Tough Topics in the Bible : Finding the Goodness of God in the Hardest Passages of Scripture

Presented by Joshua Ryan Butler, a Teaching Pastor with the Willamette family of churches in the Portland area

MONDAYS
November 4, 11, 18 and 25
6:30–8 p.m.

In Person at St. Michael’s parish hall
Cost: $10

Questions? Contact Margaret at theologicalacademy@socsj.org. 

There are some questions no Christian wants to be asked. Many today believe tough topics like hell, holy war, sacrifice, and wrath are "skeletons in God's closet," that if we opened the closet doors–opened these passages of Scripture–to look more closely would reveal a cruel, vindictive tyrant rather than a good and loving God.

In this course, we'll pull these bones out into the open to exchange popular caricatures for the beauty and power of the real thing. We'll discover these topics were never really skeletons at all . . . but proclamations of a God who is good "in his very bones," not just in what he does, but in who he is.

Come to this course to gain a deeper understanding of the Bible and a greater confidence in the goodness of God for our world.

Course topics:

• Violence in the Old Testament

• Four paradigm shifts on Hell

• Making sense of wrath

• Making sense of sacrifice