1. The Life You've Always Wanted **(D)
In The Life You've Always Wanted John Ortberg taught us how simple spiritual disciplines can help us move beyond superficial Christianity to a life of dedicated discipleship. Now, with the Life You've Always Wanted Participant's Guide, which can be used with or without the excellent Video/DVD Curriculum, he has provided a resource that will help us embark on the road of discipleship together. The Participant's Guide is filled with intriguing insights, provocative questions and practical applications that will challenge our communities to set superficial Christianity aside so that we can live the life of dedicated disciples.
2. NOOMA **(D)
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001 Rain
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 situations, where everything seems to be falling apart, that God gets an opportunity to remind us of how much he really loves us.
002 Flame
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 out on the best that life has to offer. God created love, and wants us to feel it all in the way it’s meant to be felt.
003 Trees
We want to know why we are here. If our lives really matter. How our religion is relevant to this life. Today. We want to understand what significance this minute, hour, week, month, and year has to our lives. To our world. We need a God who cares about this life, in this world, right now. We want to understand why everything we think, everything we say, and everything we do matters. We don’t want to just sit back and wait for something to happen or someday to come. We want to know if all the choices we make now will shape our world and lives for eternity. Because we want our lives to have meaning today, and our lives today to have meaning forever.
004 Sunday
Why do we do the things we do? Why do we go to church or give money away? Because we’re supposed to or because we think God needs it? Do we honestly put on our best clothes for an hour once a week, stand and sit at all the right times, and sing all the appropriate songs for God’s sake, or because it’ll make us look better to the world around us? We’re tired of all the empty rituals and routines. And so is God. God hates it when we call ourselves Christians but ignore all the things he really cares about. He hates it when we go through hollow religious routines out of some feeling of duty or obligation. God doesn’t want the meaningless rituals. God wants our hearts.
005 Noise
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 than to just be in silence? We’re constantly surrounded with “voices” that are influencing us on how 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 hear God. If God sometimes feels distant to us, maybe it’s not because he’s not talking to us, but simply because we aren’t really listening.
006 Kickball
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 picture than we ever could? It’s easy to want what’s right in front of us, but maybe God knows what’s better for us, and sometimes we just can’t see it.
007 Luggage
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 for someone else to let them off the hook. Maybe forgiveness is about you. God didn’t create you to carry these wounds around. God created you to be free.
008 Dust
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 feel like we don’t have what it takes. But maybe if we had more insight into the culture that Jesus grew up in and some of the radical things he did, we’d understand the faith that God has in all of us.
009 Bullhorn
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 maybe the best way for us to show our love for God is actually by loving other people no matter how hard it sometimes is. Maybe it’s the only way.
010 Lump
A lot of us have done things in our 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 to us 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 other people feel about us or how we feel about ourselves, it hasn’t changed how God feels about us. God loves us, he always has and always will, and there’s nothing we can do to change that.
011 Rhythm
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 fully understand. If God is an infinite spirit with no shape or form, how can we possibly relate to that? And what about Jesus? He said 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 relationship with God. Maybe the way we live every day, every single choice we make, determines how in tune with God we are.
012 Matthew
Suffering the loss of someone we love can be the most difficult thing in life to deal with. One moment we have them and the next 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 sometimes all the reasoning and comforting words in the world just isn’t what we need. What might help us however is to understand how Jesus dealt with this kind of loss.
013 Rich
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? Maybe what we have is enough; maybe it’s more than enough. Maybe God has blessed us with everything we have so we can bless and give to others.
014 Breathe
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 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 more insight into the meaning of breathing, we would better understand how God created us as human beings.
015 You (Not Available at Church yet)
Some of the central claims of the Christian faith are the source of many discussions and heated debates. But are we 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 be unique aren’t really that special at all. And at the same time maybe we don’t always put enough emphasis on the things that truly should matter in our lives.
3. Women Bible Study Series (W)
a) Becoming A Woman of… Series
i. Becoming a woman of Excellence
Society beckons us to succeed – to achieve excellence in our appearance, our earning power, our family life. God Himself also beckons us to be women of excellence. But what exactly is He asking?
If you’re hungry for God’s perspective on success in a society that bombards you with conflicting demands, feed on the truths of God’s Word that you’ll discover in these pages. You will not only learn to “approve the things that are excellent” but also experience the joy of becoming God’s women of excellence.
ii. Becoming a woman of Freedom
The Christian life is supposed to be like a race – a race we run freely, unhindered by the burdens of this life. But often, the baggage we carry holds us back. It deprives us to our freedom in Christ and makes the race seem strenuous and futile.
