am Regular Worship Services
9:30 am Sunday School, Pre-K-7th
5:00 pm MS Youth Group
7:00 pm HS Youth Group

Prayer Concerns

We celebrate these Joys this week:
Vacation Bible School will take place the week of June 14-18. The theme this year is “The High Seas Adventure.”
March 9th, was the second anniversary of Carol Parson's ordination. Congratulations!
The Labyrinth is coming March 26 and 27th.

Please keep these people in your prayers this week:
Troy’s family, Ruth, Ryan, Jim, Connie, Karen’s family, Virginia and family, Terri and family, Winnifred, Jean, Kathy and her mother Nancy, Jean, Diane, Phyllis and daughter Susan, Jeannie, Marsha, Tim and Lee, Dan and Judy and family, Jeff and Linda, Ed and Marian, Bert and Joan.

Please continue to pray for the following people who have ongoing or long-term health concerns:
Frank and Janet, Ken and Caroline, Dola, Patti, Bruce, Marian & Ed, Lola, Marge, Sharon, Trudy, Leora, Tom and Jackie, Jean, Gladys.

Pick up a Joys and Concerns sheet from the Information Booth in the Narthex for addresses and more information on these members and friends.

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