Continuing Education - CTSFW (Cupertino, CA » Aug 12-14, 2025)
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At All Times and in All Places: All God's People Pray
Tuesday, Aug 12 – Thursday, Aug 14, 2025
Location: Lutheran Church of Our Savior (Cupertino, CA)
Description: More words about prayer can be found in the Scriptures than about most other topics, yet God’s people struggle with what it means to pray. This course will examine the practice of prayer among God’s Old Testament people, through the time of Christ, through the history of Christianity, and down to the present day. What is prayer? What does it mean to pray? How do we pray? How did the people of God order their prayer lives before us? What is the difference between and what is the connection with the individual prayer lives of God’s people and the common prayers of God’s people together? What does God’s Word teach us about prayer? This course will help participants learn and appreciate the lessons of the past on the practice and discipline of prayer both as individuals and as a people gathered together for worship and prayer. All of us are both amateurs and professionals when it comes to praying, and this course is both for those who lead and teach God’s people to pray and for the people of God in their discipline of prayer throughout the circumstances and places of life. (source: ctsfw.edu)
Schedule: Class begins the first day at 9:30 a.m. and concludes at 12:00 p.m. the final day.
Cost:
1.5 CEU course for pastors/professional church workers ($175.00)
1.5 CEU course for retired pastors/laypersons ($125.00)
Rev. Larry Peters
The Rev. Larry A. Peters is a native of Nebraska and graduated from St. John’s College, Winfield, Kansas; Concordia Senior College, Fort Wayne, Indiana; and Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne (1980). He vicared on Long Island and served his first call in Cairo, New York, before moving to Clarksville, Tennessee, where he has served Grace Lutheran Church as senior pastor for thirty-two years.
He is now pastor emeritas of Grace. In 2017 Concordia Theological Seminary recognized him as alumnus of the year. He has served as a circuit visitor in the Atlantic and Mid-South districts, is currently chairman of the Synod’s Commission on Constitutional Matters, sits on the Synod’s Commission on Handbook, and is also secretary of the Mid-South district. He has also
served on the planning committees for the Synod’s Institute for Liturgy, Preaching, and
Church Music for the last ten years.
Pastor Peters has published many periodical articles and served as a contributor to a number
of CPH volumes. He is the author of the popular blog, Pastoral Meanderings. Pastor Peters
has been married to his wife, Amy, for more than forty-six years, and they have three adult
children and two grandchildren. He is currently trying to figure out what retirement means.
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