For Group Study

Renowned teacher, writer of the acclaimed The Spirit of the Disciplines, and one of today's most brilliant Christian thinkers, Dallas Willard now offers a new six-session DVD study and participant's guide-a timely and challenging call back to the true meaning of Christian discipleship. Gracefully weaving biblical teaching, popular culture, science, scholarship, and spiritual practice into one cohesive group study, Willard shows Christians everywhere the necessity of making profound changes in how we view our lives and live out our faith. This video-based group study masterfully captures the core of Christ's teachings in a fresh, relevant light, revealing a revolutionary way to experience God ... by knowing Him as an essential part of the here and now, rather than only as a part of the hereafter. Based on the Sermon on the Mount, the author calls Christians into a more authentic faith and then offers a practical plan by which we can answer the call. In light of sales of the groundbreaking print book, thousands of Christians will enroll in "Jesus' Master Class for Life" ... The Divine Conspiracy. The Divine Conspiracy session titles include: 1 The Divine Conspiracy 2 The Path to a Blessed Life 3 Becoming a Good Person 4 Treasuring What Matters Most 5 Becoming a Community of Prayerful Love 6 Living as a Disciple of Jesus

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Title: Embracing the Prophets in Contemporary Culture
Author: Brueggemann, Walter/ Scorer, Tim
Publisher: Abingdon Pr
Publication Date: 2012/01/01
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Binding Type: HARDCOVER
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In this six-session small group Bible study DVD, If You Want to Walk on Water, You’ve got to Get Out of the Boat, by John Ortberg, you’ll learn how to move beyond fear to discover God’s unique calling for your life!

Peter may have been the first one out of the boat, but Jesus’ invitation to walk on water is for you as well. But walk on water? What doe that mean?

If You Want to Walk on Water, You’ve Got to Get Out of the Boat helps you answer helps you answer Christ’s call to greater faith, power-filled deeds, and a new way of knowing how to discern God’s call, transcend fear, risk faith, manage failure, and trust God. Relating to the story in Matthew 14 to life today, teacher and bestselling author John Ortberg invites you to consider the incredible potential that awaits you outside your comfort zone.

This DVD is designed for use with the companion If You Want to Walk on Water, You’ve Got to Get Out of the Boat Participant Guide (sold separately). It features six 10 to15-minute teaching sessions from John Ortberg designed to spark thinking and provoke discussion.

Sessions include:
1. What’s Water Walking?
2. The Tragedy of the Unopened Gift
3. Find Your Calling and Get Your Feet Wet!
4. Facing Our Challenges, Conquering Our Fears
5. Good News for Cave Dwellers
6. Learning to Wait on Our Big God

Jesus Changed lives; let him change yours.
4-Session Small Group DVD with Leader's Guide

Travel to the Holy Land with New Testament scholar Ben Witherington and experience the teaching and healing of Jesus in this four-session study. Relax as Dr. Witherington takes you to the places where Jesus walked and ministered. Learn about places such as Jerusalem, Capernaum, Bethsaida, Caesarea Philippi, but also Rome, Pergamon, Laodicea, Sardis, Corinth, and Laodicea. Your faith will grow deeper as you follow Jesus. 

Best used with the book, On the Road with Jesus: Teaching and Healing, also by Dr. Ben Witherington (ISBN 978-1-4267-1216-6)

The urgent need for prayer in today's broken world is clear, but busyness still keeps many of us from finding time to pray. So Bill Hybels offers us his practical, time-tested ideas on slowing down to pray.

In this four-session video Bible study based on Hybels's classic book on prayer, Too Busy Not to Pray calls both young and old to make prayer a priority, broadening the vision for what our eternal, powerful God does when his people slow down to pray.

In Too Busy Not to Pray, you and your small group will learn:

The importance of a consistent time and place for prayer

How to organize prayers according to tried-and-true frameworks

How to hear the Spirit's promptings

To love prayer time

Hybels helps you slow down, listen to God, and learn how to respond. As a result, you will grow closer to God and experience the benefits of spending time with him.

Sessions include:

1. Why Pray? (15:00)
2. Our Part of the Deal (20:00)
3. When Prayer Feels Hard (19:00)
4. People of Prayer (20:00)

This pack contains one guide and one DVD.