Nat Causey leads this discussion and fellowship. Sin has ravaged the house that God created. This world sits slumped, disheveled, and in pain, groaning for the restoration that can only be accomplished by the hands of him who built it in the first place. The bad news is that you and I are living right in the middle of the restoration process. The good news is that the divine Builder will not relent until everything about his house is made totally new again. Emmanuel lives here with us, and he is at work returning his house to its former beauty. Someday you will live forever in a fully restored house, but right now you are called to live with peace, joy, and productivity in a place damaged by sin. How can you be an active part of the restoration at the heart of God's plan?

For more information or to order a book ($11), contact Nat at 256-975-4796 or at npcausey@gmail.com. This study begins September 13. Blue Plate Café is located at 3210 Governors Dr SW, Huntsville, AL 35805.

Tom Adams leads this Thursday study. Jesus Christ taught his disciples to call God 'Our Father', and to live as members of his family. Although simple enough for every Christian to understand, this is so profound that its implications take a lifetime and more to explore fully. Children of the Living God takes as its starting point the wise and thought -provoking question of an old writer: 'If the love of a father will not make a child delight in him, what will?'. It underlines that we were created for joyful fellowship with God, and explains how we enter his family by new birth and adoption. Its chapters show how the Spirit of sonship, Christian freedom, divine discipline, prayer and the sacraments all contribute to our experience of the love the Father has for his children.

For more information or to order a book, contact Tom at 256-797-5656 or at teadams102557@gmail.com. Study starts September 15.

Curtis Edewaard leads this study. Daniel's story is one of extraordinary faith in God lived out at the pinnacle of executive power. It tells of four teenage friends, born in the tiny state of Judah about twenty-six centuries ago, but captured by Nebuchadnezzar, emperor of Babylon. Daniel describes how they eventually rose to the top echelons of administration. Daniel and his friends did not simply maintain their private devotion to God; they maintained a high-profile witness in a pluralistic society antagonistic to their faith. That is why their story has such a powerful message for us. Society tolerates the practice of Christianity in private and in church services, but it increasingly deprecates public witness. If Daniel and his compatriots were with us today they would be in the vanguard of the public debate. What was it that gave that ancient foursome, Daniel and his three friends, the strength and conviction to be prepared, often at great risk, to swim against the flow?

For more information or to order a book ($11), contact Curtis at 772-233-5167 or at drdutch@comcast.net.

Jim Roberts facilitates this ongoing discussion of 1 & 2 Timothy. Each week participants receive an email with some recommended reading to prepare to discuss that week's passage. We will eat, discuss and pray when we gather together at Sunny Street (where we meet in the back room).

Contact Pastor Jim at 864-200-1605 or at jim.roberts@wpc-hsv.org for more information. Sunny Street Café is located at 7143 Hwy 72 W, Madison (entrance off Slaughter Rd. too). This study is ongoing.