No matter what your age, circumstance, or spiritual maturity, Cynthia Heald will help you identify and lay aside the burdens that can make you feel “stuck”, including past hurt and loss, poor self-image, approval-seeking, busyness, doubt & fear, and unhealthy influences.
iii. Becoming a woman of Prayer
So often we think of prayer as something we do to break through to God – to get His attention and to get Him to listen to us. But intimacy with God is His idea. He has taken the initiative, and prayer is His gift to us. It is an opportunity for us to respond to His invitation to intimacy by calling, crying, and singing to Him. Prayer is our response to the One who has called out to us and desires to be in a relationship with us.
iv. Becoming a woman of Purpose
All of us wonder, at one time or another, who we are and why we’re here. While society emphasizes wealth, success, and the pursuit of pleasure, the truth is that we are created by God in His image, and our fulfillment is found in pursuing His purposes for us.
Becoming a Women of Purpose will guide you to a better understanding of God’s intended purposes for Himself, for us as His people, and for you as His unique creation. As you grow toward genuine peace and fulfillment, you’ll learn the joy of loving God and others, waiting on Him with hope, trusting Him through suffering, serving Him with reverent fear, and fulfilling His purposes.
v. Becoming a woman of Faith
What does it mean to be a woman of faith? Is it having the right Bible verse in your back pocket or a religious quotation ready for any occasion? Cynthia Heald offers a richer perspective on the true meaning of a woman of faith. From facing challenging circumstances to being real before God, Becoming a Woman of Faith is a Bible study that helps women learn what it means to walk with faith in the real world and honor Christ with their lives. This newest book in the best-selling Bible study series for women offers quotations from classic Christian writers and key Scripture passages with questions for reflection and study, and Cynthia Heald’s warm and personable style.
vi. Becoming a woman of Grace
Becoming a Woman of Grace takes you on a transforming journey to the boundless reasches of God’s grace. In this study guide, Cynthia Heald explores the many ways God’s grace has already enriched your life and how you can know His grace more fully and then extend it to others.
Fulled with the elements that have endeared Cynthia Heald’s study guides to millions-key Scripture passages for study and reflection, provocative questions for discussion and response, quotations from classic Christian writers, and personal reflections from Cynthia’s life-Becoming a Woman of Grace is an invigorating study sure to encourage, challenge, and change you.
With gently wisdom, thorough commentary, and unique personal insight, Cynthia Heald presents the gift of grace in a way that will enrich the lives of women in Becoming a Woman of Grace.
vii. Becoming a woman who Loves
The Bible shows how Jesus loved sacrificially, unconditionally and passionately calling His disciples to love others in the same radical way. Jesus said, “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another” (John 13:34) Using key Scripture passages on love as a foundation, this study explores how love books and feels when it is mirrored in a godly women’s life.
viii. Becoming a woman who walks with God (Devotional Book)
b) Real Life Stuff for Women Series:
i. Real Life Stuff for Women on Faith - “Searching for God in a bottomless purse”
A woman's spiritual life can bring her deep comfort, abiding assurance, and wisdom for living. But what about those times when your worship feels dry, when prayers only bounce off the ceiling, and when God seems totally unreachable? How can your faith become real and vibrant in the midst of everyday life? If you are ready for a faith-lift, here is trustworthy guidance for you or your women's group. This stimulating new Bible study guide brings together literary and cultural insights, conversation starters, and key passages from The Message. By using it--even in the midst of the wilderness times, the doubts, the fears, and the questions--you'll find your faith growing stronger again.
ii. Real Life Stuff for Women on Stress - “Running Nowhere in every direction”
Discover what God has to say about the stress in your life—your schedule, expectations, limits, happiness, and much more. With literary and cultural insights, conversation starters, and key passages from The Message quoted in the text, you will find encouragement and insight to stop Running Nowhere In Every Direction. This NavPress discussion guide is designed for small groups, yet just as useful for personal study.
iii. Real Life Stuff for Women on Temptation -“Peeking into a box of chocolates”
In every woman's life there are all sorts of temptations: overeating, excess shopping, seeking others' approval, etc. Designed for small groups, yet just as useful for personal study, this guide from the Navigators will help you uncover the core issues behind the temptations and then deal with them. Excerpts from The Message and quotes from different authors are included with reflective "Think" questions, prayer suggestions, and practical discussion ideas to help you put your discoveries into action.
