Small Group Material - Level 2

 

Level 2: Designed to Help You "Mature" in Your Faith

 

 

Bible - New Testament Studies

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.

Sermon on the Mount: John Stott
Length: 12 sessions: Format: Bible, Participant's Guide

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.

Bible - Old Testament Studies

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

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

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.

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

Thinking Like a Christian: Summit Ministries
Length: 12 sessions: Format: Leader's Guide, Video/DVD

Surveys reveal that a majority of Christian young people walk away from Christ after four years of a university education. Why? Because they are no prepared to defend their faith in a world that, in most cases, presents ideas contrary to their biblical beliefs. This 12-week curriculum, interactive study takes you on a journey into the world of ideas that are shaping our culture while teaching you biblical responses.

NOOMA: Rob Bell
Length: Variable-Many available. Format: DVD and then discussion

Epic: John Eldridge
Length: 6 sessions: Format: DVD and Leader’s Guide

Great study on the “big picture” of what God is doing in the world and how we can be part of it.

Personal Growth Studies

Take it to the Limit: Andy Stanley
Length: 6 sessions: Format: DVD and workbook

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.”

Breakaway: Andy Stanley
Length: 6 Sessions: Format: DVD and workbook.

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.

Celebration of Discipline: Richard J. Foster
Length: 13 sessions: Format: Book, Participant's Guide

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.

The Power to Be Free: Frank Moore
Length: 10 sessions: Format: Participant's Guide, DVD

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.

Believing God: Experiencing a Fresh Explosion of Faith: Beth Moore
Length: 6 Sessions: Format: DVD and workbook.

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.

Ordinary day with Jesus: John Ortberg
Length: 8 Sessions: Leader?fs Guide, Participant?fs Guide, PowerPoint CD-Rom & 45 minute Videocassette.

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

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

A great series by Judith Couchman.

Series by Joanna Weaver.

Beth Moore Studies
The Patriarchs
Length: 11 sessions: Format:DVD and Study Guide

Great study of Genesis: Encountering the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Includes an in-depth study of the Tabernacle.

A Heart Like His
Length: 11 sessions: Format: DVD and Study Guide

An in-depth study of the life of King David.

Daniel Part 1: Lives of Integrity
Length: 7 sessions: Format:DVD and Study Guide

Great study looking at the character of the Prophet Daniel.

Loving Well
Length: 4 sessions: Format: DVD and journal that goes with the series

Study of I John 4: Encourages the understanding of allowing God to love us…and then loving others well.