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THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS

VIDEOS

Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? Part 1: The Facts  (6 min.)

Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? Part 2: The Explanation  (6 min.)

Gary Habermas, “The Resurrection Argument that Changed a Generation of Scholars”  (80 min.)

N. T. Wright, “Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?”  (97 min.)

DEBATES

Bart Ehrman (New Testament scholar; historian) vs. Michael Licona

Antony Flew (philosopher) vs. Gary Habermas

Bart Ehrman (New Testament scholar; historian) vs. William Lane Craig

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

The lessons for this course can be read alone, but the principles are drawn from lessons in the video series and workbook "Emotionally Healthy Spirituality" by Peter Scazzero, which is based on the book with the same title.
(A copy of the video series on DVD is available to loan to members and attenders of Central Presbyterian Church. See Pastor Mike Farley to borrow the DVD.)​

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Lesson 1 - The Problem of Emotionally Unhealthy Spirituality

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Lesson 2 - Know Yourself That You May Know God

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Lesson 3 - Going Back in Order to Go Forward

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Lesson 4 - Journey through the Wall

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Lesson 5 - Enlarging Your Soul through Grief and Loss

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Lesson 6 - Grow into an Emotionally Mature Adult

 

Going Further

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Prayer

 

Paul Miller, A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World (NavPress, 2017)

A great starting point to learn the foundations of practicing the presence of God. Miller’s numerous anecdotes illustrate the highly personal quality of relationship and ongoing conversation with God that is appropriate and available to sons and daughters of God.

 

Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God (Dutton, 2014)

Keller covers all aspects of biblical teaching about prayer, the experience of prayer, and the practice of prayer, with helpful lessons from famous writings about prayer in church history.

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Praying from Scripture

 

Donald Whitney, Praying the Bible (Crossway, 2015)

A simple guide for learning to pray from the Bible is this very short book. With specific, practical examples, Whitney shows how any text in the Bible can become a guide and prompt for all types of prayer.

 

Martin Luther, “A Simple Way to Pray”

Luther, the professor who pioneered the 16th-century Protestant Reformation, wrote this short article for his barber, who asked him how he should pray. Luther offers extended examples of the prayers he prayed for his own life and times from the 10 Commandments and the Lord’s Prayer. Luther offers examples of how the same text can prompt several different categories of prayer.

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Worship "Face-to-Face" (times set aside for worship)

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Central Presbyterian Church offers a daily prayer guide each week with short orders of worship for morning and evening prayer, emailed Monday through Friday. Central’s guide unites public worship on Sunday to daily prayer so that worship from Sunday echoes and deepens through the week. The structure follows roughly the same order as corporate worship:

Call to worship

Hymn/song

Confessing our sin and receiving God’s forgiveness

Hearing God’s instruction from his word (with Psalms and other readings)

Praying our petitions for the church and the world

Being sent with God’s blessing

The call to worship, songs, and confession of sin come directly from Central's Sunday liturgy. Other written prayers and the scripture readings correlate with the main themes of the Sunday sermon in order to amplify its impact with further meditation and prayer. Sign up for the daily email HERE.

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Worship "Side-by-Side" (woven throughout one's daily life)

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Jan Johnson, Enjoying the Presence of God: Discovering Intimacy with God in the Daily Rhythms of Life (NavPress, 1996)

A great book describing how to weave prayer into all the rhythms and tasks of daily life so that we experience prayer as an ongoing conversation with God throughout our days.

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Spiritual Growth Plans

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[Audio] Ruth Haley Barton: “A Rule of Life: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation”

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Ruth Haley Barton, “A Rule of Life: Cultivating Rhythms for Spiritual Transformation“

An article introducing the general idea of a personal rule of life or spiritual growth plan.

 

Mike Farley, “Establishing a Spiritual Growth Plan”

Some practical guidelines for writing a personal rule of life or spiritual growth plan.

 

Mike Farley, "A Template for a Spiritual Growth Plan"

A template to use for setting specific goals for spiritual growth in seven major dimensions of life. These guidelines suggest general categories of action in these severn areas for the purpose of prompting reflection on setting specific goals for action in each dimension of life.

 

“Crafting a Rule of Life”

This website organized by Stephen Macchia contains many different creative examples of rules of life prepared by different individuals, which you can see here and here. These examples have varying modes of expression and levels of detail, but they are all useful for stimulating our imagination for different methods of composing our own spiritual growth plans.

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Alastair Sterne, Rhythms for Life: Spiritual Practices for Who God Made You to Be (InterVarsity Press, 2020)

A guidebook for understanding our personal story, personality, and roles and then crafting challenging but achievable goals for spiritual growth in many dimensions of life in relationships with God, self, and others.

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Justin Earley, The Common Rule: Habits of Virtue for a Life of Purpose (InterVarsity Press, 2019).
An outstanding book on crafting a spiritual growth plan in many dimensions of life.

Connect for more help

Would you like additional help in pursuing your own spiritual growth?

 

Would you like to join or help form a growth group?   

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