Backpack - Discover

Learning

  • Group Bible Study – Tuesday Evening Study

  • Group Bible Study – Wednesday Evening

  • Group Bible Study – New Life Thursday Afternoon (fall-spring)

  • Discover Peace Core Teachings - Coming end of April

  • Discover Jesus (seminar offered annually) Discover Jesus is a class designed to give an overview of the life and work of Jesus Christ.  You will learn biblical context and insights into how Jesus interacted with the various people groups and individuals of His day – teachings and miracles - and the culmination of His life in the Crucifixion and Resurrection. We hope to offer this one evening class at least once a year for anyone who would like to learn more about Jesus.  The next class will be Thursday, January 25 from 6:30-8:30 pm.

  • Discover Reading the Bible with Understanding

  • Luther’s Small Catechism (with questions and answers) For nearly 500 years, Martin Luther’s little instruction book has helped teach youth and adults the basics of the Christian faith.  The book contains 6 core texts along with questions and answers:  Ten Commandments, the Apostles’ Creed, the Lord’s Prayer, Baptism, Confession, and the Lord’s Supper. 

  • The Life You’ve Always Wanted by John Ortberg (also available at the Word Station)
    Is your faith more like an “insurance” policy? If it is, you’re missing out on an important part of Christianity – God’s life-changing power. In this book. Ortberg reveals how prayer, meditation, fasting, servanthood, and other spiritual disciplines can lead to a fulfilling life. 

  • The Good and Beautiful God by James Bryan Smith - What does being a Christian really mean? Smith believes we need a pattern for transformation. This book helps us re-examine what we think about God, how we practice spiritual disciplines, and whom we interact with to discover the life Jesus lived and then grow in the knowledge of a good and beautiful God.

  • The Good and Beautiful Life by James Bryan Smith - We all want to be happy and live the good life. James Bryan Smith says the problem is that we have bought into false notions of happiness and success. Our self-centered decisions lead us into vices that cause ruin: anger, lust, lying, worry, and judging. Following the Sermon on the Mount, this book guides us to look behind these character flaws and replace our false beliefs with Jesus’ narratives about life in God’s Kingdom.

  • The Good and Beautiful You by James Bryan Smith - Who are you becoming as a Christian? Are toxic self-narratives holding you back from a deep, marvelous transformation in Christ? How you see yourself shapes the way you interact with God and others. Smith shows that allowing the Lord to bring healing opens you up to living fully as the amazing person you were created to be.

  • Pursuing God:  Devotions – Duty or Delight?

  • Followers Made - resources with the goal of real-life change.  They focus on habits and outcomes—and track them in our app. These experiences deliver high value: Nothing short of disciples, servant leaders, and everyday individuals who want to live out their faith right where God has positioned them.  https://disciplesmade.com/

Practices

  • Sacred Journey (offered annually)  “A spiritual formation opportunity to wrestle with who God is and who He created you to be – An encounter with God” - This is a 6-session pilgrimage for those who are thirsty for more of God. This journey is for all who are dissatisfied with living on the surface and who want to travel deeper into God’s heart. I invite you to come and explore spiritual disciplines as we seek to create sacred space for God. (To be offered sometime in the year)

  • Celebration of Discipline. This classic book by Richard Foster explores the core practices of the Christian faith:  the inward Disciplines of meditation, prayer, fasting, and study offer avenues of personal examination and change. The outward Disciplines of simplicity, solitude, submission, and service help prepare us to make the world a better place. The corporate Disciplines of confession, worship, guidance, and celebration bring us nearer to one another and God.  Available from Amazon.

  • Prayer is above all a relational practice.  It is being with God, to speak to him with mind and heart and in connection with his Word, to hear from him. Prayer is one way of participating in God’s work in a broken world and inviting his healing and transforming power into our own broken lives.

  • Worship (Personally and at Peace) As Lutherans have approached it, worship is first and foremost “God serving us” as we receive from him in his Word and Supper.  It is also our response to God, individually and as a community, as we offer him our prayers and praises.  You can worship God anytime on your own.  Here is the current church worship schedule at Peace. 

  • Sabbath Keeping

  • Solitude and Silence

  • Meditation

  • Journaling

  • Go on a personal retreat

  • Get a spiritual mentor—coach

Experiences

  • Spiritual Pathway (assessment to see how God fills your soul)

  • Discover the Sacred Journey (6 Saturday mornings, offered annually)

  • Discover a Men’s/Women’s Retreat

  • Peace prayer services