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I remember what a strange experience it was to go home at Christmas after my first semester of college. I had been away for four months, the longest stretch of time I had ever been away from home. I had made a new group of friends and experienced a whole new world: living in a dorm, attending lectures, doing my own laundry, assuming sole responsibility for getting up, making it to class, and keeping up with assignments. But as I left campus at the start of Christmas vacation, I wondered what it would be like to go home. Would it be the same or different?
 
The Israelites wondered the same thing when after 50 years in exile they returned home from Babylon.  Would it be the same or different?  Find out Sunday: Isaiah 35:1-10—“Coming Home to a New Place.”
 

-Pastor Ken

This Sunday I am beginning a four week Sunday School class after church (11:30 to 12:30 in the sanctuary). I call it “The Theology of Calvin … and Hobbes.” It turns out that the spiky-haired little boy in the comic strip is named for the most famous theologian in the Presbyterian Church: John Calvin. And his pet tiger is named for a 17^th century philosopher named Thomas Hobbes. In their comic strip interactions Calvin and Hobbes generate a lot of theology, a significant amount of which could be called “Presbyterian.” So that is what we will study. Here are the themes:

• March 10: “The Sovereignty of God: Creation, Predestination, and Why We Are Here”
• March 17: “Sin: The Problem with People and What Can Be Done About It”
• March 24: “Grace: A New Relationship with God and Others”
• March 31 (The class takes a one week break for LaVonne Mahugh’s
• slideshow presentation on Antarctica)
• April 7: “Eternal Life: Now and Later”

Join us Sunday at 11:30 in the sanctuary.

-Pastor Ken