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Genesis: God's Creative Call: Charles & Anne Hummel Genesis tells us that even the giants of faith--Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph--struggled to obey their Creator. But Genesis also reveals the amazing truth that the God who called a world and a nation into being also calls each of us to serve Him. The Creator and Controller of the universe reveals Himself as the Lord and Judge of history, which has a purpose and a goal.
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Community/Fellowship Studies
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ReGroup: Training Groups to be Groups Length: 4 sessions: Format: DVD
How's your small group doing? Discover how to foster healthy interaction and facilitate effective communicatino and friendship with counselors Henry Cloud, John Townsend, and Bill Donahue as your guides! |
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Doing Life Together: Connecting With God's Family Length: 6 sessions: Format: DVD
The "Doing Life Together" series is a comprehensive study based on the best-selling book, Purpose Driven Life. This study provides msall group members with basic trainging on how to live healthy and balanced lives. Each session includes a teaching for the small group leader; and interview, a personal story, or a music video provoking thought about the theme; core biblical lesson and theme; and praise and worship music and images. |
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Come Thirsty: Max Lucado Just as we require water, we need spiritual sustenance. In a refreshingly uncomplicated book, Max Lucado leads us to the four essential nutrients needed by every soul. |
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A great series on building strong marriages and families. In this six-session small group edition DVD curriculum, authors Les and Leslie Parrott show you how the same forces that can chip away at a marriage can become the catalyst for new relational depth and richness-provided you make wise choices. Whether the problem is major or mild, you'll learn how to transform nettlesome issues into loving opportunities. After learning the invaluable principles the Parrotts reveal in this small group kit, you never look at everyday problems in your marriage the same way again! Six sessions.
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An excellent study on strengthening the marital love relationship. Fun and easy to facilitate. As essential as eggs to an omelet, communication is a necessary ingredient to lasting and healthy love relationships. The Parrotts can help you identify your interaction style, what to do and not do. Discover how to take your conversations to a deeper level and begin talking your way to a happier and stronger marriage.
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God and Culture Studies
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The Jesus I Never Knew (1995): Phillip Yancey In The Jesus I Never Knew, Philip Yancey reveals the real Jesus beyond the stereotypes, offering a new and different perspective on the life of Christ and his work---his teaching, his miracles, his death and resurrection---and ultimately, who he was and why he came. Relating the gospel events to the world we live in today, The Jesus I Never Knew gives a moving and refreshing portrait of the central figure of history. |
Personal Growth Studies
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Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?: Philip Yancey Length: 6 sessions: Format: DVD
Yancey leads participants on an exploration of the heartbeat of our relationship with God - prayer. Groups will explore such questions as the following "Is God listening?", "Why should God care about me?", "If God knows everything what's the point of prayer?", and more.
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The Best Question Ever: Learning to Foolproof Your Life: Andy Stanley Length: 6 sessions: Format: DVD
We all have regrets---things we wish we'd never done or said. But life doesn't have to be that way! Discover the power to goof-proof your decision making with the simple question: "What's the wise thing to do?" |
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Life Rules: Instructions for Life: Andy Stanley Length: 6 sessions: Format: DVD
Half the fun of being a kid is misbehaving without getting caught. But adults know that there's nothing amusing about breakng Life Rules. In this series, Andy outlines god's principles for improving your current relationships---and mending damaged ones. As you learn to forgive, accept, serve, encourage, and submit to others, you'll discover positive changes in everything you do. |