iv. Real Life Stuff for Women on Disappointment - “Waking up from the dream of a lifetime”
You once dreamed of a life of Prince Charmings and fairy-tale endings. But now that you've grown up and arrived at womanhood, those dreams seem so far out of reach. Your husband isn't quite the guy you thought you married, your kids face challenges you never dreamed of, you have to work a lot more than you expected just to make ends meet, your spiritual life is a joke, and even the bedroom wallpaper you saved up for just looks wrong. How in the world can you cope with constant disappointment at every level of life? If your life feels far off the mark, you can overcome the disappointment with this stimulating new discussion guide. It brings together literary and cultural insights, conversation starters, and key passages from The Message. And it will give you fresh, realistic hope and purpose for the days ahead.
c) 10 Smart Things Women Can Do to Build a Better Life (D)
Many of the women we want to reach with the transformational story of Jesus may not be active spiritual seekers. But most of them are looking for ways to improve their lives.
10 Smart Things is a 10-week life-management course for women with no previous church experience. It offers practical skills all women need to successfully navigate through life. While exploring these real-life topics, author and teacher Donna Carter gently brings to light the truth that it is only when we are in a transformational relationship with the God who created us that we can live life to the fullest.
4. Men Bible Study Series (M)
a) The Every Man Series
God’s man David prayed, “Teach me your way, O Lord, that I might live in your truth; give me an undivided heart that I might live to fear your name”. (Psalm 86:11)
The Every Man Bible Studies are designed to help you experienced God’s answer to this simple but deeply personal prayer. Through this series the authors open the Scriptures to you in a whole new way, so that you can live a more confident, more positive, more godly life. These studies will help stir your thinking and solidify your convictions on topics that personally impact your life. As a result, you’ll grow to possess an undivided heart, loyal to God and His ways in every domain of living.
i. Being God’s man…in leading a family
More than ever, families are desperate for spiritual leadership. And that starts with you, the husband and father. Are you equipped and ready to assume the role and responsibility God has for you? Being God’s Man…in Leading a Family will help you accept your calling and experience God’s blessing as the spiritual leader to your wife and children.
In this study, you’ll discover the six keys to true spiritual leadership in the home:
· Deciding: Taking ownership of your own spiritual journey
· Demonstrating: Modeling a relationship with God
· Displaying: God’s love in your relationship with your wife
· Displaying: God’s love In your interaction with your children
· Daily spiritual leadership through fostering spiritual connections in the home
· Daily spiritual leadership through serving
Being God’s Man…in Leading a family could revolutionize not only your life, but also the lives of your wife and children - and impact generations to come.
ii. Being God’s man…by pursuing friendships
God’s Word is clear about the importance of godly friendships – and how God designs them to complete us spiritually. If you ever hope to win the battles you face in your spiritual journey, you must be connected to godly men.
The problem is that many men today act as if they don’t need friends – and they’re paying the price. Risking relationship is not easy for men, but it’s non-negotiable for God’s man. When you stand with others who share your spiritual goals, you achieve them faster. That’s God’s way.
Godly friendships create consistency, provide care and support, stimulate healthy confession, produce new connections, and make you complete in Christ. They produce positive changes in your character, convictions, conduct, and commitment to do life God’s way.
Learn how to build and benefit from friendships with godly men. It starts with Being God’s Man…by Pursuing Friendships.
iii. Being God’s man…as a satisfied single
You may be single by choice or circumstance. You may plan to marry and have a family, or you may sense a call to lifelong singleness. Even so, your situation is God’s will for you now. What will you learn from it? And how will you survive the temptations confronting you today?
You know firsthand that single men face unique spiritual and moral struggles. Character is the cornerstone of being God’s man as a single in today’s culture. To live a life committed to Christ, you must master the issues of sexual integrity, isolation, contentment, spiritual battle, and identity in Christ. Being God’s Man…as a Satisfied Single is designed to help you do just that. Now only will you gain practical information, you’ll become driven by a powerful, supernatural motivation – one that transcends feelings and helps you win the battle everyday.
iv. Being God’s man…in the face of temptation
Some men have learned the secret of being undivided between what they believe and how they actually think and live. They possess integrity. They’ve gained new perspectives on the trials and temptations they face, new tools to help them overcome automatic human responses to challenging situations, and new actions that produce humility and flexibility in God’s strength. You, too, can be a man of such integrity. This study of the book of James will equip you to think clearly and choose wisely when dealing with temptation. Being God’s Man…in the Face of Temptation will help you confront this pervasive problem of God’s wisdom and strength. And being to live the undivided life.
v. Being God’s man…in the search for success
“I’ve worked hard to get where I am. I’ve overcome great obstacles. I’ve earned it.” No one had a greater right to such statements than King David. He rose from the fields of Palestine to the palace of power and privilege. He’d made it. But now that he was on top, would he continue to grow spiritually in the midst of his success?
