George McKamey (contact me @ contactus@timberlinechurch.org) Description: This class is based largely on Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart’s classic book, “How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth.” The first semester will focus on … Read More
Book Club: “Jesus Through the Centuries” (Sun @ 11:30am, Sept 7-Nov 9) Rm 204
Dr. Jim Lindsay (contact me @ contactus@timberlinechurch.org) Description: This book club will read and discuss world renown church historian Jaroslav Pelikan’s book, “Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture.” Pelikan is considered one of … Read More
The book of Esther: God Behind the ‘Seen’ (Sun @ 11:30am, Rm 203) 10/26 – 12/14
Dr. M Sanders (contact me @ contactus@timberlinechurch.org) Description: The story of Esther’s rise from an unknown Jewish girl to become the queen of a mighty empire illustrates how God uses events and people as instruments to … Read More
L.O.V.E. – How to Share Your Faith (Sun @ 11:30am, Rm 212) 9/7 – 10/12
Larry Baker & Monty Knobel (contact us @ contactus@timberlinechurch.org) Description: This 6-week class will help you to discover the incredible joy of watching lives change when touched by the love of God through you. Larry’s stories will challenge … Read More
C.S. Lewis Conference on Heaven (Oct 3&4, 2008)
FREE! What if Narnia is real? What if the door on which we have been knocking all our lives opens at last? What will “Heaven” really be like? Come engage with C.S. Lewis scholar, Dr. … Read More
The Truth Project (Thr @ 7-8:30pm, Rm 202, 9/11-12/4/08)
Focus on the Family’s The Truth Project is a DVD-based group curriculum designed to provide an in-depth exploration of the Christian worldview. This 12-week study (9/11- 12/4/08) will be taught by Earl Smith.  It will take … Read More
“God Is Not Dead Yet”
The past 40 or so years have seen a recovery of natural theology—and thereby, the classical arguments for the existence of God—within the field of academic philosophy. Some of the most influential philosophers of our … Read More
Jesus didn’t address homosexuality…right?
A friend of mine recently stated that we ought to give pause before tackling the morality of homosexual practice from a biblical perspective. After all, he reasoned, Jesus never even addressed it in the Gospel … Read More
Why God’s “promises” don’t work
One of the most tragic and frustrating conversations that I have from time to time is the one that starts something like this: “I don’t understand! I’ve been living for God—praying, reading the Bible, trying … Read More
Review of Eckhart Tolle’s book, “A New Earth”
I spoke this evening at our mid-week service here at Timberline Church. We’re in a series considering the implications of living a spirit filled/influenced life. Tonight was on “learning humbly.” We explored the idea that … Read More
Is Jesus the only way? (CSU, 4/28/08 @ 7pm)
Is Jesus the Only Way? We live a pluralistic culture or various faiths and worldviews. And yet our setting is nothing new for followers of Jesus. While Christianity was born within the monotheism of a first … Read More
Is God evil for destroying entire nations in the Old Testament?
While this post originally appeared last year, I thought it would be appropriate to reengage with it, given our consideration of the supposed evils of Christianity which we’ll be discussing this Sunday in our Atheism class. … Read More