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Beginning In Christ Together
Experiencing Christ Together Series
Author: Brett Eastman
Length: 6 sessions
Format: Book
Explore the five biblical purposes that make up a high-impact Christian life-fellowship, discipleship, ministry, evangelism and worship.

Connecting With God’s Family
Doing Life Together Series
Author: Brett Eastman
Length: Six sessions
Format: Book
Basic training on how to live healthy and balanced lives

The Life-Giving Power of Community
Pursuing Spiritual Transformation
Author: John Ortberg
Length: Seven sessions
Format: Book
Enjoy the rewards and embrace the risks of community. Step by step, this study will challenge and encourage you to explore the amazing potential for growth found in authentic relationships. Study the true nature of friendship. The power of paying attention. The path to intimacy. The encouragement of being for one another. Learn what it means to live out these and other simple but vital truths for being all you are, giving all you’ve got, and receiving all you need as a member of God’s dynamic community, the church.

The Real Deal
InterActions Small Group Series
Author: Bill Hybels
Length: 6 sessions
Format: Book
If you’re ready to experience the joy of true, deep community, this study will help you move beyond your fears into the realm of knowing others and being known by them.

iMarriage
Author: Andy Stanley
Length: 6 sessions
Format: DVD
Standing at the altar we all had a picture of what our marriage would look like. The problem is this picture of marriage ends up as expectations that we unload on our spouse. The weight of these expectations will rob your marriage of love and joy. As a spouse you never feel like you measure up and you never feel like you are good enough.
So what are you to do with your expectations? You can’t deny them because most expectations started out as God-given desires. In this DVD Andy Stanley explains that you must instead learn to transform your expectations and look to God if you are to experience marriage as it was designed.

Cultivate Communication
A Married Life To Go Series
Author: North Point Resources
Length: 2 sessions
Format: DVD
“We just can’t seem to stop fighting.” “I can’t say anything right.” “That hurt.” Sound familiar? It does for a lot of us. In this DVD, Ted Lowe offers exercises, teaching time, and questions that will challenge and encourage you to communicate in a way that is more healing and less hurting.

Finish Together
A Married Life To Go Series
Length: 3 sessions
Format: DVD
Most of us passionately believe in the idea of a man and a woman staying together ’til death do us part. But for many of us, this great idea for marriage is becoming less and less of a reality. In this DVD, Ted Lowe offers exercises, teaching time, and questions that will challenge and encourage you to Finish Together.

Love Talk
Author: Drs. Les & Leslie Parrott
Length: 6 sessions
Format: DVD
This study aims to help you improve the single most important factor for a successful marriage–communication. Discover how to identify your interaction style, listen attentively, connect emotionally, and more. There is an accompanying workbook for both men and women.

I Love You More
Author: Drs. Les & Leslie Parrott
Length: 6 sessions
Format: DVD & workbooks
Learn how marriages can thrive when couples use everyday difficulties to strengthen their relationships! Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott reveal the most common sources of marital discord; the fine line between obstacles and opportunities; the importance of accepting the two sides of sex and intimacy; and the five not-so-easy steps for solving problems.

Marriage
Building Real Intimacy
Author: Bill Hybels
Length: 6 sessions
Format: Book
This study will help you and your spouse draw insight from one another and from the other couples in your group to build the kind of close relationship you’ve always wanted.

Mastering Money in Your Marriage
Home Builders Couple Series
Author: Ron Blue
Length: 6 sessions
Format: Workbook
Learn money principles and work on strengthening your marriage at the same time.

Improving Communication in Your Marriage
Home Builders Couple Series
Author: Dr. Gary and Barbara Rosberg
Length: 6 sessions
Format: Workbook
Discover the keys to great communication in your marriage! Let’s fact it! We’re not always the best at communicating out thoughts and feelings with our spouse. This 6-session small group study is designed to bring husbands and wives closer to each other and to God—and closer to other couples in the process. You will study God’s Word, share in your challenges and successes, and build a marriage that will last.

