Compass Community
Church History: From the Reformation to the Revolution
Presentations for the Compass Community at Village Seven Presbyterian Church
for: Winter 2025 – Spring 2026, by Bill Petro
Partial Bibliography here
Updated 12/04/25
🎙️ Signifies lesson audio recording
• Signifies the author’s articles for further reading
| DATE | TITLE | Click link below for PDF |
| Dec 7 | 1. Introduction to Reformation History 🎙️ Recording: Dec-7_Intro | Introduction |
| Dec 14 | 2. What Does it Mean to be Protestant: German Reformation, Part 1 🎙️ Recording: Dec-14_Luther-1 | Luther, 1 |
| Dec 21 | 3. What Does it Mean to be Protestant: German Reformation, Part 2 🎙️ Recording: Dec-21_Luther-2 | Luther, 2 |
| Dec 28 | Post-Christmas Week, no classes | No lesson |
| Jan 4 | 4. What Does it Mean to be Reformed: Swiss Reformation, Part 1 🎙️ Recording: Jan-4_Swiss-1 | Zwingli, 1 |
| Jan 11 | 5. What Does it Mean to be Reformed: Swiss Reformation, Part 2 🎙️ Recording: Jan-11_Swiss-2 | Anabaptist and Swiss Brethren, 2 |
| Jan 18 | 6/7. What Does it Mean to be Reformed: Swiss Reformation, Part 3, 4 🎙️ Recording: Jan-18_Swiss-3-4 | Calvin 3, 4 |
| Jan 26 | 8. What Does it Mean to be Calvinist: 🎙️ Recording: Jan-26_Augustinian-Calvinism | Augustinian Calvinism, 1 |
| Feb 1 | 9. What Does it Mean to be Calvinist: Dutch Reformation, Part 2 🎙️ Recording: Feb-1_Calvinism | “Calvinism,” 2 |
| Feb 8 | 10 . What Does it Mean to be Presbyterian: Scots-English Reformation, Part 1 🎙️ Recording: Feb-8_Scots-English | John Knox, 1 |
| Feb 15 | 11. What Does it Mean to be Anglican: Scots-English Reformation, Part 2 🎙️ Recording: Feb-15_Scots-English-2 | Scots-English |
| Feb 22 | 12. What Does it Mean to be Puritan: English Puritans, Part 3 🎙️ Recording: Feb-22_English-Puritan
| English-Puritans |
| Mar 1 | 14. What Does it Mean to be Puritan: American Pilgrims and Puritans, Part 1 🎙️ Recording: Mar-1_American-Puritan-1 | Pilgrims-Puritans |
| Mar 8 | 15. What Does it Mean to be Puritan: Sermons and Bibles 🎙️ Recording: Mar-8_American-Puritan-2 | American-Puritans |
| Mar 15 | 16. What Does it Mean to be Evangelical: Great Awakening, Part 1 🎙️ Recording: Mar-15_Evangelical-1 | Evangelical, 1 |
| Mar 22 | 17. What Does it Mean to be Evangelical: Great Awakening, Part 2 🎙️ Recording: Mar-22_Evangelical-2 | Evangelical, 2 |
| Mar 29 | 18. What Does it Mean to be Rational: American Enlightenment 🎙️ Recording: Mar-29_Enlightenment | Enlightenment |
| Apr 5 | Easter, no classes | |
| Apr 12 | 19. What Does it Mean to be Revolutionary: Religion and the Revolutionary War American Revolution, Part 1 🎙️ Recording: Apr-12_Revolutionary-1 | Revolutionary, 1 |
| April 19 | Missions Weekend | No lesson |
| April 26 | 20. What Does it Mean to be Revolutionary: Faith of the Founding Fathers American Revolution, Part 2 🎙️ Recording: Apr-26_Revolutionary-2 | |
| May 3 | TBD | |
| May 10 | TBD | |
| May 17 | TBD | |
| May 24 | TBD | |
| May 31 | TBD |