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Sharing Your Life Mission Every Day
Doing Life Together Series
Author: Brett Eastman
Length: 6 Sessions
Gain perspective and motivation for evangelism as well as a simple presentation of the gospel.

The Gospel of John
Length: 3 DVD’s
The Gospel of John, the best-loved of the four Gospels, vividly comes to life in a faithful and powerful dramatization of the biblical text. The Gospel of John meticulously re-creates the era of Jesus during a tumultuous period that changed the course of history.

Finding Jonah
Lessons from a runaway
Author: Pastor Jud Wilhite
Length: 4 sessions
Format: DVD & study guide
Jonah’s story is similar to our own. God sends each of us on an adventure. Jesus instructs us to go into the world and tell people about Him. Like Jonah, we can go for it or we can run from it. Which way are you running? Are you sprinting into the work? Or are you fleeing in the other direction? Is your story called, Finding … YOU? This four-week study on Jonah will help you learn to talk about your faith … without being swallowed by a whale.

The Pursuit
Vintage values for a relevant faith
Author: Pastor Jud Wilhite of Central Christian Church
Length: 5 sessions
Format: DVD & study guide
Classic. Retro. Vintage. We love to go back, don’t we? We often want to return to the good things of the past. The things of quality. The things that last. The first Christians devoted themselves to timeless values and practices that made them the world-changing church. These same values, described in the book of Acts, are foundational to the church today. Even after 2000 years of history and cultural change, there are still solid “vintage” values from God we can assuredly build our lives upon as individuals and as a church. The Pursuit unpacks the timeless principles of community, generosity, worship and more.

From Foyer to Kitchen
Author: Andy Stanley
Format: DVD
Is the mission statement hanging on your wall actually happening down the hall? In From Foyer to Kitchen, Andy Stanley describes the unique ministry strategy of North Point Ministries and challenges church leaders to clarify their missions, fine tune their strategies, and focus their environments. Why? To create irresistible churches that point people to the irresistible Savior.

Go Fish
Author: Andy Stanley
Length: 6 sessions
Format: DVD & study guide
This study will encourage and equip you to live out Jesus’ call to become fishers of men.

Bullhorn
Nooma Series
Author: Rob Bell
Length: 1 session
Format: DVD
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 that best way for us to show our love for God is actually by loving other people no matter how hard it sometimes is. Each Nooma contains a 10-14 minute film and discussion guide.

Just Walk Across the Room
Author: Bill Hybels
Length: 4 sessions
Format: DVD, Book, Study Guide
Believers universally affirm that evangelism is a vital part of what God calls them to do, but very few make a practice of doing it. Most simply feel awkward and ill equipped. This study aims to help Christians who struggle with sharing their faith by encouraging and equipping them to routinely initiate spiritual conversations with those who don’t know Christ.
There is an 11 chapter book with questions at the end of each chapter, or a 4 session DVD and study guide option.

Men’s Ministry in the 21st Century
Author: Group
Format: Book & Action Plan
The encyclopedia of practical ideas: Bible studies, retreats, guys movie nights
We were made by God for community…so what’s yours like? It’s “tool time”…time to build or improve your men’s ministry! Help men move past the obligatory handshakes and the brief after-church conversations by enabling them to create real relationships. You’ll foster a strong, caring community when you lead men through compelling activities that grow their relationship with Jesus, and with each other.

Evangelism
Author: Bill Hybels
Length: 6 sessions
Format: Book
In Evangelism, Bill Hybels helps you develop your own evangelism style-one that fits your personality like a glove. You’ll discover the meaning and importance of sharing your faith and learn the motivation and mind-set behind evangelism. You’ll also get the solid guidance and seasoned tips you need to put it all into motion successfully. As you walk through this proven, highly effective approach, you’ll find your hesitations melting into an enthusiasm for winning lost men and women to Christ.

Serving Lessons
Author: Bill Hybels
Length: 6 sessions
Format: Book
Serving Lessons shows how you can break the back of self-centeredness and experience the satisfaction of serving others wisely and effectively. You’ll discover how sharing your unique personal resources and spiritual gifts can become a source of strength to others, worship and praise to God, and a personal delight that nothing else can match.