Resolving Conflict in Your Marriage
Home Builders Couples Series
Author: Bob and Jan Horner
Length: 6 sessions
Format: Workbook
Some conflict in marriage is unavoidable. Knowing how to resolve it is what makes a marriage flourish. In this 6-session HomeBuilders Couples study, you and your spouse will meet with other couples and learn how to …
-understand the value of transparency in resolving conflict
-practice loving confrontation as a way to strengthen your marriage
-take responsibility to forgive in order to replace conflict with peace
-learn to exchange your natural responses for God’s supernatural ones.

Making Your Remarriage Last
Home Builders Couples Series
Author: Jim Keller
Length: 6 sessions
Format: Workbook
Remarriage holds a variety of challenges: undue pressure to be everything the previous marriage was not, learning how to trust again, making the marriage a priority despite unique distractions, and more. In these six sessions, you’ll discover grace and healing are found in God’s Word, as well as positive principles for building a strong healthy, lasting marriage relationship.

Building Your Marriage
Home Builders Couples Series
Author: Dennis Rainey
Length: 7 sessions
Format: Workbook
Make your marriage even better–and have fun in the process.

For Better or for Worse
Changing your marriage for the better
Author: Mark Whelchel
Length: 5 sessions
Format: DVD & study guide
The storyline of marriage is similar to the story of God’s relationship with us. Marriage always begins with promise, struggles because of sin, is restored by grace, and is lived out to the glory of God. God desires marriage to be a visible example of his grace and love to the world around us. In this study, discover God’s design for marriage, how marriage can spiral in a negative direction, how to repair and restore a marriage, and how to glorify God through your marriage.

Life Rules
Instructions for Life
Author: Andy Stanley
Length: 6 sessions
Format: DVD & study guide
God has given us a set of life rules that can improve our current relationships and help restore a damaged or broken one.

Parental Guidance Required
Author: Andy Stanley & Reggie Joiner
Length: 4 sessions
Format: DVD & study guide
While the culture around you may offer many suggestions about parenting, God has much to say about how to navigate the road ahead of you. Through this six-session study, God may give you clarity and insight into your relationship with your children as well as your children’s relationships with others.

Flame
Nooma Series
Author: Rob Bell
Length: 1 session
Format: DVD
What is love? 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 life has to offer. God created love, and wants us to feel it all in the way it’s meant to be felt. Each Nooma contains a 10-14 minute film and discussion guide.

Luggage
Nooma Series
Author: Rob Bell
Length: 1 session
Format: DVD
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. We must realize that God didin’t create you to carry these wounds around. God created you to be free. Each Nooma contains a 10-14 minute film and discussion guide.

Women Making a Difference in Marriage
Author: Lana Packer
Length: 8 sessions
Format: Study Guide
With God being the Author of love and the Creator of marriage, it’s fitting that He would have a plan for our marriages. In this study women will learn that through carefully studying the Bible and adopting a willingness to follow its principles, instructions and examples, they can begin to experience all that God intended for their marriage. Women can begin to build or rekindle their marriage according to His design. This 8-week study, in five daily lessons, offers practical insights for women seeking to be godly wives – even when unbelieving or unchurched husbands, or separation or divorce seems to shatter their dreams. Join Lana Packer, a seasoned missionary and pastor’s wife, on a journey toward discovering abundant joy in marriage.

Being God’s Man…In Leading A Family
The Every Man Series
Author: Stephen Arterburn
Length: 8 sessions
Format: Book
Where are you leading your family spiritually? 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 journeyDemonstrating: Modeling a relationship with God
Displaying: God’s love in your relationship with your wife
Displaying: God’s love in your interactions 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. Eight sessions of Bible study questions, “real life” case studies, and group discussion questions facilitate personal encounters with God and other men in this practical study. A leader’s section is included.

