The first part of the book of Acts records how God began to establish the early church in Jerusalem and the surrounding areas. The second half of the book of Acts shows how the gospel then was launched out of Antioch to the ends of the known world, carried by missionaries, the chief of whom was a man named Paul. This six-session study examines Paul’s life as he attempted to follow God and the mission that was set before him.
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The book of Jonah follows the journey of a wayward prophet who wants nothing to do with God’s mercy for others while the book of Nahum focuses on a country that received news of its coming destruction. But the central figure in both of these books is God and his qualities of justice and mercy towards the ancient country of Ninevah. This study will examine how God’s characteristics of justice and mercy should impact our relationships with others.
This study covers the book of Galatians, a letter written by Paul encouraging the Christians in Galatia to return to the freedom that is found in a right relationship with Jesus. He was calling them back to a life of grace where they could chose to truly live out their faith through love. Over the next six weeks you’ll hopefully discover if your faith is firmly rooted and lived out in the right way.
While heralded as a patriarch of faith, Abraham’s journey was filled with the messiness of life. Family quarrels, deception and manipulation, infertility issues… the list goes on and on. Yet, he chose to trust in the promises that God had presented before him, regardless of how distant and impossible they seemed. And so Abraham is for us and example of faith, and a reminder of what it looks like to trust God with the most important things in our lives.
The words you say and the words you hear have the power to shape your entire life.
And the more sobering thing—the reason for this study—is that your words have the power to shape other people’s lives too.
Before you open your mouth again, learn:
- The words you need to hear from others.
- The words your loved ones need from you.
- The words you’re most likely to use as weapons.
- The words that will wound your loved ones.
The I Said This, You Heard That™ series of resources will change every conflict and conversation you have—for good.
The workbook includes a 40-question assessment, discussion questions, exercises and reading that complement six sessions of teaching videos—available on DVD or free on the I Said This, You Heard That study app.
More information can be found at https://www.isaidyouheard.study/
God’s plan for the church calls for each member of the Body of Christ to play a vital role. Sometimes we think that serving God is an obligation, a duty, and that it isn’t meant to be enjoyable. The truth is, though, that God wants us to find joy and fulfillment when we serve. That happens when we serve in a role that matches who God created us to be.
In this updated edition of Serving from the Heart, church members will take a 6-week journey of self-discovery as they learn more about how the Body of Christ is intended to function, and what that means to each person.
This study (also workable in 7 Sunday School sessions) leads adults through assessing their spiritual gifts, talents and abilities, resources, individual style, dreams and experiences…all adding up to an enhanced capacity to serve God and neighbor.
Also available are a Leader Guide and DVD.
This is the first release in the Bible Studies for Life Series and it invites you to open your heart and life to the principles in the Book of James and deal positively with the pressure points in your life.
What is the deep cry of your heart? The ache in your soul that keeps you up at night? The prayer you keep repeating? Jesus not only cares about this deep, spiritual wrestling, but He also wants to step in and see you through it.
Join Lysa TerKeurst on the streets of Israel to explore the seven I AM statements of Jesus found in the Gospel of John. Through this interactive, in-depth study we will be trading feelings of emptiness and depletion for the fullness of knowing who Jesus is like never before.
Features:
· Leader helps to guide questions and discussions within small groups
· Five weeks of personal study segments to complete between six weeks of group sessions
· Four days, with an optional fifth day, of study within each week of personal study
Benefits:
· Find freedom in difficult circumstances by learning how to shift from “slave mentality” to “set free mentality”
· Discover how Jesus is the key to satisfaction by learning the crucial significance behind each of His I AM statements
· Trade feelings of emptiness for the fullness of knowing who Jesus is
· Grow in biblical literacy with this exploration of the Gospel of John
Giddy with excitement and burning with love’s fire, engaged couples are filled with desires and expectations! Wonder and eager anticipation propel them forward. Then comes the marriage and if they take the wrong approach, those unrealized expectations and unmet wants can turn a life-giving covenant relationship into a dead-end contractual agreement. Suddenly your marriage has no love, joy, or peace. In this marriage-makeover DVD and study guide from Northpoint Resources, Andy Stanley ’s three key teachings help you transform your expectations and examine the “I’s” of marriage: “Keeping My ‘I’ On You,” “Putting Your ‘I’ Out,” and “It Takes Three.” Broken into six DVD sessions with discussion questions, this is one lesson your marriage won’t survive without.
Until Expectations Do Us Part
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 six-session companion study guide to the 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.
This study guide is complete with a leader’s guide and six lessons including conversation-starting exercises, discussion questions and application steps.
Should I take this job? Buy this house? Marry this person? We ask questions every day about the choices we face. But are we asking the most important question of all?
In Ask It, Andy Stanley identifies the one question that makes it easy to determine the answer to all other questions. You’ll learn how to make decisions with confidence simply by applying the question that brings clarity to life’s most challenging decisions.