One of the most innovative teaching pastors in the country, Adam Hamilton unpacks Jesus' last days on earth and how they turn upside down the conventional ideas about good and evil, justice and history, life and death. Filmed on location in the Holy Land, it portrays the Last Supper to Christ's victory over the grave. DVD with 32-page leader's guide. 7 Sessions include: 1. The Last Supper 2. The Garden of Gethsemane 3. Condemned by the Righteous 4. Jesus, Barabbas, and Pilate 5. The...

A Place Prepared: Helping Children Understand Death and Heaven

Type: DVD
Author: Charity Spatzeck-Olsen

( Children , Coping , Death/Dying , Fear , Grief/Death , Life , Parent/Child Relationship , Pastoral Care , Tragedy )

For children, death seems unreal and at a distance - until it comes close: a grandparent, a father, a mother, a sibling, or a pet dies. Suddenly death becomes real and immediate, and children have questions about what has happened: What does die mean? Where is Daddy now? In Heaven? Can I go see him? And what is heaven? A Place Prepared will help you talk with children about death and heaven, and help yo uto prepare them for the inevitable losses that they will experience throughout their lives.

A Place Prepsred

Type: DVD
Author:

( Death/Dying , General , Sexual Ethics )

Helping children Understand Death and Heaven

Adam Hamilton Sessions: June 2009 NE Annual Conference

Type: DVD
Author:

( Annual Conference , Christian Life , Evangelism , Leadership , Worship )

Adam Hamilton Sessions : •Session 1 - Leadership •Session 2 - Worship •Session 3 - Evangelism

Addiction: Why Can't They Just Stop?

Type: DVD
Author:

( Addictions , General , Small Groups )

The critically acclaimed 90-minute HBO Documentary. Several of the nation's leading experts on drug and alcohol addiction, together with a group of accomplished filmmakers, have assembled to create Addiction, an unprecendented documentary aimed at helping Americans understand addiction as a treatable brain disease. It is a subject that touches all our lives. One in four Americans has a family member who is struggling with addiction. Currently, addiction affects over 22 million Americans,...

Advent Conspiracy: Can Christmas Still Change the World?

Type: DVD
Author: Rick McKinely, Chris Seay, and Greg Holder

( Advent , Caring , Christmas , Materialism , Mercy , Money )

Rick McKinley and Chris Seay know they're not the only ones who are tired of how consumerism has stolen the soul of Christmas. In Advent Conspiracy, they invite individuals, families, home groups, and entire churches to join the groundswell of Christ-followers who choose to make Christmas what it should be-a joyous celebration of Jesus' birth that enriches their hearts and the world around them, not a retail circus that depletes their pocketbooks and defeats their spirits. Through this...

Be Strong and Courageous

Type: DVD
Author: Todd Phillips

( Adult Studies , Bible Study , General , Old Testament , Small Groups )

Whether a slave making bricks or a leader of a nation, Josuha lived a life defined by courage, humility, prayer, and worship. His lofe serves as an example and encourgement to us all.

Can We Talk? Christian Conversations About Homosexuality

Type: DVD
Author:

( General , Homosexuality , Small Groups )

This resource is from The General Commissionon Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns. A resource to help local churches, small groups, large groups, districts, and individuals dialogue with love and grace about their agreements and disagreements over homosexuality.

Can We Talk? Christian Conversations about Homosexuality

Type: DVD
Author:

( General , Homosexuality )

Since 1972, The United Methodist Church has struggled with a variety of understandings of this topic as it relates to who we are as faithful Christians. Recently, church legislators strongly encouraged its agency on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns to develop resouces that help United Methodists talk with civility about their defferent positons on homosexuality in an open atmosphere where unity and understanding could grow.

Catch - Attracting and Connecting Visitors

Type: DVD
Author:

A supplement to the Catch Workbook, the Catch DVD contains twenty videos to enhance your team's understanding and appliciation of the themes and ideas covered in the workbook. Video topics include: Attracting and Connecting Visitors, Three Important Questions, Casting the Net Wide, Making Visitors Feel Welcome, What a Welcoming Worship Experience Looks Like, Connecting and Following Up with visitors, and Inviting Others to grow in Faith.

Change the World : Recovering the Message and Misson of Jesus

Type: DVD
Author: Mike Slaughter

( Small Groups )

Church is a verb. Linking Bible study to global mission and local service projects, this six-session small group resource enables congregations to discuss and act on the imperatives of scripture. Each week, partcipants will read and discuss a gospel story, watch a video profiling an inspiring, world-changing mission effort, and envision together how they can change locally and globally. Participants won't read just about Jesus feeding the 5,000 or healing the leapers, but will be inspired by...

Children of the Nakba

Type: DVD
Author:

For Palestins, the events between 1947 and 1949 are remembered as a time when Israela military forces destroyed over 500 Palestian vilages and expelled between 7000,000 and 900,000 Palestinians from their lands - about 85 percent of the Palestinian popilation at that itme. These refugees have and interally displaced population. Learn about the Palestinians and who these events the "Nabka", an arabic word meaning "catastrophe." Both Palestinians and ISrealis are children of Nakba, heirs to a...

Choices Choose to Live

Type: DVD
Author: Erwin McManus

( Church And Ministry , General , Small Groups , Youth Resources )

The most Spirit activity you will engage in today in making choices. Our choices' either move us toward god and all the fulfillment that comes in Him or steer us away from Him to a life of shame and fear.