If you make my word your home you will indeed be my disciples.
 You will come to know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
-- John 8: 31-32



Disciple 1
Auburn United Methodist Church
2006-2007
Disciple Bible Study is a long-term study with the aim of helping people become committed, transformed disciples through the study of God's Word.

Class members
Mark Arnall
Michael Dilworth
 Todd Dowdle
Pete Greene
 Jay Jacks
 Jennifer Johnson
 Ford Laumer
George Mann
 Hugh McClendon
 Rishi Rajan
John Reese
 Austin Singleton
 Jon Waggoner
 Casey Waid
 Gary Waters
 John Whittenburg
Ed Williams



Aug. 7, 2006-May 7, 2007
Monday evenings
Auburn United Methodist Church
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Disciple 1 Bible Study Calendar
2006-2007
6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Mondays (except orientation at 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 7)

Gary Waters and Ed Williams, leading
watergl@auburn.edu
willik5@auburn.edu
(Click to e-mail Waters or Williams)

Monday, Aug. 7:  Orientation
1. Monday, Aug. 14:  Week 1
2. Monday, Aug. 21:  Week 2
3. Monday, Aug. 28 Week 3
Monday, Sept. 4:  No class, Labor Day
4. Monday, Sept. 11:  Week 4
5. Monday, Sept. 18:  Week 5
6. Monday, Sept. 25:  Week 6
7. Monday, Oct. 2:  Week 7
8. Monday, Oct. 9:  Week 8
9. Monday, Oct. 16:  Week 9
10. Monday, Oct. 23:  Week 10
11. Monday, Oct.  30:  Week 11
12. Monday, Nov. 6:  Week 12
13. Monday, Nov. 13: Week 13
Monday, Nov. 20:  No class, Thanksgiving is Nov. 23
14. Monday, Nov. 27:  Week 14
15. Monday, Dec. 4:  Week 15
16. Monday, Dec. 11:  Week 16
17. Monday, Dec. 18:  Week 17
Monday, Dec. 25:  No class, Christmas break
Monday, Jan. 1:  No class, New Year’s break
18. Monday, Jan. 8:  Week 18
19. Monday, Jan. 15:  Week 19
20. Monday, Jan. 22:  Week 20
21. Monday, Jan. 29:  Week 21
22. Monday, Feb. 5:  Week 22
23. Monday, Feb. 12:  Week 23
24. Monday, Feb. 19:  Week 24
25. Monday, Feb. 26:  Week 25
26. Monday, March 5:  Week 26
27. Monday, March 12:  Week 27
28. Monday, March 19:  Week 28
Monday, March 26:  No class, Spring break
29. Monday, April 2:  Week 29
30. Monday, April 9:  Week 30
31. Monday, April 16:  Week 31
32. Monday, April 23: Week 32
33. Monday, April 30:  Week 33
34. Monday, May 7: Week 34

From The Village Methodist
Auburn United Methodist Church bulletin
6-29-06

 When I signed up for Disciple 1 last summer, I was worried about making such a long-term commitment.   We are nearing the end of Disciple, and the weeks and months have flown by.  And I actually look forward my daily reading of the Word of God, and to our weekly time together!

 
There are 12 of us in our Disciple class, and we have grown close during these seven months together.  I really needed the accountability that comes from discussing the Bible with others.
 
Growing up, I never liked studying the Bible, and my understanding of the Bible as an adult was quite limited. I knew the stories, but often had no clue as to their meaning or how I should be applying the lessons to my life. I thought the Old Testament was dull and of no consequence to me.  But really it provides the reference for all we learn in the New Testament.
 
You can’t understand the meaning if you don’t have the reference.

Looks like I would have known that.
 
-- Ed Williams

For more about Disciple studies
Contact Rev. Sarah Goolsby
Director of Adult Ministries
at AUMC
sarahg@aumc.net

Inspirational Links

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As the deer
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Here is something to warm your heart
 on a damp, dreary day!

A woman found the fawn under her step (they think the doe might have been hit by a car).
Her Ridge Back dog is helping look after it. The family named the fawn Bella.
Once she has regained her strength (she was not in good shape when the family found her)
they are going to send her to some friends who (in the past) raised two orphan deer and released them to the wild.
Right now she is being bottle fed. Their dog (Hogan) has basically taken over.
 The fawn even shares his bed.







Barns
A stranger came by the other day with an offer that set me to thinking.
He wanted to buy the old barn that sits out by the highway.
 I told him right off he was crazy.
 He was a city type, you could tell by his clothes, his car, his hands, and the way he talked.
He said he was driving by and saw that beautiful barn sitting out
 in the tall grass and wanted to know if it was for sale.

I told him he had a funny idea of beauty.


 
Sure, it was a handsome building in its day.
 But then, there's been a lot of winters pass with their snow and ice and howling wind.
 The summer sun's beat down on that old barn till all the paint's gone,
 and the wood has turned silver gray.
Now the old building leans a good deal, looking kind of tired.

Yet, that fellow called it beautiful.  



That set me to thinking. I walked out to the field and just stood there, gazing at that old barn.
The stranger said he planned to use the lumber to line the walls of his den
in a new country home he's building down the road.
 He said you couldn't get paint that beautiful.

Only years of standing in the weather, bearing the storms and scorching sun,
 only that can produce beautiful barn wood.

 

It came to me then.
 We're a lot like that, you and I.
Only it's on the inside that the beauty grows with us.
Sure we turn silver gray too ... and lean a bit more than we did
 when we were young and full of sap.
 But the Good Lord knows what He's doing.
And as the years pass He's busy using the hard wealth of our lives,
the dry spells and the stormy seasons, to do a job of beautifying our souls
that nothing else can produce.

And to think how often folks holler because they want life easy!



They took the old barn down today and hauled it away
to beautify a rich man's house.

And I reckon someday you and I'll be hauled off to Heaven
to take on whatever chores the Good Lord
 has for us on the Great Sky Ranch.



And I suspect we'll be more beautiful then for the seasons we've been through here ....
and just maybe even add a bit of beauty to our Father's house.  


 
May there be peace within you today.
 May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be.




Ed Williams
willik5@auburn.edu

117 S. Cedar Brook Drive
Auburn, Ala. 36830

Department  of Communication and Journalism
313 Tichenor Hall
Auburn University, Ala. 36849

334-844-9100 office
334-821-0475 home

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