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Books and DVD’s are located in the small Groups office for loan Click on the image to order participant books |
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New Community Series– Connect With God Format: Study guide Study on Sermon on the Mount 1 Author: Bill Hybels, Kevin & Sherry Harney Length: 6 week course In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus laid out principles for a relationship with God that differed radically from anything people had ever heard. Making God’s kingdom accessible not to the outwardly holy but to the inwardly hungry, Jesus challenged religious elitists who seemed to have their act together and brought hope to people who knew they didn’t. |
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Surrendering Your Life For God’s Pleasure Format: DVD/Workbook Author: Various Length: 6 sessions Surrender-Doing life Together Series- What does it mean to surrender to God? These six sessions will help you to experience the transforming power of a surrendered life. As you learn to worship Jesus Christ throughout your daily life, you will come to trust him with experiences of your past, the present and your hopes for the future. What are you holding on to? Discover the peace of laying it at God’s feet. |
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New Community Series– Build Community Format: Study guide Study on the book of Acts Author: John Ortberg, Kevin & Sherry Harney Length: 6 week course Today, some people think of the church as a powerless institution made of ancient traditions and stuffy buildings. They’re wrong! The church is the new community of God’s people. It’s filled with power of the Holy Spirit. And it has as much to say to the world as it did two thousand years ago. In Acts, you will discover that God wants to do a fresh work among his people by the power of the Holy Spirit. You will find the pathway to authentic community. You will learn how to grow as a worshiper. And you will deepen your passion to invite others into the fellowship of Christ-followers we call the church. |
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Community Life Series– Looking upward Format: Study guide Author: David Finnell Length: 6 week course Can you envision your group experiencing the supernatural hand of God at work? Examine many misconceptions about prayer and the nature of God. Each week, your group will discover obstacles to intimacy with God and be given the opportunity to minister to one another and be set free. As obstacles are removed, you will find yourself and your group moving closer in your walk with him. When this communion with the Creator intensifies, God will plant specific desires within you and you’ll see Him move in mysterious and powerful ways! |
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Nooma #18 Name Author: Rob Bell Format: DVD/Study guide Length: 11 minute DVD with group discussion questions We all compare ourselves to others. We spend our lives wondering what others think and say about us. Some of us even wish we were someone else. We question why we are the way we are and not the way we’ve become. We act a certain way to be accepted but know that we’re being untrue. But why are we so concerned with what others people think, say or look like? What does it say about us if we are unable to accept who we are? Maybe if we really know our true selves, we wouldn’t give so much attention to other people’s lives and live more in tune with the life of God wants for us. |
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Friendship with God-Walking with God Series Format: Study guide Author: Don Cousins & Judson Poling Length: 13 week course “Well, I go to church, but I wouldn’t describe God as my best friend.” ‘I want to feel closer to God, but I’m not sure how to get these statements? Do you know the others that would? If so, this study is a great place to learn that god is a friend worth having. You’ll discover in a fresh way the God who loves you. You’ll see how he has sought you out, and that he really desires to know you as a friend. You' also learn the basic two-way communication with God. |
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Serving God with Praise-Christian Basics Bible Study Series Author: Ben Patterson Format: Study guide Length: 6 sessions Worship-this is the divine drama in which we are all invited to participate, not as observers but as performers. True worship will transform every part of our lives, and these studies will help you to understand and experience the glory of praising. |
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Permission to Speak Freely Format: DVD Author: Andy Stanley Length: 3 sessions Two thousand years ago, Jesus pulled His disciples aside and taught them to pray. In examining his instructions, we find a disconnect between His teaching and the way we typically approach prayer. We discover that there are some things about prayer we think are important but aren’t, and there are some things we don’t think are important that are. |
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What Jesus Has to Say About Living in Pursuit of God Study on the Sermon on the Mount Author: Lance Witt Format: DVD/Workbook Length: 6 sessions Six in-depth, verse by verse studies of Jesus’ teaching on the Lord’s prayer, fasting, materialism, and storing up treasures in Heaven. |
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My Hear-Christ’s Home-Christian Basics Bible Study Series Author: Robert Boyd Unger Format: Study guide Length: 6 sessions Moving from room to room with him, we discover what he desires for us. Are we prepared t meet with him daily in our living room? In our recreation room? In the study? What about that dark closet that needs cleaning out/ This study will take you through six of the rooms in your heart, helping to you to see aspects of your Christian life as Jesus sees them. You will be stretched and enriched by your personal meetings with Christ in each study. |
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Too Busy Not To Pray-Christian Basics Bible Study Series Author: Bill Hybels Format: Study guide Length: 6 sessions There’s so much going on-work, church, school, family, relationships: the list is never-ending. Someone always seems to need something from us. But the time for God, time to pray, seems impossible to find. This study is designed to help you slow down and listen to God. But it does not stop there! It will also help you to learn how to respond. As a result, you will grow closer to God and experience the benefits of spending time with him. |
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Nooma #14 Breath Author: Rob Bell Format: DVD/Study guide Length: 14 minute DVD with group discussion questions 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 s a picture of a deeper spiritual reality. In the Bible, the word for “Breathe” is the same as the word for “spirit.” There’s an inherent dilemma at the core of what makes us human. We’ve all been created in the image of God and possess immense power and strength. And at the same time our lives are incredibly vulnerable and fragile. Maybe if we had insight into the meaning, we would better understand how God created us as human being. |
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Nooma #19 Open Author: Rob Bell Format: DVD/Study guide Length: 11 minute DVD with group discussion questions 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 sometimes not all the time? 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 listening and answering? Maybe if we understood how Jesus prayed, our concepts and expectations of prayer would change. |
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Life You’ve Always Wanted Format: DVD/Workbook, and Book Author: John Ortberg Length: 13 sessions What does true spiritual life really look like? What keeps you from living such a life? What can you do to pursue it? If you’re tired of the status quo quo-if you suspect that there's more to Christianity than what you’ve experienced-John Ortberg points to a road of transformation and spiritual vigor that anyone can take. One that leads to the Life You’ve Always Wanted. |
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Too Busy Not to Pray Format: Book study Author: Bill Hybels Length: 15 sessions Most of have trouble finding time to pray. There’s church and school and neighborhood and job and friends and recreation. And then the crisis hit! Time for prayer seems impossible to find. The ideas in this practical book can help us to learn to low down to be with God. |
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The Way of the Worshiper Format: DVD and Study guide Author: Buddy Owens/Saddleback Length: 4 sessions Are you looking for God? The pursuit of God is the chase of a life time. In fact, It's been going on since the day you were born. The questions is, Have you been the hunter or the prey? This small group study is not about music it’s not even about gong to church. It’s about living your life an offering of worship to God. It’s about taping into the source of power to live the Christian life. And it’s about discovering the secret to friendship with God. In this 4 –week study, you will understand the meaning of worship. |
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Be Still and Know that I am God Format: DVD Author: Cloud, Foster, Lucado and Moore Length: 4 sessions Are you looking for God? The pursuit of God is the chase of a life time. In fact, It's been going on since the day you were born. The questions is, Have you been the hunter or the prey? This small group study is not about music it’s not even about gong to church. It’s about living your life an offering of worship to God. It’s about taping into the source of power to live the Christian life. And it’s about discovering the secret to friendship with God. In this 4 –week study, you will understand the meaning of worship. |