Bible Study
Adult Class
Sundays
9:30A
We using Cokesbury's quarterly series "Adult Bible Studies".
The Winter Quarter topic is "Following Jesus" by Laura Wittman.
Free resources, including a weekly newsletter, that align with the Bible study are available at: Adult Bible Studies.
To ensure we have enough participants books, please indicate your interest by emailing: education@stmarkslnc.org.
Advent Meal & Devotionals
Wednesday
Dec. 18
6:30P
Fellowship Hall
We gather for a devotional appropriate to Advent, the time of anticipation of the birth of Jesus.
We begin with a light supper of soup & sandwiches followed by a craft project and then a devotional based on Rachel Billups' An Unlikely Advent.
In her book, Ms. Billups explores what the "supporting characters" — Elizabeth and Zechariah, Herod, the Magi, and the shepherds — in the story can teach us about faithful living as we explore the Advent themes of hope, love, joy, and peace.
Midweek Bible Book Clubs
Join us each week as we study books
that help us deepen our spiritual understanding.
1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th Wednesdays
7-8P
Fellowship Hall
The Recharge Book Club is on hiatus until Jan. 8 when we continue with chapter 4 of Holy Envy.
We study books that help us to deepen our faith and how to put it into action in ministry to our community and the world.
Our current book is Holy Envy: Finding God of in the Faith of Others by Barbara Brown Taylor which recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world’s religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia, revealing how God delights in confounding our expectations.
A sweet will be proved to enjoy. See Deb Rosenberg if you would like to purchase a book through her.
2nd Wednesday
7-8P
Fellowship Hall
Join us on the second Wednesdays of each month when we will have a Bible study provided by the Women of the ELCA (WELCA).
Please contact Deb Rosenberg, s.a.m@stmarkslnc.org for more information and to express your interest in joining.
Thursdays
10:30A - 12 Noon
Fellowship Hall
The Growing Faith Book Club
is on hiatus until Jan. 9
Beginning January 9 we will study A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life – Welcoming the Soul and Weaving Community in a Wounded World by Parker J. Palmer
A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life discusses:
How can we bring courage and renewal our communities or institutions.
What it means to live an undivided life, one where our inner truth can find expression and value in our outer lives, despite the pressures we may face?
The conditions necessary to create “circles of trust,” based on the principles and practices that can help us embrace nonviolence in everyday life.
For more information or to express your interest in joining the group, please contact the church office.
December 16 – 21
Monday, December 16: Isaiah 11:1-9; Numbers 16:1-19; Hebrews 13:7-17
Tuesday, December 17: Isaiah 11:1-9; Numbers 16:20-35; Acts 28:23-31
Wednesday, December 18: Isaiah 11:1-9; Micah 4:8-13; Luke 7:31-35;
Thursday, December 19: Psalm 80:1-7; Jeremiah 31:31-34; Hebrews 10:10-18
Friday, December 20: Psalm 80:1-7; Isaiah 42:10-18; Hebrews 10:32-39;
Saturday, December 21: Psalm 80:1-7; Isaiah 66:7-11; Luke 13:31-35
The Fourth Sunday of Advent, December 22
Micah 5:2-5a • Luke 1:46b-55 • Hebrews 10:5-10 • Luke 1:39-45, (46-55)