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Taking Care of Business: Finding God at Work: Andy Stanley Length: 6 sessions: Format: DVD
Work. For most people, it's a necessity. For some, it's a passion. And for others, it's a four letter word to be avoided as much as possible. God ordained it and He laid out specific guidelines enabling workers to achieve maximum success and fulfillment. Andy offers insights on common, specific problem areas people have, from dealing with coworkers and superiors, to boldly living the cgristian faith, to balancing work and family. |
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Experimenta el Corazon de Jesus: Max Lucado Format: Book
La guía de estudio de Experimenta el corazón de Jesús está diseñado de una manera muy particular para traer a las personas más cerca del corazón y alma de Jesús, y para ayudarlas a tener un entendimiento más profundo sobre cómo su evangelio fluye a través de su relación con nosotros y nuestras relaciones con los demás. |
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The Life You've Always Wanted: John Ortberg What does true spiritual life really look like? What keeps you from living such a life? How can you pursue it? |
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Experiencing the Heart of Jesus: Max Lucado Do you have a basic understanding of Christ, but long for a deeper experience of Him? If so, you will love Experiencing the Heart of Jesus by Max Lucado. Through clear biblical teaching as well as his engaging stories Max will help you not only understand, but taste, touch and see the freedom, grace and joy that Christ provides. Take this opportunity to explore and experience the indescribable riches of Christ's love! |
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Breakaway: Andy Stanley A great challenge to allow God’s truth to transform our minds and then to impact our decision-making so that we can live “breakaway” lives. |
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The Purpose Driven Life: Rick Warren What on earth are you here for? By first understanding God's plan for our lives, we can then see the big picture of what life is all about and begin to live the life God has in mind for us. The book is divided into 40 chapters and you are encouraged to read one per day and then gather with your small group to discuss and complete the workbook. |
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Good Sense: Willow Creek Good Sense seeks to offer solid, biblically-based teaching and practical, easy–to–use tools for developing healthy financial habits. Dick Towner teaches the entire course using DVD format. |
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Inside Out : Larry Crabb "Why do things go so wrong when I'm trying so hard to be right?" If you've ever asked yourself this question, Crabb has a few answers. "Far too many Christians do not deal honestly with their lives. The pathway to change is more often discussed and debated than displayed." In his warm, engaging style, Crabb helps you venture inside yourself where Christ is waiting to heal, restore, and fulfill. Real wholeness and real change are possible---if you're willing to start from the inside out. This updated edition of Crabb's classic and bestselling work includes a 12- week study guide. |
Women's Studies
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Beth Moore's new A Woman's Heart video teaching series is taken primarily from the Old Testament book of Exodus. It takes you on a journey into why God would choose to live in a wilderness tabernacle made by human hands and explores the parallels between the physical tabernacle and the tabernacle of the human heart.
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Living Beyond Yourself: Beth Moore The goal of this 11 week journey with Beth Moore through what the Bible calls the fruit of the Spirit is genuine freedom—the freedom that comes only through a life filled with the Holy Spirit. Personal daily assignments and weekly group sessions with video make up this study. |
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Jesus the One and Only: Beth Moore Jesus the One and Only is an in-depth study of the life of Christ based on the Book of Luke. The goal of the study is to get to know Jesus intimately—as though you had walked with Him during His days of earthly ministry. This in-depth, interactive study includes 11 weeks of personal, daily assignments (for 5 days), and weekly group sessions during which you will view Beth's lectures produced in Jerusalem in the places where Jesus walked. |
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Designed to help you 'mature' in your faith.