Self-sufficiency is a temptation every man faces. But we can’t be both self-sufficient and
on the move spiritually at the same time. Just as in David’s life, God often allows us to experience the consequences of self-sufficiency so that we can rediscover our need for His leadership and power in our lives. In the end, the crushing blows we face serve to humble us…and forge the basis for the next wave of spiritual momentum in our lives.
Being God’s Man…in the Search for Success will help you come to grips with the attitudes and actions you must own as you move forward to achieve God’s goals for you.
vi. Being God’s man…in tough times
David’s journey from shepherd to king was filled with dangers, delays, and difficulties. And just like him, we live in a world filled with circumstances beyond our control. But hardships and losses are God’s tools for shaping into His men. Every man has a dream of who he wants to become. But getting there is a different story. Many men fail to realize their dreams because they choose comfort over character, image over substance, and escape over endurance. But a man who knows how to embrace hardship and learn to mine it for God’s purpose will see his godly dreams come true.
Being God’s Man…in Tough Times will equip you to respond to life’s difficulties in the power and wisdom of God.
b) Real Life Stuff for Men Series:
i. Real Life Stuff for Men on Faith - “Chasing God with Three Flat Tires”
A spiritual pit stop. Imagine: You recently purchased a new ride – a Ferrari V12, 540 horsepower, goes 0 to 60 in 4.2 seconds. You’re ready to take it for a spin, show it to all your friends, do some donuts in the arking lot. But before you get out of the driveway, you’re grounded by three flat tires.
Our spiritual lives can feel like this. We start our revved up, ready to rock and roll, only to find out that chasing after God involves overcoming plenty of setbacks. Together with other men in your small group, take steps to avoid crashing and burning out. Consider this eight-week Bible study a quick pit stop for tuning up your pursuit of God.
ii. Real Life Stuff for Men on Stress - “Juggling Chainsaws on a Tightrope”
Cue the circus music. “Hey Jim, I’m going to need that TPS report by noon” (one chainsaw)
“Jim, don’t forget we are going to my mother’s for dinner tonight.” (two chainsaws)
“Daddy, do you have time to help me with my homework?” (yet another chainsaw)
Men have to juggle dozens of chainsaws, err, responsibilities – all while walking a treacherous tightrope demanding our spiritual and physical balance. With all its demands and pressures, life can feel like a bizarre circus act. But you can be the spiritual ringleader you want to be. Take eight weeks to study a biblical approach to thriving under pressure. Learn to master the art of juggling chainsaws on a tightrope – or at least try to improve your skills a little bit at a time.
iii. Real Life Stuff for Men on Temptation - “Leaning into a Hail of Bullets”
Are you leaning into a hail of bullets? Have you ever been stopped in your tracks by one of these thoughts?
If I change just one number on my tax return…The hotel bill doesn’t list movies by name…If she keeps looking at me like that…
Men face a maelstrom of temptation every hour of every day. This study is a venue for small-group participants and individuals to take on the temptations that threaten their jobs, marriages, and families. Think of it as a bulletproof vest for day-to-day life.
iv. Real Life Stuff for Men on Disappointment - “Treading Water in an Empty Pool”
Life is Good – except you can’t stand your job, your daughter, won’t listen to you, your wife isn’t the person you thought you married, and your dog isn’t house-trained, even after five years.
Regain hope and purpose in what seems to be your out-of-control life. Tackle disappointment and unease by exploring useful spiritual principles from savvy articles, pop culture, literature, and especially God’s Word in the easy-to-understand language of The Message.
5. Discovering God's Will ** (S, S/G)
God has a personal vision for our lives, and He wants us to know it even more than we do. But determining God's will can be a difficult process, especially when we need to make a decision in a hurry. The Discovering God's Will DVD and its companion study guide, designed for small groups or personal study, take you through the important steps of decision making, pursuing God's will, seeking counsel from others, learning to use discernment, and understanding the mind of God through Scripture as you seek His will. The DVD includes 4 complete sermons and eight 12- to 15-minute group sessions that correspond with the study guide. The study guide, which includes a leader's guide, will help outline the amazing plan God has in mind for your life.
