“Making Sense of Moral Experience: In Search of a Best Account”
Richard Horner, Executive Director, Christian Study Center

with responses by:
Gene Witmer, Associate Professor of Philosophy, UF
Manuel Vasquez, Professor of Religion, UF
and discussion to follow

7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 19
Christian Study Center (Pascal’s Coffee)
112 NW 16th Street

This is the fourth and final session in “Theism, Reason, and Faith: In Conversation with the ‘New Atheists'”

For information see attached flyer
visit us at http://christianstudycenter.org/forum
or call 352-379-7375

Rick reports: Jackson Richard Kingsley 8 lbs 4 oz was born 5:23. He and Christina are doing great.

Today we begin a new series of studies on God’s Attributes.  We’ll look first at the whole idea of knowing God.  At the wondrous GIFT of knowing God.  “We must never forget that our knowledge of God is a gift, not a given. What I mean by this is that we all too often presume that what we know of God is either something we gained by self-exertion, dedication, and study, or it is something we deserve, perhaps something that is our by right or entitlement.” Sam Storms

Isaiah 57:15 For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

As we embark on this hopefully life-changing study to know the true and living God, keep in mind these words:

Our aim in studying God must be to know God himself better. Our concern must be to enlarge our acquaintance, not simply with the doctrine of God’s attributes, but with the living God whose attributes they are. As he is the subject of our study, and our helper in it, so he must himself be the end of it. We must seek, in studying God, to be led to God. It was for this purpose that revelation was given, and it is to this use that we must put it.

Dear Christ community,

This week Suzanne Matthews’ mother passed away.  Frank texted me the quote above on the day she died.

Frank, Suzanne, and their four children were able to travel to South Carolina and spend a good bit of time with her in the last couple of weeks.  Tomorrow they will bury her body in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ.  Please feel free to express your love and encouragement at the following address:

Frank & Suzanne Matthews
610 SW 127th Street
Newberry, FL 32669

O God, who for our redemption gave your only begotten Son to death on the Cross, and by his glorious resurrection has delivered us from the power of our enemy: Grant that we who celebrate with joy the day of our Lord’s resurrection, may be raised from the death of sin by your life-giving Spirit. Grant us so to die daily to sin, that we may evermore live with him in the joy of his resurrection, empowered and transformed by your grace in and among us.

O Lord, so stir up in your church, indeed in each of us, that Spirit of adoption and reconciliation that is made possible by your grace revealed in Jesus the Christ, that we being renewed in both body and mind, may worship and serve you in sincerity and truth. We pray this in the name of the same Jesus Christ our Lord who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.  Amen.