Bible - New Testament Studies
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This Life Application Bible Study contains the complete Bible text with study notes, covering background, history, geography, and culture that are easy to understand. It also contains helps from the Life Application Study Bible. These lessons are designed to deepen our understanding of the Christian Faith. |
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Sermon on the Mount: John Stott What does it mean to first seek the Kingdom in our relationships, values, ambitions, finances and commitment to God? Jesus' answers to those questions amazed those who first heard the Sermon on the Mount. It is probably the best-known part of the teaching of Jesus, though arguably it is the least understood, and certainly the least obeyed. It describes what human life and human community look like when they come under the gracious rule of God. |
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Matthew NLT Life Application Study Guide Length: 13 sessions: Format: Book
Matthew: 13 lessons to help us get to know Jesus the King. |
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1 & 2 Peter and Jude NLT Life Application Bible Guide Length: 13 sessions: Format: Book
13 lessons on living as a Christian in a non-Christian world. |
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Galatians & Ephesians NLT Life Application Study Guide Length: 13 sessions: Format: Book
Galatians & Ephesians: 13 lessons to help us experience freedom in Christ. |
Bible - Old Testament Studies
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We all go through times of trouble and suffering. Sometimes we look at our lives and wonder what good could possibly come out of it. That's exactly what we find in the book of Isaiah. Here you'll see the prophet raises a cry for revival in the midst of a rotting society. You will also find comfort for your own troubled times. |
Community/Fellowship Studies
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Community: Your Pathway to Progress: Andy Stanley Length: 7 sessions, Format: DVD or Book
In this study, specifically designed for new small groups, you will learn that community is essential to spiritual progress. Community builds you up and adds the element of accountability to your spiritual life. Without a group of close friends that share common goals, it is easy to get discouraged and veer off course in your relationship with God. But a supportive small group will walk with you during the natural difficulties of life. Whether you are a skeptic or a long-time Christian, you need community. |
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God longs for you to have rich, genuine connections with Him and a handful of other people. These six sessions will help you connect more deeply with Jesus Christ and build genuine relationships with Christian friends. Christ's love makes it possible for you to be known and to know others, to be loved and to love others, to resolve conflict effectively, and to move outward together in faith. This is the first small group curriculum built on the purpose driven paradigm. |
Family/Marriage Studies
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Imagine what would happen if you and your spouse focused on fulfilling one another's dreams rather than piling on expectations. Possible? Absolutely! In this six-part study, Andy Stanley reveals the secret of removing the big "I" from marriage. |
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A great series on building strong marriages and families. In this six-session small group edition DVD curriculum, authors Les and Leslie Parrott show you how the same forces that can chip away at a marriage can become the catalyst for new relational depth and richness-provided you make wise choices. Whether the problem is major or mild, you'll learn how to transform nettlesome issues into loving opportunities. After learning the invaluable principles the Parrotts reveal in this small group kit, you never look at everyday problems in your marriage the same way again! Six sessions. |
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An excellent study on strengthening the marital love relationship. Fun and easy to facilitate. As essential as eggs to an omelet, communication is a necessary ingredient to lasting and healthy love relationships. The Parrotts can help you identify your interaction style, what to do and not do. Discover how to take your conversations to a deeper level and begin talking your way to a happier and stronger marriage. |
God and Culture Studies
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NOOMA: Rob Bell
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Wide Angle: Framing Your Worldview Length: 6 sessions, Format: DVD
Everything you think about life is shaped by your worldview. It determines your view on God, yourself and other people. It determines how you think about relationships, your time, and your money. This study explores such key issues as truth, tolerance, terrorism, reconciliation, and the purpose of life. |
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Epic: John Eldridge Great study on the “big picture” of what God is doing in the world and how we can be part of it. |
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The Jesus I Never Knew (1995): Phillip Yancey In The Jesus I Never Knew, Philip Yancey reveals the real Jesus beyond the stereotypes, offering a new and different perspective on the life of Christ and his work---his teaching, his miracles, his death and resurrection---and ultimately, who he was and why he came. Relating the gospel events to the world we live in today, The Jesus I Never Knew gives a moving and refreshing portrait of the central figure of history. |
Personal Growth Studies
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The Purpose Driven Life Cirriculum Kit: Rick Warren Length: 6 sessions: Format: DVD
