FROM ACTS TO LOL
From Acts to LOL is a walk (more like a run) through church history that gets us from the events in Acts to our core beliefs at Lord of Life. We will use 4 sessions that discuss historical events and reasoning and will line them up to biblical arguments. The class meets online for four consecutive Thursdays, 6:30-8pm, beginning Thu, Feb 25 and concludes Mar 18. The course is taught by Lord of Life Elder Reinhard Rinn. Register here.
Session 1, Early Church
Disciples become Apostles
Christians and the Roman empire
Church Councils, describing the relationship between the Father, Sun and Holy Spirit
Church organization, Bible Canon, …
Session 2, from the Antique to the Middle Ages
Europe becomes Christian
Rise of Islam
The Great Schism between the East and the West
The crusades
Power struggles between church and government
Indulgences, relics and other ‘reformation triggers’
Session 3, Reformation
Reformation movement by Luther, Zwingli, Calvin and others
Colloquium of Marburg
Augsburg Confession
Session 4, Post Reformation
Formation of the ‘Lutheran Church’, League of Smallkald, 1555 Diet of Augsburg
Counter reformation, Ignatius of Loyola and others
Edict of Nantes, religious wars of the early 1600’s
Migration to North America
French Revolution, First Amendment, Enlightenment Period
LCMS and other Lutheran Churches in the US
LoL constitution and related documents
EPHESIANS BIBLE STUDY ONLINE
Join Carlos Baez, Head Elder Lord of Life, for a 9-week virtual Bible Study on Ephesians. The class is on Mondays from 6:30-8pm, beginning January 11 and concluding March 8. Register here. After you register, the login credentials will be shared with you by email. Below is a description of the class.
Has it ever dawned on you that nothing has ever dawned on God? He knew before the world began that His people would face hardship, so He gave us His Word. The Book of Ephesians is a survival manual—it equips believers to thrive in a world that hates the message of Jesus Christ. Paul the Apostle writes to encourage believers to live well—we’ve been lifted from the graveyard of sin and called to shout the gospel into the darkened world.
We will walk through the powerful words of Paul. In 9 sessions, we dig into the text of Ephesians verse-by-verse and the class will challenge believers to live out the gospel. If the people of your city, of your school, of your family are going to hear the gospel, it’s going to be from your mouth. Encounter Ephesians and get swept up into the story of Jesus.
Session 1 – Ephesians 1:1–14
Session 2 – Ephesians 1:15–23
Session 3 – Ephesians 2:1–10
Session 4 – Ephesians 2:11–3:13
Session 5 – Ephesians 3:14–4:16
Session 6 – Ephesians 4:17–5:7
Session 7 – Ephesians 5:8–21
Session 8 – Ephesians 5:22–6:9
Session 9 – Ephesians 6:10–24
