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Convergence ( Breaking the Ice: Learning to Share Our Stories )

Type: DVD
Author: Donald Miller
( Small Group )

Have you ever been in a community group and had difficulty getting to know other people? Could the people in your group benefit from getting to know each other by sharing their stories? How might God be at work in your own life and in the lives around you? Join Donald Miller (Blue Like Jazz) and Phyllis Tickle (The Divine Hours, The Shaping of a Lie) as they share stories from their own lives and discuss the value of sharing our stories with others. On Breaking the Ice, Don and Phyllis

Convergence ( Personal Growth: Learning to Meet Life's Demands )

Type: DVD
Author: Donald Miller
( Community , Fellowship , Friendship , Small Group )

Join Donald Miller and Henry Cloud as they discuss spiritual and personal growth. Cloud addresses questions like: Why is it important to have community to help us grow? Why is it hard to be vulnerable? How do I set boundaries for myselt? How do painful experiences help us grow?

Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God

Type: KIT
Author: Henry and Richard Blackaby
( Adult Studies , Bible , Christian Living , Faith , Group Study , Obedience , Small Group )

Over the years God has used the truths of Experiencing God to awaken believers to a radically God-centered way of life. As a result, millions have come to know God intimately, to recognize His voice, and to understand His will for their lives. God is inviting Christians today to experience Him in an intimate love relationship through which He reveals His will, his ways, and his work. This leader kit provides resources for leading 13 group sessions that teach believers how to: know when He is...

NOOMA Breathe

Type: DVD
Author: Rob Bell
( Faith , Life; , Small Group , Spirituality )

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 - Corner

Type: DVD
Author: Rob Bell
( Adult Studies , Faith , Inspiration , Small Group , Spiritual Life )

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 - Name

Type: DVD
Author: Rob Bell
( Adult Studies , Faith , Inspiration , Small Group , Spiritual Life )

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
( Adult Studies , Faith , Inspiration , Small Group , Spiritual Life )

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
( Adult Studies , Faith , Inspiration , Small Group , Spiritual Life )

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
( Adult Studies , Faith , Inspiration , Small Group , Spiritual Life )

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
( Adult Studies , Faith , Inspiration , Small Group , Spiritual Life )

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
( Adult Studies , Faith , Inspiration , Small Group , Spiritual Life )

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...

Scouting the Divine: Searching for God in Wine, Wook, and Wild Honey

Type: KIT
Author: Margaret Feinberg
( Adult Studies , Christian Life , Faith , Grace , Inspiration , Small Group )

Scouting the Divine: Searching for God in Wine, Wool, & Wild Honey - Leader Kit by Margaret Feinberg is a young adult Bible study that explores how ancient livelihoods illuminate meaningful Christian truths that apply to life today! Participants will find the Bible coming alive as they learn about scripture through the eyes of a shepherdess in Oregon, a farmer in Nebraska, a beekeeper in Colorado, and a vintner in California. Leader Kit includes: 1 Member Book Enhanced CD with Leader...

The Gospel of John: The Efird Bible Study Series

Type: KIT
Author: James Efird
( Bible , Bible Study , Bible/New Testament , Jesus , Jesus Studies , New Testament Studies , Small Group )

This bible study has 7 sessions and an introduction. It comes with a leaders guide and a participants workbook.

The Journey: Walking the Road to Bethlehem

Type: DVD
Author: Adam Hamilton
( Christmas , Obedience , Small Group , Spirit , Spiritual Discernment , Spiritual Life , Spirituality )

Take your group on a journey with Adam Hamilton as he travels on video from Nazareth to Bethlehem in this fascinating look at the birth of Jesus Christ. This five-session DVD was filmed in on location in the Holy Land and is an essential companion resource to The Journey: Walking the Road to Bethlehem church program. Each exciting and informative session contains 10-15 minute video vignettes of pastor and best-selling author Adam Hamilton retracing the actual path of Mary and Joseph’s...

The Passion : The purpose & Person of Jesus Christ

Type: DVD
Author: Rick Warren
( Small Goups , Small Group )

You are about to embark on a life-changing experience in your small group. Studying God's Word together always impacts our lives inpowerful ways.

The Reason for God

Type: DVD
Author: Timothy Keller
( Adult , Adult Studies , Bible , Christian Life , Christians , Christianty , Faith , God , Grace , Jesus , Life , Small Group , Spiritual Life , World Religions )

Pack containing one softcover guide and one DVD. Captured live and unscripted, pastor and author Timothy Keller meets with a group of skeptics to address their doubts and questions about Christianity. This course will train you on how to deal with six of the most common questions from skeptics as well as give you the resources to meet with your own group. Description: In the New York Times bestselling book The Reason for God, Timothy Keller established himself as a modern-day C. S. Lewis...

What's in the Bible and How Do I Use it?

Type: BOOK
Author: abington
( Bible Study , General , Small Goups , Small Group )

Find answers to all these questions and much much more in this basic reference book. You'll find maps, graphs, and a chapter all about Jesus. A great introduction on how to use your Bible, topics include how to choose a Bible, how to study your Bible, famous people and places, and how to find biblical help on real life issues such as hope, love, anger, forgiveness, and even body image.