When combined with the reading of the The Purpose Driven Life, this study will give your small group the opportunity to discuss the implications and applications of these life-changing truths. You'll see the big picture of what life is all about and begin to live the life God created you to live. |
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Just Walk Across the Room: Bill Hybels Length: 4 sessions: Format: DVD
Hybels urges us to stay attuned to and cooperate with the prompptings of the Holy Spirit by learning to "live in 3D"---developing friendships, discovering stories, and discerning the appropriate next steps. |
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Take it to the Limit: Andy Stanley Great challenge to all of us to allow more margin in our lives so we can experience the life that God wants us to have…because…”God operates in the margins.” |
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Breakaway: Andy Stanley A great challenge to allow God’s truth to transform our minds and then to impact our decision-making so that we can live “breakaway” lives. |
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Celebration of Discipline: Richard J. Foster Dividing the Disciplines into three movements of the Spirit, Foster shows how each of these areas contribute to a balanced spiritual life. The inward Disciplines of meditation, prayer, fasting and study offer avenues of personal examination and change. The outward Disciplines of simplicity, solitude, submission and service help prepare us to make the world a better place. The corporate Disciplines of confession, worship, guidance and celebration bring us nearer to one another and to God. |
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Experiencing the Heart of Jesus: Max Lucado Do you have a basic understanding of Christ, but long for a deeper experience of Him? If so, you will love Experiencing the Heart of Jesus by Max Lucado. Through clear biblical teaching as well as his engaging stories Max will help you not only understand, but taste, touch and see the freedom, grace and joy that Christ provides. Take this opportunity to explore and experience the indescribable riches of Christ's love! |
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The Quest: Frank Moore Based in Isaiah 43:10, Believing God: Exploring a Fresh Explosion of Faith explores what it means to believe God. Through studying the lives of Abraham, Moses and others from Hebrews 11 as examples of persons who believed God, Beth encourages women to deepen their own trust in God and receive a fresh word from Him. This is an interactive study that includes personal, daily assignments and weekly, video centered group sessions. |
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Ordinary day with Jesus: John Ortberg What do you get when you invite Jesus to walk beside you on an ordinary day? An extraordinary soul-nourishing adventure! says John Ortberg. Learn to experience "abundant life" as you recognize the Holy Spirit's voice, simplify your routine, spend time alone with God, and dedicate every relationship and activity to Christ. |
Prayer Studies
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When God's People Pray: Jim Cymbala Length: 6 sessions: Format: DVD
Prayer can change lives and circumstances like nothing else can. What are the keys that unlock its power, that turn prayer from a mere activity into a vital link with God and all his resources? |
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Joy, anger, distress, hope, trust. These are some of our heart cries to God. And they are feelings that are expressed in the Psalms. These studies will help us learn how to openly express the full range of our emotions to God and allow him to meet our needs. This Bible study features additional questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection, together with expanded leader's notes and a "Now or Later" section in each study. |
Women's Studies
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Mary was a young woman who said yes to God's incredible plan for her life. Her story tells us about the blessings that come from trusting God even though we cannot understand all that he intends. This study illustrates how our obedience can be a joyous choice that is blessed by God. |
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The life of a woman today isn't really all that different from that of Mary and Martha in the New Testament. Like Mary, you long to sit at the Lord's feet...but the daily demands of a busy world just won't leave you alone. Like Martha, you love Jesus and really want to serve him...yet you struggle with weariness, resentment, and feelings of inadequacy. Then comes Jesus, right into the midst of your busy Mary/Martha life -- tenderly he invites you to choose "the better part"---a joyful life of "living-room" intimacy with him that flows naturally into "kitchen service" for him. |
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The Patriarchs: Beth Moore Great study of Genesis: Encountering the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Includes an in-depth study of the Tabernacle. |
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A Heart Like His: Beth Moore An in-depth study of the life of King David. |
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Daniel Part 1: Lives of Integrity: Beth Moore Great study looking at the character of the Prophet Daniel. |
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Designed to help you 'reproduce' yourself.
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This Life Application Bible Study contains the complete Bible text with study notes, covering background, history, geography, and culture that are easy to understand. It also contains helps from the Life Application Study Bible. These lessons are designed to help take the message of Christ to our world.