Being God’s Man…By Pursuing Friendships
The Every Man Series
Author: Stephen Arterburn
Length: 8 sessions
Format: Book
Who’s got your back? 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 a 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. Learn how to build and benefit from friendships with godly men. It starts with Being God’s Man…by Pursuing Friendhsips. Eight sessions of Bible study questions, “real life” case studies, and group discussion questions facilitate personal encounters with God and other men in this practical study. A leader’s section is included.

Sex-What’s God got to do with it?
Author: Rick Richardson
Length: 6 sessions
Format: Book
Perhaps you’ve thought or heard statements like these: “God doesn’t like sex.” “Christianity is sexually repressive and oppressive toward women and gays.” Here’s an opportunity to explore for yourself what the Bible actually says about sexuality. Our hope is that as we see some of the many links between our spirituality and our sexuality, our bodies and our souls, our hearts and our passions, we will grow toward greater sexual integrity and fulfillment.

Build Community
New Community Series
Author: John Ortberg
Length: 6 sessions
Format: Book
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 the power of the Holy Spirit. And it has as much to say to the world today 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. Sound exciting? Let’s rediscover church together!

Love Each Other
New Community Series
Author: John Ortberg
Length: 6 sessions
Format: Book
When God pours out his love, our parched lives are revived and our thirsty souls satisfied. What is the secret of receiving more of God’s love and of giving it freely to others? The book of 1 John calls us back to the basics of loving God and one another. This study will help you and your small group experience the refreshing rain of God’s love in ways you have always wanted.

Dr. James Dobson’s Bring Up Boys
Author: Dr. James Dobson
Length: 12 sessions
Format: Video & Book
This warm, humorous, and commonsense video curriculum is based on Dr. James Dobson’s best-selling book Bringing Up Boys. Dr. Dobson-trusted psychologist and international family advocate-recorded the sessions in front of a live audience at Focus on the Family. As you view and discuss the Bringing Up Boys videos, you’ll gain the practical understanding, dynamic biblical principles, and encouragement to steer the boys you care about toward confident, responsible manhood.

Fireproof
Format: DVD, Leader’s Guide, Participant’s Guide

Strengthen marriages and couples in your community with powerful tools, based on the popular FIREPROOF movie, an action-packed love story about a fireman, his wife and a marriage worth rescuing.

Love & Respect Marriage Conference|
Author: Dr. Emerson & Sarah Eggerichs
Length: 5 sessions
Format: DVD
This is a marriage message with a difference. A Revolutionary Message. A Simple Message. A wife has one driving need — to feel loved. When that need is met, she is happy. A husband has one driving need — to feel respected. When that need is met, he is happy. When either of these needs isn’t met, things get crazy. “Love and Respect” reveals why spouses react negatively to each other, and how they can deal with such conflict quickly, easily and biblically. A Message That Works. Based on over three decades of counseling, as well as scientific and biblical research, Dr. Emerson Eggerichs and his wife, Sarah, have already taken the “Love and Respect” message across America and are changing the way couples talk to, think about, and treat each other. What do you want for your marriage? Want some peace? Want to feel close? Want to feel valued? Want to experience marriage the way God intended? Then why not try some Love and Respect.

For Women Only
Author: Shaunti Feldhahn
Length: 7 sessions
Format: DVD
For Women Only is for every woman who wants to support her man in becoming all that God intends him to be. Growing out of the popular For Women Only: What You Need to Know About the Inner Lives of Men and its eye-opening discoveries, this seven-week study will help women put their relationships under the searchlight of God’s Word. With its focus very specifically on men, this study can lead to change in heart attitudes for any woman who participates.
Practical tips growing out of biblical principles—combined with the author’s insights and timely interviews with men themselves—will help women put their new insights into practice day-by-day. Grounded in biblical hope, For Women Only is for all women—whether single, dating, or married or simply relating to male coworkers in the workplace or siblings or dad at home. It is an ideal outreach to women who do not have any connection to a local church, but have a desire to strengthen their marriage or relationships.