Sunday School Classes (Summer 2025)

What is the Church?
Taught by a rotation of Teachers
Room 43 in the Lower Level of the Sanctuary 

We know that “the Church is not a building.” It is the Bride or Body of Christ. The Congregation. The Flock. The Children of God. And though we may have heard these and many other names in the Bible for the Church, we may not have considered the depths of their meanings and the implications they have in our relationship with God, others, and world. Join us to learn and discuss what it means to be the Church and the beautiful mission God has bestowed upon us.

Getting To The Heart of Parenting
Led by Dennis Patterson
Room 44 in the Lower Level of the Sanctuary 

Parenting is more than using your power to get children to behave in certain ways. Parenting is all about the exposure and change of the child’s heart. When the heart of a child changes the behavioral change that is needed will last. Learn how to be an instrument of heart changing grace in the little moments of life that God will give you and your children, whether they are toddlers or teens.

Sojourners and Exiles: The Message of First Peter
Led by a rotation of Elders
Room 45 in the Lower Level of the Sanctuary 

In recent years, many Christians have felt more and more like strangers in a hostile culture. The Apostle Peter wrote a letter to a church living in a similar situation. First Peter teaches us that the gospel empowers Christians to live faithfully anywhere and at any time. In Sojourners and Exiles, Sinclair Ferguson shows us what great encouragement we can find in this letter written to Christians going through a “fiery trial” in a pagan empire.

Knowing God
Taught by Matt Staples
Room 46 in the Lower Level of the Sanctuary

Considered by many to be a theological “classic” that every Christian should read at least once, J.I. Packer’s Knowing God is a powerfully useful tool in the lifelong pursuit of learning more and more about our great God. According to Packer, Christians have become enchanted by modern skepticism and joined the “gigantic conspiracy of misdirection,” by failing to put first things first. Knowing God aims to redirect our attention to the simple yet deep truth that to know God is to love His Word. What began in the early 1970s as consecutive magazine articles for “honest, no-nonsense readers who were fed up with facile Christian verbiage,” Knowing God has become a contemporary classic by creating “small studies out of great subjects.” Rescuing us from the individual hunches of our ultra-tolerant theological age, Packer, with his theological competence and compassionate heart, points the reader to the true character of God. The spiritually lazy and faint-hearted should be warned about this timeless work–God is magnified, and the sinning saint humbled and encouraged. The goal of our Sunday School class is to read through the book, and we hope to discuss one or two chapters each Sunday.