Date
8 Apr
-
2026
Location
Christ Church Lake Forest
Start time
6:30 pm
Cost
Standard:
$
Early Bird:
$
Student:
$
Speakers
Dr. Rusty Reno
Overview
We live in a moment marked by noise, confusion, and a deep weariness of spirit. Truth feels elusive. Trust feels fragile. Many of us sense that something essential, wonder, joy, and meaning, has gone missing.
What if the way forward begins by looking back?
In this class, we turn to four guides who faced cultural upheaval in their own time and responded with courage, imagination, and deep faith. C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, G.K. Chesterton, and John Stott each show us how to carry the Christian faith faithfully and compellingly into a modern world that often feels disenchanted.
By studying how they confronted doubt, secularism, and cultural change, we gain tools for our own moment. We learn not only how to think clearly, but how to see again. This class is an invitation to recover wonder, rekindle joy, and rediscover the deeper world behind the wardrobe.
Come be re-enchanted.
A lecture series featuring Mike Woodruff and Dr Josh Moody
April 8, 15, 22, and 29
This class will be in-person & livestreamed.
Speakers
We are excited to learn from the following thought leaders:
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Mike Woodruff
Senior Pastor and Lakelight Board Chairman
Mike Woodruff has served as the Senior Pastor at Christ Church since 2002. Prior to this he was a college pastor (’85-92), a management consultant (’92-99) and an associate pastor (‘99-02). Mike has published more than 200 articles and written and edited ten books. He has degrees from DePauw University and Trinity International University. He is the chairman of the board for Lakelight Institute.
Josh Moody
College Church Senior Pastor
His passion is the gospel. He is an expository preacher who seeks to bring God’s Word into the practical matters of the human condition and heart. He is a theologian shaped by his research in understanding the challenges of the secularization of the Enlightenment to Christian faith and the answers that influential pastor Jonathan Edwards brought, culminating in a doctorate in historical theology from Cambridge University. He did a research fellowship at Yale Divinity School and was a Fellow at the Jonathan Edwards College of Yale University. He is an evangelist who led Trinity Baptist Church to revitalization in New Haven, CT; was college pastor at the influential Eden Baptist Church in Cambridge, England; served as a missionary with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students in the Republics of Georgia and Azerbaijan; and was president of the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union at Cambridge University.
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