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NOOMA Breathe
Type: DVD
Author: Rob Bell
Author: Rob Bell
With everything that we've got going on every day, how many of us ever think about our breathing, about the meaning of breathing? Yet, for thousands of years, people have understood that our physical breath is a picture of a deeper spiritual reality. In the Bible, the word for "breath" is the same as the word for "spirit". There's an inherent dilema at the core of what makes us human. We've all been created in the image of God and posses immense power and strength. And at the same time our...
NOOMA Bullhorn
Type: DVD
Author: Rob Bell
Author: Rob Bell
God loves everyone, so a Christian should, too. In fact, Jesus said that the most important thing in life is to love God with everything we've got and love others the same way. But it's not always easy to love everyone around us,is it? Sometimes we strongly disagree with other people's political views religious beliefs, behaviors,or something else, and it makes it hard to love them when we feel like we're right and they're very wrong. But Jesus doesn't separate loving God and loving others. So...
NOOMA Kickball
Type: DVD
Author: Rob Bell
Author: Rob Bell
We always think we know what's missing from our lives in order to really make us happy, don't we? If only I had that car, or that job, or if only I could lose those 15 lbs, then I'd be happy. Really? How often do we want something only to find out that it wasn't that great after all? Sometimes we ask God for things and if he doesn't deliver right away, we start questioning whether God really understands or even cares. Do we really trust God? Do we trust that God is good and sees a bigger...
NOOMA - Corner
Type: DVD
Author: Rob Bell
Author: Rob Bell
Why is it that often when we get what we want, we still feel empty? We work so hard to succeed, but our lives just end up becoming more about us. Can success turn on us? Can we get caught up in a smaller world where our lives are all about the things we want.? Or is there another way to live? Where life is good more than just us. Where we see poeple in need and we do something about it. WHere our world is expanding because we are sharing our success. And maybe in attempting to save someone seld...
NOOMA - Dust
Type: DVD
Author: Rob Bell
Author: Rob Bell
Believing in God is important, but what about God believing in us? Believing that we can actually be the kind of people we were meant to be. People of love, compassion, peace, forgiveness, and hope. People who try to do the right thing all of the time. Who act on the endless opportunities around us every day for good, beauty, and truth. It's easy for us to sometimes get down on ourselves. To feel "not good enough" or geel like we don't have what it takes. But maybe if we had more insight into...
NOOMA - Name
Type: DVD
Author: Rob Bell
Author: Rob Bell
We are compare ourselves to others. We spend our lives wondering what others think and say about us. Some of us wish we were someone else. We question why we are the way we are and not the way we wish we could be. Some of us have let the exoectations of others dictate who we've become. We act a certain way to be accepted but know that we'rebeing untrue. But why are we so concerned with what other people think, say, or look like? What does it say about us if we are unable to accept who we are?...
NOOMA - Open
Type: DVD
Author: Rob Bell
Author: Rob Bell
Many of us have experienced situations where we've prayed and it felt like God wasn't listening. And yet other times we've prayed or known someone that prayed and the situation changed. Does God answer prayer? Sometimes, but not all the time? Or does God always answers prayer and it's just that sometimes God says no? Some of us are angry with GOd for not answering the prayers we've prayed for years. Why did he answer their prayer but not ours? What if there's more to prayer than just God...
NOOMA - Shells
Type: DVD
Author: Rob Bell
Author: Rob Bell
Do you often find yourself saying, "I'm so busy" or "I just have so much to do"? It's easy to get overwelmed with appointments, gatherings, to-do lists. But what are we really doing with our time? Many of us are running from place to place and it seems like life is just passing us by. We're doing so many things, a little bit of everything, and yet it doesn't feel like much of a life. But most of us find it hard to say no. We feel obligated. There are so many good things to do. So many good...
NOOMA - Store
Type: DVD
Author: Rob Bell
Author: Rob Bell
We all get angry about things from time to time - some of us more often than others. For some of us, it feels like we're constantly on the brink of losing it, where it doesn't take much to get angry about anything. And this kind of anger can be seen anywhere we go - at work, in traffic, at the store, at home. But what is really is at its root? ANger is often looked at as a bad thing, but are there things actually worth getting angry about? Maybe if we had a better understanding of our anger and...
NOOMA - Tomato
Type: DVD
Author: Rob Bell
Author: Rob Bell
We all get consumed with ourselves; sometimes we're not even aware of it. We learn from a young age that life is about winning and impressing. We pick up that our worth and value come from how good, how smart, and how skilled we are. So, we twist things in our favor, making us look like we havbe it all together. Every day we have the choice to prop up these false ideas about ourselves or let go of them. Jesus invites these parts of us to die, the parts of us that tell us our worth comes from...
