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Join Us This Winter 2024 For "Angels and Demons"
Join us Wednesdays at 9:30am in the Fellowship Hall through February 21, 2024.
Session 1: Angels and Their Beginning
Session 2: Who and What Are Angels?
Session 3
Session 4: Good and Evil Angels (Demons)
Session 5: What Do Evil Angels Do?
Session 6: What Do Good Angels Do?
Join Us This Fall 2023 For "The Spirituality of the Cross"!
Join us Wednesdays at 9:30am in the Fellowship Hall.
Introduction - September 6, 2023
SESSON 2
SESSION 3
Session 4
Session 5
Session 6
Session 7
Session 8
2023 Summer Theology Class: On Being A Theologian of the Cross
Why did Luther say, "The cross alone is our theology" and what are the consequences for Christians in every generation? Rev. Rhoades at leads a group study at First Lutheran Church of Galveston on this classic topic
Session 6
Session 5
Session 4
Session 3
Session 2
Session 1
2023 Winter Theology Class: Where God Meets Man
This is a down-to-earth theology class looking at how we might can understand God.
Chapter 7 - "The Church and the Charter of Freedom"
Chapter 6 - "This World and the Next"
Chapter 5 - "Treasure In Earthen Vessels"
Chapter 4 - "A Man For This Earth"
Chapter 3 - "The Glory Road or The Way of the Cross?"
Chapter 2 - "The Down-To-Earth God"
(NOTE: Session 1 Was Not Recorded)
2022 Fall Theology Class: Luther's Devotional Writings Part 2
This is the second half of volume 42 of our discussion of Luther's Devotional Writings. In this second half series, we will be looking at Luther's pastoral heart and get a better sense of how he was operating daily in his faith, and how he invokes us also to live in faith.
Session 1 - September 28, 2022
Session 2 - October 5, 2022
Session 3 - October 12, 2022
SESSION 4 - October 26, 2022
Session 5 - November 2, 2022
Session 6 - November 9, 2022
Session 7 - November 30, 2022
Session 8 - December 6, 2022
2022 SUMMER THEOLOGY CLASS: Luther's Devotional Writings
Join Rev. Richard Rhoades for his Summer Theology Class for a discussion of Luther's Devotional Writings! The class meets Wednesdays at 9:30am in the Conference Room next to the Fellowship Hall. The cost is $12 for the book and you may join in any week during the duration of the summer.
Session 1 - June 15, 2022
Session 2: June 29, 2022
Session 3: July 13, 2022
Session 4: July 20, 2022
Session 5
Session 6
Session 7
SESSION 8
These videos are also archived in our Vimeo collection: Adult Bible Study and on our YouTube Playlist.
“To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation 1520” In this work, Luther speaks to the governmental leaders of his day amidst the crisis of the Reformation. In a time when abuses by the church were impacting the common people, Luther calls on the leaders to engage in their faith and to be bold in their actions. Join in reading this with 21st century eyes to better grasp God’s call for Christians today.
These videos were recorded at First Lutheran Church in Galveston and led by Rev. Richard Rhoades.
Session 1, Part 1
Session 1, Part 2
Session 2, Part 1
Session 2, Part 2
Session 3, Part 1
Session 3, Part 2
SESSION 4, PART 1
SESSION 4, PART 2
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These videos are also archived in our Vimeo collection: Adult Bible Study and on our YouTube Playlist.
This Adult Bible Study series is based upon the Treatise On Good Works written by Martin Luther. Luther's transformational idea of justification by faith alone was often misunderstood and misrepresented in the early years of the Reformation. In 1520, with his Wittenberg congregation in mind, Luther set out to clarify the biblical foundation of good works. In doing so he recast the very definitions of "sacred" and "secular" both for his own generation and ours. These videos were recorded at First Lutheran Church in Galveston and led by Rev. Richard Rhoades.
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