6. Group's Out-of-the-Box Bible Studies
i. Surprising Power of Jesus
Make friends, have fun and study the Bible in a fresh way…no workbooks, no study guides, and no homework! Draw out the spirit of adventure in your adult small group. You’ll engage in lively discussion and interact with fun gizmos that you get you knowing Jesus – and each other – better.
Lead participants as your group explores Jesus’ power over:
· Nature
· Demons
· Death
· Sickness
· Sin
· His Life
ii. Surprising Things Jesus “Said”
Make friends, have fun and study the Bible in a fresh way…no workbooks, no study guides, and no homework! Draw out the spirit of adventure in your adult small group. You’ll engage in lively discussion and interact with fun gizmos that you get you knowing Jesus – and each other – better.
Lead participants as your group explores surprising things Jesus said about…
· Your Life
· Possessions
· Enemies
· Himself
· The Cost of Following Him
· Getting Ahead
iii. Surprising Questions Jesus Asked
Make friends, have fun and study the Bible in a fresh way…no workbooks, no study guides, and no homework! Draw out the spirit of adventure in your adult small group. You’ll engage in lively discussion and interact with fun gizmos that you get you knowing Jesus – and each other – better.
Lead participants as your group explores surprising things Jesus asks:
· Why did you doubt?
· What do you want me to do for you?
· Who do you say I am?
· Why do you call me, “Lord, Lord”, and you do not do what I say?
· Where are the other nine?
· You do not want to leave, too, do you?
DISCIPLESHIP
1. Design for Discipleship **
For over 25 years, the Navigator’s best-selling Design for Discipleship Bible Study series has offered millions of new and experience believers a chance to learn firsthand what it means to be a modern disciple of Christ.
Newly updated with interactive, discussion-prompting questions, these field tested studies present an exciting way for believers to grow toward maturity in their daily walk with God.
Book 1: Your Life in Christ
God cares for you
The person of Jesus Christ
The work of Christ
The spirit within You
Book 2: The Spirit-Filled Follower of Jesus
The obedient follower of Jesus
God’s word in your life
Conversing with God
Fellowship with followers of Jesus
Witnessing
Book 3: Walking with Christ
Maturing in Christ
The Lordship of Christ
Faith and the Promises of God
Knowing God’s will
Walking as a servant
Book 4: The Character of a Follower of Jesus
The call to fruitful living
Authentic love in action
Purity of life
Integrity in living
Character Development in Suffering
Book 5: Foundations for Faith
Who is God?
The authority of God’s word
The holy spirit
Spiritual warfare
The return of Christ
Book 6: Growing in Discipleship
What is a disciple?
The responsible steward
Helping others find Christ
Establishing
World Vision
Book 7: Our Hope in Christ
A chapter analysis study of 1 Thessalonions
2. CHAZOWN - A different way to see life ***(D)
Do you wake up each day motivated by knowing exactly why you were created? Are you guided by intention in every step? Or are you looking for Chazown? Hebrew for “vision,” this is the point where your core values, gifts and experiences all come together. Here, your vision and purpose become clear.
These DVDs will help you pinpoint your Chazown in five key areas. Because where there is no vision, your…
· Relationship with God
· Relationships with People
· Financial Life
· Physical Life
· Work Life
Will perish. Each Chaown DVD is packed with in-your-face honesty and scarcely containable energy that will drive your life forward! View them on their own, or get more from them by also reading the book. These DVDs are not sequential and can be viewed in any order. Each one has a runtime of nine to ten minutes.
SPIRITUAL EVALUATION
1. Christian Life Profile **(S)
What does a follower of Christ – one who reflects his character really look like? How do you measure success? And how do you get there?
Pastor Randy Frazee believes a healthy Christian life can be summed up by what he calls “thirty core competencies,” all of which take their root in Jesus’ two great commandments to love God and love others. This holistic approach to spirituality encompasses ten core beliefs (Trinity, Salvation by Grace, Authority of the Bible, and seven more), ten core practices (such as Worship, Prayer, and Bible Study), and ten core virtues (Love, Joy, Peace, and more).
*Please consult Anders before you use any curriculum for your small group.
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