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Bugbee helps you identify your God-given spiritual gifts, personal style, and Ministry passion. And he shows how they point to your unique role and purpose in the body of Christ when they are expressed together. Drawing from biblical principles, this book provides proven tools and a conversational approach that will help you fulfill God's will for your life. You will also better understand God's design for the church and your role within it. You'll find plenty of helpful charts and self-assessments--plus insights into the fallacies and pitfalls that can hinder your effectiveness. Start learning today what God wants you to do, and experience more enthusiasm, greater joy, and real significance in your life and ministry. |
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Homebuilders Couple's Series: Family Life Deepen the relationship that matters the most--your marriage! These small group bible studies can assist you and your spouse in viewing and receiving each other as a wonderful gift from God, while reaching out to other couples as well. Your choices include: Building Your Marriage, Building Teamwork in You Marriage, Growing Together in Christ, Resolving Conflict in Your Marriage, Mastering Money in You Marriage, Improving Communication in You Marriage, Building Your Mate's Self Esteem, Overcoming Stress in Your Marriage, Making Your Remarriage Last. |
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Marriage, From Surviving To Thriving, Chuck Swindoll This study does a great job of applying Scripture to marriage in classic Swindoll “whit.” Happily married for over half a century, with even more years of successful pastoral counseling, Swindoll is committed to helping couples not just get by in their relationship but to flourish and grow! Featuring eight engaging lessons, this helpful guide equips newlyweds and longtime-weds with tools for a victorious life together in Christ. |
God and Culture Studies
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The Present Future: Reggie McNeal In the Present Future Reggie McNeal debunks outdated assumptions concerning church leadership and provides an overall strategy to help church leaders move forward in a more effective way. McNeal challenges us to ask new questions about the difficult realities facing the church, identifies six new realities that church leaders must address and encourages us to embrace the early church's overwhelming commitment to mission. If you read only one volume on church leadership this year, Present Future should be it! This is a DVD series and a book is available as well. |
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Go Fish: Andy Stanley Fishing stories. We've all heard them. "It was this big." "You should have seen the one that got away." People love to tell stories of their fishing adventures. When it comes to faith, however, most people clam up. Why is it we can't talk about what God has done in our lives as naturally as we can spin fishing tales? Includes 6 sessions, entitled: We Were All Fish Once, Why Fish? Fish Guts, Fishing Buddies, Muddy Water, and The One That Got Away. Each session includes fifteen to twenty minutes of teaching followed by several discussion questions. |
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NOOMA: Rob Bell
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Sharing Your Life Mission Every Day: Life Together Sharing Your Life Mission Every Day isn't that hard. You need a few skills, a few friends for support, and a glimpse of God's Heart for those who don't know Him. This study will equip you to extend love to seekers around you and talk about your experience with God in ways that people will understand. God doesn't ask you to do it alone--discover the power that comes from teaming up. This is a small group study built completely on the purpose-driven paradigm. |
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On The Life & Ministry of the Messiah: Ray Vander Laan Filmed on location in Israel and Turkey, Faith Lessons is an in-depth video tour of the buried, distant, or otherwise forgotten places where the stories ofthe Bible actually happened. From this cultural perspective, teacher and historian Ray Vander Laan challenge the long-held Western assumptions about even the most well-known Scripture passages. Contents: Herodian - In the Shadow of Herod Masada - My Rock and My Fortress Qumran - The Time Had Fully Come - Korazin/Mount of Beatitudes - No Greater Love Gamla - The Rabbi Sepphoris - Language of Culture Belvoir - Misguided Faith En Gedi - Living Water |
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Thinking Like a Christian: David Noebel Designed to build a person's assurance that a Bible-based worldview makes sense. Explains the Christian's worldview of subjects as diverse as law, biology, theology, psychology, politics, philosophy, sociology, economics, history, and ethics. |
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The Jesus I Never Knew (1995): Phillip Yancey The Jesus I Never Knew uncovers a Jesus who is brilliant, creative, challenging, fearless, compassionate, unpredictable, and ultimately satisfying. According to Yancey, "No one who meets Jesus ever stays the same." |
Personal Growth Studies
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The Good Life (Small Group Edition): Charles Colson Length: 6 sessions: Format: Book
