Reading the Bible Again for the First Time

We're "Reading the Bible Again for the First Time" All Summer Long!

Our summer sermon series explores a fantastic book by Marcus Borg, "Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously not Literally." As Progressive Christians, at best we struggle with our relationship to scripture. At worst, we ignore it entirely. We've allowed the Bible to be co-opted by other Christians who want to use it as a weapon. Since we're not interested in doing that, but don't know how to respond when people start wielding it, we tend to shrink back for those situations. But, you know what – it's my Bible too! Let's not let our book be hijacked anymore.

Join us this summer in exploring this profound and challenging text. Small groups have formed to meet and discuss the book. There is a small group Sunday mornings at 9 am here at CUCC. For information about the week night group, please contact the church office at 344-5091. You may also want to check out our blog. Pastor Leah will be blogging on each chapter, discussing questions brought up in the text. You can find a link for our blog to the right.

• May 30 – Chap 1: Reading Lenses
• June 6 - Chap 2: Reading Lenses: The Bible and God
• June 13 - Chap 3: Interpreting Scripture: History and Metaphor (WORSHIP IN THE PARK)
• June 20 - Pastor Leah will be with the Confirmands at the Great Lakes Regional Youth Event. Rev. Karen Bush will be preaching.
• June 27 - Chap 4: Reading the Creation Stories Again
• July 4 - Rev. Tom Norwalk, one of our Associate Conference Ministers in our Illinois Conference will be preaching about his trip to Angola
• July 11 - Chap 5: Reading the Pentateuch Again (WORSHIP at HESSEL PARK)
• July 18 - Chap 6: Reading the Prophets Again for the First Time
• July 25 - Chap 7: Reading Israel's Wisdom Again
• August 1 - Ellen Kordik will be preaching
• August 8 - Chap 8: Reading the Gospels Again
• August 22 - Celebration of CU's Pride Festival (WORSHIP at HESSEL PARK)
• August 29 - Youth Sunday
• September 5 - Chap 10: Reading Revelation Again