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Fireproof Your Marriage:Couple's Kit

Type: KIT
Author: Jennifer Dion

This kit contains a six-session DVD, and two Participant's Guides. The DVD sessions recap briefly (2-5 minutes each) scenes from the Fireproof movie. The Participant's Guides provide descussion questions, scripture references, and exercises for use by couples or small groups. The movie itself is available through video/DVD rental sources, but a special license is required for public showings, other than in a private home. You may purchase the license, which is good for one year, by visiting...

Following Jesus: Steps to a Passionate Faith

Type: BOOK
Author: Carolyn Slaughter

Your prayers, your presence, your gifts and your services. This is what you have to offer Jesus, but how do you begin to use these offerings as you follow him? You want to live out a passionate faith, but what are the first steps? First produced by Ginghamsburg United Methodist Chursh, this 12-session study helps you discover what it means to follow Jesus through your prayers, your presence, your gifts and service. These are the first steps that lead to a deeper relationship with Jesus...

Following Jesus:Steps to a Passionate Faith: Leaders Guide

Type: BOOK
Author: Carolyn Slaughter

First produced by Ginghamsburg United Methodist Chursh, this 12-session study helps you discover what it means to follow Jesus through your prayers, your presence, your gifts and service. These are the first steps that lead to a deeper relationship with Jesus and a passionate faith.

Joseph: The Hard Life

Type: DVD
Author: Rob Duford

For a man with so much hope for the future Joseph spent a good part of his life rejected, abandoned, and imprisoned. Includes: 1 DVD with 4 teaching videos, 4-part discussion guide.

Nurturing Faith in Families

Type: BOOK
Author:

Too often church leaders are perplexed about the best way for their congregation to care for the familes within the midst and their community. Nurturing Faith in Families responds to this dilemma by offering 425 practical, easy-to-use ideas for ministering to families. Pastors, teachers, and other leaders will find in this resource a wealth of creative activities that are applicable to a wide range of families and that can be used in various aspects of church life ( for example, education,...

Passing On The Faith

Type: BOOK
Author: Merton P. Strommen

" Passing On the Faith makes an effective, credible case for partnership between families and their churches in the faith formation of young people. It is extensively researched, well organized, and filled with models and ideas for the home and the parish or congregation. Catholic readers will find in it a strong echo and practical reinforcement of what the U.S bishops have proposed about an integral and collabrative approach to youth ministry that honors the rold of family as domestic church"

Settling In

Type: BOOK
Author: Richard L. Morgan

A book to help people make decisions about retirement living. The losses of older age often lead to the fear of being forced to live in a retirement community.

The Jesus Creed

Type: BOOK
Author: mcknight, scot

When an expert in the law asked Jesus for the greatest commandment, Jesus responded with the Shema.

The Jesus Creed Challenge

Type: KIT
Author:

What was spiritual formation like during the time of Jesus? The early Christians didn't sign in the choir or got to weekly Bible Study, and yet they matured inwardly in relationship with God as well as outwardly in their relationship with each other.

The Jesus Creed: Seven Lessions on Loving God and Loving Others

Type: DVD
Author: mcKnight, Scot

In The Jesus Creed DVD, explore with Scot how the great Shema of the Old Testament was transformed by our Lord in the focal point for spiritual maturity. According to the Jesus Creed (found in Mark 12:29-31), loving God and loving others.