The Evangelical Covenant Church:
Exploring Its Story
A three-session video seminar presented at the
125th Anniversary Covenant Annual Meeting, 2010,
focusing on three themes central to Covenant
life and thought from 1885 to this day.
Roots and Wings
A four-session seminar, based in 1 Peter 2, Psalm 19, and 1 Corinthians 13 that focuses on basic life questions: “Where Are You From?” “How Do You Relate?” “What Is Your Task?” and “Who Will Prevail?
Covenant Affirmations
A six-session Power Point exploration of the Covenant Church as a movement within the whole body of Christ, interpreting its spirit and life in terms of Covenant Affirmations. Free for use by anyone, though those who do so should reference all background material available at www.covchurch.org, including an excellent video produced jointly by North Park Theological Seminary and the Covenant Department of Spiritual Formation.
Life in a Turbulent World
Five sessions audio seminar for self-examination that show biblically how only the turbulence of faith within us will be adequate to deal with the turbulence around us.
Practicing Our Faith
Six Power Point sessions on keys to going “Deeper in Faith and Further In Mission” as individuals and members of Christ’s body. God’s Word must clearly be our life-long text and God’s
World—not ours alone-- must be our context. We, in turn, must be the individuals and communities of faith we are and can become in Christ, living into and out of our biblical rootage and growing in whole-life stewardship.
"When God Seems Absent"
Many struggle in life with what seems like God's absence. That has always been true, from earliest biblical times through all of church history, and it remains true today.This powerpoint presentation seeks to offer both comfort and direction to those suffering with feelings of distance from God as well as others.
Memory and Hope
Two sessions designed to lend encouragement to individuals and congregations to see our present mission in terms of our biblical and communal memory as well as the future God has in mind for the whole of creation.
Living in God:
The Biblical Covenant and Ours
An exploration of Covenant life and thought in light of biblical foundations, the history out of which we have come, and the emerging challenge of staying both rooted and open
Uprooting - New Birth
Abraham and the Pilgrim Experience, Part I
Planting - New Life
Moses, Joshua, and the Pilgrim Experience, Part II
Fencing - Life Together
Judges, Kings, the Prophetic Tradition, and the Pilgrim Experience, Part III
Managing - Mission and Witness
Matthew, the Great Commission, and the Pilgrim Experience, Part IV
Emerging - Roots and Wings
Epistles, Identity and the Challenge of Change
Expecting - Looking toward Home
Hebrews and Revelation
The Communion of Saints and the End of Time
Note: The first four themes in the study above are
borrowed from lectures by my brother on the Immigrant Experience. See Zenos E. Hawkinson, Anatomy of the Pilgrim Experience, edited by Philip J. Anderson and David E. Hawkinson (Chicago: Covenant Publications, 2000). Their relevance to church life today is stunning.
(Panel with three Covenant Ethnic Leaders,
Ed Delgado, Greg Yee, & Efrem Smith,
witnessing to what drew them to become
Covenanters and how they see themselves
furthering its life, thought, and spirit.)