Jesus Confronts Today’s Controversies
Reality Check Series
Author: Mark Ashton
Length: 6 sessions
Format: Book
Have you ever stopped to consider just how broken this planet really is? Look around you. It doesn’t take long to see plenty that needs fixing. Hot Issues explores six current social evils that affect us all one way or another. They’ll come as no surprise – until you explore Jesus’ radical responses to the same issues in his time.
Hot issues include these sessions:
The Poverty Line
Crossing the Racial Divide
Handling Hypocrisy
The Treatment of Women
Materialism and the Moral Yuppie
Religious Intolerance

The Master and His Mission
Reality Check Series
Author: Mark Ashton
Length: 6 sessions
Format: Book
Discussion guides designed to help people from a variety of spiritual backgrounds discover the powerful life and teaching of Jesus in the context of small group. Leadership Jesus Style: Focuses on the leadership principles taught and lived by Jesus.
Includes these sessions:
Upside-Down Leadership
What’s Your Mission?
Casting A Vision
The Master Strategist
Building A Team
When Others Fail

Jesus’ Response to a World Gone Wrong
Reality Check Series
Author: Mark Ashton
Length: 6 sessions
Format: Book
Discussion guides designed to help people from a variety of spiritual backgrounds discover the powerful life and teaching of Jesus in the context of small group. Jesus’ Response to a World Gone Wrong: Discover Jesus’ perspective on the problem of suffering and evil in the world.
Includes these sessions:
Where Is God When Tragedy Strikes?
Is God to Blame?
How Should You Respond to Evil?
Is War the Solution?
What Has God Done about Evil?
Will Evil Win in the Long Run?

Eyewitness Reports of Jesus
Reality Check Series
Author: Mark Ashton
Length: 6 sessions
Format: Book
Discussion guides designed to help people from a variety of spiritual backgrounds discover the powerful life and teaching of Jesus in the context of small group. Jesus and the End of the World: Designed to uncover Jesus’ perspective on the mysteries of the future as revealed in the Bible.
Includes these sessions:
Credible Sources
A Brush with Greatness
Reason, Faith, and …Miracles?
The Finish Line
Final Proof
Skeptics Turn

Powerful Encounters With the Real Jesus
Reality Check Series
Author: Mark Ashton
Length: 6 sessions
Format: Book
Discussion guides designed to help people from a variety of spiritual backgrounds discover the powerful life and teaching of Jesus in the context of small group. Powerful Encounters with the Real Jesus: To discover the life-changing power of Jesus as he intersected with his contemporaries.
Includes these sessions:
The Professor
The Roof Smashers
The Corpse
Soldiers and Criminals
The Prostitute
The Blue-Collar Man and the IRS Agent

Faith Under Fire Series
Author: Lee Strobel & Garry Poole
Length: 4 sessions
Format: DVD & Book
Synopsis:
Using video clips from the popular PAX-TV program Faith Under Fire, this cutting-edge curriculum features spirited discussions between well-respected Christians, people of other faiths, or people with no faith at all on important spiritual and social issues. Host Lee Strobel, best-selling author of The Case for Christ and The Case for Faith, provides additional comments to guide small group discussion. Description:
Four-session DVD small group curriculum based on Lee Strobel’s popular PAX-TV program. Using video clips from the popular PAX-TV program Faith Under Fire, this cutting-edge curriculum features spirited discussions between well-respected Christians, people of other faiths, or people with no faith at all on important spiritual and social issues. Host Lee Strobel, best-selling author of The Case for Christ and The Case for Faith, provides additional comments to guide small group discussion.
Guests include: Rick Warren, Joni Eareckson Tada, Randy Alcorn, William Lane Craig, J. P. Moreland, Hugh Hewitt, David Limbaugh, Tony Campolo, Richard Land, and more.
Each volume contains a four-session DVD and leader’s guide, and is intended to be used in conjunction with a corresponding participant’s guide (sold separately).
Faith Under Fire 1: Faith & Jesus Four sessions on Jesus, the resurrection, universalism, and the supernatural
Faith Under Fire 2: Faith & Facts Four sessions on the Bible, heaven, hell, and science
Faith Under Fire 3: Tough Faith Questions Four sessions on forgiveness, pain and suffering, the Trinity, and Islam
Faith Under Fire 4: A New Kind of Faith Four sessions on the relevance of Christianity

How Reliable Is the Bible?
Tough Questions Series
Author: Judson Poling
Length: 6 sessions
Format: Book
How can an all-powerful God allow suffering? Is Jesus really the only way to God? Why should I trust the Bible? Tough questions. Reasonable questions. The kinds of challenging questions you, or someone you know may be asking, that are worth taking time to explore. In six sessions designed to get small groups thinking and interacting, each guide in the Tough Questions series deals frankly with objections commonly raised about Christianity. You’ll engage in the kind of spirited dialog that shows the Christian faith can stand up to scrutiny.