NOOMA - You
Type: DVD
Author: Rob Bell
Author: Rob Bell
Some of the central claims of the Christian faith are the source of many discussions and heated debates. But we are always debating the right things? Maybe some of our discussions would change significantly if we had more insight into the actual circumstances that surrounded the first people of the Christian movement - if we had a better understanding of the things they did in the context of the world they lived in. Maybe some of the claims of the Christian faith that we typically perceive to...
NOOMA Flame
Type: DVD
Author: Rob Bell
Author: Rob Bell
I love those shoes. Really? The same way I love my wife? What's up with the word "love"? It doesn't have much meaning when we use it so loosely. Maybe we don't really get it. Maybe we don't understand what real love is. What it involves to really love somebody. What it means to give yourself to someone else. We mistake things like friendship, commitment, or lust for love, but God wired us a certain way to experience all that love was really meant to be. Not to hold us back or to make us miss...
NOOMA Luggage
Type: DVD
Author: Rob Bell
Author: Rob Bell
Maybe a friend turned their back on you. Maybe someone you loved betrayed you. We all have wounds and we end up carrying around these things that people have done to us for weeks, months, and sometimes even years. It isn't always easy to forgive these people and after a while these hurts can get really heavy. So the only way to feel better seems to be somehow getting back at the people that hurt us, to get revenge. But does revenge ever truly satisfy? Maybe forgiving isn't something you do...
NOOMA Lump
Type: DVD
Author: Rob Bell
Author: Rob Bell
A lot of us have done things inour lives that we're ashamed of. Some are small things, and some of us have really big and devastating things. Some of us even have things that people close tous don't know about. Personal junk that we keep to ourselves so we don't have to deal with it. Because we don't know how to deal with it, do we? We're afraid that if we try it's just going to make everything worse. But no matter how big our junk is, no matter how much what we've done has impacted the way...
NOOMA Matthew
Type: DVD
Author: Rob Bell
Author: Rob Bell
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Suffering the loss of someone w love can be the most difficult thing in life to deal with. One moment we have them and the next day they're gone. What are we supposed to do? how are we supposed to feel? the truth is, there's no certain way we're supposed to feel. Whatever we're feeling, it's okay. It's okay to feel shock, anger, denial, or whatever we may feel. It's okay. And if we don't feel anything at all, that's okay too. It's okay to have no answers and no explanations. Because...
NOOMA Noise
Type: DVD
Author: Rob Bell
Author: Rob Bell
Why is silence so hard to deal with? Why is it so much easier for us to live our lives with a lot of things going on all the time then to just be in silence? We're constantly surrounded with "voices" that are influencing us on low to think, feel, and behave. Movies, music, TV, internet, cell phones, and a never-ending barrage of advertising. There's always something going on. Always noise in our lives. But maybe there's a connection between the amount of noise in our lives and our inability to...
NOOMA Rain
Type: DVD
Author: Rob Bell
Author: Rob Bell
Things don't always work out the way we want them to, or the way we think they will. Sometimes we don't even see it coming. We get hit with some form of pain out of nowhere leaving us feeling desperate and helpless. That's the way life is. Still, it makes us wonder how God can let these things happen to us. How God can just stand by and watch us suffer. Where is God when it really hurts? Maybe God is actually closer to us than we think. Maybe it's when we're in these situation, where everything...
NOOMA Rhythm
Type: DVD
Author: Rob Bell
Author: Rob Bell
What does it mean to have a relationship with God? What does it look like? For a lot of us it's a hard thing to understand. If God is an infinite spirit with no shape or form, how can we possibly relate to that? And what about jesus? HE siad he came to give everyone life in its fullest. He came to show us how to live. Maybe it's through trusting jesus and living the kind of life he taught us to live- a life of truth, love, justice, compassion, forgiveness; and sacrifice - that we have a...
NOOMA Rich
Type: DVD
Author: Rob Bell
Author: Rob Bell
There's a popular bumper sticker that reads "God Bless America," but hasn't America already been blessed? It's easy for us to fall into a mindset of viewing "our" world as "the" world, because it's all we generally see. We're constantly bombarded with images of the latest styles and models of everything, and it can easily leave us feeling like what we have isn't enough because we see people that have even more than us. But how does what we have compare to what most people in the world have?...
NOOMA She
Type: DVD
Author: Rob Bell
Author: Rob Bell
We didn't have anything to do with our birth. We are all here because some woman somewhere gave us life. Her pain, her effort, for our life. And when a mother gives like that to a child, she is showing us what God is like. But sometimes this part of God's nature is overlooked. A lot of us are comfortable with male imagery for God. But what about female imagery for God? Is God limited to a gender? Or does God transcend and yet include what we know as male and female? Maybe if we were more aware...