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Previous Adult Short Studies

“It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.” --John Wesley

: Cross and Flame stained glass window, west end of the Family Life Center.

2011

Table Talks (March 13-April 17, 2011)
Choosing Forgiveness, Your Journey to Freedom (June 7-July 12, 2011)
H2O, Nothing Drenches Your Soul Like a Life Fulfilled by God (Sept. 28-Nov. 16, 2011--cancelled)
What's so Amazing About Grace? (Sept. 28-Nov. 16, 2011--cancelled)

2010

Our Methodist Roots, Branches and Fruits (Jan. 13-March 25, 2010--cancelled)
Favorite Bible Passages (Jan. 13-March 25, 2010)
The Power of a Praying Parent (Jan. 13-March 25, 2010)
Let God Love You: A Study of Philippians (Sept. 12-Nov.28, 2010)
Exploring the Way (Sept. 12-Oct. 17, 2010)
Growing Deeper with Christ (Oct 10-Nov. 21, 2010)

2009

Methodist Heritage: Our Social Principles (Jan. 27-Feb. 17, 2009)
Financial Peace (early 2009--cancelled)
Our Methodist Roots, Branches and Fruits (Oct. 7-Nov. 11, 2009--cancelled)

2008

Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations (Jan. 17-Feb. 21, 2008)
Our Methodist Roots—John Wesley's Life and Faith (Jan. 17-Feb. 21, 2008)
Beloved Disciple (Sept. 10-Oct. 15, 2008)
Our Methodist Beliefs--Our Beliefs) (Sept. 10-Oct. 15, 2008)
Financial Peace (Thursdays for 13 weeks--cancelled)

2007

Mere Christianity (Oct.-Nov, 2007--cancelled)
Invitation to the Old Testament (Oct.-Nov., 2007--cancelled)

The Cross and Flame became the official insignia of the United Methodist Church soon after the union of two denominations in 1968: The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church.

Following more than two dozen conceptualizations, a traditional symbol—the cross—was linked with a single flame with dual tongues of fire. The resulting insignia is rich in meaning. The cross relates The United Methodist Church to God through Christ and the flame relates it to the Holy Spirit. The flame is a reminder of Pentecost when witnesses were unified by the power of the Holy Spirit and saw "tongues, as of fire" (Acts 2:3). The two tongues of a single flame represent the union of the two denominations.

The elements of the emblem remind us of a transforming moment in the life of Methodism's founder, John Wesley, when he sensed God's presence and felt his heart "strangely warmed."