Becoming a Student of God

Instructors:

Jim McClurkin - Jim McClurkin grew up in the San Fernando Valley and met his wife, Christine, at The Little Church of Sherman Oaks.  The McClurkins have been married for forty-four years.  They have two married daughters and two grandsons.

Jim graduated from Westmont College and has earned two master's degrees from Fuller Theological Seminary, an M.A. from UCSB in religious studies, and an M.A. in counseling and guidance from Cal Poly, SLO.  He has served in two churches as a Christian education director.  Then he started and ran a Christian bookstore.  Afterwards he spent a good deal of his career in various forms of social service.  For several years he also taught the Bible as literature at Hancock College in Santa Maria.

Over the years Jim has taught adult courses in church on the Bible.  He is an elder and a Stephen Ministry caregiver at CPC.  On the presbytery level Jim serves on the Committee on Ministry and has been an elder commissioner to the General Assembly of the PC(USA).


Dan Carobini -

Course Outline
(A Study of Matthew)

Session One—Course Introduction 

Session Two—The Word in the Wilderness (4:1-11) 

Session Three—“You Have Heard, But I Say . . .” (5:21-48)

Session Four—“Pray Then Like This,” The Lord’s Prayer (6:5-15)

Session Five—“The Wise Builder: Hearing and Doing Jesus’ Words (7:24-29)

Session Six—Persecution in Mission (10:16-25)

Session Seven—The Parables and the Mystery of the Kingdom (13:1-23)

Session Eight—“New Teachings as well as Old” (13:51-52)

Session Nine—“Who Do You Say That I Am?” (16:13-28)

Session Ten—A Good Disciple Receives Children and Doesn’t Cause Other Disciples to Sin. (18:1-14)

Session Eleven—The Great Commission: “Teach Them to Observe All that I Have Commanded you” (28:16-20)