These curriculum options have been proven successful in helping groups dialogue around important topics. We have studies that will meet the needs of marrieds, womens, mens and singles.
Title: Community
Publisher: North Point Ministries 2007
Length: 8 sessions
Format: DVD
Description:
This curriculum is specifically designed for new groups, so you’ll spend the first sessions of the study getting to know your other group members–where they have come from and where they are now. Then, during the remaining sessions, you’ll discuss the importance of community and how to stay on course. There is a DVD that accompanies this study.
Title: Managing Money God’s Way
Author: Purpose Driven and Crown Combined
Description: The Bible is packed with wise counsel about your financial life. In fact, Jesus had more to say about money than about heaven and hell combined. In this seven-week, video-based, small group study, you will study the subject of biblical financial management.
Length: 7 sessions
Recommended Materials: Study Guide, DVD
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Title: God is Closer Than You Think
Author: John Ortberg
Description: In this DVD, Ortberg is your teacher in six sessions that will help your group experience the intimacy you long for with God–and that he longs to have with you.
Sessions include: God’s Great Desire for People, Where Is God in My World, Partnering with God Today, Listening to the Voice of God, God Wants a Relationship with You, Heaven Breaking Through.
Length: 6 sessions
Recommended Materials: Study Guide, DVD
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Title: The Relationship Principles of Jesus
Author: Tom Holladay
Description: In forty days, bring new depth and health to your marriage, your family, and your friendships. In six weeks, you’ll explore and implement six foundational principles that Jesus taught and lived. You’ll be equipped with insights and a practical path for fulfilling God’s intention for all your relationships-even the difficult ones.
Length: 6 sessions 15-20 min. each
Recommended Materials: Book, Study Guide, DVD
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Title: iMarriage: Transforming Your Expectations
Author: Andy Stanley
Description: On the day we say “I do,” most of us look at the future with rose-colored glasses. But don’t let starry-eyed assumptions rob your marriage of love and joy. Offering practical guidance, Andy Stanley helps young couples take the “I” out of marriage to focus on fulfilling one another’s dreams—instead of piling on unrealistic expectations.
Length: 6 sessions 15-20 min. each
Recommended Materials: Study Guide, DVD
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Title: Just Walk Across The Room
Author: Bill Hybels
Description: In Just Walk Across the Room, Bill Hybels brings personal evangelism into the twenty-first century with a natural and empowering approach modeled after Jesus himself. This dynamic four-week experience is designed to equip and inspire your small group to participate in that same pattern of grace-giving by taking simple walks across rooms—leaving your “Circle of Comfort” and extending hands of care, compassion, and inclusiveness to people who might need a touch of God’s love today.
Length: 6 sessions
Recommended Materials: Study Guide, DVD
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Title: The Case for a Creator
Author: Lee Strobel & Garry Poole
Description: Former journalist and skeptic Lee Strobel has discovered something very interesting about science. Far from being the enemy of faith, science may now provide a solid foundation for believing in God.mfort” and extending hands of care, compassion, and inclusiveness to people who might need a touch of God’s love today.
Length: 6 sessions 15 min. each
Recommended Materials: Book, Study Guide, DVD
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Title: The Case for Christ
Author: Lee Strobel & Garry Poole
Description: When Lee Strobel’s wife became a Christian, he found that the positive changes in her were too noticeable to ignore. Since he had a law background and was an investigative reporter, Strobel decided to subject the claims of Christianity to the type of scrutiny he used in reporting on legal cases for a major newspaper. This book chronicles Strobel’s journey from atheist to Christianity.
Length: 6 sessions 15 min. each
Recommended Materials: Book, Study Guide, DVD
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Title: When God’s People Pray
Author: Jim Cymbala
Description: Pastor Jim Cymbala shows what the Holy Spirit can do when you and your church just ask. You’ll be transformed as you explore “God’s Heart for Us,” “The Amazing Power of Prayer,” “Obedience in Prayer,” “The Word of God and Prayer,” “Why Prayer Matters,” and “Creating a Prayer Ministry.”
Length: 6 sessions 15 min. each
Recommended Materials: Study Guide, DVD
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Title: Fearless
Author: Max Lucado
Description: Can you imagine your life without fear? Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear. They are talking layoffs at work, slowdowns in the economy, flare ups in the Middle East. But what if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats? This book and DVD takes an honest look at what can happen when fear meets faith. You will be able to trust more and fear less.
Length: 6 sessions 5-10 min. each (featuring Max Lucado)
Recommended Materials: Study Guide, DVD
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Title: I Saw the Lord
Author: Anne Graham Lotz
Description: In this eight-session small group DVD curriculum, award-winning author Anne Graham Lotz along with pastor Crawford Lorritts and author Henry Blackaby share their insights on revival lessons from Scripture, showing you how you can experience an authentic, deeper, and richer relationship with God in a life-changing, fire-blazing revival. Eight interactive sessions include: 1. Bible Study Workshop 2. You’re Sleeping (Josiah) 3. Wake Up (Ezekiel) 4. Open Your Eyes (Moses) 5. Rend Your Heart (David) 6. Bend Your Knees (Ezra) 7. Just Say Yes! (Isaiah) 8. Move Your Feet (Nehemiah)
Length: 8 sessions
Recommended Materials: Study Guide, DVD
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Title: Developing a Faith that Works
Author: Rick Warren
Description: Pastor Rick teaches on the five marks of maturity in this verse by verse study through the book of James. Available as a two-volume (six-weeks each) small group curriculum or a 15-message sermon series. Explore how to be positive under the pressure of problems, how to make wise decisions, how to deal with temptation and how to be blessed by the Bible. Learn how to treat people right, how to have real faith, how to manage your mouth, how to relate wisely to others and how to avoid arguments. Understand why it is our nature to judge others and how to break that habit, learn the common mistakes we make in facing our future and how to avoid them, and how to be wise with our wealth. Look at when, why and how to develop patience, and finally how to pray about our problems.
Length: 6 sessions
Recommended Materials: Study Guide, DVD
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