A big house, a fancy car, an expensive vacation---that's happiness! Or is it? Exploring the ways we seek pleasure and contentment, Colson shares real-life stories about people who define themselves by their positions and possessions vs. those who define themselves by their faith in god. You'll find new purpose and meaning for your own life. |
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If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat: John Ortberg This study helps your group answer Christ's call to greater faith, power-filled deeds, and a new way of knowing Him. Through these sessions that include video clips and group discussions, you will discover how to discern God's call, transcend fear, risk faith, manage failure, and trust God. Relating the story in Matthew 14 to life today, teacher and best-selling author John Ortberg invites you to consider the incredible potential that awaits you outside your comfort zones. |
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Experiencing God: Henry T. Blackaby, Claude V. King Experiencing God reveals seven ways of relating to God, knowing, loving, hearing, joining, believing, obeying and experiencing. Blackaby and King's inspiring yet straightforward approach will teach you how to: Hear when God speaks, see what God is doing in your life, take God at His Word, know where God is taking you, know how to respond to God's work in your life, experiencing God more intimately than ever before. |
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Ordinary day with Jesus: John Ortberg What do you get when you invite Jesus to walk beside you on an ordinary day? An extraordinary soul-nourishing adventure! says John Ortberg. Learn to experience "abundant life" as you recognize the Holy Spirit's voice, simplify your routine, spend time alone with God, and dedicate every relationship and activity to Christ. |
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Experiencing the Heart of Jesus: Max Lucado The Experiencing the Heart of Jesus Workbook is designed to be a very unique approach to bringing people closer to the very heart and soul of Jesus, and to help them have a more intimate knowledge of how His gospel flows through His relationship with us, and our relationships with others. |
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Living God's Will: Eddie Rasmake Living God's Will: Reading and Applying God's Signs for Your Life is a 12 week interactive workbook (with 5 daily lessons per week) that look at the different signposts that reflect God's will. In these pages, you'll learn how to connect with god in His communication process, how to interpret what He says, and, through practical application questions, how to evaluate your situation and act on God's will. |
Prayer Studies
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A little research would reveal that most Christians (if they were being honest) find prayer hard. We know that we could pray more, or more sincerely, or less selfishly than we do now. One of the most important things we can learn from examples of prayer in the Bible is why we pray. If we understood a little more of the importance of prayer in the outworking of God's plans and in the way it can change us, maybe we would pray differently. One of the best ways to learn about prayer is to read and hear the prayers of the Bible. |
Women's Studies
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Everything you need to start a women's mentoring ministry based on Titus 2:3-5! In Huizenga's warm-hearted guide, you'll find advice on how older women can nurture younger ones; Bible studies on topics like loving your husband, nurturing children, submission, kindness, homemaking, and hospitality; mouthwatering recipes and creative menu ideas for meetings; and more. |
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Women everywhere marvel at those "good girls" in Scripture---Sarah, Mary, Esther---but on most days, that's not who they see when they look in the mirror. Most women (if they're honest) see the selfishness of Sapphira or the deception of Delilah. They catch of glimpse of Jezebel's take-charge pride or Eve's disastrous disobedience. Like Bathsheba, Herodias, and the rest, today's modern woman is surrounded by temptations, exhausted by the demands of daily living, and burdened by her own desires. |
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Today's challenges and pressures can make a difficult marriage seem like an impossible dream. Yet God delights in doing the impossible if we would ask. Every woman who desires a closer relationship with her husband will appreciate this refreshing look at the power of prayer in her marriage. Worrying about your marriage changes nothing. Praying about it changes everything! |
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John referred to himself as "the disciple whom Jesus loved." Just as Christ took John on a lifelong journey into the depths of His love, He will do the same for you. The Bridegroom's love is unmatched and inexhaustible, and He is waiting to lavish it on you, His beloved. This 11 week interactive study includes personal, daily, assignments and weekly, video centered group sessions. The personal daily assignments are approximately 3 to 5 pages in length and have plenty of space to answer the questions. |
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Believing God: Experiencing a Fresh Explosion of Faith: Beth Moore A great challenge to allow God’s truth to transform our minds and then to impact our decision-making so that we can live “breakaway” lives. |