Do Science and the Bible Conflict?
Tough Questions Series
Author: Judson Poling
Length: 6 sessions
Format: Book
DO SCIENCE AND THE BIBLE CONFLICT? Isn’t Christianity Based on Blind Faith? Why Are So Few Scientists Christians? Doesn’t the Big Bang Disprove a Creator? Doesn’t Evolution Contradict Genesis? If the Bible Is True, Why Isn’t It More Scientific? Won’t Scientific Progress Make God Unnecessary?

How Could God Allow Suffering and Evil?
Tough Questions Series
Author: Garry Poole
Length: 6 sessions
Format: Book
Where did evil come from? Why do innocent people suffer? Why doesn’t God do something? Is the Devil for real? How could a loving God send people to Hell? Is there really a heaven?

Don’t All Religions Lead to God?
Tough Questions Series
Author: Garry Poole
Length: 6 sessions
Format: Book
DO SCIENCE AND THE BIBLE CONFLICT? Isn’t Christianity Based on Blind Faith? Why Are So Few Scientists Christians? Doesn’t the Big Bang Disprove a Creator? Doesn’t Evolution Contradict Genesis? If the Bible Is True, Why Isn’t It More Scientific? Won’t Scientific Progress Make God Unnecessary?

Acts
Life Change Series
Length: 20 Lessons
Format: Book
From tiny beginnings among Jesus’ disciples, the Church exploded into a worldwide force in just a few years. How? Jesus left his followers with a mission, and the Spirit of God moved mightily through them to fulfill it. Luke’s account of how the gospel was carried from Jerusalem to Rome-despite every conceivable obstacle-challenges us to know and live out our mission in the world.

Becoming a Contagious Christian
Author: Mark Mittelberg, Lee Strobel & Bill Hybels
Length: 8 sessions
Format: Book
What is it about verbalizing our faith that leaves our knees knocking and our tongues tied? We know it’s the most significant thing we can do and that sharing it is the most important gift we could ever give to a friend. Yet evangelism remains one of the most frustrating parts of the Christian life. Until now. Bill Hybels and Mark Mittelberg believe that it doesn’t have to be that way; effectively communicating our faith in Jesus Christ should be the most natural thing in the world. What we need, however, is encouragement and direction. In Becoming a Contagious Christian Hybels and Mittelberg offer a practical plan of action for touching the lives of friends, family members, and others, illustrated with powerful, real-life stories. Their emphasis is clear: be yourself in Christ, find a style that works for you. Hybels and Mittelberg use simple, straightforward language and diverse biblical characters such as Paul, Dorcas, and the Samaritan woman to encourage us with the good news that God knew what he was doing when he made each of us. As a result, all of us can impact our world for Christ. It is an approach the authors have seen work again and again at Willow Creek Community Church. They articulate the important principles that have helped the believers at Willow Creek become a church of “contagious Christians,” a church known around the world for its outstanding and effective outreach to the unchurched. Becoming a Contagious Christian may well be one of the most important contributions to relational evangelism in decades. It presents a blueprint for starting a spiritual epidemic of hope and enthusiasm for spreading the Gospel of Christ.

Advance-Go Unless You Get A No
Author: Erwin McManus
Length: 1 session
Format: DVD
Much of our religious language has been focused on the “don’ts” rather than the “dos”. In the same way we act as if the primary word from God is “stop” when it actually is “go”. Opportunities are lost because many times when we think we are waiting on God, He is waiting on us.

Impact-Leave A Mark
Author: Erwin McManus
Length: 1 session
Format: DVD

Impact – a forcible contact between two or more things. This is an accurate description of how men and women are used by God to shape the course of human history. Whenever God is doing a new thing, He does it through people. But, we can often feel alone. Alone when it comes to men, never alone when it comes to God. This dynamic video adult bible study features lead pastor, cultural architect of Mosaic and author Erwin McManus in a thought-provoking discovery on impacting others around us. Included in this video small group adult bible study are a DVD and a Discussion guide.

unChristian: What a new generation really thinks about Christianity
Author: Dave Kinnaman
Length: 45 minutes
Format: DVD
Groundbreaking research presented in the best-selling book, unChristian, reveals that 16-29 year-olds perceive Christians to be anti-homosexual, judgmental, hypocritical, too political, sheltered and proselytizing. This group study moves the conversation forward by providing practical insights on how Christians can change the negative perceptions in their communities.